The Greatest Books of All Time on Class

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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
9192 Kieron Smith, Boy James Kelman 2008 Scottish English
9242 Silences Tillie Olsen 1978 American English
9377 Plain Tales From The Hills Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
9377 Here And Beyond Edith Wharton 1926 American English
9584 Edith Wharton R. W. B. Lewis 1975 American English
9589 The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1855 British English
9835 The Fool Edward Bond 1975 British English
9859 The Black Dwarf Sir Walter Scott 1816 Scottish English
9942 Crick Crack, Monkey Merle Hodge 1970 Trinidadian English
10071 Verdes Valles, Colinas Rojas Ramiro Pinilla 2004 Spanish Spanish
10220 V. Tony Harrison 1985 British English
10245 The Young Visiters Daisy Ashford 1919 British English
10281 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 1995 American English
10308 Cleaned Out Annie Ernaux 1974 French French
10308 The Social History Of Art Arnold Hauser 1951 German German
10453 The World Is What It Is Patrick French 2008 Trinidadian English
10948 Collected Stories John O'Hara 1984 American English
11244 December Breeze Marvel Moreno 1987 Colombian Spanish
11454 Early Autumn Louis Bromfield 1926 American English
11493 Red at the Bone Jacqueline Woodson 2019 American English
11494 A Drama In Muslin George Moore 1886 Irish English
11517 The Intellectuals And The Masses John Carey 1992 British English
11573 The Citadel A. J. Cronin 1937 British English
11581 Landscape For A Good Woman Carolyn Kay Steedman 1986 British English
11650 Money To Burn Asta Olivia Nordenhof 2020 Danish Danish
11662 Evelyn Waugh Martin Stannard 1986 Unknown English
11860 Highwire Moon Susan Straight 2001 American English
11896 Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1834 British English
12084 Talking Back bell hooks 1989 American English
12104 Sword Of Honour Evelyn Waugh 1965 British English
12201 Ninfa Plebea Domenico Rea 1992 Italian Italian
12259 Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart Joyce Carol Oates 1990 American English
12259 Lady's Maid Margaret Forster 1990 British English
12408 Slammerkin Emma Donoghue 2000 Irish English
12438 Imani All Mine Connie Rose Porter 1999 American English
12657 The Spiral Ascent Edward Upward British English
12692 How Many Miles To Babylon? Jennifer Johnston 1974 Irish English
12804 Gilded Rage Jacob Silverman 2025 American English
12834 After Henry Joan Didion 1992 American English
13019 Fate In Tears And Laughter Chang Hen-shui 1925 Chinese Chinese
13238 The Cazalet Chronicles Elizabeth Jane Howard 1988 British English
13239 The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson 2020 American English
13269 Working Class Women In The Academy Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Elizabeth A. Fay 1993 American English
13362 Psmith In The City P. G. Wodehouse 1910 British English
13362 Marriage Susan Ferrier 1818 British English
13586 The Adventures Of Harry Richmond George Meredith 1871 British English
13597 Strangers And Brothers C. P. Snow 1940 British English
13600 A Web of Lace Pascal Lainé 1974 French French
13600 The Wolves Guy Mazeline 1932 French English
14232 Sweat Lynn Nottage 2015 American English
14330 The Admirable Crichton J. M. Barrie 1902 British English
14428 The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1907 British English
14435 Foma Gordeyev Maxim Gorky 1899 Russian Russian
14554 The Better Sort Henry James 1903 British English
14587 A Bed Of Roses Walter Lionel George 1911 British English
14667 Saville David Storey 1976 British English
14680 The Country House John Galsworthy 1907 British English
14731 Farewell Companions James Plunkett 1977 Irish English
14758 Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1917 British English
14778 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912 American English
14899 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man Siegfried Sassoon 1928 British English
14946 Picnic William Inge 1953 American English
14985 Every Man for Himself Beryl Bainbridge 1996 British English
14985 Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue 2016 Cameroonian English
14985 Six Degrees Of Separation John Guare 1990 American English
14985 White Trash Nancy Isenberg 2016 American English
15616 Chance Joseph Conrad 1913 British English
15649 The Judge Rebecca West 1922 British English
15657 Certain People Of Importance Kathleen Thompson Norris 1922 American English
15681 Lummox Fannie Hurst 1923 American English
15714 The Dim Lantern Temple Bailey 1925 American English
15732 Passionate Journey Frans Masereel 1919 Belgian German
15750 Selected Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
15767 Kitty Foyle Christopher Morley 1939 American English
15784 World's End Upton Sinclair 1940 American English
15829 Fame Is The Spur Howard Spring 1940 Welsh English
15841 The Game Of Love And Chance Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1730 French French
15871 Random Harvest James Hilton 1941 British English
15915 The Prussian Officer D. H. Lawrence 1914 British English
15915 There Is Confusion Jessie Fauset 1924 American English
16517 The Zoo Story Edward Albee 1958 American English
15915 Hons And Rebels Jessica Mitford 1960 British English
15915 The Morgesons Elizabeth Stoddard 1862 American English
15915 Summer Edith Wharton 1917 American English
15915 North Star Country Meridel Le Sueur 1945 American English
15915 Listen, Yankee C. Wright Mills 1960 American English
15906 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1965 American English
15915 Johah Louis Stone 1911 Australian English
15915 In A German Pension Katherine Mansfield 1911 British English
15905 The Adventures Of Gil Blas Alain-René Le Sage 1715 French French
15915 A Pin To See The Peepshow F. Tennyson Jesse 1934 British English
16549 That's How It Was Maureen Duffy 1962 British English
16573 Up At The Villa W. Somerset Maugham 1941 British English
16700 The Daughter In Law D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
16788 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16665 Le Journal D'une Femme De Chambre Octave Mirbeau 1900 French French
17161 George Mills Stanley Elkin 1982 American English
17161 Docherty William McIlvanney 1975 Scottish English
17161 Snobbery Joseph Epstein 2002 American English
17161 Mr. American George MacDonald Fraser 1980 British English
17161 Grass Sheri S. Tepper 1989 American English
17161 The Impressionist Hari Kunzru 2002 British English
17161 Raavan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar 1995 Indian English
17161 Miss Mole E. H. Young 1930 British English
17161 Tales From Bective Bridge Mary Lavin 1942 Irish English
17161 Poor Man's Tapestry G. Oliver Onions 1946 British English
17161 At Lady Molly's Anthony Powell 1957 British English
17161 In The Light Of What We Know Zia Haider Rahman 2014 British English
17161 Black Picket Fences Mary Pattillo-McCoy 1999 American English
17161 Where We Stand bell hooks 2000 American English
17161 Blue Chip Black Karyn R. Lacy 2007 American English
17161 Unequal City Carla Shedd 2015 American English
17161 Tooth And Claw Jo Walton 2003 British English
17161 Memoirs Of A Peon Frank Sargeson 1965 New Zealand Unknown
17161 The Other Garden Francis Wyndham 1987 British English
17161 Our Country’s Good Timberlake Wertenbaker 1988 British English
17161 Intimate Apparel Lynn Nottage 2003 American English
17161 Good People David Lindsay-Abaire 2011 American English
17161 Under Two Flags Ouida 1867 British English
17161 Peg Woffington And Christie Johnstone Charles Reade 1853 British English