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
3402 Shadow Over Mars Leigh Brackett 1944 American English
3434 Horseman, Pass By Larry McMurtry 1961 American English
3444 The Bitter Glass Eilís Dillon 1958 Irish English
3475 The Campaign of the Marne Sewell Tyng 1927 American English
3483 Consider Phlebas Iain Banks 1987 Scottish English
3500 Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 2002 Canadian English
3551 The Cloven Viscount Italo Calvino 1952 Italian Italian
3557 Magician Raymond E. Feist 1982 American English
3583 Married Life David Vogel 1986 Jewish English
3591 Legends of The Fall Jim Harrison 1979 American English
3596 The Third Wedding Kōstas Tachtsēs 1962 Greek Greek
3599 Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 American English
3602 Celtic Tales Hugo Pratt 1980 Italian Italian
3604 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3619 Day Of The Minotaur Thomas Burnett Swann 1966 American English
3630 I And My Chimney Herman Melville 1856 American English
3637 Trans-Atlantyk Witold Gombrowicz 1953 Polish Polish
3637 The White Ship Chinghiz Aitmatov 1970 Kyrgyz Russian
3637 The Endless Adventure F. S. Oliver 1930 British English
3637 The Rider on the White Horse Theodor Storm 1888 German German
3637 The Invisible Flag Peter Bamm 1952 German German
3637 Theodor Chindler Bernard von Brentano 1936 German German
3637 The Crusaders Stefan Heym 1948 German English
3637 Fluss Ohne Ufer Hans Henny Jahnn 1949 German German
3637 Jürg Jenatsch Conrad Ferdinand Meyer 1876 Swiss German
3637 Stalingrad Theodor Plievier 1948 German German
3816 The Beach Alex Garland 1996 British English
3821 The Edge of the Sword Charles De Gaulle 1959 French French
3824 The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman 1997 British English
3828 This Above All Eric Knight 1941 British English
3829 Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
3859 The Wrath of the Ancestors Archibald Campbell Jordan 1940 South African English
3859 Amal'eZulu B. W. Vilakazi 1945 South African Zulu
3859 The History Of The Yorubas Reverend Samuel Johnson 1921 Nigerian English
3868 Sansibar Or The Last Reason Alfred Andersch 1957 German German
3879 The River Between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1965 Kenyan English
3884 Collected Plays John Millington Synge 1935 Irish English
3891 Beauty On Earth Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 1927 French French
3901 Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy 1998 American English
3902 The Blue Sword Robin McKinley 1982 American English
3944 Doña Bárbara Rómulo Gallegos 1929 Venezuelan Spanish
3952 The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama 1992 American English
3953 A Prisoner Of War’s Story Stratis Doukas 1929 Greek Greek
3953 Freedom Or Death Nikos Kazantzakis 1953 Greek Greek
3953 The Schoolmistress With The Golden Eyes Stratis Myrivilis 1933 Greek Greek
3953 Στου Χατζηφράγκου Kosmas Politis 1929 Greek Greek
3953 Η Γυναίκα της Ζακύνθου Dionysios Solomos 1829 Greek Greek
3953 Η Χαμένη Άνοιξη Stratis Tsirkas 1946 Greek Greek
4061 The Ice Wall Yasushi Inoue 1959 Japanese Japanese
4065 A Feast Unknown Philip José Farmer 1969 American English
4083 The Manor Isaac Bashevis Singer 1967 Polish Yiddish
4088 Love and Rockets Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez 1982 American English
4131 The Three-Arched Bridge Ismail Kadare 1978 Albanian Albanian
4133 The Cathedral Oles Honchar 1968 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4138 Three plays Paul Claudel 1912 French French
4165 Confederates Thomas Keneally 1979 Australian English
4167 Miss Julie August Strindberg 1888 Swedish Swedish
4196 The Master Of Go Yasunari Kawabata 1951 Japanese Japanese
4207 Land Pak Kyongni 1969 Korean Korean
4226 The Frogs Aristophanes -405 Greek Ancient greek
4258 The Father August Strindberg 1887 Swedish Swedish
4257 Jack Of Shadows Roger Zelazny 1971 American English
4265 Ancestral Voices Etienne van Heerden 1986 South African Afrikaans
4276 In The Ravine Anton Chekhov 1900 Russian Russian
4279 Christmas At The Ivanovs' Alexander Vvedensky 1938 Russian Russian
4309 The Shrimp And The Anemone L. P. Hartley 1944 British English
4309 The Three Sisters May Sinclair 1914 British English
4309 Peace In War Miguel de Unamuno 1897 Spanish Spanish
4309 Moon Over Africa Pamela Kent 1955 British English
4309 Ali And Nino Kurban Said 1937 Azerbaijani German
4309 After London; Or, Wild England Richard Jefferies 1885 British English
4309 The Last September Elizabeth Bowen 1929 Irish English
4309 Williwaw Gore Vidal 1946 American English
4392 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4403 This Sporting Life David Storey 1960 British English
4412 The Iron Candlestick Dimitar Talev 1952 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4411 Sharpe's Eagle Bernard Cornwell 1981 British English
4420 Desire Under The Elms Eugene O'Neill 1924 American English
4443 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry 2005 Irish English
4466 Samuels bok Sven Delblanc 1981 Swedish Swedish
4488 The Bears' Famous Invasion Of Sicily Dino Buzzati 1945 Italian Italian
4492 All The Little Live Things Wallace Stegner 1967 American English
4499 Mister Pip Lloyd Jones 2006 New Zealand English
4519 Sour Sweet Timothy Mo 1982 British English
4542 A New Life Bernard Malamud 1961 American English
4581 Antiworlds Andrey Voznesensky 1964 Russian Russian
4627 The Opium War Julia Lovell 2011 British English
4635 The Medici George Frederick Young 1910 Unknown English
4652 The Forever War Dexter Filkins 2008 American English
4653 True West Sam Shepard 1980 American English
4663 Dusklands J. M. Coetzee 1974 South African English
4668 Allah Is Not Obliged Ahmadou Kourouma 2000 French French
4673 Time Of Parting Anton Donchev 1964 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4679 The Paul Street Boys Ferenc Molnár 1906 Hungarian Hungarian
4711 My Michael Amos Oz 1968 Israeli Hebrew
4719 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Luis Sepúlveda 1989 Chilean Spanish
4735 The Headless Horseman Thomas Mayne Reid 1865 Irish English
4742 The Commandant Jessica Anderson 1975 Australian English
4766 The Soldier's Art Anthony Powell 1966 British English
4781 Pharsalia Lucan 61 Roman Latin
4785 Amphitryon Plautus -184 Roman Latin
4802 Brand Henrik Ibsen 1866 Norwegian Norwegian
4816 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
4856 Der Tod Im Reisfeld Peter Scholl-Latour 1970 German German
4878 To The End Of The World Blaise Cendrars 1957 French French
4878 The Cat Colette 1933 French French
4878 The Wound Malick Fall 1967 Senegalese French
4899 Lord Of The World Robert Hugh Benson 1907 British English
4899 The River War Winston Churchill 1899 British English
4930 The Poorhouse Fair John Updike 1959 American English
4936 The Baron's Sons Mór Jókai 1869 Hungarian Hungarian
4943 The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro 2015 British English
4950 Aggression Friedrich Hacker 1971 Unknown German
4991 The Wandering Falcon Jamil Ahmed 2011 Pakistani English
5008 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
5007 The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1918 Australian English
5016 High Citadel Desmond Bagley 1965 British English
5025 Dying As A Country Dimitris Dimitriadis 1978 Greek Greek
5041 Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden 1999 American English
5045 The Wonderful Visit H. G. Wells 1895 British English