The Greatest Books of All Time on Bullying
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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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 305 | The Confusions of Young Törless | Robert Musil | 1906 | Austrian | German | |
| 792 | A Kestrel for a Knave | Barry Hines | 1968 | British | English | |
| 981 | It | Stephen King | 1986 | American | English | |
| 1067 | A Boy's Own Story | Edmund White | 1982 | American | English | |
| 1346 | Matilda | Roald Dahl | 1988 | British | English | |
| 1520 | The Slaves of Solitude | Patrick Hamilton | 1947 | British | English | |
| 1649 | Cat's Eye | Margaret Atwood | 1988 | Canadian | English | |
| 1688 | Carrie | Stephen King | 1974 | American | English | |
| 2298 | The Getting Of Wisdom | Henry Handel Richardson | 1910 | Australian | English | |
| 2327 | Tom Brown's School Days | Thomas Hughes | 1857 | British | English | |
| 2872 | Boyhood | J. M. Coetzee | 1997 | South African | English | |
| 3282 | Blankets | Craig Thompson | 2003 | American | English | |
| 3478 | American Born Chinese | Gene Luen Yang | 2006 | American | English | |
| 3489 | Akata Witch | Nnedi Okorafor | 2011 | American | English | |
| 3506 | Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson | 1999 | American | English | |
| 3923 | Wonder | R. J. Palacio | 2012 | American | English | |
| 4633 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle | 1993 | Irish | English | |
| 5112 | Let The Right One In | John Ajvide Lindqvist | 2004 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 5230 | Holes | Louis Sachar | 1998 | American | English | |
| 5317 | Eleanor And Park | Rainbow Rowell | 2012 | American | English | |
| 5485 | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | 2014 | Australian | English | |
| 5618 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | 2007 | American | English | |
| 5626 | School At The Frontier | Géza Ottlik | 1959 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 5666 | The Little Misery | François Mauriac | 1951 | French | French | |
| 5986 | Ham On Rye | Charles Bukowski | 1982 | American | English | |
| 6371 | The Body | Stephen King | 1982 | American | English | |
| 6684 | Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | 2015 | American | English | |
| 6987 | Just Listen | Sarah Dessen | 2006 | American | English | |
| 7191 | Heartstopper | Alice Oseman | 2018 | British | English | |
| 8287 | Night They Missed The Horror Show | Joe R. Lansdale | 1988 | American | English | |
| 8623 | Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | 2000 | American | English | |
| 8735 | The End Of Eddy | Édouard Louis | 2014 | French | French | |
| 8865 | O Ateneu | Raul Pompéia | 1888 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 9191 | Kieron Smith, Boy | James Kelman | 2008 | Scottish | English | |
| 9590 | A Kind Of Spark | Elle McNicoll | 2020 | Scottish | English | |
| 10232 | Rainbow Boys | Alex Sanchez | 2001 | American | English | |
| 10574 | Ghost | Jason Reynolds | 2016 | American | English | |
| 10808 | Laurinda | Alice Pung | 2014 | Australian | English | |
| 10939 | The 57 Bus | Dashka Slater | 2017 | American | English | |
| 10962 | Rotters | Daniel Kraus | 2011 | American | English | |
| 10999 | Bad Girls | Jacqueline Wilson | 1996 | British | English | |
| 11053 | Darius The Great Is Not Okay | Adib Khorram | 2018 | Iranian-American | English | |
| 11078 | Heaven | Mieko Kawakami | 2023 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 11215 | The Black Flamingo | Dean Atta | 2019 | British | English | |
| 11477 | Vicky Angel | Jacqueline Wilson | 2000 | British | English | |
| 11517 | The Dare Game | Jacqueline Wilson | 2000 | British | English | |
| 11836 | Sleepovers | Jacqueline Wilson | 2001 | British | English | |
| 11863 | Dumplin' | Julie Murphy | 2015 | American | English | |
| 11925 | Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult | 2007 | American | English | |
| 12031 | Secrets | Jacqueline Wilson | 2002 | British | English | |
| 12034 | We Are The Ants | Shaun David Hutchinson | 2016 | American | English | |
| 12034 | When The Moon Was Ours | Anna-Marie McLemore | 2016 | American | English | |
| 12200 | The Solitude Of Prime Numbers | Paolo Giordano | 2008 | Italian | Italian | |
| 12309 | When I Was Five I Killed Myself | Howard Buten | 1981 | American | English | |
| 12454 | A Very Large Expanse Of Sea | Tahereh Mafi | 2018 | American | English | |
| 13064 | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | 1977 | American | English | |
| 13246 | Felix Ever After | Kacen Callender | 2020 | American | English | |
| 13337 | Project X | Jim Shepard | 2004 | American | English | |
| 13941 | A Tale For The Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | 2013 | American | English | |
| 14232 | When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead | 2009 | American | English | |
| 14984 | A Child Called 'It' | Dave Pelzer | 1995 | American | English | |
| 14984 | George | Alex Gino | 2015 | American | English | |
| 14984 | Smile | Raina Telgemeier | 2010 | American | English | |
| 14984 | The Wednesday Wars | Gary D. Schmidt | 2007 | American | English | |
| 16603 | The Flying Classroom | Erich Kästner | 1933 | German | German | |
| 17120 | The Worst Witch | Jill Murphy | 1974 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Kingdom of Kevin Malone | Suzy McKee Charnas | 1977 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Root Magic | Eden Royce | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Ttyl | Lauren Myracle | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Tangerine | Edward Bloor | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Marked (House Of Night) | Unknown | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17120 | L8r, G8r | Lauren Myracle | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Before I Fall | Lauren Oliver | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Art Of Starving | Sam J. Miller | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17041 | The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | 1974 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Queen Bees And Wannabes, 3rd Edition | Rosalind Wiseman | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17120 | This One Summer | Mariko Tamaki | 2014 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | New Kid | Jerry Craft | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Hello, Universe | Erin Entrada Kelly | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Merci Suárez Changes Gears | Meg Medina | 2018 | Mexican-American | English | |
| 17120 | Each Kindness | Jacqueline Woodson | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Casual Vacancy | J. K. Rowling | 2012 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Lesser Blessed | Richard Van Camp | 1996 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | Lonely Castle In The Mirror | Mizuki Tsujimura | 2017 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17120 | All Boys Aren’t Blue | George Johnson | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Binding 13 | Chloe Walsh | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Dear Mothman | Robin Gow | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | King And The Dragonflies | Kacen Callender | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Boy At The Bottom Of The Fountain | Jay Bell | 2017 | American | English |