The definitive ranking
Books
Built from 530 forced-choice rankings by 39 Tāstmakers.
| Book | Score | Rankings | Range of opinion | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 |  |
Blindsight2006 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 52 | The Women2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 53 | My Brilliant Friend2012 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 54 | Out of the House of Bondage2008 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 55 | Adulthood Rites2023 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 56 |  |
How to Be Well2025 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 57 | Leaving Time2014 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 58 |  |
Nineteen Eighty-Four1949 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 59 | I Who Have Never Known Men1997 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 60 | Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)2021 | 7.5 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 61 |  |
The Fellowship of the Ring | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 62 | The Wager2025 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 63 | The Passion According to G.H2022 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 64 | The Story of the Lost Child2015 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 65 |  |
The Answer Is No2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 66 |  |
The Nightingale | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 67 | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store2023 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 68 |  |
Book of the New Sun1983 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 69 | Intimacies2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 70 |  |
Sum2008 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 71 | A Short Stay in Hell2026 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 72 | Our Aesthetic Categories2012 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 73 |  |
The Color of Law2017 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 74 | A Visit from the Goon Squad2010 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 75 |  |
City of miracles2017 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 76 | The Grace Year2019 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 77 | The Way of Kings2010 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 78 | Guns, Germs and Steel2013 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 79 | Poems 1962-20122014 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 80 | Born a Crime2019 | 7.4 | 4 | Mixed | |
| 81 |  |
Caste2020 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 82 |  |
A Fine Balance2007 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 83 | Use of Weapons2008 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 84 |  |
The War of Art2002 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 85 |  |
A short history of nearly everything2003 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 86 | Birnam Wood2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 87 | Project Hail Mary2021 | 7.4 | 5 | Divisive | |
| 88 | My Struggle: Book 12013 | 7.4 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 89 |  |
Consider the lobster, and other essays2005 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 90 | Jane Eyre2003 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 91 | Meditations2002 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 92 |  |
Iron Flame2023 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 93 |  |
City of Last Chances2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 94 |  |
Beautyland2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 95 | Rejection2025 | 7.4 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 96 | L'anomalie2020 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 97 |  |
Wandering Stars2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 98 |  |
The silent patient2019 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 99 |  |
Of Boys and Men2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 100 | Orbital2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |