The best Alexandre Dumas novels
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: The Count of Monte Cristo · The Forty-Five Guardsmen · The Three Musketeers. (Updated Apr 11, 2025.)
Dumas's novels rated highest by SensCritique and Babelio readers: Monte Cristo and the musketeers saga on top.
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Top 12
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The Count of Monte Cristo
1844-1846. Edmond Dantès and literature's most famous revenge.
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The Forty-Five Guardsmen
1847-1848. The last part of the Valois trilogy.
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The Three Musketeers
1844. D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
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Twenty Years After
1845. The musketeers during the Fronde.
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The Vicomte of Bragelonne
1847-1850. The end of the saga, with the Man in the Iron Mask.
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Queen Margot
1845. The St Bartholomew's Day massacre and the Wars of Religion.
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La Dame de Monsoreau
1846. The sequel to Queen Margot, with Bussy d'Amboise.
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The Queen's Necklace
1849-1850. The affair of Marie Antoinette's necklace.
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The Black Tulip
1850. A black tulip in 17th-century Holland.
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The Knight of Maison-Rouge
1845-1846. A plot to save Marie Antoinette.
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Ange Pitou
1851. The storming of the Bastille seen by a young peasant.
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Joseph Balsamo
1846-1848. Cagliostro on the eve of the Revolution.
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