| 1 | Phillip Pullman | The amber spyglass | 518 | Fantasy | UK | 2000 |
| 2 | Jürgen Kocka | Geschichte des Kapitalismus | 144 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2013 |
| 3 | Shoshana Zuboff | Age of surveillance capitalism | 704 | Non-fiction | USA | 2018 |
| 4 | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | 310 | Fantasy | UK | 1937 |
| 5 | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Fellowship of the Ring | 423 | Fantasy | UK | 1954 |
| 6 | Harper Lee | To kill a mockingbird | 281 | Bildungsroman | USA | 1960 |
| 7 | Jane Austen | Pride and prejudice | 279 | Romance novel | UK | 1813 |
| 8 | George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-Four | 328 | Dystopian fiction | UK | 1949 |
| 9 | George Orwell | Animal farm | 112 | Political satire | UK | 1945 |
| 10 | E.B. White | Charlottes web | 192 | Children's | USA | 1952 |
| 11 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The great Gatsby | 200 | Tragedy | USA | 1925 |
| 12 | Anne Frank | The diary of a young girl | 283 | Autobiography | Netherlands | 1947 |
| 13 | Alex Bellos | Alex in numberland | 448 | Non-fiction | UK | 2010 |
| 14 | Jaap van Ginneken | Screening difference | 294 | Non-fiction | Netherlands | 2007 |
| 15 | Mikhail Bulgakov | Master and Margarita | 294 | Classics | Soviet Union | 1967 |
| 16 | Fang Fang | Wuhan diaries | 380 | Non-fiction | China | 2020 |
| 17 | J. Ronson | So you’ve been publicly shamed | 290 | Non-fiction | UK | 2015 |
| 18 | Cormac McCarthy | The road | 287 | Post-apocalyptic fiction | USA | 2006 |
| 19 | Anne Berest | How to be Parisian wherever you are | 253 | Non-fiction | France | 2014 |
| 20 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Never let me go | 288 | Dystopian fiction | UK | 2005 |
| 21 | Deepa Anappara | Djinn patrol on the purple line | 368 | Fiction | India | 2020 |
| 22 | Ulrike Herrmann | Deutschland - ein Wirtschaftsmärchen | 320 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2019 |
| 23 | Ulrike Herrmann | Kein Kapitalismus ist auch keine Lösung | 288 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2016 |
| 24 | Linus Giese | Ich bin Linus | 224 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2020 |
| 25 | Kübra Gümüşay | Sprache und sein | 208 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2020 |
| 26 | Melodie Michelberger | Body politics | 224 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2021 |
| 27 | Margaret Atwood | Handmaids tale | 314 | Dystopian fiction | Canada | 1998 |
| 28 | Margaret Atwood | The testaments | 422 | Dystopian fiction | Canada | 2019 |
| 29 | Margarete Stokowski | Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats | 320 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2018 |
| 30 | Sam George-Allen | Witches: What Women Do Together | 267 | Non-fiction | Australia | 2019 |
| 31 | Svetlana Alexievich | Der Krieg hat kein weibliches Gesicht | 359 | Non-fiction | Belarus | 1985 |
| 32 | Patience Agbabi | The infinite | 256 | Science fiction | UK | 2020 |
| 33 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The remains of the day | 258 | Historical novel | UK | 1989 |
| 34 | Charles Yu | Interior chinatown | 288 | Fiction | USA | 2020 |
| 35 | Dina Nayeri | Drei sind ein Dorf | 368 | Fiction | USA | 2018 |
| 36 | Francesc Miralles | Ikigai | 208 | Non-fiction | Spain | 2017 |
| 37 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the sun | 307 | Dystopian fiction | UK | 2021 |
| 38 | Brit Bennett | The vanishing half | 352 | Fiction | USA | 2020 |
| 39 | Nick Bradley | The cat and the city | 304 | Fiction | UK | 2021 |
| 40 | Noam Chomsky | Rebellion oder Untergang | | Non-fiction | USA | 2021 |
| 41 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The left hand of darkness | 304 | Science fiction | USA | 2000 |
| 42 | David Diop | At night all blood is black | 145 | Fiction | France | 2020 |
| 43 | Haruki Murakami | First person singular | 245 | Fiction | Japan | 2021 |
| 44 | Neil Gaiman | Neverwhere | 370 | Fantasy | UK | 1996 |
| 45 | Louisa May Alcott | Little women | 449 | Classics | USA | 1869 |
| 46 | Frank Herbert | Dune | 688 | Science fiction | USA | 1965 |
| 47 | Hoda Barakat | Voices of the lost | 208 | Fiction | Lebanon | 2017 |
| 48 | Monique Roffey | The mermaid of Black Conch | 187 | Fiction | UK | 2020 |
| 49 | Mariam Khan | It’s not about the burqa | 272 | Non-fiction | UK | 2019 |
| 50 | Barack Obama | A Promised Land | 768 | Autobiography | USA | 2020 |
| 51 | K-Ming Chang | Bestiary | 259 | Fiction | USA | 2020 |
| 52 | Donna Leon | Venezianisches Finale | 346 | Mystery | USA | 1992 |
| 53 | Gwynne Dyer | The shortest history of war | | Non-fiction | Canada | 2021 |
| 54 | Dörte Hansen | Altes Land | 289 | Fiction | Germany | 2015 |
| 55 | Benjamin Myers | The Offing | 260 | Fiction | UK | 2019 |
| 56 | Dmitrij Kapitelman | Eine Formalie in Kiew | 177 | Fiction | Germany | 2021 |
| 57 | David Safier | Miss Merkel | 320 | Mystery | Germany | 2021 |
| 58 | Philip Matyszak | 24 hours in Ancient Rome | 272 | Non-fiction | UK | 2017 |
| 59 | Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim | Die Kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit | 368 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2021 |
| 60 | Kiley Reid | Such a fun age | 310 | Fiction | USA | 2019 |
| 61 | Amber Ruffin | You’ll never believe what happened to Lacey | 215 | Non-fiction | USA | 2021 |
| 62 | Katja Oskamp | Marzahn mon amour | 144 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2019 |
| 63 | Megan Campisi | Sin eater | 304 | Fiction | USA | 2020 |
| 64 | Robert Jones Jr. | The prophets | 400 | Fiction | USA | 2021 |
| 65 | Reni Eddo-Lodge | Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race | 249 | Non-fiction | UK | 2017 |
| 66 | Mark Haddon | The curious incident of the dog in the night time | 226 | Fiction | UK | 2003 |
| 67 | Octavia E. Butler | Parable of the sower | 345 | Dystopian fiction | USA | 1993 |
| 68 | Samira Shackle | Karachi vice | 272 | Non-fiction | UK | 2021 |
| 69 | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir | The greenhouse | 260 | Fiction | Iceland | 2007 |
| 70 | Gary Provost | 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing | 158 | Non-fiction | USA | 1985 |
| 71 | Fatma Aydemir | Heimat is Albtraum | 202 | Non-fiction | Germany | 2019 |
| 72 | Andy Weir | The martian | 384 | Science fiction | USA | 2011 |
| 73 | Donna Leon | Aqua alta | 384 | Mystery | USA | 1996 |
| 74 | Barbara Frandino | Das hast du verdient | 165 | Fiction | Italy | 2021 |
| 75 | Eckhart Tolle | The power of now | 229 | Self help | Germany | 1997 |
| 76 | Ruth Kinna | The government of no one | 391 | Non-fiction | UK | 2019 |
| 77 | Thomas Morris | The mystery of the exploding teeth | 400 | Non-fiction | UK | 2018 |
| 78 | P. Djèlí Clark | Ring shout | 176 | Fiction | USA | 2020 |
| 79 | Xiran Jay Zhao | Iron widow | 394 | Fantasy | Canada | 2021 |
| 80 | Kerry Greenwood | Dead man’s chest | 259 | Mystery | Australia | 2010 |
| 81 | Alice Walker | The color purple | 304 | Classics | USA | 1982 |
| 82 | Roxane Gay | Bad feminist | 320 | Non-fiction | USA | 2014 |
| 83 | Vaseem Khan | Midnight at Malabar house | 320 | Mystery | UK | 2020 |
| 84 | Alina Bronsky | Baba Dunja’s letzte Liebe | 154 | Fiction | Germany | 2015 |
| 85 | Aliya Whiteley | The beauty | 99 | Science fiction | UK | 2014 |
| 86 | Shelley Parker-Chan | She who became the sun | 416 | Fantasy | Australia | 2021 |
| 87 | Adiba Jaigirdar | Henna wars | 400 | Romance novel | Ireland | 2020 |
| 88 | Sylvain Tesson | Der Schneeleopard | 192 | Non-fiction | France | 2019 |
| 89 | Vaseem Khan | The dying day | 352 | Mystery | UK | 2021 |
| 90 | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Dial A for aunties | 299 | Romance novel | USA | 2021 |
| 91 | Fatima Daas | Die jüngste Tochter | 191 | Fiction | France | 2020 |
| 92 | Agatha Christie | Murder at the vicarage | 288 | Mystery | UK | 1930 |
| 93 | Josephine Tey | Miss Pym disposes | 238 | Mystery | UK | 1946 |
| 94 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Half of a yellow sun | 433 | Fiction | Nigeria | 2006 |
| 95 | Agatha Christie | The Body in the Library | 191 | Mystery | UK | 1942 |
| 96 | Agatha Christie | The Moving Finger | 299 | Mystery | UK | 1942 |
| 97 | Agatha Christie | A Murder Is Announced | 288 | Mystery | UK | 1950 |
| 98 | Agatha Christie | Murder on the orient express | 274 | Mystery | UK | 1934 |
| 99 | Agatha Christie | They do it with mirrors | 224 | Mystery | UK | 1952 |
| 100 | Agatha Christie | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | 296 | Mystery | UK | 1920 |
| 101 | Agatha Christie | And then there were none | 264 | Mystery | UK | 1939 |
| 102 | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Malibu rising | 369 | Fiction | USA | 2021 |
| 103 | Agatha Christie | ABC murders | 232 | Mystery | UK | 1936 |
| 104 | Freiya Benson | Trans love | 288 | Non-fiction | UK | 2019 |