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
7216 The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1841 American English
7216 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
7216 Notebooks Nathaniel Hawthorne 1868 American English
7216 The Awkward Age Henry James 1899 British English
7216 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
7216 Corydon André Gide 1924 French French
7216 The Woman Of The Pharisees François Mauriac 1941 French French
7216 Major Critical Essays George Bernard Shaw 1930 Irish English
7216 Studies In Classic American Literature D. H. Lawrence 1923 British English
7216 The Wheel Of Fire George Wilson Knight 1930 British English
7216 Plays And Stories Arthur Schnitzler 1929 Austrian German
7216 Lulu Plays Frank Wedekind 1895 German German
7216 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
7216 Guilt Laszlo Németh 1943 Hungarian Hungarian
7216 Samskara U.R. Ananthamurthy 1965 Indian Kannada
7216 Orient Express Graham Greene 1932 British English
7216 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7216 Lead Us Into Temptation Breandán Ó hEithir 1976 Irish English
7216 Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio Pu Songling 1740 Chinese Classical chinese
7572 The Conformist Alberto Moravia 1951 Italian Italian
7731 Fraternity John Galsworthy 1909 British English
7763 The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll Heinrich Böll 1972 German German
7794 The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche 1882 German German
7808 Products Of The Perfected Civilization Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort 1969 French French
7812 Cain José Saramago 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
7842 The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré 1983 British English
7858 Jennie Gerhardt Theodore Dreiser 1911 American English
7878 Forever Peace Joe Haldeman 1997 American English
7915 The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho 2000 Brazilian Portuguese
7926 Letters From The Earth Mark Twain 1962 American English
7957 The House Gun Nadine Gordimer 1997 South African English
7967 Saint Genet Jean Paul Sartre 1952 French French
8009 The Hounds Of The Morrigan Pat O'Shea 1985 Irish English
8208 89 Poems Zbigniew Herbert 1956 Polish Polish
8292 Crónica De Un Iniciado Abelardo Castillo 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8336 The Rebellion Of Yale Marrat Robert H. Rimmer 1964 American English
8361 On Being A Christian Hans Kueng 1974 German German
8363 Moral Man And Immoral Society Reinhold Niebuhr 1932 American English
8363 Ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1949 German German
8383 Guard of Honor James Gould Cozzens 1948 American English
8389 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8402 About The Author John Colapinto 2001 American English
8406 God's Orchid Hjalmar Bergman 1919 Swedish Swedish
8417 War and Remembrance Herman Wouk 1978 American English
8445 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8511 Euthyphro Plato -399 Greek Ancient greek
8542 Milton's God William Empson 1961 British English
8542 Plays Of John Arden John Arden 1961 British English
8548 Monster Walter Dean Myers 1999 American English
8607 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
8655 El Hermano Asno Eduardo Barrios 1922 Chilean Spanish
8664 Taking Rights Seriously Ronald Dworkin 1977 American English
8681 In Defense Of Sanity G. K. Chesterton 2011 British English
8690 Wicked Gregory Maguire 1995 American English
8720 Prejudices H. L. Mencken 1919 American English
8792 The Reivers William Faulkner 1962 American English
8827 The Laws Of Hospitality Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8835 The Flies Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8860 Lucíola José de Alencar 1862 Brazilian Portuguese
8862 The Warrior's Honor Michael Ignatieff 1997 Canadian English
8923 The Devil's Racetrack Mark Twain 1966 American Unknown
8987 Good Little Girls Countess of Ségur. 1857 French French
9009 The Yeshiva Chaim Grade 1967 Lithuanian Yiddish
9116 The Wine Dark Sea Leonardo Sciascia 1968 Italian Italian
9116 Selected Poems Zbigniew Herbert 1968 Polish Polish
9116 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
9192 Violation Sallie Tisdale 2016 American English
9274 Naples 44 Norman Lewis 1978 British English
9358 True Confessions John Gregory Dunne 1977 American English
9377 Saint Leon William Godwin 1799 British English
9519 Spheres Of Justice Michael Walzer 1983 American English
9574 Jenny Treibel Theodor Fontane 1892 German German
9596 The Gospel According To Jesus Christ José Saramago 1991 Portuguese Portuguese
9643 Time's Arrow Martin Amis 1991 British English
9654 The Dinner Herman Koch 2009 Dutch Dutch
9659 The Unlucky Murderer Håkan Nesser Swedish Swedish
9679 Gone Baby Gone Dennis Lehane 1998 American English
9733 Europe Central William T. Vollmann 2005 American English
9741 Crime Ferdinand Von Schirach 2009 German German
9823 The Collini Case Ferdinand Von Schirach 2011 German German
9859 Democratic Vistas Walt Whitman 1871 American English
9895 The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro 1998 Canadian English
9921 The God Delusion Richard Dawkins 2006 British English
9927 The Problem Of Atheism Augusto Del Noce 1964 Italian Italian
10013 Three Stories J. M. Coetzee 2014 South African English
10173 March Geraldine Brooks 2005 American English
10206 Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1861 American English
10220 What's Bred In The Bone Robertson Davies 1985 Canadian English
10370 Sweet Land Stories E. L. Doctorow 2004 American English
10405 Oh Pure And Radiant Heart Lydia Millet 2005 American English
10423 Internal Ecology Morals For Xxi Century Dario Salas Sommer 2007 Chilean Spanish
10453 Intimacies Katie Kitamura 2021 American English
10524 Montana 1948 Larry Watson 1993 American English
10660 An Accidental Man Iris Murdoch 1971 British English
10768 Close Quarters William Golding 1987 British English
10768 An Embarrassment Of Riches Simon Schama 1987 British English
10783 The Wide, Wide World Elizabeth Wetherell 1850 American English
10823 The Ox Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1940 American English
10825 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
10855 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10875 Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay 2004 American English
10948 Collected Stories John O'Hara 1984 American English
10976 World Of Sex Henry Miller 1941 American English
10988 The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder 1967 American English
11005 The Moral Animal Robert Wright 1994 American English
11028 The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch 1985 British English
11067 The Complete Works Of Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft 1989 British English
11067 Fire Down Below William Golding 1989 British English
11067 Manila Envelope James Fenton Unknown Unknown
11140 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture David Brion Davis 1966 American English
11176 Philosophy In The Boudoir Marquis de Sade 1795 French French
11199 Silence Of The Sea Jean Bruller 1942 French French
11249 The Island Of Slaves Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1725 French French
11326 The Prince R. M. Koster 1972 Unknown English
11364 Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1977 American English
11365 Le Monde Tel Qu'il Est Salvat Etchart French Unknown
11365 Refusal To Obey Jean Giono French French
11365 Tout Péguy Charles Péguy French French
11454 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow 1941 American English
11454 Elbow Room James Alan McPherson 1977 American English