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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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
7216 Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1874 British English
7216 The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1876 British English
7216 The Duke's Children Anthony Trollope 1880 British English
7216 Complete Works Lewis Carroll 1939 British English
7216 Poems And Ballads Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866 British English
7216 Poems Of George Meredith George Meredith 1851 British English
7216 Poems Of Lionel Johnson Lionel Johnson 1895 British English
7216 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
7216 Complete Plays Of Gilbert And Sullivan W. S. Gilbert 1938 British English
7216 Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 1869 British English
7216 No Name Wilkie Collins 1862 British English
7216 Odes Coventry Patmore 1868 British English
7216 The City Of The Dreadful Night James Thomson 1880 British English
7216 Plays Oscar Wilde 1900 Irish English
7216 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
7216 Ballads And Songs John Davidson 1894 British English
7216 Complete Poems Ernest Dowson 1905 British English
7216 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
7216 Weir Of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson 1896 Scottish English
7216 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
7216 The Poems Of William Morris William Morris 1868 British English
7216 The Earthly Paradise William Morris 1868 British English
7216 Hymns To The Night Novalis 1800 German German
7216 Aphorisms Novalis 1798 German German
7216 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
7216 Poems Of Theodor Storm Theodor Storm 1852 German German
7216 Tales Gottfried Keller 1856 Swiss German
7216 Tales Adalbert Stifter 1840 Austrian German
7216 Dialogue On Poetry And Literary Aphorisms Friedrich Schlegel 1800 German German
7216 Danton's Death Georg Buchner 1835 German German
7216 Complete Poems Heinrich Heine 1856 German German
7216 Poems Of Stefan George Stefan George 1897 German German
7216 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
7216 A Family Chronicle Sergei Aksakov 1856 Russian Russian
7216 From The Other Shore Alexander Herzen 1850 Russian Russian
7216 The Frigate Pallada Ivan Goncharov 1858 Russian Russian
7216 On The Eve Ivan Turgenev 1860 Russian Russian
7216 Short Novels Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 Russian Russian
7216 Short Novels Leo Tolstoy 1900 Russian Russian
7216 Tales Nikolai Leskov 1870 Russian Russian
7216 The Storm Aleksandr Ostrovsky 1860 Russian Russian
7216 What Is To Be Done? Nikolay Chernyshevsky 1863 Russian Russian
7216 The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1841 American English
7216 Poems Of John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1838 American English
7216 Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1850 American English
7216 The Conduct Of Life Ralph Waldo Emerson 1860 American English
7216 Journals Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820 American English
7216 Specimen Days Walt Whitman 1882 American English
7216 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
7216 Notebooks Nathaniel Hawthorne 1868 American English
7216 Clarel Herman Melville 1876 American English
7216 Essays And Reviews Edgar Allan Poe 1845 American English
7216 Eureka Edgar Allan Poe 1848 American English
7216 Essays And Poems Jones Very 1839 American English
7216 Poems Of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 1860 American English
7216 Poems Of Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau 1895 American English
7216 Poems Of Sidney Lanier Sidney Lanier 1884 American English
7216 The Short Fiction Charles W. Chesnutt 1899 American English
7216 Stories And Poems Of Stephen Crane Stephen Crane 1900 American English
7216 The Awkward Age Henry James 1899 British English
7216 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
7216 Poems Of Trumbull Stickney Trumbull Stickney 1905 American English
7216 Naked Masks Luigi Pirandello 1922 Italian Italian
7216 Maia Gabriele D'Annunzio 1925 Italian Italian
7216 Orphic Songs Dino Campana 1914 Italian Italian
7216 Selected Poems Giuseppe Ungaretti 1942 Italian Italian
7216 The Buried Harbour Giuseppe Ungaretti 1916 Italian Italian
7216 Three Exemplary Novels Miguel de Unamuno 1933 Spanish Spanish
7216 My Voice Because Of You Pedro Salinas 1933 Spanish Spanish
7216 Selected Poems Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
7216 Poems Of Carles Riba Carles Riba 1943 Spanish Catalan
7216 The Keeper Of Sheep Fernando Pessoa 1925 Portuguese Portuguese
7216 Corydon André Gide 1924 French French
7216 Retreat From Love Colette 1936 French French
7216 Selected Works Alfred Jarry 1901 French French
7216 The Infernal Machine And Other Works Jean Cocteau 1934 French French
7216 The Art Of Poetry Paul Valéry 1939 French French
7216 Poems Of Paul éluard Paul Éluard 1920 French French
7216 Manhood Michel Leiris 1939 French French
7216 Count D'orgel's Ball Raymond Radiguet 1923 French French
7216 Anabasis Saint-John Perse 1924 French French
7216 Exile And Other Poems Saint-John Perse 1942 French French
7216 Seven Dada Manifestoes Tristan Tzara 1924 French French
7216 Poems Of Max Jacob Max Jacob 1917 French French
7216 Poems Of Pierre Jean Jouve Pierre-Jean Jouve 1925 French French
7216 The Mystery Of The Charity Of Joan Of Arc Charles Péguy 1910 French French
7216 Poems Of Bejamin Péret Bejamin Péret 1925 French French
7216 The Conquerors Andre Malraux 1928 French French
7216 The Royal Way Andre Malraux 1930 French French
7216 Man's Hope Andre Malraux 1937 French French
7216 The Desert Of Love François Mauriac 1925 French French
7216 The Woman Of The Pharisees François Mauriac 1941 French French
7216 Eurydice Jean Anouilh 1941 French French
7216 The Use Of Speech Nathalie Sarraute 1933 French French
7216 Coup De Grace Marguerite Yourcenar 1939 French French
7216 A Vision William Butler Yeats 1925 Irish English
7216 Mythologies William Butler Yeats 1905 Irish English
7216 Major Critical Essays George Bernard Shaw 1930 Irish English
7216 Back To Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1921 Irish English
7216 The Shadow Of A Gunman Sean O'Casey 1923 Irish English
7216 The Well Beloved Thomas Hardy 1897 British English
7216 Collected Stories Rudyard Kipling 1941 British English
7216 Puck Of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1906 British English
7216 Complete Verse Rudyard Kipling 1940 British English
7216 Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys 1929 British English
7216 Collected Poems Walter de la Mare 1920 British English
7216 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
7216 Poems Of D. H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
7216 Studies In Classic American Literature D. H. Lawrence 1923 British English
7216 Some Versions Of Pastoral William Empson 1935 British English
7216 The Wheel Of Fire George Wilson Knight 1930 British English
7216 The Burning Oracle George Wilson Knight 1939 British Unknown
7216 Poems Of Hugh Mac Diarmid Hugh MacDiarmid 1925 Scottish Scots
7216 Poems And Verse Plays Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7216 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7216 Poems Of Georg Trakl Georg Trakl 1913 Austrian German
7216 The Blue Octavo Notebook Franz Kafka 1935 Czech German
7216 Plays And Stories Arthur Schnitzler 1929 Austrian German
7216 Lulu Plays Frank Wedekind 1895 German German
7216 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian