The Greatest Books of All Time on Bureaucracy

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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
16581 Zama Antonio di Benedetto 1956 Argentinian Spanish
16578 Typhoon Joseph Conrad 1902 British English
16705 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16704 Flotsam Erich Maria Remarque 1939 German German
17130 Essays in Sociology Max Weber 1946 German German
17130 The Republican Era Leonard D. White, Jean Schneider 1958 American English
17130 Parliament of Whores P. J. O'Rourke 1991 American English
16774 The Suicide Nikolai Erdman 1928 Russian Russian
17130 Friends In High Places Donna Leon 1999 French English
17130 War In The Land Of Egypt Yusuf al-Qa’id 1978 Egyptian Arabic
17130 Secret Life Of Saeed The Pessoptimist Emile Habibi 1974 Palestinian Arabic
17130 Street Level Bureaucracy (Publications Of Russell Sage Foundation) Michael Lipsky 1980 American English
17130 Whitehall Peter Hennessy 1989 British English
17130 Franz Kafka's The Castle David Fishelson 1999 Unknown English
17065 The Great Wall Of China Franz Kafka 1931 Austrian German
16822 Sette Piani Dino Buzzati 1954 Italian Italian
17130 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17130 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17130 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17130 The Chinese Emperor Jean Levi 1985 French French
17130 Inside The Cia Ronald Kessler 1992 American English
17130 One Way Or Another Leonardo Sciascia 1974 Italian Italian
17130 The Lost Children Of Wilder Nina Bernstein 2001 American English
17130 Lessons In Disaster Gordon M. Goldstein 2008 American English
17130 Ratner's Star Don DeLillo 1976 American English
17130 Census Jesse Ball 2018 American English
17130 The Secret Hours Mick Herron 2023 British English
17130 The Hitchhiker's Trilogy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
17130 Wie Politik Funktioniert Wolf Wagner German German