The Greatest Books of All Time on Guilt

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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
8835 The Flies Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8854 How German Is It Walter Abish 1980 American English
9192 American Rust Philipp Meyer 2009 American English
9192 Nemesis Philip Roth 2010 American English
9185 Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch 1969 British English
9262 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
9366 A Dark Night's Passing Naoya Shiga 1937 Japanese Japanese
9358 True Confessions John Gregory Dunne 1977 American English
9377 Edgar Huntly Charles Brockden Brown 1799 American English
9644 Time's Arrow Martin Amis 1991 British English
9655 The Dinner Herman Koch 2009 Dutch Dutch
9673 Strange Shores Arnaldur Indriðason 2010 Icelandic Icelandic
9660 The Unlucky Murderer Håkan Nesser Swedish Swedish
9702 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9718 The Crucible Arthur Miller 1953 American English
9742 Crime Ferdinand Von Schirach 2009 German German
9824 The Collini Case Ferdinand Von Schirach 2011 German German
9896 The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro 1998 Canadian English
10451 The Speed Of Light Javier Cercas 2005 Spanish Spanish
10824 The Ox Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1940 American English
10826 Salt To The Sea Ruta Sepetys 2016 American English
10856 The Albany Cycle William Kennedy 1983 American English
10856 American Appetites Joyce Carol Oates 1989 American English
10926 Fools of Fortune William Trevor 1983 Irish English
10969 The Hair of Harold Roux Thomas Williams 1974 American English
11004 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth 1979 American English
11006 In The Lake Of The Woods Tim O'Brien 1994 American English
11029 The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch 1985 British English
11068 The Flood John Broderick 2000 Irish English
11077 The Lost Man Jane Harper 2018 Australian English
11137 The Demolished Man Alfred Bester 1953 American English
11162 Lie Down In Darkness William Styron 1951 American English
11239 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes 2017 Portuguese Portuguese
11455 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow 1941 American English
11497 The Black Prophet William Carleton 1847 Irish English
11795 Felicia's Journey William Trevor 1994 British English
11663 Him With His Foot In His Mouth And Other Stories Saul Bellow 1984 American English
11851 The Demon Hubert Selby 1976 American English
11895 The Bird Artist Howard Norman 1994 Canadian English
12018 Infidel Pornsak Pichetshote 2018 Unknown English
12050 Survivor’s Guilt Robyn Gigl 2023 American English
12050 The Detour Gerbrand Bakker 2010 Dutch Dutch
12146 The Book Of Evidence John Banville 1989 Irish English
12220 The Victim Saul Bellow 1947 American English
12259 Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart Joyce Carol Oates 1990 American English
12326 Judge On Trial Ivan Klima 1991 Czech Czech
12863 The Bleeding Season Greg F. Gifune 2003 American English
13279 Idaho Emily Ruskovich 2017 American English
13552 The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri 2013 American English
13582 The Spire William Golding 1964 British English
13600 A Father's Love Jacques Chessex 1973 Swiss French
13600 La Maison Vide Laurent Mauvignier French French
13600 Le Chèvrefeuille, Le Purgatoire, Le Chapitre Xiii Thierry Sandre French French
13600 Le Supplice De Phèdre Henri Deberly French French
13600 The Forests Of The Night Jean-Louis Curtis 1992 French French
13600 The Mercy Of God Jean Cau 1961 French French
13600 The Lost Shore Anna Langfus 1962 French French
13739 The Late Bourgeois World Nadine Gordimer 1966 South African English
13818 A Spiral Of Mist Michele Prisco 1966 Italian Italian
13818 Don't Move Margaret Mazzantini 2001 Italian Italian
13922 Blind Sunflowers Alberto Méndez 2004 Spanish Spanish
13941 Clockers Richard Price 1992 American English
13971 What We Owe Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde 2017 Swedish English
14063 Silent Close No. 6 Monika Maron 1991 German German
14212 The Fox In The Attic Richard Hughes 1961 British English
14232 Zoo City Lauren Beukes 2010 South African English
14232 Doubt John Patrick Shanley 2004 American English
14232 The Sweet Hereafter Russell Banks 1991 American English
14411 Greek Tragedies 1 David Grene 1955 Unknown English
14491 Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 2006 French French
14499 The Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy 1988 British English
14823 The Wild Duck Henrik Ibsen 1884 Norwegian Norwegian
14899 Devil Take The Blue Tail Fly John Franklin Bardin 1948 American English
14887 Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 1840 American English
14985 Shadows on the Hudson Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 American Yiddish
14985 The Informer Liam O'Flaherty 1925 Irish English
14969 Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill 1928 American English
14975 The Fire Raisers Max Frisch 1953 Swiss German
14985 The Last House On Needless Street Catriona Ward 2021 British English
14985 The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards 2005 American English
14985 Please Look After Mom Kyung-sook Shin 2008 Korean Korean
14985 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
14985 Absolution Alice McDermott 2023 American English
15718 The Elected Member Bernice Rubens 1969 British English
15757 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15775 The Oedipus Plays Of Sophocles Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
15783 Crime And Punishment Dostoyevsky 1866 Russian Russian
15819 All My Sons Arthur Miller 1947 American English
15820 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
15831 The Ill Made Knight T.H. White 1940 British English
15916 A Spy In The House Of Love Anaïs Nin 1954 French English
15916 The Lady From Guatemala V. S. Pritchett 1957 British English
15916 Purgatory In Ingolstadt Marieluise Fleißer 1924 German German
15916 The Sheltered Life Ellen Glasgow 1932 American English
15916 The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing 1946 American English
15916 The Engagement Georges Simenon 1933 Belgian French
15910 The Complete Stories Edgar Allan Poe 1832 American English
16625 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe 1843 American English
16533 Up At The Villa W. Somerset Maugham 1941 British English
16729 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16689 The Sea And Poison Shūsaku Endō 1958 Japanese Japanese
16771 The Collected Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
16636 The Brothers Karamazov Fedor Dostoyevsky 1880 Russian Russian
17163 Postcards Annie Proulx 1992 American English
17163 Peeling the Onion Günter Grass 2006 German German
17163 The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch 1974 British English
17163 An American Dream Norman Mailer 1965 American English
17163 The Statement Brian Moore 1995 Irish English
17163 The Devil's Advocate Morris West 1959 Australian English
17163 Death And The Maiden Ariel Dorfman 1991 Chilean Spanish
17163 Downward To The Earth Robert Silverberg 1970 American English
17163 The Murderer Roy Heath 1978 Guyanese English
17163 Lamb Bernard MacLaverty 1980 Irish English
17163 The Night In Question Tobias Wolff 1996 American English
16992 Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance John Arden 1959 British English
17163 The Deemster Hall Caine 1887 British English
17163 The Atonement Of Leam Dundas Eliza Lynn Linton 1876 British English
17163 If Morning Ever Comes Anne Tyler 1964 American English
16851 Judas Iscariot Leonid Andreyev 1907 Russian Russian
17163 We Were Liars E. Lockhart 2014 American English