The Greatest Books of All Time on Wealth

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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
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
57 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 Russian Russian
73 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 1881 American English
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
90 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 1901 German German
104 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 1842 Russian Russian
105 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1847 British English
120 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 American English
143 The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
161 The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 1953 American English
168 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934 American English
217 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1905 American English
246 The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy 1906 British English
261 Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 American English
281 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 1931 American English
283 Nostromo Joseph Conrad 1904 British English
341 The Human Comedy Honoré de Balzac 1830 French French
351 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
376 The Golden Bowl Henry James 1904 American English
387 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1864 British English
425 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1811 British English
468 Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1876 British English
484 Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin 1754 Chinese Chinese
496 Froth on the daydream Boris Vian 1947 French French
506 The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith 1958 American English
510 Eugenie Grandet Honoré de Balzac 1833 French French
520 Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1814 British English
531 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1776 Scottish English
533 Cousin Bette Honoré de Balzac 1846 French French
554 Satyricon Petronius 65 Roman Latin
570 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 American English
589 Bel Ami Guy de Maupassant 1885 French French
590 Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1817 British English
601 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 American English
643 Silas Marner George Eliot 1861 British English
660 The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett 1934 American English
666 Humboldt's Gift Saul Bellow 1975 American English
679 The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Tobias Smollett 1771 British English
686 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike 1981 American English
703 The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1875 British English
704 Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote 1958 American English
723 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 2004 British English
737 The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1913 American English
753 Henderson The Rain King Saul Bellow 1959 American English
760 Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh 1928 British English
934 The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1899 American English
1140 Nana Émile Zola 1880 French French
1167 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos 1925 American English
1219 The Time of Indifference Alberto Moravia 1929 Italian Italian
1226 The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Tobias Smollett 1751 British English
1230 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington 1918 American English
1282 The Plum in the Golden Vase Unknown 1610 Chinese Chinese
1427 Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh 1930 British English
1460 Never Mind Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
1481 The Little Golden Calf Ilya Ilf, Evgeniy Petrov 1931 Russian Russian
1483 Tono Bungay H. G. Wells 1909 British English
1690 Goldfinger Ian Fleming 1959 British English
1782 The Wild Ass's Skin Honoré de Balzac 1831 French French
1798 Washington Square Henry James 1880 American English
1857 A Lost Lady Willa Cather 1923 American English
2178 The Love Of The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald 1941 American English
2312 Room At The Top John Braine 1957 British English
2337 The Pearl John Steinbeck 1947 American English
2341 Mastro Don Gesualdo Giovanni Verga 1889 Italian Italian
2372 Roxana Daniel Defoe 1724 British English
2384 Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis 1985 American English
2403 The City Of Marvels Eduardo Mendoza 1986 Spanish Spanish
2542 Camilla Fanny Burney 1796 British English
2546 The Thinking Reed Rebecca West 1936 British English
2608 The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
2615 The Rise Of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1885 American English
2709 Les Caractères Jean de La Bruyère 1688 French French
2798 Goodbye, Columbus Philip Roth 1959 American English
2849 Bad News Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
2889 The Traveller Oliver Goldsmith 1764 Irish English
2947 Eva Trout Elizabeth Bowen 1968 Irish English
2949 Some Hope Edward St Aubyn 1994 British English
2966 Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer 1979 British English
2979 The Man of Property John Galsworthy 1906 British English
3013 The American Henry James 1877 American English
3019 The Memoirs Of Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1844 British English
3047 A World for Julius Alfredo Bryce Echenique 1970 Peruvian Spanish
3058 Trust Hernan Díaz 2022 Argentinian English
3059 Ratking Michael Dibdin 1988 British English
3080 Flappers And Philosophers F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 American English
3135 Mother's Milk Edward St Aubyn 2005 British English
3145 A Simple Plan Scott Smith 1993 American English
3217 Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil John Berendt 1994 American English
3227 Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag 2015 Indian Kannada
3257 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
3314 Satires Juvenal 100 Roman Latin
3324 The Green Hat Michael Arlen 1924 British English
3391 Selected Poetry Of Francisco De Quevedo Francisco de Quevedo 1648 Spanish Spanish
3585 The Would-Be Gentleman Molière 1670 French French
3805 The Ponder Heart Eudora Welty 1954 American English
3806 The Miser Molière 1668 French French
3873 The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 American English
3953 Γιούγκερμαν M. Karagatsis 1938 Greek Greek
4083 The Manor Isaac Bashevis Singer 1967 Polish Yiddish
4091 The School For Scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1777 British English
4225 Satires Horace 35 Latin Latin
4309 Ennui Maria Edgeworth 1809 Irish English
4309 Brewster's Millions Richard Greaves 1902 British English
4370 Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan 2013 American English
4481 The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1871 British English
4547 Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor 1944 American English
4580 A Theory Of The Consumption Function Milton Friedman 1957 American English
4733 Woman Of Straw Catherine Arley 1956 French French
4740 The Man With The Golden Touch Mór Jókai 1872 Hungarian Hungarian
4786 The Way Of The World William Congreve 1700 British English
5021 The City And The Mountains Eça de Queirós 1901 Portuguese Portuguese
5042 A Man Made Of Money Douglas Jerrold 1849 British English
5109 The Winter Of Our Discontent John Steinbeck 1961 American English
5143 Southern Seas Manuel Vázquez Montalbán 1979 Spanish Spanish
5222 Riders Jilly Cooper 1985 British English
5257 Solomon Gursky Was Here Mordecai Richler 1989 Canadian English
5264 Accumulation On A World Scale Samir Amin 1970 French French
5279 At Last Edward St Aubyn 2011 British English