The Greatest Books of All Time on Corruption

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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
7216 Lulu Plays Frank Wedekind 1895 German German
7216 It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis 1935 American English
7216 A Cool Million Nathanael West 1934 American English
7216 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7216 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7589 Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen 1995 British English
7589 Moo Jane Smiley 1995 American English
7604 Sin Remedio Antonio Caballero 1984 Colombian Spanish
7692 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7700 El vuelo de la reina Tomás Eloy Martínez 1986 Argentinian Spanish
7843 Black And Blue Ian Rankin 1997 British English
7846 Kingdom Cons Yuri Herrera 2008 Mexican Spanish
7861 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
7881 13 Hours Deon Meyer 2008 South African Afrikaans
7909 The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly 2005 American English
7915 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Ismail Kadare 2000 Albanian Albanian
7911 The Town William Faulkner 1957 American English
7923 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7937 Absolute Power David Baldacci 1996 American English
7937 Acqua Alta Donna Leon 1996 Italian English
7963 The Good Hope William Heinesen 1964 Danish Danish
7964 Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible Peter Pomerantsev 2014 British English
8076 The Great Derangement Matt Taibbi 2008 American English
8144 Carbide Andriy Lyubka 2014 Ukrainian Ukrainian
8161 The Choirboys Joseph Wambaugh 1975 American English
8163 The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson 2006 Swedish Swedish
8231 Frankenstein In Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi 2013 Iraqi Arabic
8240 Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace 2000 British English
8292 Crónica De Un Iniciado Abelardo Castillo 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8296 La Guerra De Galio Héctor Aguilar Camín 1991 Mexican Spanish
8310 This Present Darkness Frank Peretti 1986 American English
8322 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
8323 Dream Of Ding Village Yan Lianke 2006 Chinese Chinese
8349 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
8445 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8473 No Longer At Ease Chinua Achebe 1960 Nigerian English
8473 A Dance Of The Forest Wole Soyinka 1960 Nigerian English
8466 Griftopia Matt Taibbi 2010 American English
8500 Chinaman's Chance Ross Thomas 1978 American English
8505 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson 2007 Swedish Swedish
8510 The Broken Shore Peter Temple 2005 Australian English
8528 The Secret History Procopius 550 Multiple Greek
8538 Morituri Yasmina Khadra 1997 Algerian French
8618 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8644 Catiline Orations Marcus Tullius Cicero -63 Roman Latin
8698 Inner City Blues Paula L. Woods 1999 American English
8820 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8826 Plenilunio Antonio Muñoz Molina 1997 Spanish Spanish
8874 Yawning Heights Alexander Sinowjew 1976 Russian Russian
8955 Money To Burn Ricardo Piglia 1997 Argentinian Spanish
8980 Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 2023 American English
9007 August Heat Andrea Camilleri 2006 Italian Italian
9116 The Wine Dark Sea Leonardo Sciascia 1968 Italian Italian
9141 Bangkok 8 John Burdett 2003 British English
9262 The Price of Power Seymour M. Hersh 1983 American English
9262 Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart 2006 Russian English
9274 Naples 44 Norman Lewis 1978 British English
9305 The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka 2022 Sri Lankan English
9365 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 2002 British English
9358 Equal Danger Leonardo Sciascia 1971 Italian Italian
9358 True Confessions John Gregory Dunne 1977 American English
9511 Political Order And Political Decay Francis Fukuyama 2014 American English
9533 Black Water Rising Attica Locke 2009 American English
9604 Lenin's Kisses Yan Lianke 2003 Chinese Chinese
9613 The Tin Roof Blowdown James Lee Burke 2007 American English
9613 Exit Music Ian Rankin 2007 British English
9640 The Lime Twig John Hawkes 1961 American English
9643 Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila 2014 Congolese French
9660 Schubumkehr Robert Menasse 2013 Austrian German
9680 Gone Baby Gone Dennis Lehane 1998 American English
9702 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9730 Gagner La Guerre Jean-Philippe Jaworski 2009 French French
9744 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
9767 The Reign Of Greed José Rizal 1891 Filipino Spanish
9858 Wife Of The Gods Kwei Quartey 2009 Ghanaian English
9930 The Eagle's Throne Carlos Fuentes 2002 Mexican Spanish
10114 Tokyo Year Zero David Peace 2007 British English
10122 Angosta Héctor Abad Faciolince 2003 Colombian Spanish
10123 Dogstar Rising Parker Bilal 2013 Egyptian English
10412 The Harder They Come Michael Thelwell 1980 American English
10438 Gomorrah Roberto Saviano 2006 Italian Italian
10572 Land Of Shadows Rachel Howzell Hall 2014 American English
10664 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10727 Rampart Street David Fulmer 2006 American English
10752 Ballad Of Dogs' Beach José Cardoso Pires 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
10773 Huey Long T. Harry Williams 1969 American English
10780 Sandalwood Death Yan Mo 2001 Chinese Chinese
10785 Act Of The Damned António Lobo Antunes 1985 Portuguese Portuguese
10842 I, Alex Cross James Patterson 2009 American English
10856 The Albany Cycle William Kennedy 1983 American English
10856 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10887 A Man In Full (A Novel) Tom Wolfe 1998 American English
11066 Midnight Mao Dun 1933 Chinese Chinese
11068 Manila Envelope James Fenton Unknown Unknown
11077 London Rules Mick Herron 2018 British English
11077 Smoke And Ashes Abir Mukherjee 2018 British English
11177 Philosophy In The Boudoir Marquis de Sade 1795 French French
11199 Stranglehold On Africa René Dumont 1980 French French
11327 The Prince R. M. Koster 1972 Unknown English
11445 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal 1985 Indian English
11529 Selected Speeches Demosthenes, Robin Waterfield -322 Greek Greek
11540 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11574 The Citadel A. J. Cronin 1937 British English
11601 The Dissertation R. M. Koster 1975 Unknown English
11901 A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid 1988 Antiguan English
11941 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins 1932 American English
11941 Grant William S. McFeely 1981 American English
11941 G Man Beverly Gage 2022 American English
12045 Akira Katsuhiro Otomo 1982 Japanese Japanese
12050 Red April Santiago Roncagliolo 2002 Peruvian Spanish
12137 Mandragon R. M. Koster 1979 Unknown English
12226 The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi 2017 American English
12236 Original Sin Jake Tapper 2023 American English
12326 Tropical Gangsters Robert Klitgaard 1988 American English
12326 Judge On Trial Ivan Klima 1991 Czech Czech
12604 The Travels Of Lao Ts'an Liu T'ieh-yün 1907 Chinese Chinese
12601 The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek 2024 French French
12643 Officialdom Unmasked Li Baojia 1903 Chinese Chinese
12657 The Barbary Coast Herbert Asbury 2009 American English
13230 Flower In A Sea Of Sin Zeng Pu 1905 Chinese Chinese