The definitive ranking
Books
Built from 530 forced-choice rankings by 39 Tāstmakers.
| Book | Score | Rankings | Range of opinion | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dune2005 | 7.9 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 2 | Empire of AI2026 | 7.9 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 3 | East of Eden2003 | 7.9 | 4 | Mixed | |
| 4 | Sula1987 | 7.8 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 5 |  |
Becoming2018 | 7.8 | 2 | Too few to say |
| 6 | Middlemarch2008 | 7.7 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 7 | Hyperion2011 | 7.7 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 8 | Why We Sleep2018 | 7.7 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 9 |  |
City of Miracles (The Divine Cities Book 3)2017 | 7.7 | 2 | Too few to say |
| 10 | Babel2022 | 7.7 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 11 | The Anxious Generation2024 | 7.7 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 12 | The Lies of Locke Lamora2006 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 13 |  |
Fourth Wing2023 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say |
| 14 | Shoe Dog2016 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 15 | The Song of Achilles2012 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 16 | Remarkably Bright Creatures2022 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 17 |  |
One Day All This Will Be Yours2021 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say |
| 18 | Brothers Karamazov2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 19 | The Shadow of the Wind2005 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 20 | Anxious People2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 21 |  |
A Gentleman in Moscow2016 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say |
| 22 | The Angel's Game2009 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 23 | Hurricane Season2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 24 | Famesick2026 | 7.6 | 4 | Consensus | |
| 25 | Stoner2010 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 26 | Circe2019 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 27 | Pale Fire2011 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 28 | Flowers for Algernon2004 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 29 | Cloud Cuckoo Land2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 30 | Lonesome Dove1986 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 31 |  |
Storia della bambina perduta2000 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 32 | The Transit of Venus2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 33 |  |
The player of games1988 | 7.5 | 2 | Too few to say |
| 34 | The Grapes of Wrath2002 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 35 |  |
Born a Crime2016 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 36 | The City of Brass2017 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 37 |  |
North Woods2023 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 38 | It2017 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 39 | Little Women1915 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 40 | The Word on Fire Bible2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 41 | Beartown2017 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 42 | Second Place2021 | 7.5 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 43 | My Friends2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 44 |  |
Steve Jobs2011 | 7.5 | 3 | Mixed |
| 45 | Getting There2015 | 7.5 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 46 | The Underground Railroad2018 | 7.5 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 47 |  |
To Kill a Mockingbird1960 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 48 | Memoirs of Hadrian1984 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 49 | Scattered All Over the Earth2022 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 50 |  |
The 1619 Project2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |