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
10980 Or Else, The Lightning God And Other Stories Catherine Lim 1980 Singaporean English
10998 How We Won The War Võ Nguyên Giáp 1976 Vietnamese Vietnamese
11004 Balkan Ghosts Robert D. Kaplan 1993 American English
11057 Two Years Eight Months And Twenty Eight Nights Salman Rushdie 2015 British English
11060 Look Solmaz Sharif 2016 American English
11066 All The Wrong Places James Fenton 1994 British English
11066 Fire Down Below William Golding 1989 British English
11066 The Flood John Broderick 2000 Irish English
11089 Family Ba Jin 1931 Chinese Chinese
11139 Black Flags Joby Warrick 2015 American English
11165 Krilon Eyvind Johnson 1941 Swedish Swedish
11166 Poems Of Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon 1986 Irish English
11186 Die Puppenspieler Tanja Kinkel 1995 German German
11198 Silence Of The Sea Jean Bruller 1942 French French
11204 Ninety Three Victor Hugo 1874 French French
11220 La Dernière Harde Maurice Genevoix 1938 French French
11237 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes 2017 Portuguese Portuguese
11242 L'huile Sur Le Feu Hervé Bazin 1954 French French
11250 Queen Margot Alexandre Dumas 1845 French French
11252 Tiger At The Gates Jean Giraudoux 1935 French French
11360 The Land Of Spices Kate O'Brien 1941 Irish English
11365 Le Monde Tel Qu'il Est Salvat Etchart French Unknown
11365 The Lantern Bearers Robert Louis Stevenson Unknown Unknown
11409 The Island Robert Merle 1962 French French
11426 Ice Station Matthew Reilly 1998 Australian English
11454 Early Autumn Louis Bromfield 1926 American English
11454 The Store Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932 American English
11454 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Robert Lewis Taylor 1958 American English
11444 Fiela's Child Dalene Matthee 1985 South African Afrikaans
11470 Batouala René Maran 1921 French French
11480 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
11546 Rory O'more Samuel Lover 1837 Irish English
11581 Copper Crown Lane Von Herzen 1986 American English
11581 The Devil Is Loose Antonine Maillet 1986 Canadian French
11633 Catalina Elisa Mujica 1952 Colombian Spanish
11643 Arsonists City Hala Alyan 2021 American English
11662 War Margaret MacMillan 2020 Canadian English
11662 Thirteen Days In September Lawrence Wright 2014 American English
11662 Days Of Fire Peter Baker 2013 American English
11662 The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark 2012 British English
11662 A World On Fire Amanda Foreman 2011 British English
11662 The Good Soldiers David Finkel 2009 American English
11662 Mayflower Nathaniel Philbrick 2006 American English
11662 World Without End Francine du Plessix Gray 1981 American English
11662 Tumultuous Years Robert J. Donovan 1983 American English
11662 The Vanished Imam Fouad Ajami 1986 Lebanese English
11662 Whites Norman Rush 1986 American English
11662 Arabesques Anton Shammas 1986 Israeli Hebrew
11662 The Tenants Of Time Thomas Flanagan 1988 American English
11662 How War Came Donald Cameron Watt 1989 British English
11662 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11796 A Case of Conscience James Blish 1958 American English
11797 The Uplift War David Brin 1987 American English
11826 Lilith's Brood Octavia E. Butler 1987 American English
11833 Cibola Burn James S. A. Corey 2014 American English
11896 Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1834 British English
11896 Cruise Of The Midge Michael Scott 1834 Scottish English
11900 Twilight And Other Stories Shulamith Hareven 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11926 Nemesis Games James S. A. Corey 2015 American English
11940 American Lion Jon Matteson 2008 American English
11940 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War David Donald 1960 American English
11940 God Jack Miles 1995 American English
11940 The Pope and Mussolini David I. Kertzer 2014 American English
12010 Mr. Mani A. B. Yehoshua 1990 Israeli Hebrew
12026 Girls In Tears Jacqueline Wilson 2002 British English
12121 The Emperor Of Ice Cream Brian Moore 1965 Irish English
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12132 The House Of The Mosque Kader Abdolah 2005 Dutch Dutch
12137 Mandragon R. M. Koster 1979 Unknown English
12201 The House on Via Gemito Domenico Starnone 2000 Italian Italian
12226 Persepolis Rising James S. A. Corey 2017 American English
12226 A Conjuring Of Light V. E. Schwab 2017 American English
12259 Beirut Fragments Jean Said Makdisi 1990 Lebanese English
12259 The Samaritan Treasure Marianne Luban 1990 American Unknown
12326 Biting At The Grave Padraig O'Malley 1990 British English
12326 Mazurka For Two Dead Men Camilo José Cela 1983 Spanish Spanish
12326 A Moment Of War Laurie Lee 1991 American English
12326 Conquest Of Mexico Hugh Thomas 1993 British English
12326 A Way In The World V. S. Naipaul 1994 American English
12441 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
12450 In The Beginning Was The Sea Tomás González 1983 Colombian Spanish
12515 A Bag Of Stories Edla Van Steen 1991 Brazilian Portuguese
12627 The Captains And The Kings Jennifer Johnston 1972 Irish English
12684 Children Of The Rich Lu Ling 1940 Chinese Unknown
12692 How Many Miles To Babylon? Jennifer Johnston 1974 Irish English
12703 Cold Skin Albert Sánchez Piñol 2002 Spanish Catalan
12727 A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie 2019 British English
12727 The Bird King G. Willow Wilson 2019 American English
12787 The Marriage Of Young Blacky Zhao Shuli 1943 Chinese Chinese
12834 Veils Nahid Rachlin 1992 Iranian English
12949 Four Generations Under One Roof Lao She 1944 Chinese Chinese
12979 Lessons In Magic And Disaster Charlie Jane Anders 2025 Unknown Unknown
13019 Fate In Tears And Laughter Chang Hen-shui 1925 Chinese Chinese
13217 The Crisis Winston Churchill 1901 British English
13248 Death And Nightingales Eugene McCabe 1992 Irish English
13269 Burmese Looking Glass Edith Mirante 1993 American English
13259 The Photographer Emmanuel Guibert 2003 French English
13306 The Final Reflection John M. Ford 1984 American English
13309 Lotus Creek Sun Li 1950 Chinese Unknown
13312 Threshold Of Spring Rou Shi 1932 Chinese Chinese
13321 A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge 1999 American English
13321 Jade Legacy Fonda Lee 2021 American English
13318 Records Of Orchard City Shi Tuo 1946 Chinese Chinese
13340 Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks 2011 Australian English
13340 River Of Smoke Amitav Ghosh 2011 Indian English
13362 The Pioneers James Fenimore Cooper 1823 American English
13362 An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen 1882 Norwegian Norwegian
13362 The History of the World Sir Walter Raleigh 1614 British English
13362 The Skylark Of Space Edward Elmer Smith 1928 American English
13362 Aelita Alexei Tolstoy 1923 Russian Russian
13362 The People Of The Black Circle Robert E. Howard 1934 American English
13362 The History Of England Thomas Babington Macaulay 1848 British English
13362 Anne Of Geierstein Sir Walter Scott 1829 Scottish English
13362 The Spy James Fenimore Cooper 1821 American English
13362 The Duel And Other Stories Anton Chekhov 1891 Russian Russian
13362 Beezus And Ramona Beverly Cleary 1955 American English
13524 Perception And Misperception In International Politics Robert Jervis 1976 American English
13531 Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler 1980 American English
13543 Morte D'Urban J. F. Powers 1962 American English
13557 The Spoils of Poynton Henry James 1897 American English