The Greatest Books of All Time on Class Struggle

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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
55 Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 British English
188 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
294 The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1895 British English
324 Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels 1848 German German
328 Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867 German German
356 Germinal Émile Zola 1885 French French
406 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow 1975 American English
492 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell, Peter Miles 1914 British English
564 Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1920 American English
712 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1889 American English
722 Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison 1992 American English
757 The Adventures of Caleb Williams William Godwin 1794 British English
764 Mother Maxim Gorky 1906 Russian Russian
787 Quotations from Chairman Mao Mao 1964 Chinese Chinese
817 Rickshaw Boy Lao She 1936 Chinese Chinese
873 Call to Arms Lu Xun 1922 Chinese Chinese
1029 Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Jorge Amado 1958 Brazilian Portuguese
1226 What Is To Be Done? Vladimir Il’ich Lenin 1902 Russian Russian
1245 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 1933 British English
1439 Édes Anna Dezső Kosztolányi 1926 Hungarian Hungarian
1450 Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell 1848 British English
1514 Pelle The Conqueror Martin Andersen Nexø 1906 Danish Danish
1516 The Bells of Basel Louis Aragon 1934 French French
1575 Borstal Boy Brendan Behan 1958 Irish English
1605 The Foundation Pit Andrey Platonov 1930 Russian Russian
1663 The Making of the English Working Class E. P. Thompson 1963 British English
1711 Woyzeck Georg Buchner 1879 German German
1733 My Childhood Maxim Gorky 1913 Russian Russian
1738 The Bedbug And Selected Poetry Vladimir Mayakovsky 1920 Russian Russian
1772 Hard Times Charles Dickens 1854 British English
1927 Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed 1919 American English
1990 Le Mariage De Figaro Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 1784 French French
2078 The Major Plays Anton Chekhov 1964 Russian Russian
2137 The Last Days Of Pompeii Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1834 British English
2305 Stockholm series Per Anders Fogelström 1960 Swedish Swedish
2442 How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn 1939 British English
2458 Shirley Charlotte Brontë 1849 British English
2493 Miramar Naguib Mahfouz 1967 Egyptian Arabic
2585 A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn 1980 American English
2714 Coriolanus William Shakespeare 1608 British English
2737 Look Back In Anger John Osborne 1956 British English
2788 The Weavers Gerhart Hauptmann 1892 German German
2894 Teahouse Lao She 1957 Chinese Chinese
2971 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 2008 Indian English
3004 Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1921 Italian English
3079 Waiting For Lefty Clifford Odets 1935 American English
3117 The Nine Guardians Rosario Castellanos 1957 Mexican Spanish
3293 Looking Backward, 2000 1887 Edward Bellamy 1888 American English
3638 The Captain Of Köpenick Carl Zuckmayer 1931 German German
3813 Reflections On Violence Georges Sorel 1908 French French
4093 Los Santos Inocentes Miguel Delibes 1981 Spanish Spanish
4309 Love On The Dole Walter Greenwood 1933 British English
4371 Irrlicht Und Feuer Max von der Grün 1963 German German
4396 Tobacco Dimitar Dimov 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4783 The Princess Casamassima Henry James 1886 British English
4787 Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1840 American English
5317 The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1852 German German
5477 Strumpet City James Plunkett 1969 Irish English
5589 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5894 The Plough And The Stars Sean O'Casey 1926 Irish English
6002 Master And Man Leo Tolstoy 1895 Russian Russian
6002 Travaux Georges Navel 1945 French French
6152 Women As Lovers Elfriede Jelinek 1975 Austrian German
6263 Lowest Of The Low Günter Wallraff 1985 German German
6486 This Is The Hour Lion Feuchtwanger 1951 German German
6491 Life In The Iron Mills Rebecca Harding Davis 1861 American English
6559 The Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle 1995 American English
6794 An Analysis Of The Communist System Milovan Djilas 1957 Serbian Serbo-croatian
7109 Ashes Stefan Zeromski 1904 Polish Polish
7215 Roman Sonnets Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1830 Italian Italian
7215 Lonely Crusade Chester Himes 1947 American English
7755 Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart 2020 Scottish English
8105 Call Home The Heart Olive Tilford Dargan 1932 American English
8105 Daughter Of Earth Agnes Smedley 1929 American English
8250 Serve The People! Yan Lianke 2005 Chinese Chinese
8671 Marabou Stork Nightmares Irvine Welsh 1995 British English
8733 The End Of Eddy Édouard Louis 2014 French French
8796 The Valley Of The Moon Jack London 1913 American English
9856 Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky Patrick Hamilton 1935 British English
10117 Angosta Héctor Abad Faciolince 2003 Colombian Spanish
10303 Reform Or Revolution? Rosa Luxemburg 1900 German German
10303 The Russian Revolution N. N. Sukhanov 1922 Russian Russian
10303 History Of The Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky 1930 Russian Russian
10395 For Marx Louis Althusser 1965 French French
10631 The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell 1937 British English
10805 Laurinda Alice Pung 2014 Australian English
10805 The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy 2014 Indian English
11059 Midnight Mao Dun 1933 Chinese Chinese
11209 Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi 2010 American English
11449 The Store Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932 American English
11570 The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1837 British English
11660 Loon Lake E. L. Doctorow 1980 American English
12655 The Spiral Ascent Edward Upward British English
13583 Two Years Ago Charles Kingsley 1857 British English
13794 艷陽天 Hao Ran 1964 Chinese Chinese
13938 Marat Sade Peter Weiss 1963 German German
14093 The London Novels Colin MacInnes 1957 British English
14232 Esperanza Rising Pam Muñoz Ryan 2000 American English
14488 A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1909 American English
14713 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
14896 Power Without Glory Frank Hardy 1950 Australian English
14983 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London Jack London 1993 American English
15597 Kindred Of The Dust Peter B. Kyne 1920 American English
15897 Grundrisse Karl Marx 1857 German German
16485 Coolie Mulk Raj Anand 1936 Indian English
15897 Dynamite Louis Adamic 1931 American English
16502 The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton 1975 American English
16584 Salka Valka Halldor Laxness 1931 Icelandic Icelandic
16528 Alton Locke Charles Kingsley 1850 British English
16524 Oil! Upton Sinclair 1927 American English
16610 Summerfolk Maxim Gorky 1904 Russian Russian
16611 Fanshen William Hinton 1966 American English
16681 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
17117 The Deadman’s Pedal Alan Warner 2012 Scottish English
17117 Looking Backward, From The Year 2000 Mack Reynolds 1987 American English
17117 One Man, Two Guvnors Richard Bean 2011 British English
16818 Mr Puntila And His Man Matti Bertolt Brecht 1940 German German
17117 Robert Elsmere Mary Augusta Ward 1888 British English
17117 Redburn Herman Melville 1849 American English
17117 Labor And Monopoly Capital Harry Braverman 1974 American English