The Greatest Books of All Time on Conflict

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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
1852 July's People Nadine Gordimer 1981 South African English
1866 The Lion of Flanders Hendrik Conscience 1838 Belgian Dutch
1867 The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1887 British English
1897 The Ice People René Barjavel 1968 French French
1912 World's End T. C. Boyle 1987 American English
1935 Autobiography Benvenuto Cellini 1728 Italian Italian
1944 My Name Is Asher Lev Chaim Potok 1972 American English
1965 A Flag For Sunrise Robert Stone 1981 American English
1967 Leviathan Arno Schmidt 1949 German German
1995 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 American English
1998 Ben-Hur Lew Wallace 1880 American English
2024 The Chosen Chaim Potok 1967 American English
2055 Satan In Goray Isaac Bashevis Singer 1935 Polish Yiddish
2122 The Crystal Cave Mary Stewart 1970 British English
2131 Seven Brothers Aleksis Kivi 1870 Finnish Finnish
2136 Conan The Conqueror Robert E. Howard 1935 American English
2138 The Worm Ouroboros E. R. Eddison 1922 British English
2153 The Track Of The Cat Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1949 American English
2158 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel 1980 American English
2164 Bread Givers Anzia Yezierska 1925 American English
2184 In a Free State V. S. Naipaul 1971 Trinidadian English
2227 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
2230 The Cathedral Folk Nikolai Leskov 1872 Russian Russian
2236 Billiards at Half-Past Nine Heinrich Böll 1959 German German
2254 Pan Tadeusz Adam Mickiewicz 1834 Polish Polish
2268 The Jewel In The Crown Paul Scott 1966 British English
2286 The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1861 British English
2314 Ship Of Fools Katherine Anne Porter 1962 American English
2345 The Well Of The Unicorn Fletcher Pratt 1948 American English
2349 The Inheritors William Golding 1955 British English
2358 August 1914 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971 Russian Russian
2365 Little Big Man Thomas Berger 1964 American English
2397 Plumb Maurice Gee 1978 New Zealand English
2422 Galileo Bertolt Brecht 1938 German German
2427 A View From The Bridge Arthur Miller 1955 American English
2438 Puckoon Spike Milligan 1963 Irish English
2464 Non Stop Brian Aldiss 1958 British English
2484 The Good War Studs Terkel 1984 American English
2489 Murder In The Cathedral T. S. Eliot 1935 British English
2493 Miramar Naguib Mahfouz 1967 Egyptian Arabic
2500 Rebellion In The Backlands Euclides da Cunha 1902 Brazilian Portuguese
2503 The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1827 American English
2517 Rites of Passage William Golding 1980 British English
2522 The Passage Of Power Robert Caro 2012 American English
2547 Bosnian Chronicle Ivo Andrić 1945 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
2558 Pharaoh Bolesław Prus 1895 Polish Polish
2561 Segu Maryse Condé 1984 French French
2587 Red Shift Alan Garner 1973 British English
2604 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer 1974 South African English
2622 Border Town Shen Congwen 1934 Chinese Chinese
2664 The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 British English
2674 The Mountain Lion Jean Stafford 1947 American English
2682 Twilight Stephenie Meyer 2005 American English
2700 Witch World Andre Norton 1963 American English
2714 Coriolanus William Shakespeare 1608 British English
2741 Jerusalem Selma Lagerlöf 1901 Swedish Swedish
2750 Gods And Heroes Gustav Schwab 1838 German German
2779 Lay Down Your Arms! Bertha von Suttner 1889 Austrian German
2783 North Of Boston Robert Frost 1914 American English
2822 The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis 1954 British English
2827 A Swiftly Tilting Planet Madeleine L'Engle 1978 American English
2839 Ashenden, Or, The British Agent W. Somerset Maugham 1928 British English
2843 The Book Of Ptath A. E. van Vogt 1943 American English
2876 Palace of the Peacock Wilson Harris 1960 Guyanese English
2877 The Patriot Antonio Fogazzaro 1906 Italian Italian
2888 Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy 1912 Russian Russian
2889 Olvidado Rey Gudú Ana María Matute 1996 Spanish Spanish
2893 Seven Days In New Crete Robert Graves 1949 British English
2895 Teahouse Lao She 1957 Chinese Chinese
2902 Waverley Sir Walter Scott 1814 British English
2915 The Broken Sword Poul Anderson 1954 American English
2923 The African Queen C. S. Forester 1935 British English
2925 The Castle Of Iron L. Sprague de Camp 1950 American English
2935 The Better Angels Of Our Nature Steven Pinker 2011 American English
2937 Jauche Und Levkojen Christine Brückner 1975 German German
2987 Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan 1945 Canadian English
3001 Monsignor Quixote Graham Greene 1982 British English
3008 Labyrinths Christopher Okigbo 1971 Nigerian English
3009 The Octopus Frank Norris 1901 American English
3017 The Old Men At The Zoo Angus Wilson 1961 British English
3021 Whisky Galore Compton Mackenzie 1947 British English
3021 An Infamous Army Georgette Heyer 1937 British English
3039 Manservant And Maidservant Ivy Compton-Burnett 1947 British English
3047 Three Hearts And Three Lions Poul Anderson 1953 American English
3050 Centennial James A. Michener 1974 American English
3053 National Episodes Benito Pérez Galdós 1873 Spanish Spanish
3064 The Secret River Kate Grenville 2005 Australian English
3087 The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony Roberto Calasso 1988 Italian Italian
3110 The Warden Anthony Trollope 1855 British English
3123 Carpentaria Alexis Wright 2006 Australian English
3137 The Keep F. Paul Wilson 1981 American English
3159 Nine Princes In Amber Roger Zelazny 1970 American English
3163 Fierce Attachments Vivian Gornick 1987 American English
3166 Red Moon and Black Mountain Joy Chant 1970 British English
3169 North Seamus Heaney 1975 Irish English
3173 A Simple Story S.Y. Agnon 1935 Israeli Hebrew
3194 The Best And The Brightest David Halberstam 1972 American English
3206 The Prize Daniel Yergin 1991 American English
3215 The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld Patricia A. McKillip 1974 American English
3228 Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag 2015 Indian Kannada
3232 The Strategy Of Conflict Thomas Schelling 1960 American English
3239 Hms Ulysses Alistair MacLean 1955 Scottish English
3240 The Changelings Jo Sinclair 1955 American English
3248 Memoirs of Cardinal De Retz Cardinal de Retz 1717 French French
3262 Chronicle In Stone Ismail Kadare 1971 Albanian Albanian
3266 Old Mortality Sir Walter Scott 1816 Scottish English
3286 Three Strong Women Marie NDiaye 2009 French French
3290 Candida George Bernard Shaw 1898 Irish English
3297 Maps Nuruddin Farah 1986 Somali English
3324 The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda Miguel de Cervantes 1617 Spanish Spanish
3324 By the Open Sea August Strindberg 1890 Swedish Swedish
3324 Sandokan Emilio Salgari 1883 Italian Italian
3324 None but the Brave Arthur Schnitzler 1895 Austrian German
3324 Monica Saunders Lewis 1930 British Welsh
3376 Le Cid Pierre Corneille 1637 French French
3381 Der Laden Erwin Strittmatter 1983 German German
3388 Bomber Len Deighton 1970 British English
3391 Napoleon Emil Ludwig 1926 German German
3391 Los Gozos Y Las Sombras Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 1957 Spanish Spanish
3400 Great Plains Ian Frazier 1989 American English