# The best Alexandre Dumas novels

Dumas's novels rated highest by SensCritique and Babelio readers: Monte Cristo and the musketeers saga on top.

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- Apr 11, 2025 · Lucas
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## Top 12

1. **The Count of Monte Cristo** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1844-1846. Edmond Dantès and literature's most famous revenge.
2. **The Forty-Five Guardsmen** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1847-1848. The last part of the Valois trilogy.
3. **The Three Musketeers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1844. D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
4. **Twenty Years After** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1845. The musketeers during the Fronde.
5. **The Vicomte of Bragelonne** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1847-1850. The end of the saga, with the Man in the Iron Mask.
6. **Queen Margot** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1845. The St Bartholomew's Day massacre and the Wars of Religion.
7. **La Dame de Monsoreau** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1846. The sequel to Queen Margot, with Bussy d'Amboise.
8. **The Queen's Necklace** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1849-1850. The affair of Marie Antoinette's necklace.
9. **The Black Tulip** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1850. A black tulip in 17th-century Holland.
10. **The Knight of Maison-Rouge** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1845-1846. A plot to save Marie Antoinette.
11. **Ange Pitou** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1851. The storming of the Bastille seen by a young peasant.
12. **Joseph Balsamo** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1846-1848. Cagliostro on the eve of the Revolution.

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