The Greatest Books of All Time on Morality

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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
5086 Short Friday Isaac Bashevis Singer 1964 Polish Yiddish
5104 Антихрист Emilian Stanev 1939 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5112 The Winter Of Our Discontent John Steinbeck 1961 American English
5127 Αντιποίησις Αρχής Alexandros Kotzias 1979 Greek Greek
5148 Dawn Elie Wiesel 1961 Romanian French
5171 Anecdotes of Destiny Isak Dinesen 1958 Danish Danish
5334 Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 1959 American English
5349 Collected Stories Of V. S. Pritchett V. S. Pritchett 1982 British English
5377 The Town in Black Kálmán Mikszáth 1910 Hungarian Hungarian
5393 Poems Of Alexander Pope Alexander Pope 1711 British English
5428 Revulsion Laszlo Németh 1937 Hungarian Unknown
5482 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
5491 The Slap Christos Tsiolkas 2008 Australian English
5512 The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1956 Swiss German
5592 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5604 Canada Richard Ford 2012 American English
5612 The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt 2012 American English
5709 Διηγήματα Michail Mitsakis 1987 Greek Greek
5714 The Gallery John Horne Burns 1947 American English
5780 Special Friendships Roger Peyrefitte 1943 French French
5815 The Malcontent John Marston 1604 British English
5817 Epigrams Martial 86 Latin Latin
5835 Satires Persius 62 Latin Latin
5854 Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw 1905 British English
5863 The Last Days of Mankind Karl Kraus 1919 Austrian German
5863 The Poems Of William Dunbar William Dunbar 1501 Scottish Middle scots
5863 The Stones Of Venice John Ruskin 1851 British English
5863 A Modern Instance William Dean Howells 1882 American English
5894 The Power Of Darkness Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
5915 Egyptian Book Of The Dead Unknown -1550 Egyptian Egyptian (hieroglyphic)
5904 The Country Wife William Wycherley 1675 British English
5918 Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1862 British English
5909 Complete Prose Tales Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
5918 The Damnation Of Theron Ware Harold Frederic 1896 American English
5905 Notes From Underground & Other Stories Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Russian Russian
5918 The Tale Of The 1002nd Night Joseph Roth 1938 Austrian German
5960 The Time Ships Stephen Baxter 1995 British English
5979 The Ogre Michel Tournier 1970 French French
6000 After Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre 1981 British English
6005 Chekhov's Selected Stories Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
6005 Note Conjointe Charles Péguy 1914 French French
6005 Notebooks Joseph Joubert 1883 French French
6005 The Ratcatcher Marina Tsvetaeva 1926 Russian Russian
6005 Things Seen Victor Hugo 1887 French French
6005 Tous N'étaient Pas Des Anges Joseph Kessel 1970 French French
6085 My Sister, The Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite 2018 Nigerian English
6124 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6156 Use Of Weapons Iain Banks 1990 Scottish English
6175 Philosophy and Civilization John Dewey 1931 American English
6226 Boule De Suif Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
6257 Omensetter's Luck William H. Gass 1966 American English
6264 Shane Jack Schaefer 1949 American English
6314 Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada 1947 German German
6335 A Preface to Morals Walter Lippmann 1929 American English
6380 Jumpers Tom Stoppard 1972 British English
6404 Crossing The Threshold Of Hope Pope John Paul II 1994 Italian Italian
6448 Kapo Aleksandar Tišma 1987 Serbian Serbo-croatian
6457 The Needle's Eye Margaret Drabble 1972 British English
6480 The Stoic Theodore Dreiser 1947 American English
6503 The End Of The Road John Barth 1958 American English
6504 The Coquette Hannah Webster Foster 1797 American English
6548 Heirs To The Great Sinner Sheikh San’on Erkin A’zam 2004 Unknown Unknown
6597 Flood Robert Penn Warren 1964 American Unknown
6632 Confessions Jaume Cabré 2011 Spanish Catalan
6669 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
6717 Stories of Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter 1801 Austrian German
6717 Human, All Too Human Friedrich Nietzsche 1878 German German
6717 On The Aesthetic Education Of Man Friedrich Schiller 1794 German German
6748 De Advocaat Van De Hanen A. F. Th. van der Heijden 1990 Dutch Dutch
6762 The World's Illusion Jakob Wassermann 1920 German German
6767 A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible Isaiah Thomas 1788 American English
6767 New England Primer Unknown 1687 American English
6767 Mc Guffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer William Holmes McGuffey 1836 American English
6821 Tales Of The Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 American English
6839 The Awakening Of Helena Ritchie Margaret Deland 1906 American English
6864 Wolf Hunt Ivaylo Petrov 1986 Bulgarian Bulgarian
6939 A Reckless Character and Other Stories Ivan Turgenev 1883 Russian Russian
6964 The Seance and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1968 Polish Yiddish
7021 Crito Plato -389 Greek Ancient greek
7051 The Sisters Brothers Patrick DeWitt 2011 Canadian English
7056 Write To Kill Daniel Pennac 1990 French Unknown
7082 The Scholars Wu Ching-tzu 1750 Chinese Chinese
7181 Retold African American Folktales David Haynes 1996 American Unknown
7206 The Pharmacist Ingrid Noll 1994 German German
7216 Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Edmund Dulac 1916 British English
7216 The Moon is Down John Steinbeck 1942 American English
7216 The Mandrake Niccolo Machiavelli 1518 Italian Italian
7216 The Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast Giordano Bruno 1584 Italian Italian
7216 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
7216 An Apology For Poetry Philip Sidney 1595 British English
7216 Poems, Plays, And Masques Ben Jonson 1601 British English
7216 'Tis Pity She's A Whore John Ford 1633 British English
7216 The Revenger's Tragedy Cyril Tourneur 1607 British English
7216 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7216 Poems Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7216 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
7216 An Essay On The Dramatic Character Of Sir John Falstaff Maurice Morgann 1777 British English
7216 The Plain Dealer William Wycherley 1676 British English
7216 Poems Of George Crabbe George Crabbe 1807 British English
7216 Verse Plays Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1800 German German
7216 Venetian Epigrams Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790 German German
7216 Roman Sonnets Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1830 Italian Italian
7216 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
7216 The Genius Of Christianity François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1802 French French
7216 Imaginary Conversations Walter Savage Landor 1824 British English
7216 A Defence Of Poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley 1840 British English
7216 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
7216 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
7216 Modern Painters John Ruskin 1843 British English
7216 Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 1858 British English
7216 Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1861 British English
7216 No Name Wilkie Collins 1862 British English
7216 Plays Oscar Wilde 1900 Irish English
7216 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
7216 Tales Gottfried Keller 1856 Swiss German
7216 Tales Adalbert Stifter 1840 Austrian German
7216 From The Other Shore Alexander Herzen 1850 Russian Russian
7216 Short Novels Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 Russian Russian
7216 Short Novels Leo Tolstoy 1900 Russian Russian
7216 Tales Nikolai Leskov 1870 Russian Russian