The Greatest Books of All Time on Academic

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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
8244 The Man Awakened From Dreams Henrietta Harrison 2005 Unknown English
8559 The Challenges of Feminism Jeong Hee-jin 2015 Korean Korean
8572 한국 신자유주의의 기원과 형성 지주형 2011 Korean Korean
8572 Deviations Gayle Rubin 2011 American English
8632 The Dragon's Gift Deborah Brautigam 2009 Unknown English
8748 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
8968 Myths Of Gender Anne Fausto-Sterling 1987 American English
9181 A Theology Of Liberation Gustavo Gutierrez 1971 Peruvian Spanish
9257 The Sexual Politics Of Meat Carol J. Adams 1990 American English
9312 Hamlet On The Holodeck Janet H. Murray 1997 American English
9526 Feminists Theorize The Political Judith Butler, Joan Wallach Scott 1992 Multiple English
9625 The Less Noble Sex Nancy Tuana 1993 Unknown English
9636 Unbearable Weight Susan Bordo 1993 American English
9832 Simulacres Et Simulation Jean Baudrillard 1981 French French
10073 The Body Project Joan Jacobs Brumberg 1997 American English
10081 Disciplined Minds Jeff Schmidt 2000 American English
10182 Tough Girls Sherrie A. Inness 1998 Unknown English
10543 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
10790 Jane Sexes It Up Merri Lisa Johnson 2002 Unknown English
10824 This Bridge We Call Home Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating 2002 Multiple English
10841 Who Controls The Internet? Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith 2006 American English
11108 The Economic Emergence Of Women Barbara Bergmann 2005 American English
11299 Spam Finn Brunton 2013 American English
11358 America's God Mark Noll 2002 American English
11611 The Cross Cultural Process In Christian History Andrew Walls 2002 Unknown English
11646 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
11803 Culture Creep Alice Bolin 2021 American English
11851 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11898 The Drama Of Doctrine Kevin Vanhoozer 2004 American English
12148 Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Harold Bloom 2004 American English
12247 Reading Women Stephanie Staal 2011 Unknown English
12248 Sister Citizen Melissa Harris-Perry 2011 American English
12286 To Change The World James Davison Hunter 2010 American English
12503 Distributed Blackness André Brock Jr. 2020 Unknown English
12612 The Christian Imagination Willie James Jennings 2010 American English
13244 God, Sexuality, And The Self Sarah Coakley 2013 British English
13293 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
13510 Prophecy Without Contempt Cathleen Kaveny 2016 Unknown English
13735 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13748 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
13937 What It Means To Be Human O. Carter Snead 2020 Unknown English
14983 The Question Of Palestine Edward W. Said 1979 American English
14983 The Crisis Of Narration Byung-Chul Han 2023 German German
15864 John Berger And Me Nikos Papastergiadis 1975 Unknown English
15897 In Defence Of Politics Bernard Crick 1962 British English
15897 The Agrarian System Of Mughal India Irfan Habib 1963 Indian English
15897 Caste, Class And Power André Beteille 1965 Indian English
16612 The State In Capitalist Society Ralph Miliband 1969 British English
16694 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
16637 Personal Knowledge Michael Polanyi 1958 British English
17119 Right Hand, Left Hand Chris McManus 2002 British English
17119 Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life Fintan O'Toole 2002 Irish English
16977 The Intellectual Life Antonin Sertillanges 1920 French French
17119 The Problem With Solutions Julie Guthman 2024 Unknown English
17119 Limitarianism Ingrid Robeyns 2023 Unknown English
17119 The Rule Of Law Tom Bingham 2010 British English
17119 Tamil David Dean Shulman 2016 Unknown English
17119 Elementary Aspects Of Peasant Insurgency In Colonial India Ranajit Guha 1984 Indian English
17082 Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre Walter A. Kaufmann 1956 American English
17119 Le Code De La Conscience Stanislas Dehaene 2014 French French
17119 Marshall Mcluhan Unbound Marshall McLuhan 2005 Canadian English
17119 The Ties That Bound Barbara A. Hanawalt 1986 American English
17119 More Work For Mother Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1983 American English
17119 Kant Manfred Kuehn 2001 Unknown English
17119 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17119 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17119 Readings In Classical Chinese Philosophy Philip J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden 2001 Chinese English
17119 Confucian Moral Self Cultivation Philip J. Ivanhoe 1993 Chinese English
17119 The Philosophy Of The Daodejing Hans-Georg Moeller 2006 Chinese English
17119 Readings In Later Chinese Philosophy Justin Tiwald, Bryan W. Van Norden 2014 Chinese English
17119 Neo Confucianism Stephen C. Angle, Justin Tiwald 2017 Chinese English
17119 Sex Work Today Bernadette Barton, Barbara G. Brents, Angela Jones 2024 Unknown English
17119 Vengeance Feminism Kali Nicole Gross 2024 Unknown English
17119 Who’s Afraid Of Gender? Judith Butler 2024 American English
17119 Black Meme Legacy Russell 2024 Unknown English
17119 The Secret Life Of Teachers Adamson, David Unknown English
17119 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17119 Teaching To Transgress bell hooks 1994 American English
17119 Beer And Circus Murray Sperber 2000 American English
17119 Third Millennium Thinking John Campbell, Saul Perlmutter, Robert MacCoun 2024 Unknown English
17119 Reasonableness Of Reason Bruce W. Hauptli 2004 Unknown English
17119 The Rise And Triumph Of The Modern Self Carl R. Trueman 2020 American English
17119 Big Fiction Dan Sinykin 2023 Unknown English
17119 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Marcus Rediker 1987 American English
17119 The Cheese And The Worms Carlo Ginzburg 1976 Italian Italian
17119 The Naked Heart Peter Gay 1995 American English
17119 Life And Words Veena Das 2006 Indian English