The Greatest Western Books of All Time

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3522 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
3523 The Good Society Walter Lippmann 1937 American English
3524 Strange Defeat Marc Bloch 1946 French French
3525 Looking Back Norman Douglas 1933 British English
3526 All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews 2014 Canadian English
3527 Poetry and the Age Randall Jarrell 1953 American English
3528 Love in the Western World Denis de Rougemont 1939 Swiss French
3530 Behemoth Franz Neumann 1942 German English
3529 Uit Hoofts Lyriek P. C. Hooft 1636 Dutch Dutch
3532 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
3533 The Birthday Party Harold Pinter 1958 British English
3535 Netherland Joseph O'Neill 2008 Irish English
3536 The Death of Woman Wang MMP Jonathan Spence 1978 American English
3537 Amelia Henry Fielding 1751 British English
3538 Fire And Sleet And Candlelight August Derleth 1961 American English
3539 C Tom McCarthy 2010 British English
3540 May Herman Gorter 1889 Dutch Dutch
3541 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3542 The Dragon And The George Gordon R. Dickson 1976 American English
3544 I, The Jury Mickey Spillane 1947 American English
3545 Daphnis and Chloe Longus -200 Greek Ancient greek
3547 Samuel Johnson Walter Jackson Bate 1977 American English
3546 Five Children And It Edith Nesbit 1902 British English
3548 The Wolfen Whitley Strieber 1978 American English
3549 Gloriana Michael Moorcock 1978 British English
3551 The Cloven Viscount Italo Calvino 1952 Italian Italian
3552 Divorcing Susan Taubes 1969 American English
3552 Log Of The S.S. The Mrs Unguentine Stanley Crawford 1972 American English
3552 The Revolt Of The Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta 1973 American English
3555 Tragedy At Law Cyril Hare 1942 British English
3556 The Black Jacobins C. L. R. James 1938 British English
3557 Magician Raymond E. Feist 1982 American English
3558 Memoirs of a Peasant Boy Xosé Neira Vilas 1961 Spanish Galician
3560 Insight Bernard Lonergan 1957 Canadian English
3561 The History Of Miss Sara Burgerhart Betje Wolff, Aagje Deken 1782 Dutch Dutch
3562 Charming Billy Alice McDermott 1998 American English
3566 Mystery and Manners Flannery O'Connor 1969 American English
3567 The Return Of The Caravels António Lobo Antunes 1988 Portuguese Portuguese
3568 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
3570 The Inquisitors' Manual António Lobo Antunes 1996 Portuguese English
3571 The Day After Judgement James Blish 1971 American English
3573 Notes from No Man's Land Eula Biss 2009 American English
3572 Youth Tove Ditlevsen 1967 Danish Danish
3575 Carrie's War Nina Bawden 1973 British English
3574 Horcynus Orca Stefano D'Arrigo 1975 Italian Italian
3577 Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson 1995 British English
3578 Mercy Of A Rude Stream Henry Roth 1994 American English
3579 Flowering Judas and Other Stories Katherine Anne Porter 1930 American English
3581 Selected Poems Andrew Marvell 1681 British English
3580 Call Me By Your Name André Aciman 2007 Italian English
3582 Two Sought Adventure Fritz Leiber 1957 American English
3583 Married Life David Vogel 1986 Jewish English
3584 The Would-Be Gentleman Molière 1670 French French
3585 A Single Man Christopher Isherwood 1964 British English
3586 The Complete Writings of Alfred de Musset Alfred de Musset 1907 French French
3587 Collected Poems H. P. Lovecraft 1963 American English
3588 The First Man Albert Camus 1994 French French
3590 Do Everything in the Dark Gary Indiana 2003 American English
3589 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
3591 Legends of The Fall Jim Harrison 1979 American English
3592 The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson 1999 British English
3594 Thick Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019 American English
3595 Les Destinées Alfred de Vigny 1864 French French
3596 Time of Silence Luis Martín-Santos 1962 Spanish Spanish
3596 The Third Wedding Kōstas Tachtsēs 1962 Greek Greek
3598 The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 2018 American English
3599 Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 American English
3600 Debt David Graeber 2011 American English
3603 A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing Eimear McBride 2013 Irish English
3602 Celtic Tales Hugo Pratt 1980 Italian Italian
3604 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3605 The Temple George Herbert 1633 British English
3606 A Throw Of The Dice Will Never Abolish Chance Stéphane Mallarmé 1897 French French
3607 Virgin River Robyn Carr 2007 American English
3608 The Knights Aristophanes -424 Greek Ancient greek
3609 Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell 2006 American English
3610 The Blue Lotus Hergé 1936 Belgian French
3611 Redgauntlet Sir Walter Scott 1824 Scottish English
3612 The Life Of Marianne Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1731 French French
3613 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 2020 American English
3614 The Eyes Of The Overworld Jack Vance 1966 American English
3615 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
3617 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe 1979 American English
3616 The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 American English
3618 Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe 1974 British English
3619 Day Of The Minotaur Thomas Burnett Swann 1966 American English
3620 Correspondence Voltaire 1751 French French
3621 A Small, Good Thing Raymond Carver 1981 American English
3622 The Atrocity Exhibition J. G. Ballard 1970 British English
3623 Sepharad Antonio Muñoz Molina 2001 Spanish Spanish
3624 The Lost Salt Gift Of Blood Alistair MacLeod 1976 Canadian English
3626 Adventures On The Wine Route Kermit Lynch 1988 American English
3625 Bear Marian Engel 1976 Canadian English
3628 Green For Danger Christianna Brand 1944 British English
3629 Party Going Henry Green 1939 British English
3630 I And My Chimney Herman Melville 1856 American English
3630 Life Of Quintus Fixlein Jean-Paul Richter 1796 German German
3630 Really The Blues Bernard Wolfe, Milton Mezz Mezzrow 1946 American English
3630 The Happy Island Dawn Powell 1938 American English
3634 The Totem David Morrell 1979 American English
3635 Odes John Keats 1820 British English
3636 Goat Song Konstantin Vaginov 1927 Russian Russian
3637 The Queen's Tiara Carl Jonas Love Almqvist 1834 Swedish Swedish
3637 Areopagitica John Milton 1644 British English
3637 The Return and Other Stories Andrey Platonov 1946 Russian Russian
3637 Letters from an American Farmer J. Crevecoeur 1782 American English
3637 Homo Ludens Johan Huizinga 1938 Dutch Dutch
3637 And where Were You, Adam? Heinrich Böll 1951 German German
3637 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas de Quincey 1821 British English
3637 Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial Sir Thomas Browne 1658 British English
3637 Renascence and Other Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917 American English
3637 The Portable Faulkner William Faulkner 1946 American English
3637 The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1901 Belgian French
3637 The Battle with the Slum Jacob A. Riis 1902 Danish English
3637 The House on Henry Street Lillian D. Wald 1915 American English
3637 The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens Lincoln Steffens 1931 American English
3637 Why I Am Not a Christian Bertrand Russell 1927 British English
3637 Woman Suffrage and Politics Carrie Chapman Catt 1923 American English
3637 Armenian Atrocities Arnold J. Toynbee 1915 British English
3637 War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon 1919 British English