The Greatest Books of All Time on Conspiracy

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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
254 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 American English
344 The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1915 British English
441 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966 American English
444 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
455 V Thomas Pynchon 1963 American English
894 Rosemary's Baby Ira Levin 1967 American English
961 The Manchurian Candidate Richard Condon 1959 American English
966 The Ipcress File Len Deighton 1962 British English
1074 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 American English
1217 Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian
1281 Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 1972 American English
1430 The Wandering Jew Eugène Sue 1844 French French
1500 The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum 1980 American English
1709 The Club Dumas Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993 Spanish Spanish
1849 Z Vassilis Vassilikos 1967 Greek Greek
1856 Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad 1911 British English
1929 Killing Floor Lee Child 1997 British English
1940 The Four Just Men Edgar Wallace 1905 British English
2121 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 1623 British English
2335 Libra Don DeLillo 1988 American English
2457 The Prisoner Of Zenda Anthony Hope 1894 British English
2483 The Firm John Grisham 1991 American English
2538 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond 1958 British English
2638 Fatherland Robert Harris 1992 British English
3146 Carrion Comfort Dan Simmons 1989 American English
3183 Flicker Theodore Roszak 1991 American English
3257 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
3396 Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs 1981 American English
3611 The Blue Lotus Hergé 1936 Belgian French
3616 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
3840 Gog Andrew Sinclair 1967 British English
4309 Journey Into Fear Eric Ambler 1940 British English
4309 The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie 1922 British English
4536 Special Topics In Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl 2006 American English
4753 Angels And Demons Dan Brown 2000 American English
4766 The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon 2007 American English
4828 Cutter and Bone Newton Thornburg 1976 American English
4877 Heroes And Tombs Ernesto Sábato 1961 Argentinian Spanish
4896 The Book Of Fame Lloyd Jones 2000 New Zealand English
5027 The City & the City China Miéville 2009 British English
5378 The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln 1982 British English
5411 Nineteen Seventy Four David Peace 1999 British English
5465 Six Days Of The Condor James Grady 1974 American English
5575 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 American English
5631 Sabrina Nick Drnaso 2018 American English
5657 March Violets Philip Kerr 1989 British English
5684 The Constant Gardener John le Carré 2001 British English
5770 The Digging Leviathan James P. Blaylock 1984 American English
5847 Venice Preserv'd Thomas Otway 1682 British English
5915 The Valley Of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle 1915 British English
5946 Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon 2009 American English
5976 The Boys From Brazil Ira Levin 1976 American English
5988 The Eight Katherine Neville 1988 American English
6207 The Midnight Examiner William Kotzwinkle 1989 American English
6255 A Novel About My Wife Emily Perkins 2008 New Zealand English
6273 American Tabloid James Ellroy 1995 American English
6305 The Lost Symbol Dan Brown 2009 American English
6615 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds 2000 British English
6852 The Quiller Memorandum Adam Hall 1965 British English
6928 The Repairer Of Reputations Robert W. Chambers 1895 American English
6934 Shooting Script Gavin Lyall 1966 British English
7041 The Man In The Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas 1847 French French
7065 Point Of Impact Stephen Hunter 1993 American English
7215 Cinna Pierre Corneille 1641 French French
7567 The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein 1951 American English
7581 Feed Seanan McGuire 2010 American English
7684 A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark 2021 American English
7802 Anno Dracula Kim Newman 1992 British English
7852 L'organisation Jean Rolin 1996 French French
7891 Shutter Island Dennis Lehane 2003 American English
7936 Absolute Power David Baldacci 1996 American English
8073 Chronic City Jonathan Lethem 2009 American English
8075 The Great Derangement Matt Taibbi 2008 American English
8161 The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson 2006 Swedish Swedish
8320 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
8331 The Brotherhood Of The Rose David Morrell 1984 American English
8347 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
8461 The Successor Ismail Kadare 2003 Albanian Albanian
8500 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson 2007 Swedish Swedish
8640 Catiline Orations Marcus Tullius Cicero -63 Roman Latin
9289 Project For A Revolution In New York Alain Robbe-Grillet 1970 French French
9329 Authority Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9331 The Mind Invaders Dave Hunt 1998 American English
9366 Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey 2011 American English
9535 A Case Of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif 2008 Pakistani English
10135 Running Dog Don DeLillo 1978 American English
10167 Dragon's Teeth Upton Sinclair 1942 American English
10199 From Hell Alan Moore 1991 British English
10816 Skeleton Key Anthony Horowitz 2002 British English
10834 Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon 2013 American English
10905 Samedi The Deafness Jesse Ball 2007 American English
10928 Consent To Kill Vince Flynn 2005 American English
10930 Blowback Brad Thor 2005 American English
11070 London Rules Mick Herron 2018 British English
11106 2312 Kim Stanley Robinson 2012 American English
11125 The Templar Legacy Steve Berry 2006 American English
11241 Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins 1971 American English
11413 When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole 2020 American English
11421 Ice Station Matthew Reilly 1998 Australian English
11449 The Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson 1923 American English
11596 Gone Tomorrow Lee Child 2009 British English
11613 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
11660 The Rosenberg File Ronald Radosh, Joyce Milton 1983 American English
11802 Point Blanc Anthony Horowitz 2001 British English
11831 61 Hours Lee Child 2010 British English
12076 Rosewater Tade Thompson 2016 Nigerian English
12140 Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts 2009 British English
12583 Scarecrow Matthew Reilly 2003 Australian English
13802 Les Racines Du Mal Maurice G. Dantec 1995 French French
13930 The White Lioness Henning Mankell 1993 Swedish Swedish
13971 The Consuming Fire John Scalzi 2018 American English
14001 The Eye In The Pyramid Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1975 American English
14001 The Golden Apple Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1975 American English
14025 The Rosewater Insurrection Tade Thompson 2019 British English
14025 The Rosewater Redemption Tade Thompson 2019 British English
14093 Leviathan Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1981 American English
14212 Jim Grant Peter Adamson 2001 British Unknown
14232 Excession Iain Banks 1996 British English
14724 Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories Sallust -40 Roman Latin
14983 The Ghost Robert Harris 2007 British English