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
14983 Notes on a Scandal Zoë Heller 2003 British English
14983 12 Rules For Life Jordan B. Peterson 2018 Canadian English
14983 Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card 1999 American English
14983 The Human Factor Graham Greene 1978 British English
14983 The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? Edward Albee 2000 American English
14983 The Pillowman Martin McDonagh 2003 Irish English
14973 The Fire Raisers Max Frisch 1953 Swiss German
14983 The Englishman's Boy Guy Vanderhaeghe 1996 Canadian English
14983 Mouth To Mouth Antoine Wilson 2022 American English
14983 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
14983 La Confidential James Ellroy 1990 American English
15582 Accepting The Universe John Burroughs 1920 American English
15627 Simon Called Peter Robert Keable 1921 British English
15641 The Judge Rebecca West 1922 British English
15646 The Mercy Of Allah Hilaire Belloc 1922 British English
15654 In Single Strictness George Moore 1922 British English
15656 Human Nature And Conduct John Dewey 1922 American English
15669 His Children's Children Arthur Cheney Train 1923 American English
15670 Religious Perplexities L. P. Jacks 1923 British English
15674 My Book And Heart Corra Harris 1923 American English
15678 The Human Agenda Roderic Gorney Unknown English
15717 The Diary Of A Parish Clerk Steen Steensen Blicher 1824 Danish Danish
15733 A Mad World, My Masters Thomas Middleton 1605 British English
15742 Selected Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
15728 Maqamat Al Hariri Al-Hariri of Basra 1101 Arabic Arabic
15738 "Les Misérables" De Victor Hugo Henri Scepi 1862 French French
15750 The Tree Of Knowledge Pío Baroja 1911 Spanish Spanish
15747 The Children's Hour Lillian Hellman 1934 American English
15749 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15783 Critique Of Religion And Philosophy Walter A. Kaufmann 1958 American English
15781 The Sinners Yusuf Idris 1959 Egyptian Arabic
15779 Perrault's Fairy Tales Charles Perrault 1697 French French
15778 Crime And Punishment Dostoyevsky 1866 Russian Russian
15774 Oh, Promised Land James Street 1940 American English
15777 The Morning Is Near Us Susan Glaspell 1940 American English
15765 Night In Bombay Louis Bromfield 1940 American English
15798 Paul And Virginie Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1788 French French
15799 All My Sons Arthur Miller 1947 American English
15807 The Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
15805 A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket On The Hearth Charles Dickens 1843 British English
15861 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1876 American English
15843 Anna Karanina Leo Tolstoy 1873 Russian Russian
15897 Dhammapada Unknown -299 Multiple Pali
15897 Enquiry Concerning Political Justice William Godwin 1793 British English
15897 The life and letters of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1817 American English
15897 The Maurizius Case Jakob Wassermann 1928 German German
15897 Success Lion Feuchtwanger 1930 German German
15897 The West Pier Patrick Hamilton 1952 British English
15897 Purgatory In Ingolstadt Marieluise Fleißer 1924 German German
15887 The Great Brain John Dennis Fitzgerald 1967 American English
15897 A Boy And His Dog Harlan Ellison 1969 American English
15888 Български народни приказки Angel Karaliichev 1961 Bulgarian Bulgarian
15897 Milinda Panha Unknown -100 Mulitple Pali
15897 Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku Watsuji Tetsuro 1937 Japanese Japanese
15897 Mi'raj Al Su'ud Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti, Hunqick J. 1615 Malian Unknown
15897 Charlotte Temple Susanna Haswell Rowson 1791 American English
15897 Sacred Dramas Hannah More 1782 British English
16498 O Sonho De Um Homem Ridículo Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 Russian Russian
15897 Doctor Faustus And Other Plays Christopher Marlowe 1604 English English
15897 God's Angry Man Leonard Ehrlich 1932 American English
15897 A Pin To See The Peepshow F. Tennyson Jesse 1934 British English
15882 The Earth Is The Lord's Taylor Caldwell 1940 American English
16557 Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose 1954 American English
16563 Screwtape Letters Clive Staples Lewis 1942 British English
16613 The Ballad of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark 1960 British English
16613 Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1950 Armenian Russian
16678 Inherit The Wind Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee 1955 American English
16644 Waste Harley Granville Barker 1907 British English
16651 Professor Bernhardi Arthur Schnitzler 1912 Austrian German
16748 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16740 Twilight Of The Idols, Or How To Philosophize With A Hammer Friedrich Nietzsche 1889 German German
16670 Le Dernier Jour D'un Condamné Victor Hugo 1829 French French
16695 Botchan Natsume Sōseki 1906 Japanese Japanese
16654 What Makes Sammy Run? Budd Schulberg 1941 American English
16648 The Pilgrim's Regress C. S. Lewis 1933 British English
16688 El Príncipe Nicolás Maquiavelo 1532 Italian Italian
16729 Manalive G. K. Chesterton 1912 British English
16690 Up At The Villa W. Somerset Maugham 1941 British English
16603 The Brothers Karamazov Fedor Dostoyevsky 1880 Russian Russian
17117 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
17117 The Statement Brian Moore 1995 Irish English
17117 Darkness Visible William Golding 1979 British English
16760 La edad de oro José Martí 1889 Cuban Spanish
17117 Only Begotten Daughter James K. Morrow 1990 American English
17117 Towing Jehovah James K. Morrow 1994 American English
17117 The Death Of Grass John Christopher 1956 British English
17117 Journey Beyond Tomorrow Robert Sheckley 1962 American English
17117 The Dancers At The End Of Time Michael Moorcock 1972 British English
17117 Interpreters Wole Soyinka 1965 Nigerian English
17117 The Nice And The Good Iris Murdoch 1968 British English
17117 The Night In Question Tobias Wolff 1996 American English
17117 Good People David Lindsay-Abaire 2011 American English
17117 The Mysteries Tony Harrison 1985 British English
16799 Design For Living Noel Coward 1933 British English
16951 Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance John Arden 1959 British English
17117 Bingo Edward Bond 1973 British English
17117 Racing Demon David Hare 1990 British English
17117 Short Eyes Miguel Pinero 1974 American English
17117 The Firm Of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1890 British English
17117 Scenes Of Clerical Life George Eliot 1858 British English
16800 Judas Iscariot Leonid Andreyev 1907 Russian Russian
17117 Evil And The Mask Fuminori Nakamura 2010 Japanese Japanese
17117 The Moment Of Eclipse Brian Aldiss 1970 British English
16855 The Wit Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1900 Irish English
17117 Social Satire And The Modern Novel Paul Rich 1984 Unknown Unknown
17117 African Tales Gcina Mhlophe 1989 South African English
17086 Hauff's Fairy Tales Wilhelm Hauff 1825 German German
17117 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
17117 The Inescapable Self Timothy Chappell 2006 British English
17117 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee 2015 American English
17117 Moral Sense James Q. Wilson 1993 American English
17117 If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? G. A. Cohen 2000 British English
17117 Justice For Hedgehogs Ronald Dworkin 2011 American English
17117 Beast And Man Mary Midgley 1979 British English
17117 The Object Of Morality G. J. Warnock 1971 British English
17117 Great Books David Denby 1996 American English
17117 The Gentleman In Trollope Shirley Robin Letwin 1982 British English
17117 Pensa Hi Brigitte Labbé 2002 Unknown Unknown
17117 Les Goûters Philo Brigitte Labbé 1996 French French
17117 Sheppard Lee Robert Montgomery Bird 1836 American English