The Greatest Books of All Time on Courage

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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
2827 A Swiftly Tilting Planet Madeleine L'Engle 1978 American English
2840 The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
2857 Jamila Chinghiz Aitmatov 1958 Kyrgyz Kyrgyz
2873 The Horseman on the Roof Jean Giono 1951 French French
2887 Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy 1912 Russian Russian
2896 Indigo Beverly Jenkins 1996 American English
2898 A Private Affair Beppe Fenoglio 1963 Italian Italian
2916 Legend David Gemmell 1984 British English
2922 The African Queen C. S. Forester 1935 British English
2948 Redwall Brian Jacques 1986 British English
2968 The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman 2000 British English
2975 Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes 1943 American English
2988 The Robber Hotzenplotz Otfried Preußler 1962 German German
2989 The Tale Of Igor's Campaign Unknown 1187 Russian Old east slavic
3019 Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1922 British English
3084 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey 1968 American English
3106 The Adventures Of Cipollino Gianni Rodari 1951 Italian Italian
3139 Great Heart James West Davidson, John Rugge 1988 American English
3141 The Shrinking Man Richard Matheson 1956 American English
3165 Red Moon and Black Mountain Joy Chant 1970 British English
3174 My Early Life Winston Churchill 1930 British English
3212 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman 1996 British English
3236 The Man Died Wole Soyinka 1972 Nigerian English
3238 Hms Ulysses Alistair MacLean 1955 Scottish English
3260 The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger 1997 American English
3324 Sandokan Emilio Salgari 1883 Italian Italian
3324 None but the Brave Arthur Schnitzler 1895 Austrian German
3324 The Sound of Waves Yukio Mishima 1954 Japanese Japanese
3388 Bomber Len Deighton 1970 British English
3442 The Summer Tree Guy Gavriel Kay 1984 Canadian English
3455 Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy 1956 American English
3454 Ян Бибиян Elin Pelin 1923 Bulgarian Bulgarian
3456 Glory Road Robert A. Heinlein 1963 American English
3497 The Thin Red Line James Jones 1962 American English
3576 Carrie's War Nina Bawden 1973 British English
3610 Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell 2006 American English
3616 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
3618 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe 1979 American English
3638 War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon 1919 British English
3638 Notes From The Blockade Lydia Ginzburg 1960 Russian Russian
3638 The Endless Adventure F. S. Oliver 1930 British English
3638 The Invisible Flag Peter Bamm 1952 German German
3638 Maya The Bee And Her Adventures Waldemar Bonsels 1912 German German
3638 The River Pirates Of The Mississippi Friedrich Gerstäcker 1848 German German
3638 The Crusaders Stefan Heym 1948 German English
3638 Stalingrad Theodor Plievier 1948 German German
3823 The Edge of the Sword Charles De Gaulle 1959 French French
3826 The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman 1997 British English
3830 This Above All Eric Knight 1941 British English
3831 Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
3861 Forest of A Thousand Daemons Daniel O. Fagunwa 1938 Nigerian Yoruba
3892 Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine 1997 American English
3904 The Blue Sword Robin McKinley 1982 American English
3908 The Wind on the Moon Eric Linklater 1944 British English
3923 Wonder R. J. Palacio 2012 American English
3942 Of Love and Shadows Isabel Allende 1984 Chilean Spanish
3943 A Fire on the Moon Norman Mailer 1970 American English
3953 Freedom Or Death Nikos Kazantzakis 1953 Greek Greek
3953 Odes Andreas Kalvos 1824 Greek Greek
3953 The Memoirs Of General Makriyannis Makriyannis 1907 Greek Greek
3953 Το Πλατύ Ποτάμι Yiannis Beratis 1946 Greek Greek
3953 Life In The Tomb Stratis Myrivilis 1924 Greek Greek
4078 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi 2018 Nigerian English
4163 The Good Lord Bird James McBride 2013 American English
4165 Confederates Thomas Keneally 1979 Australian English
4166 Vasili Tyorkin Alexander Tvardovsky 1943 Russian Russian
4189 An Ember In The Ashes Sabaa Tahir 2015 American English
4195 The Oppermanns Lion Feuchtwanger 1933 German German
4268 Sevastopol Sketches Leo Tolstoy 1855 Russian Russian
4285 Boy's Life Robert R. McCammon 1991 American English
4309 Fair Stood The Wind For France H. E. Bates 1944 British English
4309 The Children Of The New Forest Frederick Marryat 1847 British English
4378 Heart Edmondo de Amicis 1886 Italian Italian
4411 Sharpe's Eagle Bernard Cornwell 1981 British English
4417 A Bright Shining Lie Neil Sheehan 1988 American English
4443 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry 2005 Irish English
4450 The Eye Of The World Robert Jordan 1990 American English
4466 Covenant With Death John Harris 1961 British English
4474 Soundjata Ou L'épopée Mandingue Djibril Tamsir Niane 1960 French French
4512 Comet In Moominland Tove Jansson 1946 Finnish Swedish
4516 The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander 1965 American English
4525 Living In Truth Vaclav Havel 1986 Czech Czech
4553 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr 1971 German English
4574 The Black Brothers Lisa Tetzner 1941 German German
4575 Alanna Tamora Pierce 1983 American English
4604 Swords And Deviltry Fritz Leiber 1970 American English
4651 The Forever War Dexter Filkins 2008 American English
4654 Coraline Neil Gaiman 2002 British English
4678 The Paul Street Boys Ferenc Molnár 1906 Hungarian Hungarian
4684 Extracts From Notes On The Bulgarian Uprisings Zahari Stoyanov 1884 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4722 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
4734 The Headless Horseman Thomas Mayne Reid 1865 Irish English
4793 Yvain Chrétien de Troyes 1177 French Old french
4816 Ozma Of Oz L. Frank Baum 1907 American English
4877 The Little Black Fish Samad Behrangi 1968 Iranian Persian
4898 The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt 1899 American English
4998 The Bamboo Bed William Eastlake 1969 American English
5013 High Citadel Desmond Bagley 1965 British English
5014 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris 1979 American English
5038 Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden 1999 American English
5084 The Horsemen Joseph Kessel 1967 French French
5093 Sartoris William Faulkner 1929 American English
5146 Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez 2002 American English
5231 Tales from the Kathasaritsagara Somadeva 1070 Indian Sanskrit
5275 Slave Of The Huns Géza Gárdonyi 1901 Hungarian Hungarian
5291 Der Mädchenkrieg Manfred Bieler 1975 German German
5351 Stasiland Anna Funder 2002 Australian English
5371 Endurance Alfred Lansing 1959 American English
5409 Captain Alatriste Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1996 Spanish Spanish
5426 The Machine Gunners Robert Westall 1975 British English
5444 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
5467 The Birthday Boys Beryl Bainbridge 1991 British English
5499 The Crowned Wanderer Rahim Esenov 1994 Turkmen Unknown
5605 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5656 Abigél Szabó, Magda 1970 Hungarian Hungarian
5830 Poems Archilochos -650 Greek Ancient greek
5860 The Well At The World's End William Morris 1896 British English
5860 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
5904 Death In The Afternoon Ernest Hemingway 1932 American English
5945 The Wandering Fire Guy Gavriel Kay 1986 Canadian English