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
17117 Andymon Angela Steinmüller, Karlheinz Steinmüller 1982 German German
17117 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
17117 The Inescapable Self Timothy Chappell 2006 British English
17117 The Runaway Jury John Grisham 1996 American English
17117 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 1991 American English
17117 The Associate John Grisham 2009 American English
17117 Defenders Of The Truth Ullica Segerstrale 1986 American English
17117 Thinking The Twentieth Century Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder 2012 American English
17117 What Does It All Mean? Thomas Nagel 1987 American English
17117 How To Cool The Planet Jeff Goodell 2010 American English
17117 Cannibalism Bill Schutt 2017 American English
17117 The Philosophical Works Of Al Kindi Peter Adamson, Peter E. Pormann 2012 Unknown English
16764 The Tale Of The Eloquent Peasant R. B. Parkinson 1971 Egyptian Egyptian
17117 If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? G. A. Cohen 2000 British English
17117 Justice For Hedgehogs Ronald Dworkin 2011 American English
17117 Beast And Man Mary Midgley 1979 British English
17117 The Object Of Morality G. J. Warnock 1971 British English
17117 Adam's Task Vicki Hearne 1986 American English
17117 The Oldest Dead White European Males Bernard Knox 1993 American English
17117 The Gentleman In Trollope Shirley Robin Letwin 1982 British English
17117 Heisenberg's War Thomas Powers 1993 American English
17117 Simone Weil Simone Weil 1986 French French
17117 Pensa Hi Brigitte Labbé 2002 Unknown Unknown
17117 Les Goûters Philo Brigitte Labbé 1996 French French
17117 Advice To A Young Scientist Peter B. Medawar 1979 British English
17117 The Doomsday Machine Daniel Ellsberg 2017 American English
17117 Confessions Of A Muckraker Jack Anderson 1979 American English
17117 The Crime And Punishment Of I. G. Farben Joseph Borkin 1978 American English
17117 The Legacy Of Malthus Allan Chase 1977 American English
17117 The Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky 1983 American English
17117 Threatening Anthropology David H. Price 2004 American English
17117 The View From Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1986 American English
17117 Just The Arguments Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone 2011 American English
17117 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
17117 The Problem Of The Soul Owen J. Flanagan 2002 American English
17117 Human Nature After Darwin Janet Radcliffe Richards 2000 British English
17117 Our Posthuman Future Francis Fukuyama 2002 American English
17117 Our Final Century Martin Rees 2003 British English
17117 Eternal Treblinka Charles Patterson 2002 American English
16864 The Alienist Machado de Assis 1882 Brazilian Portuguese
17117 Nothing Ever Dies Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016 American English
17117 Ready Player Two Ernest Cline 2020 American English
17117 Would You Kill The Fat Man? David Edmonds 2013 British English
16934 An Autobiography RG Collingwood 1939 British English
17117 Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson 2015 American English
17117 The Life You Can Save Peter Singer 2009 Australian English
17117 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2022 British English
17117 Virtual War Michael Ignatieff 2000 Canadian English
17117 Change Of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008 American English
17117 The Postmortal Drew Magary 2011 American English
17117 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17117 Tutt And Mr Tutt Arthur Cheney Train 1920 American English
17117 The Disaster Tourist Yun Ko-eun 2013 Korean Korean
16990 Discourses And Selected Writings Epictetus 108 Greek Greek
17117 The Right To Oblivion Lowry Pressly 2024 Unknown English
17117 Plato At The Googleplex Rebecca Goldstein 2014 American English
17117 Better Never To Have Been David Benatar 2006 South African English
17117 The Bang Bang Club Greg Marinovich 2000 South African English
16976 The World As Will And Representation, Volume Ii Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 German German
17117 Nexus Ramez Naam 2012 American English
17117 What Tech Calls Thinking Daub, Adrian 2020 Unknown English
17117 Coma Robin Cook 1977 American English
17117 Let My People Go Surfing Carolyn Chouinard 2005 Unknown English
17117 The Future Naomi Alderman British Unknown
17117 To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers 2019 American English
17117 Thought To Exist In The Wild Derrick Jensen 2007 American English
16859 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin 1973 American English
17117 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17117 Enron Lucy Prebble 2009 British English
17117 On Bullfighting AL Kennedy 1999 British English
17117 The Dream Of Confucius Jean Levi 1989 French French
17117 The Terraformers Annalee Newitz 2023 American English
17117 Alfie & Me Carl Safina 2023 Unknown English
17117 I Feel Love Rachel Nuwer 2023 Unknown English
17117 Astrotopia Mary-Jane Rubenstein 2023 Unknown English
17117 Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista 2023 Unknown English
17117 Collision Of Power Martin Baron 2023 Unknown English
17117 Going Infinite Michael Lewis 2023 American English
17117 Our Hideous Progeny C. E. McGill 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Philosopher Of Palo Alto John Tinnell 2023 Unknown English
17117 Monsters Claire Dederer 2023 Unknown English
17117 Parfit David Edmonds 2023 Unknown English
17117 We The Scientists Amy Dockser Marcus 2023 Unknown English
17117 Critical Mass Daniel Suarez 2023 American English
17117 Collision Of Power Martin Baron 2023 Unknown English
17117 An Inconvenient Cop Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld 2023 Unknown English
17117 Small Great Things Jodi Picoult 2016 American English
17117 The Trial Of Socrates I.F. Stone 1988 American English
17117 Stolen Thoughts Tim Tigner 2015 Unknown English
17117 Tell Me An Ending Jo Harkin 2022 Unknown English
17117 La Bombe Alcante 2020 Unknown French
17117 The House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002 American English
17117 Journals And Papers Soren Kierkegaard 1839 Danish Danish
17117 The Tragic Mind Robert D. Kaplan 2023 American English
17117 The Seventh Son Sebastian Faulks 2023 British English
17117 A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself Peter Davies 2021 British English
17117 Traditional Buddhist Mind Training: Essential Mind Training Thupten Jinpa Tibetan English
17117 Remaking A World Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman 2001 American English
17117 Love’s Knowledge Martha Nussbaum 1990 American English
16927 Between Man And Man Martin Buber 1944 Austrian English
17117 What Is Existential Anthropology? Michael D. Jackson New Zealand English
16984 What The Buddha Taught Walpola Rahula 1959 British English
17117 Inversions Iain Banks 1998 British English
17117 Elder Race Adrian Tchaikovsky 2024 British English
17117 The Gita Anant Pai 1999 Indian English
17117 The Living Death Stefan Wul French French
17117 Yatharth Geeta Swami Adgadanand 1994 Indian Unknown
17117 Station Eternity Mur Lafferty 2022 American English
17117 The Paradox Hotel Rob Heart 2022 American English
16831 The Heart Of A Dog Mikhail Bulgakov 1925 Russian Russian
17117 The Good Doctor Damon Galgut 2003 South African English
17117 God And The Chip Stahl, William A. 1999 American English
17117 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English
17117 Omnisophie Gunter Dueck German German
17117 Lettere A Lucilio Seneca 2064 Roman Italian