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
9188 Kieron Smith, Boy James Kelman 2008 Scottish English
9238 Silences Tillie Olsen 1978 American English
9372 Plain Tales From The Hills Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
9372 Here And Beyond Edith Wharton 1926 American English
9579 Edith Wharton R. W. B. Lewis 1975 American English
9584 The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1855 British English
9832 The Fool Edward Bond 1975 British English
9856 The Black Dwarf Sir Walter Scott 1816 Scottish English
9938 Crick Crack, Monkey Merle Hodge 1970 Trinidadian English
10066 Verdes Valles, Colinas Rojas Ramiro Pinilla 2004 Spanish Spanish
10214 V. Tony Harrison 1985 British English
10239 The Young Visiters Daisy Ashford 1919 British English
10276 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson 1995 American English
10303 Cleaned Out Annie Ernaux 1974 French French
10303 The Social History Of Art Arnold Hauser 1951 German German
10448 The World Is What It Is Patrick French 2008 Trinidadian English
10942 Collected Stories John O'Hara 1984 American English
11238 December Breeze Marvel Moreno 1987 Colombian Spanish
11449 Early Autumn Louis Bromfield 1926 American English
11490 Red at the Bone Jacqueline Woodson 2019 American English
11491 A Drama In Muslin George Moore 1886 Irish English
11515 The Intellectuals And The Masses John Carey 1992 British English
11572 The Citadel A. J. Cronin 1937 British English
11579 Landscape For A Good Woman Carolyn Kay Steedman 1986 British English
11648 Money To Burn Asta Olivia Nordenhof 2020 Danish Danish
11660 Evelyn Waugh Martin Stannard 1986 Unknown English
11859 Highwire Moon Susan Straight 2001 American English
11895 Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1834 British English
12083 Talking Back bell hooks 1989 American English
12103 Sword Of Honour Evelyn Waugh 1965 British English
12200 Ninfa Plebea Domenico Rea 1992 Italian Italian
12258 Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart Joyce Carol Oates 1990 American English
12258 Lady's Maid Margaret Forster 1990 British English
12406 Slammerkin Emma Donoghue 2000 Irish English
12436 Imani All Mine Connie Rose Porter 1999 American English
12655 The Spiral Ascent Edward Upward British English
12690 How Many Miles To Babylon? Jennifer Johnston 1974 Irish English
12802 Gilded Rage Jacob Silverman 2025 American English
12832 After Henry Joan Didion 1992 American English
13016 Fate In Tears And Laughter Chang Hen-shui 1925 Chinese Chinese
13235 The Cazalet Chronicles Elizabeth Jane Howard 1988 British English
13236 The Space Between Worlds Micaiah Johnson 2020 American English
13266 Working Class Women In The Academy Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Elizabeth A. Fay 1993 American English
13359 Psmith In The City P. G. Wodehouse 1910 British English
13359 Marriage Susan Ferrier 1818 British English
13585 The Adventures Of Harry Richmond George Meredith 1871 British English
13596 Strangers And Brothers C. P. Snow 1940 British English
13599 A Web of Lace Pascal Lainé 1974 French French
13599 The Wolves Guy Mazeline 1932 French English
14232 Sweat Lynn Nottage 2015 American English
14329 The Admirable Crichton J. M. Barrie 1902 British English
14427 The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1907 British English
14434 Foma Gordeyev Maxim Gorky 1899 Russian Russian
14553 The Better Sort Henry James 1903 British English
14586 A Bed Of Roses Walter Lionel George 1911 British English
14666 Saville David Storey 1976 British English
14679 The Country House John Galsworthy 1907 British English
14730 Farewell Companions James Plunkett 1977 Irish English
14756 Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1917 British English
14774 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912 American English
14896 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man Siegfried Sassoon 1928 British English
14943 Picnic William Inge 1953 American English
14983 Every Man for Himself Beryl Bainbridge 1996 British English
14983 Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue 2016 Cameroonian English
14983 Six Degrees Of Separation John Guare 1990 American English
14983 White Trash Nancy Isenberg 2016 American English
15608 Chance Joseph Conrad 1913 British English
15641 The Judge Rebecca West 1922 British English
15649 Certain People Of Importance Kathleen Thompson Norris 1922 American English
15673 Lummox Fannie Hurst 1923 American English
15706 The Dim Lantern Temple Bailey 1925 American English
15724 Passionate Journey Frans Masereel 1919 Belgian German
15741 Selected Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
15768 Kitty Foyle Christopher Morley 1939 American English
15792 World's End Upton Sinclair 1940 American English
15828 The Game Of Love And Chance Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1730 French French
15851 Fame Is The Spur Howard Spring 1940 Welsh English
15897 The Prussian Officer D. H. Lawrence 1914 British English
15897 There Is Confusion Jessie Fauset 1924 American English
16497 The Zoo Story Edward Albee 1958 American English
15897 Hons And Rebels Jessica Mitford 1960 British English
15897 The Morgesons Elizabeth Stoddard 1862 American English
15897 Summer Edith Wharton 1917 American English
15897 North Star Country Meridel Le Sueur 1945 American English
15897 Listen, Yankee C. Wright Mills 1960 American English
15890 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1965 American English
15897 Johah Louis Stone 1911 Australian English
15897 In A German Pension Katherine Mansfield 1911 British English
15897 A Pin To See The Peepshow F. Tennyson Jesse 1934 British English
16494 Random Harvest James Hilton 1941 British English
16528 That's How It Was Maureen Duffy 1962 British English
16662 The Daughter In Law D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
16745 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16633 Le Journal D'une Femme De Chambre Octave Mirbeau 1900 French French
16715 Up At The Villa W. Somerset Maugham 1941 British English
17117 George Mills Stanley Elkin 1982 American English
17117 Docherty William McIlvanney 1975 Scottish English
17117 Snobbery Joseph Epstein 2002 American English
17117 Mr. American George MacDonald Fraser 1980 British English
17117 Grass Sheri S. Tepper 1989 American English
17117 The Impressionist Hari Kunzru 2002 British English
17117 Raavan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar 1995 Indian English
17117 Miss Mole E. H. Young 1930 British English
17117 Tales From Bective Bridge Mary Lavin 1942 Irish English
17117 Poor Man's Tapestry G. Oliver Onions 1946 British English
17117 At Lady Molly's Anthony Powell 1957 British English
17117 In The Light Of What We Know Zia Haider Rahman 2014 British English
17117 Black Picket Fences Mary Pattillo-McCoy 1999 American English
17117 Where We Stand bell hooks 2000 American English
17117 Blue Chip Black Karyn R. Lacy 2007 American English
17117 Unequal City Carla Shedd 2015 American English
17117 Tooth And Claw Jo Walton 2003 British English
17117 Memoirs Of A Peon Frank Sargeson 1965 New Zealand Unknown
17117 The Other Garden Francis Wyndham 1987 British English
17117 Our Country’s Good Timberlake Wertenbaker 1988 British English
17117 Intimate Apparel Lynn Nottage 2003 American English
17117 Good People David Lindsay-Abaire 2011 American English
17117 Under Two Flags Ouida 1867 British English
17117 Peg Woffington And Christie Johnstone Charles Reade 1853 British English
17117 Virginia Of Virginia Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy 1888 American English