The Greatest Books of All Time on Ethics

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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
13749 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
13772 Necessity Jo Walton 2016 Canadian English
13794 The Ghost In The Shell Shirow Masamune 1989 Japanese Japanese
13924 The Buddha And His Religion J. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire 1860 French French
14025 Time's Monster Priya Satia 2020 American English
14058 The Case Of Dr Sachs Martin Winckler 1998 French French
14093 The Disciple Paul Bourget 1889 French French
14111 Epistulae Pliny the Younger 100 Roman Latin
14122 Life 3.0 Max Tegmark 2017 Swedish English
14138 Hominids Robert J. Sawyer 2002 Canadian English
14138 The Echo Wife Sarah Gailey 2021 American English
14138 The Lesser Evil Victor Klemperer German Unknown
14175 Autobiography Bertrand Russell 1967 British English
14212 The Opinions Of Jerome Coignard Anatole France 1893 French French
14212 Plato And Platonism Walter Pater 1893 British English
14232 Excession Iain Banks 1996 British English
14232 Copenhagen Michael Frayn 1998 British English
14343 The Circle Dave Eggers 2013 American English
14404 The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1914 American English
14554 It's Our Turn To Eat Michela Wrong 2009 British English
14630 Should We Eat Meat? Vaclav Smil 2013 Czech English
14650 Final Exit Derek Humphry 1991 British English
14679 Zeng Guofan Tang Haoming 1992 Chinese Chinese
14695 Seven Great Statesmen In The Warfare Of Humanity With Unreason Andrew Dickson White 1915 American English
14698 The Apostolic Fathers William Wake, Edward Burton 1888 British English
14730 Musonius Rufus Musonius Rufus, Cynthia King -30 Mixed Greek
14752 On The Ends Of Good And Evil Marcus Tullius Cicero 45 Roman Latin
14785 Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
14817 The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
14788 Two Planets Kurd Laßwitz 1897 German German
14834 The Future Of Capitalism Paul Collier 2018 British English
14834 Army Of None Paul Scharre 2018 American English
14867 Donovan's Brain Curt Siodmak 1942 American English
14926 The End Of Eternity Isaac Asimov 1955 American English
14958 The Front Page Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur 1928 American English
14962 The Sovereignty Of Good Iris Murdoch 1970 British English
14985 The Hemingses of Monticello Annette Gordon-Reed 2008 American English
14985 A Nation under Our Feet Steven Hahn 2003 American English
14985 Beyond Freedom and Dignity B. F. Skinner 1971 American English
14985 Poor Things Alasdair Gray 1992 Scottish English
14984 Alive Piers Paul Read 1974 British English
14985 The Robots Of Dawn Isaac Asimov 1983 American English
14985 The Songs Of Distant Earth Arthur C. Clarke 1986 British English
14985 Foundation And Earth Isaac Asimov 1986 American English
14985 Flash Boys Michael M. Lewis 2014 American English
14985 The Long Earth Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter 2012 British English
14985 The Rainmaker John Grisham 1995 American English
14985 The Golden Mean Annabel Lyon 2009 Canadian English
14985 The Unit Ninni Holmqvist 2006 Swedish Swedish
14985 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
14985 Critical Mass Daniel Suarez 2023 American English
15567 Tools And Weapons Brad Smith 2019 American English
15567 Hacking Darwin Jamie Metzl 2019 American English
15567 The Last Trial Scott Turow 2020 American English
15567 Beyond Words Carl Safina 2015 American English
15616 The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson 2021 American English
15651 The Days Of A Man David Starr Jordan 1922 American English
15662 Christianity And Progress Harry Emerson Fosdick 1922 American English
15664 Human Nature And Conduct John Dewey 1922 American English
15678 Religious Perplexities L. P. Jacks 1923 British English
15686 Literature And Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre French French
15833 The Cunning Of History Richard L. Rubenstein 1975 American English
15914 The Acquisitive Society R. H. Tawney 1920 British English
15914 The Word of God and the Word of Man Karl Barth 1928 Swiss German
15914 Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15914 First Principles Herbert Spencer 1862 British English
15914 Avesta Zoroastrian scripture -1200 Iranian Avestan
15914 The Guide for the Perplexed Moses Maimonides 1190 Jewish Arabic
15914 Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1700 German Latin
15914 Best Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells H. G. Wells 1933 British English
15914 Milinda Panha Unknown -100 Mulitple Pali
15914 The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield -150 Unknown Sanskrit
15914 A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life Santideva 700 Indian Sanskrit
15914 An Inquiry Into The Good Nishida Kitarō 1911 Japanese Japanese
15914 Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku Watsuji Tetsuro 1937 Japanese Japanese
15914 Mi'raj Al Su'ud Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti, Hunqick J. 1615 Malian Unknown
15914 The Works Of Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne 1686 British English
15914 Holmes Laski Letters Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1953 American English
15914 The Living Thoughts Of Kierkegaard Soren Kierkegaard 1938 Danish English
15914 The Shame Of The Cities Lincoln Steffens 1904 American English
15912 Letters On Ethics Seneca 62 Roman Latin
16597 The Wisdom Of Life And Counsels And Maxims Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
16627 El Príncipe Nicolás Maquiavelo 1532 Italian Italian
16687 Professor Bernhardi Arthur Schnitzler 1912 Austrian German
16678 Values, Objectivity, And The Social Sciences Gresham Riley 1974 American English
16727 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16691 The Sea And Poison Shūsaku Endō 1958 Japanese Japanese
16766 Concluding Unscientific Postscript To Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1 Soren Kierkegaard 1846 Danish Danish
16713 The Ethics Of Ambiguity Simone de Beauvoir 1947 French French
16669 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17162 Weapons and Hope Freeman Dyson 1984 American English
17162 A Civil Action Jonathan Harr 1995 American English
17162 Sons of Mississippi Paul Hendrickson 2003 American English
17162 Medical Apartheid Harriet A. Washington 2007 American English
17162 The Measure of Man Joseph Wood Krutch 1954 American English
17162 Theophrastus William Wall Fortenbaugh, Dimitri Gutas 1992 Greek English
17162 Encounters at the Heart of the World Elizabeth A. Fenn 2014 American English
17162 Fairyland Paul J. McAuley 1995 British English
17162 The Testament Of Jessie Lamb Jane Rogers 2011 British English
17162 Dreams Before The Start Of Time Anne Charnock 2017 British English
17162 Xenocide Orson Scott Card 1991 American English
17162 Shards Of Honour Lois McMaster Bujold 1986 American English
17162 Flashforward Robert J. Sawyer 1999 Canadian English
17162 Beggars In Spain Nancy Kress 1991 American English
17081 The Man Who Sold The Moon Robert A. Heinlein 1950 American English
17093 Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1962 American English
17162 Earth David Brin 1990 American English
17162 The Root And The Flower L. H. Myers 1935 British English
17162 The New Men C. P. Snow 1954 British English
17162 The Masters In Sequence C. P. Snow 1951 British English
17162 Doctor Rat William Kotzwinkle 1976 American English
17162 Towing Jehovah James K. Morrow 1994 American English
17162 A Mirror For Observers Edgar Pangborn 1954 American English
17162 Bug Jack Barron Norman Spinrad 1969 American English
17162 The Walking Shadow Brian Stableford 1979 British English
17162 The Complete Roderick John Sladek 1982 American English
17162 Oath Of Fealty Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1981 American English
17162 Gorgias/Gorgias Coleen P. Zoller, Jurgen R. Gatt, S. Montgomery Ewegen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17162 Autonomous Annalee Newitz 2017 American English
17162 The Effect Lucy Prebble 2012 British English