The Greatest Western Books of All Time

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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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7216 Poems Of Lord Brooke Fulke Greville Lord Brooke Fulke Greville 1601 British English
7216 The Poetical Works Of Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser 1590 British English
7216 The Poems Of Sir Walter Raleigh Walter Ralegh 1600 British English
7216 Poems Of Michael Drayton Michael Drayton 1605 British English
7216 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
7216 The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd 1587 British English
7216 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
7216 Poems, Plays, And Masques Ben Jonson 1601 British English
7216 The Garden Of Cyrus Sir Thomas Browne 1658 British English
7216 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
7216 The Poems Of Thomas Carew Thomas Carew 1640 British English
7216 The Poems Of Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace 1649 British English
7216 Silex Scintillans, Etc Henry Vaughan 1650 British English
7216 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
7216 Plays Francis Beaumont 1607 British English
7216 Comedies, Tragedies, Poems George Chapman 1600 British English
7216 'Tis Pity She's A Whore John Ford 1633 British English
7216 The Revenger's Tragedy Cyril Tourneur 1607 British English
7216 A New Way To Pay Old Debts Philip Massinger 1633 British English
7216 Samson Agonistes John Milton 1671 British English
7216 Hudibras Samuel Butler (poet) 1663 British English
7216 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7216 Poems Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7216 The Man Of Mode George Etherege 1676 British English
7216 The Journals Of James Boswell James Boswell 1791 British English
7216 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
7216 A Philosophical Enquiry Into...The Sublime And Beautiful Edmund Burke 1757 British English
7216 An Essay On The Dramatic Character Of Sir John Falstaff Maurice Morgann 1777 British English
7216 The Poems Of William Collins William Collins 1746 British English
7216 The Beaux' Strategem George Farquhar 1707 British English
7216 The Plain Dealer William Wycherley 1676 British English
7216 Jubilate Agno Christopher Smart 1939 British English
7216 A Song To David Christopher Smart 1763 British English
7216 The Deserted Village Oliver Goldsmith 1770 Irish English
7216 Poems Of William Cowper William Cowper 1782 British English
7216 Poems Of George Crabbe George Crabbe 1807 British English
7216 Odes, Elegies, Sonnets Pierre Ronsard 1550 French French
7216 Mémoires Philippe de Commynes 1524 French French
7216 Mark Antony Robert Garnier 1578 French French
7216 Juives Robert Garnier 1583 French French
7216 Polyeucte Pierre Corneille 1643 French French
7216 Nicomède Pierre Corneille 1651 French French
7216 Horace Pierre Corneille 1640 French French
7216 Cinna Pierre Corneille 1641 French French
7216 Rodogune Pierre Corneille 1644 French French
7216 The Learned Ladies Molière 1672 French French
7216 School For Husbands Molière 1661 French French
7216 The Precious Ridiculous Molière 1659 French French
7216 Oraisons funèbres Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet 1689 French French
7216 The Art Of Poetry Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1674 French French
7216 Lutrin Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1674 French French
7216 Britannicus Jean Racine 1669 French French
7216 Athaliah Jean Racine 1691 French French
7216 The Lisbon Earthquake Voltaire 1756 French French
7216 Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 German German
7216 Poems Of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1789 German German
7216 Verse Plays Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1800 German German
7216 Hermann And Dorothea Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1797 German German
7216 Venetian Epigrams Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790 German German
7216 West Eastern Divan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1819 German German
7216 Wallenstein Friedrich Schiller 1799 German German
7216 On The Naïve And Sentimental In Literature Friedrich Schiller 1795 German German
7216 Laocoön Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1766 German German
7216 Selected Poems Freidrich Hölderlin 1800 German German
7216 Five Plays Heinrich von Kleist 1808 German German
7216 On Sepulchres Ugo Foscolo 1809 Italian Italian
7216 Last Letters Of Jacopo Ortis Ugo Foscolo 1802 Italian Italian
7216 Odes And The Graces Ugo Foscolo 1822 Italian Italian
7216 On The Historical Novel Alessandro Manzoni 1800 Italian Italian
7216 Roman Sonnets Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1830 Italian Italian
7216 Hymn To Satan Giosué Carducci 1865 Italian Italian
7216 Barbarian Odes Giosué Carducci 1877 Italian Italian
7216 Rhymes And Rhythms Giosué Carducci 1899 Italian Italian
7216 Little Novels Of Sicily Giovanni Verga 1883 Italian Italian
7216 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
7216 The Red Notebook Benjamin Constant 1804 French French
7216 Atala François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1801 French French
7216 The Genius Of Christianity François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1802 French French
7216 Poetic Meditations Alphonse de Lamartine 1820 French French
7216 Poems Of Alfred De Vigny Alfred de Vigny 1837 French French
7216 The Distance, The Shadows Victor Hugo 1859 French Unknown
7216 Complete Poems Of Alfred De Musset Alfred de Musset 1857 French French
7216 The Chimeras Gerard de Nerval 1854 French French
7216 Sylvie Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French
7216 Aurelia Gerard de Nerval 1855 French French
7216 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
7216 Ursule Mirouet Honoré de Balzac 1842 French French
7216 On Love Stendhal 1822 French French
7216 Selected Poems Of Paul Verlaine Paul Verlaine 1896 French French
7216 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
7216 Emperor And Galilean Henrik Ibsen 1873 Norwegian Norwegian
7216 The Lady From The Sea Henrik Ibsen 1888 Norwegian Norwegian
7216 When We Dead Awaken Henrik Ibsen 1899 Norwegian Norwegian
7216 To Damascus August Strindberg 1898 Swedish Swedish
7216 The Dance Of Death August Strindberg 1900 Swedish Swedish
7216 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
7216 Imaginary Conversations Walter Savage Landor 1824 British English
7216 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
7216 The Entail John Galt 1823 Scottish English
7216 A Defence Of Poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley 1840 British English
7216 Death's Jest Book Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1850 British English
7216 Poems Of Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1851 British English
7216 Nepenthe George Darley 1835 Irish English
7216 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
7216 The Poems And Plays Of Thomas Wade Thomas Wade 1800 British English
7216 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
7216 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
7216 Poems Of Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold 1853 British English
7216 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
7216 Poems Of Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough 1862 British English
7216 Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1861 British English
7216 Modern Painters John Ruskin 1843 British English
7216 Unto This Last John Ruskin 1860 British English
7216 The Queen Of The Air John Ruskin 1869 British English
7216 Appreciations Walter Pater 1889 British English
7216 A Grammar Of Assent John Henry Newman 1870 British English
7216 Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 1858 British English
7216 Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1861 British English
7216 The Small House At Allington Anthony Trollope 1864 British English
7216 Can You Forgive Her? Anthony Trollope 1864 British English