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
4131 The Three-Arched Bridge Ismail Kadare 1978 Albanian Albanian
4138 Three plays Paul Claudel 1912 French French
4150 The Devotion Of Suspect X Keigo Higashino 2005 Japanese Japanese
4166 Vasili Tyorkin Alexander Tvardovsky 1943 Russian Russian
4189 An Ember In The Ashes Sabaa Tahir 2015 American English
4217 Hecuba Euripides -424 Greek Ancient greek
4220 Iphigenia At Aulis Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
4232 Mariette In Ecstasy Ron Hansen 1991 American English
4268 Sevastopol Sketches Leo Tolstoy 1855 Russian Russian
4409 Salammbô Gustave Flaubert 1862 French French
4467 Covenant With Death John Harris 1961 British English
4517 The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander 1965 American English
4632 Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti 2001 British English
4652 The Forever War Dexter Filkins 2008 American English
4731 Don Carlos Friedrich Schiller 1787 German German
4755 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
4802 Brand Henrik Ibsen 1866 Norwegian Norwegian
4827 The Prestige Christopher Priest 1995 British English
4935 The Baron's Sons Mór Jókai 1869 Hungarian Hungarian
4992 Utenzi Wa Vita Vya Uhuru Robert Bin Shabaan 1967 Tanzanian Swahili
4999 The Bamboo Bed William Eastlake 1969 American English
5099 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 American English
5149 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5155 The Gadfly Ethel Lilian Voynich 1897 British English
5169 Anecdotes of Destiny Isak Dinesen 1958 Danish Danish
5275 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5345 The Bells Of Prespa Dimitar Talev 1966 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5391 Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1581 Italian Italian
5406 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra 2013 American English
5445 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
5456 Mercy Among The Children David Adams Richards 2000 Canadian English
5605 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5677 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
5847 Venice Preserv'd Thomas Otway 1682 British English
5843 Andromache Jean Racine 1667 French French
5860 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
5894 The Plough And The Stars Sean O'Casey 1926 Irish English
5908 The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1914 American English
5905 The Ring Of The Nibelung Richard Wagner 1876 German German
5913 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 1944 German German
5946 The Wandering Fire Guy Gavriel Kay 1986 Canadian English
5988 Bloodchild Octavia E. Butler 1984 American English
6002 Ceux De 14 Maurice Genevoix 1949 French French
6075 The Darkest Road Guy Gavriel Kay 1986 Canadian English
6141 The Time Ludmila Petrushevskaya 1992 Russian Russian
6222 Boule De Suif Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
6226 Idu Flora Nwapa 1970 Nigerian English
6270 Cold Nights Ba Jin 1947 Chinese Chinese
6333 Spartacus Raffaello Giovagnoli 1874 Italian Italian
6373 The Priory Of The Orange Tree Samantha Shannon 2019 British English
6491 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
7165 A Fable William Faulkner 1954 American English
7215 Samson Agonistes John Milton 1671 British English
7215 Polyeucte Pierre Corneille 1643 French French
7215 Horace Pierre Corneille 1640 French French
7215 Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 German German
7215 Verse Plays Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1800 German German
7215 Five Plays Heinrich von Kleist 1808 German German
7215 Atala François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1801 French French
7215 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
7215 On The Eve Ivan Turgenev 1860 Russian Russian
7215 The Mystery Of The Charity Of Joan Of Arc Charles Péguy 1910 French French
7215 The Burning Oracle George Wilson Knight 1939 British Unknown
7575 The Toilers Of The Sea Victor Hugo 1866 French French
7601 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein 2012 British English
7655 King Jesus Robert Graves 1946 British English
7782 The Gunslinger Stephen King 1982 American English
7816 In My Hands Irene Opdyke 1999 American English
7857 Jennie Gerhardt Theodore Dreiser 1911 American English
7871 Mr Standfast John Buchan 1919 British English
7877 Blackout/All Clear Connie Willis 2010 American English
7922 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7942 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
8008 Fire And Hemlock Diana Wynne Jones 1985 British English
8142 Night Circus And Other Stories Ursula Kovalyk 2014 Slovak Unknown
8328 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
8387 Becket Jean Anouilh 1959 French French
8415 War and Remembrance Herman Wouk 1978 American English
8581 The Road To Calvary Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1921 Russian Russian
8653 The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954 American English
8658 Krabat Otfried Preußler 1971 German German
8673 Collected Poems Wilfred Owen 1963 British English
8673 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8790 What Work Is Philip Levine 1991 American English
8867 For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964 American English
8938 The Rage Of Dragons Evan Winter 2019 Canadian English
8974 The Mother Pearl S. Buck 1934 American English
9090 Consuelo George Sand 1842 French French
9191 Love And Ruin Evan Ratliff, Susan Orlean 2016 Unknown English
9191 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9315 Russia Is Burning Maria Bloshteyn 2020 Russian English
9530 A Torch Against The Night Sabaa Tahir 2016 American English
9594 The Gospel According To Jesus Christ José Saramago 1991 Portuguese Portuguese
9657 The Story Of The Just Casper And Fair Annie Clemens Brentano German German
9657 The Messiah Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2012 German German
9699 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9790 Cry To Heaven Anne Rice 1982 American English
9818 The Way To Paradise Mario Vargas Llosa 2003 Peruvian Spanish
9827 His Family Ernest Poole 1917 American English
9936 My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004 American English
10032 Hannah Senesh Hannah Senesh 1971 Hungarian Hebrew
10076 Habibi Craig Thompson 2011 American English
10083 Angelfall Susan Ee 2011 American English
10170 March Geraldine Brooks 2005 American English
10260 The Warrior Who Carried Life Geoff Ryman 1985 British English
10274 Death's End Cixin Liu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10305 Episodes Of The Cuban Revolutionary War Che Guevara 1963 Argentinian Spanish
10397 The Bog People P. V. Glob 1965 Danish Danish
10408 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10418 Matterhorn Karl Marlantes 2010 American English
10448 The Testament Of Mary Colm Toibin 2012 Irish English
10450 This Republic of Suffering Drew Gilpin Faust 2008 American English
10485 Until The Lions Karthika Nair 2015 French English
10485 Farthest Field Raghu Karnad 2015 Indian English
10612 Verdun Jules Romains 1938 French French