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
11492 Esther Waters George Moore 1894 British English
11505 The Roaring Girl Greg Hollingshead 1995 Canadian English
11544 Ten Thousand A Year Samuel Warren 1839 British English
11544 Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 1863 British English
11638 Damned If I Do Percival Everett 2013 American English
11660 Christianity, Social Tolerance, And Homosexuality John Boswell 1980 American English
11660 Conrad In The Nineteenth Century Ian Watt 1979 British English
11660 The Bourgeois Experience Peter Gay 1984 American English
11660 Whites Norman Rush 1986 American English
11660 If The River Was Whiskey T. Coraghessan Boyle 1989 American English
11795 A Case of Conscience James Blish 1958 American English
11939 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed William Cabell Bruce 1917 American English
11939 Johnathan Edwards Ola Elizabeth Winslow 1940 American English
11939 Machiavelli in Hell Sebastian de Grazia 1989 American English
11939 God Jack Miles 1995 American English
12048 Red April Santiago Roncagliolo 2002 Peruvian Spanish
12129 The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell 1996 American English
12198 I Racconti Alberto Moravia 1952 Italian Italian
12298 Ape And Essence Aldous Huxley 1948 British English
12324 Judge On Trial Ivan Klima 1991 Czech Czech
12324 Cloudsplitter Russell Banks 1998 American English
12324 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12324 Headlong Michael Frayn 1999 British English
12472 The Witcher Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
12641 Officialdom Unmasked Li Baojia 1903 Chinese Chinese
12655 The Complete Letters Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 2000 Irish English
12979 The Dentist Tim Sullivan 2025 British Unknown
13016 Fate In Tears And Laughter Chang Hen-shui 1925 Chinese Chinese
13227 Flower In A Sea Of Sin Zeng Pu 1905 Chinese Chinese
13242 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
13276 The Adversary Michael Crummey 2024 Canadian English
13359 The Works of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
13359 The Great Tradition F. R. Leavis 1948 British English
13359 Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1869 British English
13359 Household Education Harriet Martineau 1848 British English
13359 The Analogy Of Religion Joseph Butler 1736 British English
13359 Essays, Moral, Political, And Literary David Hume 1741 Scottish English
13359 The Red Lily Anatole France 1894 French French
13359 Gulistan Saadi 1258 Gulistan Persian
13359 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, And Other Stories And Essays Mark Twain 1900 American English
13359 Marriage Susan Ferrier 1818 British English
13359 The Descent Of Man Charles Darwin 1871 British English
13359 The Methods Of Ethics Henry Sidgwick 1874 British English
13359 The Duel And Other Stories Anton Chekhov 1891 Russian Russian
13359 Rain And Other South Sea Stories W. Somerset Maugham 1921 British English
13542 Mr. Sammler's Planet Saul Bellow 1970 American English
13556 The Spoils of Poynton Henry James 1897 American English
13574 The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1831 British English
13599 A Father's Love Jacques Chessex 1973 Swiss French
13599 Les Civilisés Claude Farrère 1905 French French
13599 De Goupil à Margot Louis Pergaud 1910 French French
13599 Civilization Georges Duhamel 1918 French French
13599 L'ordre Marcel Arland 1929 French French
13599 The Wolves Guy Mazeline 1932 French English
13599 Captain Conan Roger Vercel 1934 French English
13599 Hath Not The Potter Maxence Van Der Meersch 1936 French English
13599 Faux Passeports Charles Plisnier 1937 Belgian French
13599 A Fine Of Two Hundred Francs Elsa Triolet 1944 French English
13599 Histoire D'un Fait Divers Jean-Jacques Gautier 1946 French French
13599 The Rise Of Simon Lachaume Maurice Druon 1948 French English
13599 The Priest Beatrix Beck 1952 French French
13599 Saint Germain Ou La Négociation Francis Walder 1958 Belgian French
13599 The Mercy Of God Jean Cau 1961 French French
13599 Un Grand Pas Vers Le Bon Dieu Jean Vautrin 1989 French French
13817 Tolstoy Pietro Citati 1986 Italian Italian
13817 Resistere Non Serve A Niente Walter Siti 2012 Italian Italian
13885 Underground Airlines Ben H. Winters 2016 American English
13922 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
13921 Blind Sunflowers Alberto Méndez 2004 Spanish Spanish
14025 Time's Monster Priya Satia 2020 American English
14025 Jamrach’s Menagerie Carol Birch 2011 British English
14023 Generation Of Vipers Philip Wylie 1942 American English
14041 Durcheinandertal Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1989 Swiss German
14067 Sanin Mikhail Artsybashev 1907 Russian Russian
14088 La Part De L'autre Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2001 French French
14093 The Disciple Paul Bourget 1889 French French
14113 The Household Of Sir Thomas More Anne Manning 1851 British English
14138 The Lesser Evil Victor Klemperer German Unknown
14212 Ender's War Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
14212 The Opinions Of Jerome Coignard Anatole France 1893 French French
14232 Copenhagen Michael Frayn 1998 British English
14232 Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet 1984 American English
14232 Doubt John Patrick Shanley 2004 American English
14334 An Error Of Judgement Pamela Hansford Johnson 1962 British English
14347 Middle Passage Charles R. Johnson 1990 American English
14359 How Far Can You Go? David Lodge 1980 British English
14376 Gaston De Latour Walter Pater 1896 British English
14387 On The Branch Pierre de Coulevain 1904 French French
14410 A Man Of The People Chinua Achebe 1966 Nigerian English
14409 The Life Of Reason George Santayana 1905 American English
14434 The Time Patrol Poul Anderson 1991 American English
14434 Foma Gordeyev Maxim Gorky 1899 Russian Russian
14452 Behave Robert Sapolsky 2023 American English
14457 Cocksure Mordecai Richler 1968 Canadian English
14488 A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1909 American English
14498 The Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy 1988 British English
14519 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald 1989 American English
14553 The Better Sort Henry James 1903 British English
14586 A Bed Of Roses Walter Lionel George 1911 British English
14598 Our Story Begins Tobias Wolff 2008 American English
14649 The Green Knight Iris Murdoch 1993 British English
14666 Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth 1992 British English
14672 The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1915 American English
14673 The Genius Theodore Dreiser 1915 American English
14697 The Song Of Songs Hermann Sudermann 1908 German German
14722 Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws Philo of Alexandria 50 Jewish Greek
14751 On The Ends Of Good And Evil Marcus Tullius Cicero 45 Roman Latin
14754 Letters To His Children Theodore Roosevelt 1919 American English
14749 On Behalf Of Caelius Cicero -56 Roman Latin
14787 Mencken Chrestomathy H. L. Mencken 1949 American English
14862 Donovan's Brain Curt Siodmak 1942 American English
14876 To Have And Have Not Ernest Hemingway 1937 American English
14874 Scivias Hildegard of Bingen 1151 German Latin
14925 Libro De Buen Amor Juan Ruiz 1330 Spanish Spanish
14928 Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck 1935 American English
14931 Piers The Ploughman William Langland 1370 English Middle english
14960 The Sovereignty Of Good Iris Murdoch 1970 British English
14983 Payback Margaret Atwood 2008 Canadian English
14983 Shadows on the Hudson Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 American Yiddish
14983 The Infatuations Javier Marias 2011 Spanish Spanish