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
4132 The Three-Arched Bridge Ismail Kadare 1978 Albanian Albanian
4139 Three plays Paul Claudel 1912 French French
4151 The Devotion Of Suspect X Keigo Higashino 2005 Japanese Japanese
4167 Vasili Tyorkin Alexander Tvardovsky 1943 Russian Russian
4190 An Ember In The Ashes Sabaa Tahir 2015 American English
4218 Hecuba Euripides -424 Greek Ancient greek
4221 Iphigenia At Aulis Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
4233 Mariette In Ecstasy Ron Hansen 1991 American English
4269 Sevastopol Sketches Leo Tolstoy 1855 Russian Russian
4410 Salammbô Gustave Flaubert 1862 French French
4468 Covenant With Death John Harris 1961 British English
4518 The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander 1965 American English
4633 Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti 2001 British English
4653 The Forever War Dexter Filkins 2008 American English
4732 Don Carlos Friedrich Schiller 1787 German German
4756 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
4803 Brand Henrik Ibsen 1866 Norwegian Norwegian
4828 The Prestige Christopher Priest 1995 British English
4937 The Baron's Sons Mór Jókai 1869 Hungarian Hungarian
4995 Utenzi Wa Vita Vya Uhuru Robert Bin Shabaan 1967 Tanzanian Swahili
5002 The Bamboo Bed William Eastlake 1969 American English
5101 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 American English
5152 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5157 The Gadfly Ethel Lilian Voynich 1897 British English
5171 Anecdotes of Destiny Isak Dinesen 1958 Danish Danish
5276 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5346 The Bells Of Prespa Dimitar Talev 1966 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5393 Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1581 Italian Italian
5408 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra 2013 American English
5447 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
5458 Mercy Among The Children David Adams Richards 2000 Canadian English
5608 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5680 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
5850 Venice Preserv'd Thomas Otway 1682 British English
5846 Andromache Jean Racine 1667 French French
5863 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
5897 The Plough And The Stars Sean O'Casey 1926 Irish English
5911 The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1914 American English
5908 The Ring Of The Nibelung Richard Wagner 1876 German German
5916 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 1944 German German
5949 The Wandering Fire Guy Gavriel Kay 1986 Canadian English
5991 Bloodchild Octavia E. Butler 1984 American English
6005 Ceux De 14 Maurice Genevoix 1949 French French
6078 The Darkest Road Guy Gavriel Kay 1986 Canadian English
6144 The Time Ludmila Petrushevskaya 1992 Russian Russian
6226 Boule De Suif Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
6230 Idu Flora Nwapa 1970 Nigerian English
6273 Cold Nights Ba Jin 1947 Chinese Chinese
6336 Spartacus Raffaello Giovagnoli 1874 Italian Italian
6376 The Priory Of The Orange Tree Samantha Shannon 2019 British English
6493 The Story Of Avis Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1877 American English
6870 The Mother Grazia Deledda 1920 Italian Italian
6951 Bones Chenjerai Hove 1988 Zimbabwean English
7041 The Man In The Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas 1847 French French
7109 Ashes Stefan Zeromski 1904 Polish Polish
7166 A Fable William Faulkner 1954 American English
7216 Samson Agonistes John Milton 1671 British English
7216 Polyeucte Pierre Corneille 1643 French French
7216 Horace Pierre Corneille 1640 French French
7216 Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 German German
7216 Verse Plays Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1800 German German
7216 Five Plays Heinrich von Kleist 1808 German German
7216 Atala François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1801 French French
7216 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
7216 On The Eve Ivan Turgenev 1860 Russian Russian
7216 The Mystery Of The Charity Of Joan Of Arc Charles Péguy 1910 French French
7216 The Burning Oracle George Wilson Knight 1939 British Unknown
7576 The Toilers Of The Sea Victor Hugo 1866 French French
7602 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein 2012 British English
7656 King Jesus Robert Graves 1946 British English
7783 The Gunslinger Stephen King 1982 American English
7817 In My Hands Irene Opdyke 1999 American English
7858 Jennie Gerhardt Theodore Dreiser 1911 American English
7872 Mr Standfast John Buchan 1919 British English
7878 Blackout/All Clear Connie Willis 2010 American English
7923 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7943 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
7984 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
8009 Fire And Hemlock Diana Wynne Jones 1985 British English
8144 Night Circus And Other Stories Ursula Kovalyk 2014 Slovak Unknown
8330 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
8389 Becket Jean Anouilh 1959 French French
8417 War and Remembrance Herman Wouk 1978 American English
8584 The Road To Calvary Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1921 Russian Russian
8656 The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954 American English
8661 Krabat Otfried Preußler 1971 German German
8676 Collected Poems Wilfred Owen 1963 British English
8676 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8794 What Work Is Philip Levine 1991 American English
8870 For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964 American English
8941 The Rage Of Dragons Evan Winter 2019 Canadian English
8977 The Mother Pearl S. Buck 1934 American English
9093 Consuelo George Sand 1842 French French
9193 Love And Ruin Evan Ratliff, Susan Orlean 2016 Unknown English
9193 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9318 Russia Is Burning Maria Bloshteyn 2020 Russian English
9533 A Torch Against The Night Sabaa Tahir 2016 American English
9597 The Gospel According To Jesus Christ José Saramago 1991 Portuguese Portuguese
9661 The Story Of The Just Casper And Fair Annie Clemens Brentano German German
9661 The Messiah Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2012 German German
9703 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9794 Cry To Heaven Anne Rice 1982 American English
9822 The Way To Paradise Mario Vargas Llosa 2003 Peruvian Spanish
9831 His Family Ernest Poole 1917 American English
9941 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004 American English
10037 Hannah Senesh Hannah Senesh 1971 Hungarian Hebrew
10081 Habibi Craig Thompson 2011 American English
10088 Angelfall Susan Ee 2011 American English
10174 March Geraldine Brooks 2005 American English
10264 The Warrior Who Carried Life Geoff Ryman 1985 British English
10278 Death's End Cixin Liu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10309 Episodes Of The Cuban Revolutionary War Che Guevara 1963 Argentinian Spanish
10401 The Bog People P. V. Glob 1965 Danish Danish
10412 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10422 Matterhorn Karl Marlantes 2010 American English
10452 The Testament Of Mary Colm Toibin 2012 Irish English
10454 This Republic of Suffering Drew Gilpin Faust 2008 American English
10489 Until The Lions Karthika Nair 2015 French English
10489 Farthest Field Raghu Karnad 2015 Indian English
10616 Verdun Jules Romains 1938 French French