The Greatest Books of All Time on Capitalism

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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
428 Death Of A Salesman Arthur Miller 1949 American English
460 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
492 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell, Peter Miles 1914 British English
566 I Served The King Of England Bohumil Hrabal 1983 Czech Czech
750 Money Martin Amis 1984 British English
776 War with the Newts Karel Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
1084 Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht 1941 German German
1452 History And Class Consciousness Georg Lukacs 1923 German German
1527 The Confidence Man Herman Melville 1857 American English
1617 Ways Of Seeing John Berger 1972 British English
2070 The Age of Reform Richard Hofstadter 1955 American English
2214 The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht 1928 German German
2424 Platform Michel Houellebecq 2001 French French
2445 The Map And The Territory Michel Houellebecq 2010 French French
2504 Pastoralia George Saunders 2000 American English
2556 Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell 1936 British English
2735 Severance Ling Ma 2018 American English
3813 Reflections On Violence Georges Sorel 1908 French French
3852 JR William Gaddis 1975 American English
4168 The History of the Standard Oil Company Ida Tarbell 1904 American English
4396 Tobacco Dimitar Dimov 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4794 The Good Person of Szechwan Bertolt Brecht 1943 German German
4823 Vernon Subutex Virginie Despentes 2015 French French
5264 Accumulation On A World Scale Samir Amin 1970 French French
5272 Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener 2020 American English
5589 L'argent Émile Zola 1891 French French
5612 The Mushroom At The End Of The World Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 2015 American English
5850 Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw 1905 British English
6309 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
6517 Free to Choose Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman 1980 American English
6995 Contours of American History William Appleman Williams 1961 American English
7215 A Cool Million Nathanael West 1934 American English
7720 Pig Tales Marie Darrieussecq 1996 French French
8072 How To Do Nothing Jenny Odell 2019 American English
8893 Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis 2003 American English
8968 The Society Of The Spectacle Guy Debord 1967 French French
9908 The Capitalist Revolution Peter Berger 1986 American English
10274 Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher 2009 British English
10303 Reform Or Revolution? Rosa Luxemburg 1900 German German
10834 Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon 2013 American English
11059 Midnight Mao Dun 1933 Chinese Chinese
11241 Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins 1971 American English
11449 Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser 1996 American English
11660 Winners Take All Anand Giridharadas 2018 American English
11841 Freaks Of Fortune Jonathan Levy 2012 American English
11923 Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology Andre Gorz 1991 French French
12258 Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest Karen Tei Yamashita 1990 American English
12324 Titan Ron Chernow 1998 American English
13359 Past And Present Thomas Carlyle 1843 British English
13817 Story Of My People Edoardo Nesi 2011 Italian Italian
14679 The Oranging of America Max Apple 1976 American English
14713 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
15897 The Acquisitive Society R. H. Tawney 1920 British English
15897 Labor’s Untold Story Richard Boyer, Herbert Morais 1955 American English
15890 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1965 American English
16528 Oil! Upton Sinclair 1927 American English
17117 Wall And Piece Banksy 2005 British English
17117 Bingo Edward Bond 1973 British English
17117 If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? G. A. Cohen 2000 British English
17117 A Hazard Of New Fortunes William Dean Howells 1890 American English
17117 The American Crucible Robin Blackburn 2011 British English
17117 Nature’s Metropolis William Cronon 1991 American English
17117 How Will Capitalism End? Wolfgang Streeck 2016 German English
16873 Theory Of Business Enterprise Thorstein Veblen 1904 American English