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
7215 The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1841 American English
7215 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
7215 Notebooks Nathaniel Hawthorne 1868 American English
7215 The Awkward Age Henry James 1899 British English
7215 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
7215 Corydon André Gide 1924 French French
7215 The Woman Of The Pharisees François Mauriac 1941 French French
7215 Major Critical Essays George Bernard Shaw 1930 Irish English
7215 Studies In Classic American Literature D. H. Lawrence 1923 British English
7215 The Wheel Of Fire George Wilson Knight 1930 British English
7215 Plays And Stories Arthur Schnitzler 1929 Austrian German
7215 Lulu Plays Frank Wedekind 1895 German German
7215 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
7215 Guilt Laszlo Németh 1943 Hungarian Hungarian
7215 Samskara U.R. Ananthamurthy 1965 Indian Kannada
7215 Orient Express Graham Greene 1932 British English
7215 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7215 Lead Us Into Temptation Breandán Ó hEithir 1976 Irish English
7215 Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio Pu Songling 1740 Chinese Classical chinese
7571 The Conformist Alberto Moravia 1951 Italian Italian
7729 Fraternity John Galsworthy 1909 British English
7761 The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll Heinrich Böll 1972 German German
7792 The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche 1882 German German
7807 Products Of The Perfected Civilization Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort 1969 French French
7811 Cain José Saramago 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
7841 The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré 1983 British English
7857 Jennie Gerhardt Theodore Dreiser 1911 American English
7877 Forever Peace Joe Haldeman 1997 American English
7914 The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho 2000 Brazilian Portuguese
7925 Letters From The Earth Mark Twain 1962 American English
7956 The House Gun Nadine Gordimer 1997 South African English
7966 Saint Genet Jean Paul Sartre 1952 French French
8008 The Hounds Of The Morrigan Pat O'Shea 1985 Irish English
8206 89 Poems Zbigniew Herbert 1956 Polish Polish
8290 Crónica De Un Iniciado Abelardo Castillo 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8334 The Rebellion Of Yale Marrat Robert H. Rimmer 1964 American English
8358 On Being A Christian Hans Kueng 1974 German German
8360 Moral Man And Immoral Society Reinhold Niebuhr 1932 American English
8360 Ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1949 German German
8380 Guard of Honor James Gould Cozzens 1948 American English
8386 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8399 About The Author John Colapinto 2001 American English
8403 God's Orchid Hjalmar Bergman 1919 Swedish Swedish
8414 War and Remembrance Herman Wouk 1978 American English
8441 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8507 Euthyphro Plato -399 Greek Ancient greek
8538 Milton's God William Empson 1961 British English
8538 Plays Of John Arden John Arden 1961 British English
8544 Monster Walter Dean Myers 1999 American English
8603 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
8651 El Hermano Asno Eduardo Barrios 1922 Chilean Spanish
8660 Taking Rights Seriously Ronald Dworkin 1977 American English
8677 In Defense Of Sanity G. K. Chesterton 2011 British English
8686 Wicked Gregory Maguire 1995 American English
8716 Prejudices H. L. Mencken 1919 American English
8787 The Reivers William Faulkner 1962 American English
8822 The Laws Of Hospitality Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8831 The Flies Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8856 Lucíola José de Alencar 1862 Brazilian Portuguese
8858 The Warrior's Honor Michael Ignatieff 1997 Canadian English
8919 The Devil's Racetrack Mark Twain 1966 American Unknown
8983 Good Little Girls Countess of Ségur. 1857 French French
9005 The Yeshiva Chaim Grade 1967 Lithuanian Yiddish
9111 The Wine Dark Sea Leonardo Sciascia 1968 Italian Italian
9111 Selected Poems Zbigniew Herbert 1968 Polish Polish
9111 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
9188 Violation Sallie Tisdale 2016 American English
9269 Naples 44 Norman Lewis 1978 British English
9353 True Confessions John Gregory Dunne 1977 American English
9372 Saint Leon William Godwin 1799 British English
9514 Spheres Of Justice Michael Walzer 1983 American English
9569 Jenny Treibel Theodor Fontane 1892 German German
9591 The Gospel According To Jesus Christ José Saramago 1991 Portuguese Portuguese
9639 Time's Arrow Martin Amis 1991 British English
9651 The Dinner Herman Koch 2009 Dutch Dutch
9656 The Unlucky Murderer Håkan Nesser Swedish Swedish
9676 Gone Baby Gone Dennis Lehane 1998 American English
9730 Europe Central William T. Vollmann 2005 American English
9738 Crime Ferdinand Von Schirach 2009 German German
9820 The Collini Case Ferdinand Von Schirach 2011 German German
9856 Democratic Vistas Walt Whitman 1871 American English
9892 The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro 1998 Canadian English
9923 The Problem Of Atheism Augusto Del Noce 1964 Italian Italian
10009 Three Stories J. M. Coetzee 2014 South African English
10115 The God Delusion Richard Dawkins 2006 British English
10169 March Geraldine Brooks 2005 American English
10201 Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1861 American English
10214 What's Bred In The Bone Robertson Davies 1985 Canadian English
10365 Sweet Land Stories E. L. Doctorow 2004 American English
10400 Oh Pure And Radiant Heart Lydia Millet 2005 American English
10418 Internal Ecology Morals For Xxi Century Dario Salas Sommer 2007 Chilean Spanish
10448 Intimacies Katie Kitamura 2021 American English
10519 Montana 1948 Larry Watson 1993 American English
10654 An Accidental Man Iris Murdoch 1971 British English
10762 Close Quarters William Golding 1987 British English
10762 An Embarrassment Of Riches Simon Schama 1987 British English
10777 The Wide, Wide World Elizabeth Wetherell 1850 American English
10818 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
10821 The Ox Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark 1940 American English
10849 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10869 Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay 2004 American English
10942 Collected Stories John O'Hara 1984 American English
10970 World Of Sex Henry Miller 1941 American English
10982 The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder 1967 American English
10999 The Moral Animal Robert Wright 1994 American English
11022 The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch 1985 British English
11061 The Complete Works Of Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft 1989 British English
11061 Fire Down Below William Golding 1989 British English
11061 Manila Envelope James Fenton Unknown Unknown
11134 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture David Brion Davis 1966 American English
11170 Philosophy In The Boudoir Marquis de Sade 1795 French French
11193 Silence Of The Sea Jean Bruller 1942 French French
11243 The Island Of Slaves Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1725 French French
11320 The Prince R. M. Koster 1972 Unknown English
11359 Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1977 American English
11360 Le Monde Tel Qu'il Est Salvat Etchart French Unknown
11360 Refusal To Obey Jean Giono French French
11360 Tout Péguy Charles Péguy French French
11449 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow 1941 American English
11449 Elbow Room James Alan McPherson 1977 American English