# The best Ken Follett books

From Eye of the Needle to the Kingsbridge saga: the Follett books readers and bookshops recommend most.

- 120 votes · 14 items
- Nov 6, 2025 · medalloversionoriginal
- https://even.best/en/l/3518/the-best-ken-follett-books

## Top 14

1. **The Pillars of the Earth** (13 · ▲16 ▼3) — 1989. Building a cathedral in the 12th century; his most famous book.
2. **Fall of Giants** (10 · ▲12 ▼2) — 2010. Five families in the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
3. **World Without End** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — 2007. Back to Kingsbridge two centuries later, with the Black Death.
4. **The Key to Rebecca** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 1980. Espionage in Cairo during the war.
5. **Eye of the Needle** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1978. A Nazi spy in the Second World War; his first big hit.
6. **A Dangerous Fortune** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — 1993. Intrigue in a Victorian banking family.
7. **Edge of Eternity** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — 2014. The Cold War and the end of the trilogy.
8. **Never** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 2021. A thriller about a crisis that brings the world to the brink of war.
9. **The Third Twin** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 1996. A scientist uncovers a genetic secret.
10. **Winter of the World** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 2012. The Second World War in The Century trilogy.
11. **Hornet Flight** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 2002. A young Dane and a plane against the Nazis.
12. **The Armour of Light** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 2023. Kingsbridge in the Industrial Revolution.
13. **A Column of Fire** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — 2017. Kingsbridge in the age of Elizabeth I.
14. **The Evening and the Morning** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — 2020. The prequel to The Pillars of the Earth.

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