The Greatest 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 743 '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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17010 | Falls The Shadow | Sharon Kay Penman | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17010 | The Reckoning | Sharon Kay Penman | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Golden Hand | Edith Simon | 1961 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Last Englishman | Hebe Weenolson | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | Michelangelo The Florentine | Sidney Alexander | 1957 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Hand Of Michelangelo | Sidney Alexander | 1976 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Nicodemus | Sidney Alexander | 1965 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Duchess Of Milan | Michael Ennis | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17010 | City Of God | Cecelia Holland | 1979 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Vittoria | Robert Merle | 1986 | French | French | |
| 17010 | The Bride Of Sforza | Miranda Seymour | 1975 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Agony And The Ecstacy | Irving Stone | 1961 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Stage Of Fools | Charles Brady | Unknown | English | ||
| 16653 | Immortal Queen | Elizabeth Byrd | 1956 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Feversham | Diane Davidson | 1969 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17010 | Heart Of A Queen | Josephine Delves-Broughton | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | My Lord Essex | Olive Eckerson | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | The Firedrake's Eye | Patricia Finney | 1992 | British | English | |
| 17010 | Death Of The Fox | George Garrett | 1972 | American | English | |
| 17010 | The Succession | George Garrett | 1983 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Armada | Charles Gidley | 1987 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | I, Elizabeth | Rosalind Miles | 1993 | British | English | |
| 17010 | The Cat And The King | Louis Auchincloss | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Campion Towers | John Beatty, Patricia Beatty | 1965 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Nicholas Cooke | Stephanie Cowell | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Physician Of London | Stephanie Cowell | 1995 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Glass Blowers | Daphne du Maurier | 1963 | British | English | |
| 17010 | White Witch | Elizabeth Goudge | 1958 | British | English | |
| 17010 | Dark Torrent Of Glencoe | Edward Grierson | 1960 | British | English | |
| 17010 | The Gods Are Thirsty | Tabitha Lee | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | The Frenchwoman | Jeanne Mackin | 1989 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Rasero | Francisco Rebolledo | 1995 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 17010 | Vindication | Frances Sherwood | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | So Brief A Spring | Claude Manceron | 1971 | French | French | |
| 17010 | Sir William | David Stacton | 1965 | American | English | |
| 17010 | The Tennants Of Time | Thomas Flannagan | 1988 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The End Of The Hunt | Thomas Flanagan | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Toward The Morning | Hervey Allen | 1978 | American | English | |
| 17010 | A Durable Fire | Virginia Bernhard | 1990 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Pilgrims | Gerard Mac | Unknown | English | ||
| 17010 | O Beulah Land | Mary Lee Settle | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17010 | The Cold Journey | Grace Stone | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | The First Rebel | Neil Swanson | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Long March | Jane Barry | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | The Carolinians | Jane Barry | 1959 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Bounty Lands | William Ellis | 1981 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Liberty Tavern | Thomas Fleming | 1976 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Monmouth | Charles Flood | 1977 | Unknown | English | |
| 16653 | Hannah Fowler | Janice Giles | 1956 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Guns Of Burgoyne | Bruce Lancaster | 1975 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Beulah Land | Harold Davis | 1973 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Surveyor | Turman Nelson | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | Know Nothing | Mary Lee Settle | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Jonathan Dearborn | Willard M. Wallace | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | When The War Is Over | Stephen Becker | 1968 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Elkhorn Tavern | Douglas C. Jones | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17010 | The Falling Hills | Perry Lentz | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17010 | The Three Days | Don Robertson | 1959 | American | English | |
| 17010 | By Antietam Creek | Don Robertson | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17010 | The Crater | Richard Slotkin | 1980 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Time Of The Gringo | Elliott Arnold | 1970 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | A Good Way To Die | Del Barton | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | Fancher Train | Amelia Bean | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | Time For Outrage | Amelia Bean | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | Taos | Irwin Blacker | 1959 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | A Road We Do Not Know | Frederick J. Chiaventone | 1996 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Tale Of Valor | Vardis Fisher | 1958 | American | English | |
| 17010 | A Distanr Trumpet | Paul Horgan | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Carrington | Michael Straight | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17010 | A Very Small Remnant | Michael Straight | 1976 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Lord Of The Kongo | Peter Forbath | 1988 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Whales Of Lake Tanganyika | Lennart Hagerfors | 1992 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 17010 | Kenya | John Halkin | 1986 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Burton And Speke | William Harrison | 1982 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Court Of The Lion | Eleanor Cooney, Daniel Altieri | 1988 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Deception | Eleanor Cooney, Daniel Altieri | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Dynasty | Robert S. Elegant | 1977 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Manchu | Robert S. Elegant | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Mandarin | Robert S. Elegant | 1983 | American | English | |
| 17010 | From A Far Land | Robert S. Elegant | 1986 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Peking | Anthony Grey | 1988 | British | English | |
| 17010 | The Chinese Emperor | Jean Levi | 1985 | French | French | |
| 17010 | The Dream Of Confucius | Jean Levi | 1989 | French | French | |
| 17010 | Ming | Robert B. Oxnam | 1995 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Silk And Steel | Stephen Alter | 1980 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Golden Fire | Jonathan Fast | 1986 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Moghul | Thomas Hoover | 1983 | American | English | |
| 16653 | Shadow Of The Moon | M.M. Kaye | 1956 | British | English | |
| 17010 | Raj | Gita Mehta | 1989 | Indian | English | |
| 17010 | Yedo | Lynn Guest | 1985 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Tokaido Road | Lucia St. Clair Robson | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Segaki | David Stacton | 1958 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Sakuran | Edward Tolosko | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | The Signore | Kunio Tsuji | 1990 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 16653 | The Heike Story | Eiji Yoshikawa | 1956 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17010 | Molokai | O.A. Bushnell | 1960 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Dreaming | Barbara Wood | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17010 | All Soul's Rising | Madison Smartt Bell | 1995 | American | English | |
| 17010 | The Sword And The Sun | Gerald Green | 1980 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Drums Of Destiny | Bruce Jeffries | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | The Luck Of Huemac | Daniel Peters | 1981 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | Tikal | Daniel Peters | 1983 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Incas | Daniel Peters | 1991 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | A Signal Victory | David Stacton | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Eleni Or Nobody | Rhea Galanaki | 1998 | Greek | Greek | |
| 17010 | The Literature Express | Lasha Bugadze | 2009 | Georgian | Georgian | |
| 17010 | Requiem For The Living | Alan Cherchesov | 2005 | Unknown | Russian | |
| 17010 | The Orphan Sky | Ella Leya | 2015 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | A Man Was Going Down The Road | Otar Chiladze | 1973 | Georgian | Georgian | |
| 17010 | The Fleeting City | Hovhannes Tekgyozan | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17010 | Dagny, Or A Love Feast | Zurab Karumidze | 2014 | Georgian | English | |
| 17010 | Solar Plexus | Rustam Ibragimbekov | 1996 | Azerbaijani | English | |
| 17010 | The Legacy Of Lost Things | Aida Zilalian | 2016 | Unknown | English | |
| 17010 | The Fourth Man | Robert Baer | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Sea Power | Admiral James Stavridis | 2017 | American | English | |
| 16814 | Astoria | Washington Irving | 1835 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Inside The Cia | Ronald Kessler | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Thanks A Thousand | A. J. Jacobs | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17010 | True Believer | Jack Carr | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17010 | Code Red | Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills | 2023 | American | English |