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
7215 Lulu Plays Frank Wedekind 1895 German German
7215 It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis 1935 American English
7215 A Cool Million Nathanael West 1934 American English
7215 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7215 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7588 Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen 1995 British English
7588 Moo Jane Smiley 1995 American English
7603 Sin Remedio Antonio Caballero 1984 Colombian Spanish
7691 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7699 El vuelo de la reina Tomás Eloy Martínez 1986 Argentinian Spanish
7842 Black And Blue Ian Rankin 1997 British English
7845 Kingdom Cons Yuri Herrera 2008 Mexican Spanish
7860 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
7880 13 Hours Deon Meyer 2008 South African Afrikaans
7908 The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly 2005 American English
7914 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Ismail Kadare 2000 Albanian Albanian
7910 The Town William Faulkner 1957 American English
7922 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7936 Absolute Power David Baldacci 1996 American English
7936 Acqua Alta Donna Leon 1996 Italian English
7962 The Good Hope William Heinesen 1964 Danish Danish
7963 Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible Peter Pomerantsev 2014 British English
8075 The Great Derangement Matt Taibbi 2008 American English
8142 Carbide Andriy Lyubka 2014 Ukrainian Ukrainian
8159 The Choirboys Joseph Wambaugh 1975 American English
8161 The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson 2006 Swedish Swedish
8229 Frankenstein In Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi 2013 Iraqi Arabic
8238 Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace 2000 British English
8290 Crónica De Un Iniciado Abelardo Castillo 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8294 La Guerra De Galio Héctor Aguilar Camín 1991 Mexican Spanish
8308 This Present Darkness Frank Peretti 1986 American English
8320 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
8321 Dream Of Ding Village Yan Lianke 2006 Chinese Chinese
8347 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
8441 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8468 No Longer At Ease Chinua Achebe 1960 Nigerian English
8468 A Dance Of The Forest Wole Soyinka 1960 Nigerian English
8461 Griftopia Matt Taibbi 2010 American English
8495 Chinaman's Chance Ross Thomas 1978 American English
8500 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest Stieg Larsson 2007 Swedish Swedish
8506 The Broken Shore Peter Temple 2005 Australian English
8524 The Secret History Procopius 550 Multiple Greek
8534 Morituri Yasmina Khadra 1997 Algerian French
8614 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8640 Catiline Orations Marcus Tullius Cicero -63 Roman Latin
8694 Inner City Blues Paula L. Woods 1999 American English
8815 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8821 Plenilunio Antonio Muñoz Molina 1997 Spanish Spanish
8870 Yawning Heights Alexander Sinowjew 1976 Russian Russian
8951 Money To Burn Ricardo Piglia 1997 Argentinian Spanish
8976 Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 2023 American English
9003 August Heat Andrea Camilleri 2006 Italian Italian
9111 The Wine Dark Sea Leonardo Sciascia 1968 Italian Italian
9136 Bangkok 8 John Burdett 2003 British English
9258 The Price of Power Seymour M. Hersh 1983 American English
9258 Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart 2006 Russian English
9269 Naples 44 Norman Lewis 1978 British English
9300 The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka 2022 Sri Lankan English
9360 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 2002 British English
9353 Equal Danger Leonardo Sciascia 1971 Italian Italian
9353 True Confessions John Gregory Dunne 1977 American English
9506 Political Order And Political Decay Francis Fukuyama 2014 American English
9528 Black Water Rising Attica Locke 2009 American English
9599 Lenin's Kisses Yan Lianke 2003 Chinese Chinese
9609 The Tin Roof Blowdown James Lee Burke 2007 American English
9609 Exit Music Ian Rankin 2007 British English
9638 Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila 2014 Congolese French
9656 Schubumkehr Robert Menasse 2013 Austrian German
9676 Gone Baby Gone Dennis Lehane 1998 American English
9698 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9726 Gagner La Guerre Jean-Philippe Jaworski 2009 French French
9740 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
9763 The Reign Of Greed José Rizal 1891 Filipino Spanish
9854 Wife Of The Gods Kwei Quartey 2009 Ghanaian English
9925 The Eagle's Throne Carlos Fuentes 2002 Mexican Spanish
10108 Tokyo Year Zero David Peace 2007 British English
10117 Angosta Héctor Abad Faciolince 2003 Colombian Spanish
10118 Dogstar Rising Parker Bilal 2013 Egyptian English
10406 The Harder They Come Michael Thelwell 1980 American English
10432 Gomorrah Roberto Saviano 2006 Italian Italian
10565 Land Of Shadows Rachel Howzell Hall 2014 American English
10657 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10720 Rampart Street David Fulmer 2006 American English
10745 Ballad Of Dogs' Beach José Cardoso Pires 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
10766 Huey Long T. Harry Williams 1969 American English
10773 Sandalwood Death Yan Mo 2001 Chinese Chinese
10778 Act Of The Damned António Lobo Antunes 1985 Portuguese Portuguese
10825 The Lime Twig John Hawkes 1961 American English
10836 I, Alex Cross James Patterson 2009 American English
10849 The Albany Cycle William Kennedy 1983 American English
10849 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10880 A Man In Full (A Novel) Tom Wolfe 1998 American English
11059 Midnight Mao Dun 1933 Chinese Chinese
11061 Manila Envelope James Fenton Unknown Unknown
11070 London Rules Mick Herron 2018 British English
11070 Smoke And Ashes Abir Mukherjee 2018 British English
11170 Philosophy In The Boudoir Marquis de Sade 1795 French French
11192 Stranglehold On Africa René Dumont 1980 French French
11320 The Prince R. M. Koster 1972 Unknown English
11439 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal 1985 Indian English
11526 Selected Speeches Demosthenes, Robin Waterfield -322 Greek Greek
11537 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11572 The Citadel A. J. Cronin 1937 British English
11598 The Dissertation R. M. Koster 1975 Unknown English
11899 A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid 1988 Antiguan English
11939 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins 1932 American English
11939 Grant William S. McFeely 1981 American English
11939 G Man Beverly Gage 2022 American English
12043 Akira Katsuhiro Otomo 1982 Japanese Japanese
12048 Red April Santiago Roncagliolo 2002 Peruvian Spanish
12136 Mandragon R. M. Koster 1979 Unknown English
12225 The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi 2017 American English
12235 Original Sin Jake Tapper 2023 American English
12324 Tropical Gangsters Robert Klitgaard 1988 American English
12324 Judge On Trial Ivan Klima 1991 Czech Czech
12602 The Travels Of Lao Ts'an Liu T'ieh-yün 1907 Chinese Chinese
12599 The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek 2024 French French
12641 Officialdom Unmasked Li Baojia 1903 Chinese Chinese
12655 The Barbary Coast Herbert Asbury 2009 American English
13227 Flower In A Sea Of Sin Zeng Pu 1905 Chinese Chinese