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
14985 Notes on a Scandal Zoë Heller 2003 British English
14985 12 Rules For Life Jordan B. Peterson 2018 Canadian English
14985 Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card 1999 American English
14985 The Human Factor Graham Greene 1978 British English
14985 The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? Edward Albee 2000 American English
14985 The Pillowman Martin McDonagh 2003 Irish English
14975 The Fire Raisers Max Frisch 1953 Swiss German
14985 The Englishman's Boy Guy Vanderhaeghe 1996 Canadian English
14985 Mouth To Mouth Antoine Wilson 2022 American English
14985 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
14985 La Confidential James Ellroy 1990 American English
15590 Accepting The Universe John Burroughs 1920 American English
15635 Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1921 British English
15649 The Judge Rebecca West 1922 British English
15654 The Mercy Of Allah Hilaire Belloc 1922 British English
15662 In Single Strictness George Moore 1922 British English
15664 Human Nature And Conduct John Dewey 1922 American English
15677 His Children's Children Arthur Cheney Train 1923 American English
15678 Religious Perplexities L. P. Jacks 1923 British English
15682 My Book And Heart Corra Harris 1923 American English
15686 The Human Agenda Roderic Gorney Unknown English
15725 The Diary Of A Parish Clerk Steen Steensen Blicher 1824 Danish Danish
15742 A Mad World, My Masters Thomas Middleton 1605 British English
15750 Selected Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
15736 Maqamat Al Hariri Al-Hariri of Basra 1101 Arabic Arabic
15746 "Les Misérables" De Victor Hugo Henri Scepi 1862 French French
15758 The Tree Of Knowledge Pío Baroja 1911 Spanish Spanish
15756 The Children's Hour Lillian Hellman 1934 American English
15757 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15766 Night In Bombay Louis Bromfield 1940 American English
15799 Critique Of Religion And Philosophy Walter A. Kaufmann 1958 American English
15801 The Sinners Yusuf Idris 1959 Egyptian Arabic
15797 Perrault's Fairy Tales Charles Perrault 1697 French French
15781 Crime And Punishment Dostoyevsky 1866 Russian Russian
15774 Oh, Promised Land James Street 1940 American English
15775 The Morning Is Near Us Susan Glaspell 1940 American English
15814 Paul And Virginie Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1788 French French
15817 All My Sons Arthur Miller 1947 American English
15823 The Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
15820 A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket On The Hearth Charles Dickens 1843 British English
15874 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1876 American English
15855 Anna Karanina Leo Tolstoy 1873 Russian Russian
15850 The Earth Is The Lord's Taylor Caldwell 1940 American English
15915 Dhammapada Unknown -299 Multiple Pali
15915 Enquiry Concerning Political Justice William Godwin 1793 British English
15915 The life and letters of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1817 American English
15915 The Maurizius Case Jakob Wassermann 1928 German German
15915 Success Lion Feuchtwanger 1930 German German
15915 The West Pier Patrick Hamilton 1952 British English
15915 Purgatory In Ingolstadt Marieluise Fleißer 1924 German German
15896 The Great Brain John Dennis Fitzgerald 1967 American English
15915 A Boy And His Dog Harlan Ellison 1969 American English
15903 Български народни приказки Angel Karaliichev 1961 Bulgarian Bulgarian
15915 Milinda Panha Unknown -100 Mulitple Pali
15915 Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku Watsuji Tetsuro 1937 Japanese Japanese
15915 Mi'raj Al Su'ud Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti, Hunqick J. 1615 Malian Unknown
15915 Charlotte Temple Susanna Haswell Rowson 1791 American English
15915 Sacred Dramas Hannah More 1782 British English
15905 The Adventures Of Gil Blas Alain-René Le Sage 1715 French French
16520 O Sonho De Um Homem Ridículo Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 Russian Russian
15915 Doctor Faustus And Other Plays Christopher Marlowe 1604 English English
15915 God's Angry Man Leonard Ehrlich 1932 American English
15915 A Pin To See The Peepshow F. Tennyson Jesse 1934 British English
15887 Ocean Of The Streams Of Story Somadeva 1063 Indian Sanskrit
16580 Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose 1954 American English
16539 What Makes Sammy Run? Budd Schulberg 1941 American English
16573 Up At The Villa W. Somerset Maugham 1941 British English
16589 Screwtape Letters Clive Staples Lewis 1942 British English
16605 In My Father's House James Street 1941 American English
16648 The Ballad of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark 1960 British English
16648 Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1950 Armenian Russian
16715 Inherit The Wind Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee 1955 American English
16682 Waste Harley Granville Barker 1907 British English
16688 Professor Bernhardi Arthur Schnitzler 1912 Austrian German
16788 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16779 Twilight Of The Idols, Or How To Philosophize With A Hammer Friedrich Nietzsche 1889 German German
16698 Le Dernier Jour D'un Condamné Victor Hugo 1829 French French
16722 Botchan Natsume Sōseki 1906 Japanese Japanese
16777 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
16681 The Pilgrim's Regress C. S. Lewis 1933 British English
16630 El Príncipe Nicolás Maquiavelo 1532 Italian Italian
16766 Manalive G. K. Chesterton 1912 British English
16637 The Brothers Karamazov Fedor Dostoyevsky 1880 Russian Russian
16701 The Rambler Samuel Johnson 1784 English English
16792 Will To Believe And Other Essays In Popular Philosophy William James 1897 American English
17161 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
17161 The Statement Brian Moore 1995 Irish English
17161 Darkness Visible William Golding 1979 British English
16801 La edad de oro José Martí 1889 Cuban Spanish
17161 Only Begotten Daughter James K. Morrow 1990 American English
17161 Towing Jehovah James K. Morrow 1994 American English
17161 The Death Of Grass John Christopher 1956 British English
17161 Journey Beyond Tomorrow Robert Sheckley 1962 American English
17161 The Dancers At The End Of Time Michael Moorcock 1972 British English
17161 Interpreters Wole Soyinka 1965 Nigerian English
17161 The Nice And The Good Iris Murdoch 1968 British English
17161 The Night In Question Tobias Wolff 1996 American English
17161 Good People David Lindsay-Abaire 2011 American English
17161 The Mysteries Tony Harrison 1985 British English
16838 Design For Living Noel Coward 1933 British English
16986 Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance John Arden 1959 British English
17161 Bingo Edward Bond 1973 British English
17161 Racing Demon David Hare 1990 British English
17161 Short Eyes Miguel Pinero 1974 American English
17161 The Firm Of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 British English
17161 Scenes Of Clerical Life George Eliot 1858 British English
16843 Judas Iscariot Leonid Andreyev 1907 Russian Russian
17161 Evil And The Mask Fuminori Nakamura 2010 Japanese Japanese
17161 The Moment Of Eclipse Brian Aldiss 1970 British English
16892 The Wit Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1900 Irish English
17161 Social Satire And The Modern Novel Paul Rich 1984 Unknown Unknown
17161 African Tales Gcina Mhlophe 1989 South African English
17123 Hauff's Fairy Tales Wilhelm Hauff 1825 German German
17161 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
17161 The Inescapable Self Timothy Chappell 2006 British English
17161 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee 2015 American English
17161 Moral Sense James Q. Wilson 1993 American English
17161 If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? G. A. Cohen 2000 British English
17161 Justice For Hedgehogs Ronald Dworkin 2011 American English
17161 Beast And Man Mary Midgley 1979 British English