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
17117 Sheppard Lee Robert Montgomery Bird 1836 American English
17117 The Quaker City, Or The Monks Of Monk Hall George Lippard 1845 American English
17117 Lost Memory Of Skin Russell Banks 2011 American English
17117 The Problem Of The Soul Owen J. Flanagan 2002 American English
17117 Human Nature After Darwin Janet Radcliffe Richards 2000 British English
17117 Honor Sonallah Ibrahim 2017 Egyptian Arabic
17117 Thus Spoke Abu Huraira Mahmoud Messadi 1973 Tunisian Unknown
17117 The Elephants Fathi Ghanem 1965 Egyptian Unknown
17117 Seeds Of Corruption Sabri Moussa 1973 Egyptian Arabic
17117 The Theocrat Bensalem Himmich 1997 Moroccan Arabic
16928 Paso Por Aqui Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1926 American English
17117 Rock Springs Richard Ford 1987 American English
17027 Friendly Persuasion Jessamyn West 1945 American English
17117 The Palace Thief Ethan Canin 1994 American English
17117 Accabadora Michela Murgia 2009 Italian Italian
17117 The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
17117 The Life You Can Save Peter Singer 2009 Australian English
17117 The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket 2005 American English
17117 Kingdom Come Mark Waid 1996 American English
17117 On A Pale Horse Piers Anthony 1983 American English
17117 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17117 Tutt And Mr Tutt Arthur Cheney Train 1920 American English
17117 The Killer Patrícia Melo 1995 Brazilian Portuguese
16838 Das Kalte Herz Wilhelm Hauff 1827 German German
17117 The Collected Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish English
17117 The Complete Tales Beatrix Potter 1986 British English
17117 Smaller And Smaller Circles FH Batacan 2002 Philippine English
17117 Great Spanish Stories Margaret Jull Costa 2014 Unknown Spanish
17117 Worm Wildbow 2011 Canadian English
17117 白夜行 [Byakuyakō] Keigo Higashino 1999 Japanese Japanese
17117 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre David Lodge 1997 Unknown English
17117 Tolstoy's "War And Peace" A Study R.F. Christian 1978 Unknown English
17117 Five Roundabouts To Heaven John Bingham 1953 British English
17117 Mystery Stories Stanley Ellin 1956 American English
17117 Gun Before Butter Nicolas Freeling 1963 British English
17117 The Tremor Of Forgery Patricia Highsmith 1969 American English
17117 Young Man, I Think You're Dying Joan Fleming 1970 British English
17117 The Investigation Dorothy Uhnak 1977 American English
17117 Nobody's Perfect Donald E. Westlake 1977 American English
17117 A Pinch Of Snuff Reginald Hill 1978 British English
17117 All On A Summer's Day John Wainwright 1981 British English
17117 The Artful Egg James McClure 1984 South African English
17117 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17117 Better Never To Have Been David Benatar 2006 South African English
16950 Twilight Of The Idols/The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 German German
17117 Carl's Doomsday Scenario Matt Dinniman 2023 Unknown English
17117 End Games Michael Dibdin 2007 British English
17117 The Book Of Virtues William Bennett 1993 American English
17045 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
16992 The Tales Of Sendebar Unknown -100 Multiple Sanskrit
17117 The Tales Of Uncle Remus Julius Lester 1987 American English
17117 Masters Of Death Olivie Blake 2023 Unknown English
17117 Reverend Insanity Gu Zhen Re 2015 Chinese Chinese
17117 The Five Gates Of Hell Rupert Thomson 1991 British English
17117 Devil House John Darnielle 2022 American English
17117 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17117 Five Carat Soul James McBride 2017 American English
17117 Tales Of The Unexpected Roald Dahl 1979 British English
17117 Breaking And Entering Joy Williams 1988 American English
16877 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin 1973 American English
17117 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
16756 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
17117 Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
17117 Los Alamos Joseph Kanon 1997 American English
17117 What ʿīsā Ibn Hishām Told Us Muhammad Salih al-Jabri Unknown Arabic
17117 The Antagonists Ernest K. Gahn 1971 Unknown English
17117 City Of Libertines William G. Hardy 1957 Unknown English
17117 Man Of Nazareth Anthony Burgess 1979 British English
17117 King Of Kings Malachi Martin 1980 American English
17117 Rasero Francisco Rebolledo 1995 Mexican Spanish
17117 The Dream Of Confucius Jean Levi 1989 French French
17117 Waiting For The Galactic Bus Parke Godwin 1988 American English
16944 What's Wrong With The World G. K. Chesterton 1910 British English
17117 My Murder Katie Williams 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Stolen Coast Dwyer Murphy 2023 Unknown English
17117 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2023 French French
17117 Romney McKay Coppins 2023 American English
17117 Our Hideous Progeny C. E. McGill 2023 Unknown English
17117 Monsters Claire Dederer 2023 Unknown English
17117 Parfit David Edmonds 2023 Unknown English
17117 The New Life Tom Crewe 2023 Unknown English
17117 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2021 French English
17117 Confidence Rafael Frumkin 2023 Unknown English
17117 Devil Makes Three Ben Fountain 2023 Unknown English
16823 Olağanüstü Bir Gece Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
16989 An Unpleasant Predicament Fyodor Dostoevsky 1862 Russian Russian
17117 Pentimento Lillian Hellman 1973 American English
17117 Nine Inches Tom Perrotta 2013 American English
17117 Twisted Family Values V.C. Chickering 2018 Unknown English
17117 The Good Life Jay McInerney 2006 American English
17117 Find You First Linwood Barclay 2021 Canadian English
17117 The Good Samaritan John Marrs 2018 British English
17117 Lucky Dogs Helen Schulman 2023 Unknown English
17087 The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde And Other Stories Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
16895 Herself, Surprised Joyce Cary 1941 British English
17117 Flesh In The Age Of Reason Roy Porter 2003 British English
17117 God's Grace Bernard Malamud 1982 American English
17117 The Rose At Ten Marco Denevi Unknown Unknown
17117 Take A Girl Like You Kingsley Amis 1960 British English
17117 Missionaries Phil Klay 2020 American English
17117 Grasping Evil I’m Ink Unknown Unknown
17117 A Drop Of Corruption Robert Jackson Bennett Unknown Unknown
17117 The Russia House John le Carré 1989 British English
17117 The Long Drop Denise Mina 2017 Scottish English
17117 Doctor De Soto William Steig 1982 American English
17117 Lancelot Walker Percy 1977 American English
17117 The House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002 American English
17117 Saint Joan Of The Stockyards Bertolt Brecht 1931 German German
17117 Six Early Stories Thomas Mann 1997 German German
17117 The Adventures Of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom Ignacy Krasicki 1776 Polish Polish
17117 One Way Or Another Leonardo Sciascia 1974 Italian Italian
17117 Horváth Für Boshafte Ödön von Horváth 2010 Austrian German
17117 The Passions And The Interests Albert Hirschman 1977 American English
17117 All Things Left Wild James Wade 2020 American English
17117 Accomplice To The Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer 2023 Unknown English
17117 Burning Angel And Other Stories Lawrence Osborne Unknown English
17117 Your Wish Is My Command Deena Mohamed 2022 Unknown English
17117 The Seventh Son Sebastian Faulks 2023 British English
16841 L'étranger / La Peste Albert Camus 1942 French French
17117 Mind And Cosmos Thomas Nagel 2012 American English