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
1227 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
1438 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
1712 Woyzeck Georg Buchner 1879 German German
1732 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
1928 Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed 1919 American English
1990 Le Mariage De Figaro Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 1784 French French
2079 The Major Plays Anton Chekhov 1964 Russian Russian
2138 The Last Days Of Pompeii Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1834 British English
2306 Stockholm series Per Anders Fogelström 1960 Swedish Swedish
2443 How Green Was My Valley Richard Llewellyn 1939 British English
2460 Shirley Charlotte Brontë 1849 British English
2495 Miramar Naguib Mahfouz 1967 Egyptian Arabic
2586 A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn 1980 American English
2715 Coriolanus William Shakespeare 1608 British English
2738 Look Back In Anger John Osborne 1956 British English
2790 The Weavers Gerhart Hauptmann 1892 German German
2896 Teahouse Lao She 1957 Chinese Chinese
2973 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 2008 Indian English
3006 Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1921 Italian English
3081 Waiting For Lefty Clifford Odets 1935 American English
3118 The Nine Guardians Rosario Castellanos 1957 Mexican Spanish
3294 Looking Backward, 2000 1887 Edward Bellamy 1888 American English
3638 The Captain Of Köpenick Carl Zuckmayer 1931 German German
3812 Reflections On Violence Georges Sorel 1908 French French
4094 Los Santos Inocentes Miguel Delibes 1981 Spanish Spanish
4310 Love On The Dole Walter Greenwood 1933 British English
4372 Irrlicht Und Feuer Max von der Grün 1963 German German
4397 Tobacco Dimitar Dimov 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4785 The Princess Casamassima Henry James 1886 British English
4789 Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1840 American English
5319 The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1852 German German
5480 Strumpet City James Plunkett 1969 Irish English
5592 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5897 The Plough And The Stars Sean O'Casey 1926 Irish English
6005 Master And Man Leo Tolstoy 1895 Russian Russian
6005 Travaux Georges Navel 1945 French French
6155 Women As Lovers Elfriede Jelinek 1975 Austrian German
6266 Lowest Of The Low Günter Wallraff 1985 German German
6488 This Is The Hour Lion Feuchtwanger 1951 German German
6493 Life In The Iron Mills Rebecca Harding Davis 1861 American English
6561 The Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle 1995 American English
6795 An Analysis Of The Communist System Milovan Djilas 1957 Serbian Serbo-croatian
7109 Ashes Stefan Zeromski 1904 Polish Polish
7216 Roman Sonnets Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1830 Italian Italian
7216 Lonely Crusade Chester Himes 1947 American English
7757 Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart 2020 Scottish English
8107 Call Home The Heart Olive Tilford Dargan 1932 American English
8107 Daughter Of Earth Agnes Smedley 1929 American English
8252 Serve The People! Yan Lianke 2005 Chinese Chinese
8675 Marabou Stork Nightmares Irvine Welsh 1995 British English
8738 The End Of Eddy Édouard Louis 2014 French French
8801 The Valley Of The Moon Jack London 1913 American English
9859 Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky Patrick Hamilton 1935 British English
10121 Angosta Héctor Abad Faciolince 2003 Colombian Spanish
10308 Reform Or Revolution? Rosa Luxemburg 1900 German German
10308 The Russian Revolution N. N. Sukhanov 1922 Russian Russian
10308 History Of The Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky 1930 Russian Russian
10400 For Marx Louis Althusser 1965 French French
10622 The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell 1937 British English
10811 Laurinda Alice Pung 2014 Australian English
10811 The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy 2014 Indian English
11065 Midnight Mao Dun 1933 Chinese Chinese
11215 Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi 2010 American English
11454 The Store Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932 American English
11570 The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1837 British English
11662 Loon Lake E. L. Doctorow 1980 American English
12657 The Spiral Ascent Edward Upward British English
13584 Two Years Ago Charles Kingsley 1857 British English
13795 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
14489 A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1909 American English
14714 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
14899 Power Without Glory Frank Hardy 1950 Australian English
14985 The Complete Short Stories of Jack London Jack London 1993 American English
15605 Kindred Of The Dust Peter B. Kyne 1920 American English
15915 Grundrisse Karl Marx 1857 German German
16504 Coolie Mulk Raj Anand 1936 Indian English
15915 Dynamite Louis Adamic 1931 American English
16516 The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton 1975 American English
16618 Salka Valka Halldor Laxness 1931 Icelandic Icelandic
16549 Alton Locke Charles Kingsley 1850 British English
16547 Oil! Upton Sinclair 1927 American English
16647 Summerfolk Maxim Gorky 1904 Russian Russian
16648 Fanshen William Hinton 1966 American English
16721 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
17161 The Deadman’s Pedal Alan Warner 2012 Scottish English
17161 Looking Backward, From The Year 2000 Mack Reynolds 1987 American English
17161 One Man, Two Guvnors Richard Bean 2011 British English
16856 Mr Puntila And His Man Matti Bertolt Brecht 1940 German German
17161 Robert Elsmere Mary Augusta Ward 1888 British English
17161 Redburn Herman Melville 1849 American English
17161 Labor And Monopoly Capital Harry Braverman 1974 American English