The Greatest Books of All Time on Sacrifice

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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
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
93 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 American English
97 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 American English
102 Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 American English
170 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 American English
172 Man's Fate Andre Malraux 1933 French French
188 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
233 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré 1963 British English
234 The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
285 Oresteia Aeschylus -458 Greek Ancient greek
323 Mahabharata Vyasa -400 Indian Sanskrit
381 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
422 Ramayana Valmiki -200 Indian Sanskrit
490 Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 American English
510 Eugenie Grandet Honoré de Balzac 1833 French French
524 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 1989 American English
626 Promise at Dawn Romain Gary 1960 French French
713 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 1974 American English
738 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 1989 American English
765 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977 Australian English
883 Thaïs Anatole France 1890 French French
931 The House by the Medlar Tree Giovanni Verga 1881 Italian Italian
938 Burger's Daughter Nadine Gordimer 1979 South African English
979 The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922 British English
1035 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov 1897 Russian Russian
1070 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 1993 British English
1084 Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht 1941 German German
1141 The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1890 British English
1206 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 American English
1228 Strait is the Gate André Gide 1909 French French
1269 The Unknown Soldier Väinö Linna 1954 Finnish Finnish
1308 Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand 1897 French French
1330 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
1362 The Heart Of Midlothian Sir Walter Scott 1818 Scottish English
1376 Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener 1947 American English
1430 The Wandering Jew Eugène Sue 1844 French French
1585 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 2004 British English
1616 Under the Yoke Ivan Vazov 1888 Bulgarian Bulgarian
1658 The Song of Roland Unknown 1100 French Old french
1664 Eclipse of the Crescent Moon Géza Gárdonyi 1899 Hungarian Hungarian
1755 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
1814 Christ Recrucified Nikos Kazantzakis 1948 Greek Greek
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
1900 Collected Stories Of O. Henry O. Henry 1908 American English
1917 In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez 1994 Dominican English
1918 The Lady Of The Camellias Alexandre Dumas 1848 French French
1944 My Name Is Asher Lev Chaim Potok 1972 American English
2031 In Parenthesis David Jones 1937 British English
2046 The Brothers Lionheart Astrid Lindgren 1973 Swedish Swedish
2058 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 2007 Afghan English
2073 The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1852 American English
2150 The Conference Of The Birds Attar Neyshabouri 1177 Persian Persian
2167 Bread And Wine Ignazio Silone 1936 Italian Italian
2194 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein 1964 American English
2207 Waiting Ha Jin 1999 Chinese English
2232 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 2007 British English
2243 The Tombs Of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
2267 A Grain Of Wheat Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1967 Kenyan English
2278 One of Ours Willa Cather 1922 American English
2285 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy 1994 American English
2286 The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1861 British English
2328 Romola George Eliot 1863 British English
2344 Goblin Market Christina Georgina Rossetti 1862 British English
2358 August 1914 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971 Russian Russian
2389 The Wheel of Time Series Robert Jordan 1990 American English
2433 The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1905 British English
2469 Hyperion Dan Simmons 1989 American English
2475 The Last Battle C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
2484 The Good War Studs Terkel 1984 American English
2489 Murder In The Cathedral T. S. Eliot 1935 British English
2490 The Moon And Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1919 British English
2501 Popol Vuh Dennis Tedlock 1985 Mayan K'iche'
2521 The Happy Prince And Other Tales Oscar Wilde 1888 British English
2527 Life of Christ Giovanni Papini 1921 Italian Italian
2552 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 Greek Greek
2702 The Nightingale Kristin Hannah 2015 American English
2722 Perelandra C. S. Lewis 1943 British English
2741 Jerusalem Selma Lagerlöf 1901 Swedish Swedish
2747 Poor Henry Hartmann von Aue 1190 German Middle high german
2802 Stormbringer Michael Moorcock 1965 British English
2876 The Patriot Antonio Fogazzaro 1906 Italian Italian
2911 A Simple Soul Gustave Flaubert 1877 French French
2916 Legend David Gemmell 1984 British English
2928 The Waiting Years Fumiko Enchi 1957 Japanese Japanese
2968 The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman 2000 British English
3036 The Snow Goose Paul Gallico 1941 British English
3077 Paradise of the Blind Dương Thu Hương 1988 Vietnamese Vietnamese
3105 Alcestis Euripides -438 Greek Ancient greek
3238 Hms Ulysses Alistair MacLean 1955 Scottish English
3291 Bérénice Jean Racine 1670 French French
3305 The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien 1977 British English
3324 None but the Brave Arthur Schnitzler 1895 Austrian German
3324 Monica Saunders Lewis 1930 British Welsh
3324 The Tin Flute Gabrielle Roy 1945 Canadian French
3376 Le Cid Pierre Corneille 1637 French French
3418 Plays Pierre Corneille 1641 French French
3442 The Summer Tree Guy Gavriel Kay 1984 Canadian English
3450 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
3454 Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy 1956 American English
3484 Consider Phlebas Iain Banks 1987 Scottish English
3501 Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 2002 Canadian English
3596 Les Destinées Alfred de Vigny 1864 French French
3638 War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon 1919 British English
3638 The White Ship Chinghiz Aitmatov 1970 Kyrgyz Russian
3638 The Burnt Offering Albrecht Goes 1955 German German
3638 The Veil Of Veronica Gertrud von le Fort 1928 German German
3638 Stalingrad Theodor Plievier 1948 German German
3638 The Embezzled Heaven Franz Werfel 1940 Austrian German
3826 The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman 1997 British English
3928 The Poppy War R. F. Kuang 2018 Chinese English
3949 Top Girls Caryl Churchill 1982 British English
3953 Freedom Or Death Nikos Kazantzakis 1953 Greek Greek
3953 Odes Andreas Kalvos 1824 Greek Greek
3953 The Memoirs Of General Makriyannis Makriyannis 1907 Greek Greek
3953 Το Πλατύ Ποτάμι Yiannis Beratis 1946 Greek Greek
3953 The Free Besieged Dionysios Solomos 1825 Greek Greek
4082 Death And The King's Horsemen Wole Soyinka 1975 Nigerian English