The Greatest Good And Evil Books of All Time

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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
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
52 Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 British English
96 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 German German
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
127 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
155 Macbeth William Shakespeare 1606 British English
193 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
627 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe 1604 British English
866 The Black Spider Jeremias Gotthelf 1842 Swiss German
957 The Little World Of Don Camillo Giovanni Guareschi 1948 Italian Italian
971 The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch 1992 Dutch Dutch
1005 The Dark Is Rising Susan Cooper 1973 British English
1134 The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979 German German
1151 The Water Margin Shi Naian 1370 Chinese Chinese
1338 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury 1962 American English
1430 The Wandering Jew Eugène Sue 1844 French French
1652 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
2055 Satan In Goray Isaac Bashevis Singer 1935 Polish Yiddish
2223 Good Omens Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 1990 British English
2232 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 2007 British English
2243 The Tombs Of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
2475 The Last Battle C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
2521 The Happy Prince And Other Tales Oscar Wilde 1888 British English
2532 Young Goodman Brown & Other Short Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1835 American English
2722 Perelandra C. S. Lewis 1943 British English
2802 Stormbringer Michael Moorcock 1965 British English
3045 Three Hearts And Three Lions Poul Anderson 1953 American English
3126 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis 1942 British English
3324 The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby Charles Kingsley 1863 British English
3831 Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
3928 The Poppy War R. F. Kuang 2018 Chinese English
4193 The Three Robbers Tomi Ungerer 1961 French English
4481 The Night Of The Hunter Davis Grubb 1953 American English
4952 The Trickster of Seville and His Guest of Stone Tirso de Molina 1630 Spanish Spanish
5250 The War Hound And The World's Pain Michael Moorcock 1981 British English
6254 Omensetter's Luck William H. Gass 1966 American English
6569 Silver On The Tree Susan Cooper 1977 British English
6702 Seventh Son Orson Scott Card, Patrick Couton 1987 American English
7596 White Gold Wielder Stephen R. Donaldson 1983 American English
7778 The Red Magician Lisa Goldstein 1982 American English
7914 The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho 2000 Brazilian Portuguese
7942 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
8008 The Hounds Of The Morrigan Pat O'Shea 1985 Irish English
8328 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
8629 Red Prophet Orson Scott Card 1988 American English
8656 Krabat Otfried Preußler 1971 German German
8759 Prentice Alvin Orson Scott Card 1989 American English
9916 The Eyes Of The Dragon Stephen King 1987 American English
13228 My Best Friend’s Exorcism Grady Hendrix 2016 American English
13236 The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson 2020 American English
13359 The Holy War John Bunyan 1682 British English
13359 Sintram And His Companions Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 1814 German German
13359 The Dark Is Rising Sequence Susan Cooper 1965 British English
13757 The Chronicles Of Amber Roger Zelazny 1970 American English
14138 The Lesser Evil Victor Klemperer German Unknown
14768 How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Dr. Seuss 1957 American English
15707 Kingdom Of The Wicked Kerri Maniscalco 2020 American English
15779 Perrault's Fairy Tales Charles Perrault 1697 French French
15797 The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
15834 The Fellowship Of The Ring J. R. R. Tolkien 1981 British English
15886 Space Trilogy C. S. Lewis 1938 British English
16613 The Ballad of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark 1960 British English
17117 Dark Lord of Derkholm Diana Wynne Jones, Magali Mangin 1998 British English
17117 The Wish Child Catherine Chidgey 2016 New Zealander English
17117 Darkness Visible William Golding 1979 British English
17117 Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman 2012 American English
17117 The Black Prism Brent Weeks 2010 American English
17117 Desperation Stephen King 1996 American English
17117 The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
17117 The Core Peter V. Brett 2017 American English
17117 Batman, The Killing Joke Alan Moore 1988 Unknown English
17117 The Book Of Lost Things John Connolly 2006 Irish English
16846 The Bhagavad Gita Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa -400 Indian Sanskrit
17117 Vicious V. E. Schwab 2013 American English
17117 Beren And Luthien J. R. R. Tolkien 2017 British English
17117 The Master And Margarita: A Critical Companion Laura Weeks 1996 Unknown English
17117 To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 Tad Williams 1993 American English
17117 Faith Of The Fallen Terry Goodkind 2000 American English
17117 Grasping Evil I’m Ink Unknown Unknown
17117 Voyage Of Slaves Brian Jacques 2006 British English
17117 Accomplice To The Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Talisman And Black House Stephen King American English