The best Ken Follett books
The top 3 according to 120 votes from people: The Pillars of the Earth · Fall of Giants · World Without End. (Updated Nov 6, 2025.)
From Eye of the Needle to the Kingsbridge saga: the Follett books readers and bookshops recommend most.
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Top 14
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1
The Pillars of the Earth
1989. Building a cathedral in the 12th century; his most famous book.
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Fall of Giants
2010. Five families in the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
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World Without End
2007. Back to Kingsbridge two centuries later, with the Black Death.
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The Key to Rebecca
1980. Espionage in Cairo during the war.
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Eye of the Needle
1978. A Nazi spy in the Second World War; his first big hit.
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A Dangerous Fortune
1993. Intrigue in a Victorian banking family.
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Edge of Eternity
2014. The Cold War and the end of the trilogy.
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Never
2021. A thriller about a crisis that brings the world to the brink of war.
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The Third Twin
1996. A scientist uncovers a genetic secret.
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Winter of the World
2012. The Second World War in The Century trilogy.
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Hornet Flight
2002. A young Dane and a plane against the Nazis.
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The Armour of Light
2023. Kingsbridge in the Industrial Revolution.
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A Column of Fire
2017. Kingsbridge in the age of Elizabeth I.
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The Evening and the Morning
2020. The prequel to The Pillars of the Earth.
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