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
17162 Great Books David Denby 1996 American English
17162 The Gentleman In Trollope Shirley Robin Letwin 1982 British English
17162 Pensa Hi Brigitte Labbé 2002 Unknown Unknown
17162 Les Goûters Philo Brigitte Labbé 1996 French French
17162 Sheppard Lee Robert Montgomery Bird 1836 American English
17162 The Quaker City, Or The Monks Of Monk Hall George Lippard 1845 American English
17162 Lost Memory Of Skin Russell Banks 2011 American English
17162 The Problem Of The Soul Owen J. Flanagan 2002 American English
17162 Human Nature After Darwin Janet Radcliffe Richards 2000 British English
17162 Honor Sonallah Ibrahim 2017 Egyptian Arabic
17162 Thus Spoke Abu Huraira Mahmoud Messadi 1973 Tunisian Unknown
17162 The Elephants Fathi Ghanem 1965 Egyptian Unknown
17162 Seeds Of Corruption Sabri Moussa 1973 Egyptian Arabic
17162 The Theocrat Bensalem Himmich 1997 Moroccan Arabic
16969 Paso Por Aqui Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1926 American English
17162 Rock Springs Richard Ford 1987 American English
17067 Friendly Persuasion Jessamyn West 1945 American English
17162 The Palace Thief Ethan Canin 1994 American English
17162 Accabadora Michela Murgia 2009 Italian Italian
17162 The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
17162 The Life You Can Save Peter Singer 2009 Australian English
17162 The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket 2005 American English
17162 Kingdom Come Mark Waid 1996 American English
17162 On A Pale Horse Piers Anthony 1983 American English
17162 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17162 Tutt And Mr Tutt Arthur Cheney Train 1920 American English
17162 The Killer Patrícia Melo 1995 Brazilian Portuguese
16887 Das Kalte Herz Wilhelm Hauff 1827 German German
17162 The Collected Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish English
17162 The Complete Tales Beatrix Potter 1986 British English
17162 Smaller And Smaller Circles FH Batacan 2002 Philippine English
17162 Great Spanish Stories Margaret Jull Costa 2014 Unknown Spanish
17162 Worm Wildbow 2011 Canadian English
17162 白夜行 [Byakuyakō] Keigo Higashino 1999 Japanese Japanese
17162 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre David Lodge 1997 Unknown English
17162 Tolstoy's "War And Peace" A Study R.F. Christian 1978 Unknown English
17162 Five Roundabouts To Heaven John Bingham 1953 British English
17162 Mystery Stories Stanley Ellin 1956 American English
17162 Gun Before Butter Nicolas Freeling 1963 British English
17162 The Tremor Of Forgery Patricia Highsmith 1969 American English
17162 Young Man, I Think You're Dying Joan Fleming 1970 British English
17162 The Investigation Dorothy Uhnak 1977 American English
17162 Nobody's Perfect Donald E. Westlake 1977 American English
17162 A Pinch Of Snuff Reginald Hill 1978 British English
17162 All On A Summer's Day John Wainwright 1981 British English
17162 The Artful Egg James McClure 1984 South African English
17162 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17162 Better Never To Have Been David Benatar 2006 South African English
17002 Twilight Of The Idols/The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 German German
17162 Carl's Doomsday Scenario Matt Dinniman 2023 Unknown English
17162 End Games Michael Dibdin 2007 British English
17162 The Book Of Virtues William Bennett 1993 American English
17096 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17035 The Tales Of Sendebar Unknown -100 Multiple Sanskrit
16801 Yama Aleksandr Kuprin 1909 Russian Russian
17162 The Tales Of Uncle Remus Julius Lester 1987 American English
17162 Masters Of Death Olivie Blake 2023 Unknown English
17162 Reverend Insanity Gu Zhen Re 2015 Chinese Chinese
17162 The Five Gates Of Hell Rupert Thomson 1991 British English
17162 Devil House John Darnielle 2022 American English
17162 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17162 Five Carat Soul James McBride 2017 American English
17162 Tales Of The Unexpected Roald Dahl 1979 British English
17162 Breaking And Entering Joy Williams 1988 American English
16911 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin 1973 American English
17162 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
17162 Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
17162 Los Alamos Joseph Kanon 1997 American English
17162 What ʿīsā Ibn Hishām Told Us Muhammad Salih al-Jabri Unknown Arabic
17162 The Antagonists Ernest K. Gahn 1971 Unknown English
17162 City Of Libertines William G. Hardy 1957 Unknown English
17162 Man Of Nazareth Anthony Burgess 1979 British English
17162 King Of Kings Malachi Martin 1980 American English
17162 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17162 The Dream Of Confucius Jean Levi 1989 French French
17162 Waiting For The Galactic Bus Parke Godwin 1988 American English
17162 The Abstainer Ian McGuire 2020 British English
16977 What's Wrong With The World G. K. Chesterton 1910 British English
17162 My Murder Katie Williams 2023 Unknown English
17162 The Stolen Coast Dwyer Murphy 2023 Unknown English
17162 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2023 French French
17162 Romney McKay Coppins 2023 American English
17162 Our Hideous Progeny C. E. McGill 2023 Unknown English
17162 Monsters Claire Dederer 2023 Unknown English
17162 Parfit David Edmonds 2023 Unknown English
17162 The New Life Tom Crewe 2023 Unknown English
17162 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2021 French English
17162 Confidence Rafael Frumkin 2023 Unknown English
17162 Devil Makes Three Ben Fountain 2023 Unknown English
16864 Olağanüstü Bir Gece Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
17043 An Unpleasant Predicament Fyodor Dostoevsky 1862 Russian Russian
17162 Pentimento Lillian Hellman 1973 American English
17162 Nine Inches Tom Perrotta 2013 American English
17162 Twisted Family Values V.C. Chickering 2018 Unknown English
17162 The Good Life Jay McInerney 2006 American English
17162 Find You First Linwood Barclay 2021 Canadian English
17162 The Good Samaritan John Marrs 2018 British English
17162 Lucky Dogs Helen Schulman 2023 Unknown English
17155 The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde And Other Stories Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
16924 Herself, Surprised Joyce Cary 1941 British English
17162 Flesh In The Age Of Reason Roy Porter 2003 British English
17162 God's Grace Bernard Malamud 1982 American English
17162 The Rose At Ten Marco Denevi Unknown Unknown
17162 Take A Girl Like You Kingsley Amis 1960 British English
17162 Missionaries Phil Klay 2020 American English
17162 Grasping Evil I’m Ink Unknown Unknown
17162 A Drop Of Corruption Robert Jackson Bennett Unknown Unknown
17162 The Russia House John le Carré 1989 British English
17162 The Long Drop Denise Mina 2017 Scottish English
17162 Doctor De Soto William Steig 1982 American English
17162 Lancelot Walker Percy 1977 American English
17162 The House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002 American English
17162 Saint Joan Of The Stockyards Bertolt Brecht 1931 German German
17162 Six Early Stories Thomas Mann 1997 German German
17162 The Adventures Of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom Ignacy Krasicki 1776 Polish Polish
17162 One Way Or Another Leonardo Sciascia 1974 Italian Italian
17162 Horváth Für Boshafte Ödön von Horváth 2010 Austrian German
17162 The Passions And The Interests Albert Hirschman 1977 American English
17162 All Things Left Wild James Wade 2020 American English
17162 Accomplice To The Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer 2023 Unknown English