The Greatest Books of All Time on Superstition

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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
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
164 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 1902 British English
243 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 American English
715 The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Washington Irving 1819 American English
861 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 1962 American English
1073 The Lottery and Other Stories Shirley Jackson 1948 American English
1148 The Werewolf Of Paris Guy Endore 1933 American English
1196 Conjure Wife Fritz Leiber 1943 American English
1696 Evenings On A Farm Near Dikanka Nikolai Gogol 1831 Russian Russian
1927 Stories of Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol 1831 Russian Russian
2056 Satan In Goray Isaac Bashevis Singer 1935 Polish Yiddish
2138 The Last Days Of Pompeii Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1834 British English
2594 Tales Of Hulan River Xiao Hong 1942 Chinese Chinese
2647 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
2817 The Belkin Tales Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
3288 Stories of Washington Irving Washington Irving 1820 American English
3637 The Rider on the White Horse Theodor Storm 1888 German German
3884 Collected Plays John Millington Synge 1935 Irish English
3953 Η Κερένια Κούκλα Konstantinos Christomanos 1899 Greek Greek
4105 Wolfskin Hans Lebert 1960 Austrian German
4678 Of Love And Other Demons Gabriel García Márquez 1994 Colombian Spanish
4686 The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht 2011 Serbian English
5013 The Hungry Moon Ramsey Campbell 1986 British English
5086 Short Friday Isaac Bashevis Singer 1964 Polish Yiddish
5261 St. Peter's Umbrella Kálmán Mikszáth 1895 Hungarian Hungarian
5342 A Funtineli Boszorkány Albert Wass 1959 Hungarian Hungarian
5425 Religion And The Decline Of Magic Keith Thomas 1971 British English
5835 Satires Persius 62 Latin Latin
6482 Year Of Wonders Geraldine Brooks 2001 Australian English
6703 Seventh Son Orson Scott Card, Patrick Couton 1987 American English
6717 The Conjure Man Dies Rudolph Fisher 1932 American English
6728 The Relic Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child 1995 American English
7216 Little Novels Of Sicily Giovanni Verga 1883 Italian Italian
7216 Tales Nikolai Leskov 1870 Russian Russian
8305 The Ghost Riders Of Ordebec Fred Vargas 2011 French French
9002 Little Fadette George Sand 1849 French French
9192 The Geography Of Madness Frank Bures 2016 Unknown English
9659 The King Of The Rattling Spirits Miha Mazzini 2021 Slovenian Slovenian
9857 Wife Of The Gods Kwei Quartey 2009 Ghanaian English
9859 The Black Dwarf Sir Walter Scott 1816 Scottish English
10981 Or Else, The Lightning God And Other Stories Catherine Lim 1980 Singaporean English
11294 Le Pietre Claudio Morandini 2017 Italian Italian
13600 Rabevel Ou Le Mal Des Ardents Lucien Fabre French French
13600 The Rock Of Tanios Amin Maalouf 1993 French French
13886 The Vanishing Of Katharina Linden Helen Grant 2009 British English
14499 The Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy 1988 British English
14985 The Bear And The Nightingale Katherine Arden 2017 American English
15778 Xala Ousmane Sembène 1973 Senegalese French
15915 Tell My Horse Zora Neale Hurston 1938 American English
15915 The Works Of Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne 1686 British English
15915 The Greeks And The Irrational E. R. Dodds 1951 British English
16540 A Mirror for Witches Esther Forbes 1928 American English
16641 The Collected Tales Nikolai Gogol 1836 Russian Russian
17158 The Stain Rikki Ducornet 1984 American English
17158 Death In Andes Mario Vargas Llosa 1993 Peruvian Spanish
17158 The Ruin Of All Witches Malcolm Gaskill 2021 British English
17158 The Fishermen Chigozie Obioma 2015 Nigerian English
17008 Nightfall And Other Stories Isaac Asimov 1969 American English
17158 Hungry Ghosts Kevin Jared Hosein 2023 Unknown English
16849 Precious Bane Mary Webb 1924 British English
17158 Swallowing Mercury Wioletta Greg 2014 Polish Polish
17118 The Relic Eça de Queirós 1887 Portuguese Portuguese
17158 Tongue Eater Ambrose Bierce American English
17104 El Gato Negro Edgar Allan Poe 1843 American English
17158 Island Of Whispers Frances Hardinge 2023 British English
17158 A Cabeça Do Santo Socorro Acioli 2014 Brazilian Portuguese