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
8246 The Man Awakened From Dreams Henrietta Harrison 2005 Unknown English
8562 The Challenges of Feminism Jeong Hee-jin 2015 Korean Korean
8575 한국 신자유주의의 기원과 형성 지주형 2011 Korean Korean
8575 Deviations Gayle Rubin 2011 American English
8635 The Dragon's Gift Deborah Brautigam 2009 Unknown English
8752 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
8971 Myths Of Gender Anne Fausto-Sterling 1987 American English
9184 A Theology Of Liberation Gustavo Gutierrez 1971 Peruvian Spanish
9260 The Sexual Politics Of Meat Carol J. Adams 1990 American English
9316 Hamlet On The Holodeck Janet H. Murray 1997 American English
9530 Feminists Theorize The Political Judith Butler, Joan Wallach Scott 1992 Multiple English
9629 The Less Noble Sex Nancy Tuana 1993 Unknown English
9641 Unbearable Weight Susan Bordo 1993 American English
9836 Simulacres Et Simulation Jean Baudrillard 1981 French French
10079 The Body Project Joan Jacobs Brumberg 1997 American English
10087 Disciplined Minds Jeff Schmidt 2000 American English
10188 Tough Girls Sherrie A. Inness 1998 Unknown English
10548 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
10795 Jane Sexes It Up Merri Lisa Johnson 2002 Unknown English
10829 This Bridge We Call Home Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating 2002 Multiple English
10845 Who Controls The Internet? Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith 2006 American English
11113 The Economic Emergence Of Women Barbara Bergmann 2005 American English
11304 Spam Finn Brunton 2013 American English
11362 America's God Mark Noll 2002 American English
11614 The Cross Cultural Process In Christian History Andrew Walls 2002 Unknown English
11649 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
11805 Culture Creep Alice Bolin 2021 American English
11853 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11900 The Drama Of Doctrine Kevin Vanhoozer 2004 American English
12149 Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Harold Bloom 2004 American English
12248 Reading Women Stephanie Staal 2011 Unknown English
12249 Sister Citizen Melissa Harris-Perry 2011 American English
12287 To Change The World James Davison Hunter 2010 American English
12505 Distributed Blackness André Brock Jr. 2020 Unknown English
12614 The Christian Imagination Willie James Jennings 2010 American English
13247 God, Sexuality, And The Self Sarah Coakley 2013 British English
13296 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
13512 Prophecy Without Contempt Cathleen Kaveny 2016 Unknown English
13736 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13749 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
13937 What It Means To Be Human O. Carter Snead 2020 Unknown English
14985 The Question Of Palestine Edward W. Said 1979 American English
14985 The Crisis Of Narration Byung-Chul Han 2023 German German
15880 John Berger And Me Nikos Papastergiadis 1975 Unknown English
15916 In Defence Of Politics Bernard Crick 1962 British English
15916 The Agrarian System Of Mughal India Irfan Habib 1963 Indian English
15916 Caste, Class And Power André Beteille 1965 Indian English
16650 The State In Capitalist Society Ralph Miliband 1969 British English
16728 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
16673 Personal Knowledge Michael Polanyi 1958 British English
17163 Right Hand, Left Hand Chris McManus 2002 British English
17163 Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life Fintan O'Toole 2002 Irish English
17023 The Intellectual Life Antonin Sertillanges 1920 French French
17163 The Problem With Solutions Julie Guthman 2024 Unknown English
17163 Limitarianism Ingrid Robeyns 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Rule Of Law Tom Bingham 2010 British English
17163 Tamil David Dean Shulman 2016 Unknown English
17163 Elementary Aspects Of Peasant Insurgency In Colonial India Ranajit Guha 1984 Indian English
17119 Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre Walter A. Kaufmann 1956 American English
17163 Le Code De La Conscience Stanislas Dehaene 2014 French French
17163 Marshall Mcluhan Unbound Marshall McLuhan 2005 Canadian English
17163 The Ties That Bound Barbara A. Hanawalt 1986 American English
17163 More Work For Mother Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1983 American English
17163 Kant Manfred Kuehn 2001 Unknown English
17163 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17163 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17163 Readings In Classical Chinese Philosophy Philip J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden 2001 Chinese English
17163 Confucian Moral Self Cultivation Philip J. Ivanhoe 1993 Chinese English
17163 The Philosophy Of The Daodejing Hans-Georg Moeller 2006 Chinese English
17163 Readings In Later Chinese Philosophy Justin Tiwald, Bryan W. Van Norden 2014 Chinese English
17163 Neo Confucianism Stephen C. Angle, Justin Tiwald 2017 Chinese English
17163 Sex Work Today Bernadette Barton, Barbara G. Brents, Angela Jones 2024 Unknown English
17163 Vengeance Feminism Kali Nicole Gross 2024 Unknown English
17163 Who’s Afraid Of Gender? Judith Butler 2024 American English
17163 Black Meme Legacy Russell 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Secret Life Of Teachers Adamson, David Unknown English
17163 Sources Of The Self Charles Taylor 1989 Canadian English
17163 Teaching To Transgress bell hooks 1994 American English
17163 Beer And Circus Murray Sperber 2000 American English
17163 Third Millennium Thinking John Campbell, Saul Perlmutter, Robert MacCoun 2024 Unknown English
17163 Reasonableness Of Reason Bruce W. Hauptli 2004 Unknown English
17163 The Rise And Triumph Of The Modern Self Carl R. Trueman 2020 American English
17163 Big Fiction Dan Sinykin 2023 Unknown English
17163 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Marcus Rediker 1987 American English
17163 The Cheese And The Worms Carlo Ginzburg 1976 Italian Italian
17163 The Naked Heart Peter Gay 1995 American English
17163 Life And Words Veena Das 2006 Indian English