The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Belgium

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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
262 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2001 German German
382 Parade's End Ford Madox Ford 1924 British English
427 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004 British English
649 Villette Charlotte Brontë 1853 British English
650 The Flanders Road Claude Simon 1960 French French
775 Cheese Willem Elsschot 1933 Belgian Dutch
872 Pallieter Felix Timmermans 1916 Belgian Dutch
1120 The Sorrow of Belgium Hugo Claus 1983 Belgian Dutch
1588 The Guns of August Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1962 American English
1866 The Lion of Flanders Hendrik Conscience 1838 Belgian Dutch
1923 The Conquest Of Gaul Gaius Julius Caesar -51 Roman Latin
1980 Chapel Road Louis-Paul Boon 1953 Belgian Dutch
2019 The Death Ship B. Traven 1926 German German
2129 Houtekiet Gerard Walschap 1939 Belgian Dutch
2129 Will O' The Wisp Willem Elsschot 1947 Belgian Dutch
2180 The Oostakker Poems Hugo Claus 1955 Belgian Dutch
2287 The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1861 British English
2717 The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell 1975 American English
2782 The Legend Of Thyl Ulenspiegel And Lamme Goedzak Charles de Coster 1867 Belgian French
2793 Soft Soap Willem Elsschot 1931 Belgian Dutch
2824 The Leg Willem Elsschot 1946 Belgian Dutch
2870 Strophic Poems Hadewijch 1250 Dutch Middle dutch
3021 An Infamous Army Georgette Heyer 1937 British English
3148 Chronicles Jean Froissart 1370 French Middle french
3249 Death On The Nile Agatha Christie 1937 British English
3298 The Gallic War And Other Writings Gaius Julius Caesar -58 Roman Latin
3390 Napoleon Emil Ludwig 1926 German German
3637 Blasting And Bombardiering Wyndham Lewis 1937 British English
3637 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Lord Byron 1812 British English
3637 An Outline Of European Architecture Nikolaus Pevsner 1943 British English
4234 Occupied City Paul van Ostaijen 1921 Belgian Dutch
4435 Verzameld Werk: Poëzie Paul van Ostaijen 1955 Belgian Dutch
4444 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry 2005 Irish English
4446 Verzameld Werk Willem Elsschot 1957 Belgian Dutch
4475 Minuet Louis-Paul Boon 1955 Belgian Dutch
4531 Minneliederen Hendrik van Veldeke 1170 German Middle dutch
4529 Songs Hadewijch 1250 Dutch Middle dutch
4533 The Spiritual Espousals Jan van Ruusbroec 1343 Dutch Middle dutch
4536 Gruuthuse Manuscript Unknown 1400 Unknown Middle dutch
4823 Thirteen Years After; A Great War Veteran Returns To The Old Battlefields Will R. Bird 1931 Canadian English
4836 Black Magic Marjorie Bowen 1909 British English
4933 The Military Philosophers Anthony Powell 1968 British English
5032 Lust For Life Irving Stone 1934 American English
5654 The Parable of the Blind Gert Hofmann 1985 German German
6106 Refrains Anna Bijns 1528 Dutch Dutch
6106 Antwerp Songbook Unknown 1544 Unknown Dutch
6106 Het Leven En De Dood In Den Ast Stijn Streuvels 1926 Belgian Dutch
6129 Three Day Road Joseph Boyden 2005 Canadian English
6174 Ludo Conrad Detrez 1974 Belgian French
6343 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6382 History Of Germany In The Nineteenth Century Heinrich von Treitschke 1879 German German
6629 Checkmate Dorothy Dunnett 1975 British English
6834 The Dynasts Thomas Hardy 1904 British English
7000 The Gray Man Mark Greaney 2009 American English
7031 Quentin Durward Sir Walter Scott 1823 Scottish English
7216 Mémoires Philippe de Commynes 1524 French French
7216 Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 German German
8596 The Adventures Of Tintin Hergé 1929 Belgian French
10092 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10309 Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Victor Serge 1951 French French
10531 Lumumba Speaks Patrice Lumumba 1967 Congolese French
11068 The Thatcher Decade Peter Riddell 1989 British English
11181 The Abandoned Baobab Ken Bugul 1982 Senegalese French
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11663 War And Turpentine Stefan Hertmans 2013 Belgian Dutch
11663 The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark 2012 British English
12050 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12050 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12326 Headlong Michael Frayn 1999 British English
13533 The Vampire Of Mons Desmond Stewart 1976 British Unknown
14105 The Character Of Rain Amélie Nothomb 2000 Belgian French
14929 The Amazing Interlude Mary Roberts Rinehart 1918 American English
14985 The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst 1994 British English
14985 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14985 The Happiest Man On Earth Eddie Jaku 2020 Unknown English
15591 Belgium; A Personal Narrative Brand Whitlock 1919 American English
15635 Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1921 British English
15637 A History Of The Great War John Buchan 1921 British English
15667 Do Not Disturb Michela Wrong 2021 British English
15916 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15916 The Story Of Anzac C E W Bean 1921 Australian English
15916 Waterloo Erckmann-Chatrian 1865 French French
15916 Neo Colonialism, The Last Stage Of Imperialism Kwame Nkrumah 1965 Ghanaian English
15903 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
15916 La Femme De Gilles Madeleine Bourdouxhe 1937 Belgian French
15916 Medieval Cities Henri Pirenne 1925 Belgian French
16783 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16692 De Witte Ernest Claes 1920 Belgian Dutch
16724 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
16743 Os Miseráveis 1 Victor Hugo 1862 French French
17164 King Leopold's Ghost Adam Hochschild 1998 American English
17164 A Column Of Fire Ken Follett 2017 British English
16954 Fouché Stefan Zweig 1929 Austrian German
17164 Partners In Command Mark Perry 2007 Unknown English
17164 Band Of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 American English
17164 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17164 Margaret Thatcher Charles Moore 2013 British English
17164 Churchill Roy Jenkins 2001 British English
17164 All Out War Tim Shipman 2016 British English
17164 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17164 Niccolò Rising Dorothy Dunnett 1986 British English
17164 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17164 The Hinge Factor Erik Durschmied 1999 Unknown English
17164 De Zondvloed Jeroen Brouwers 1988 Dutch Dutch
17164 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17164 Virtual War Michael Ignatieff 2000 Canadian English
17164 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17164 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17164 The Penguin Book Of First World War Poetry George Walter 1979 British English
16907 Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness Of Crowds Charles Mackay 1841 British English
17164 Congo David Van Reybrouck 2010 Belgian Dutch
17164 Un Monde à Portée De Main Maylis de Kerangal 2018 French French
17164 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17164 Q Luther Blissett 1999 Italian Italian
17164 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
17164 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
17106 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17164 The Lumumba Plot Stuart A. Reid 2023 Unknown English
17164 Digital Empires Anu Bradford 2023 Unknown English