The Greatest Books of All Time on Hypocrisy

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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
42 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 French French
74 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 American English
80 Candide Voltaire 1759 French French
134 Tom Jones Henry Fielding 1749 British English
159 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
386 La Regenta Clarín 1884 Spanish Spanish
450 Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1903 British English
530 The Red Room August Strindberg 1879 Swedish Swedish
630 The Swindler Francisco de Quevedo 1626 Spanish Spanish
742 The Crime of Father Amaro Eça de Queirós 1875 Portuguese Portuguese
796 The Fall Albert Camus 1956 French French
819 Burmese Days George Orwell 1934 British English
939 Rameau's Nephew Denis Diderot 1761 French French
984 Tartuffe Molière 1664 French French
992 Joseph Andrews Henry Fielding 1742 British English
1008 Professor Unrat Heinrich Mann 1905 German German
1046 Justine Marquis de Sade 1791 French French
1140 Nana Émile Zola 1880 French French
1294 Peyton Place Grace Metalious 1956 American English
1296 The Works of Moliere Molière 1666 French French
1382 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde 1895 Irish English
1407 The Golovlyov Family Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin 1880 Russian Russian
1431 Cakes And Ale Or, The Skeleton In The Cupboard W. Somerset Maugham 1930 British English
1466 Don Juan Lord Byron 1819 British English
1599 On the Edge of Reason Miroslav Krleža 1938 Croatian Croatian
1732 The Government Inspector Nikolai Gogol 1836 Russian Russian
1742 A Tale Of A Tub Jonathan Swift 1704 British English
1808 Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1843 British English
1865 Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis 1927 American English
2053 The Misanthrope Molière 1666 French French
2155 Don Juan Molière 1665 French French
2234 Resurrection Leo Tolstoy 1899 Russian Russian
2374 South Wind Norman Douglas 1917 British English
2710 Les Caractères Jean de La Bruyère 1688 French French
2911 Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell 1853 British English
3104 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
3314 Satires Juvenal 100 Roman Latin
3881 Woe From Wit Alexander Griboyedov 1825 Russian Russian
3953 Η Γυναίκα της Ζακύνθου Dionysios Solomos 1829 Greek Greek
4091 The School For Scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1777 British English
4140 Le Pauvre Christ De Bomba Mongo Beti 1956 French French
4309 Augustus Carp, Esq. By Himself Henry Howarth Bashford 1924 British English
4309 The History Of Pompey The Little Francis Coventry 1751 British English
5835 Satires Persius 62 Latin Latin
5863 The Last Days of Mankind Karl Kraus 1919 Austrian German
5904 The Country Wife William Wycherley 1675 British English
5918 The Damnation Of Theron Ware Harold Frederic 1896 American English
6225 Boule De Suif Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
6767 Doña Perfecta Benito Pérez Galdós 1876 Spanish Spanish
7082 The Scholars Wu Ching-tzu 1750 Chinese Chinese
7216 Satirical Letter Of Censure Francisco de Quevedo 1601 Spanish Spanish
7216 Hudibras Samuel Butler (poet) 1663 British English
7216 Poems Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7216 The Plain Dealer William Wycherley 1676 British English
7216 Plays Oscar Wilde 1900 Irish English
7216 The Woman Of The Pharisees François Mauriac 1941 French French
7216 Lead Us Into Temptation Breandán Ó hEithir 1976 Irish English
9929 The Complete Plays Joe Orton 1976 British English
11092 Der Herr Karl Carl Merz, Helmut Qualtinger 1961 Austrian German
13362 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, And Other Stories And Essays Mark Twain 1900 American English
13362 The Unpossessed Tess Slesinger 1934 American English
13600 Les Civilisés Claude Farrère 1905 French French
13600 Dingley, L'illustre écrivain Jérôme Tharaud, Jean Tharaud 1902 French French
13600 Le Vitriol De La Lune And Le Martyre De L'obèse Henri Béraud French French
13600 Les Enfants Gâtés Philippe Heriat French French
13600 The Forests Of The Night Jean-Louis Curtis 1992 French French
13600 The Law Roger Vailland 1957 French French
13600 Les Bêtises Jacques Laurent 1971 French French
14023 Generation Of Vipers Philip Wylie 1942 American English
14985 God Of Carnage Yasmina Reza 2006 French French
15770 King's Row Henry Bellamann 1940 American English
15813 The Stone Of Chastity Margery Sharp 1940 British English
15848 Sapphira And The Slave Girl Willa Cather 1940 American English
16595 Up At The Villa W. Somerset Maugham 1941 British English
16587 Screwtape Letters Clive Staples Lewis 1942 British English
16625 In My Father's House James Street 1941 American English
16786 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16708 Love And Freindship Jane Austen 1790 English English
17158 The Quaker City, Or The Monks Of Monk Hall George Lippard 1845 American English
17158 The Collected Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish English
17036 An Unpleasant Predicament Fyodor Dostoevsky 1862 Russian Russian
16910 Attack Upon Christendom Soren Kierkegaard 1944 Danish Danish
17158 Four Comedies Molière 1982 French French
17158 Horváth Für Boshafte Ödön von Horváth 2010 Austrian German
17158 I Kissed Shara Wheeler Casey McQuiston 2022 American English
17130 The Relic Eça de Queirós 1887 Portuguese Portuguese
17158 Novels 1896–1899 Henry James American English
17153 The Death Ivan Ilych And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
17133 The Anarchist Banker Pessoa 1922 Portuguese Portuguese
17158 Gospel Fever Frank G. Slaughter 1980 American English
17158 Christ Is Recrucified Kazantzakis Greek Greek