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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13321 | The Tainted Cup | Robert Jackson Bennett | 2024 | American | Unknown | |
| 13362 | An Enemy of the People | Henrik Ibsen | 1882 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 13362 | The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, And Other Stories And Essays | Mark Twain | 1900 | American | English | |
| 13362 | The Seersucker Whipsaw | Ross Thomas | 1967 | American | English | |
| 13560 | The Path to Power | Robert Caro | 1982 | American | English | |
| 13589 | The Coup | John Updike | 1978 | American | English | |
| 13600 | The Rise Of Simon Lachaume | Maurice Druon | 1948 | French | English | |
| 13600 | The Law | Roger Vailland | 1957 | French | French | |
| 13600 | The Savage State | Georges Conchon | French | French | ||
| 13600 | To Forget Palermo | Edmonde Charles-Roux | 1966 | French | French | |
| 13818 | Resistere Non Serve A Niente | Walter Siti | 2012 | Italian | Italian | |
| 13818 | Ferocity | Nicola Lagioia | 2014 | Italian | Italian | |
| 13941 | Clockers | Richard Price | 1992 | American | English | |
| 13971 | Star Island | Carl Hiaasen | 2010 | American | English | |
| 14138 | The Wisdom Of Crowds | Joe Abercrombie | 2021 | British | English | |
| 14162 | The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman | 1939 | American | English | |
| 14212 | Trouble Is My Business | Raymond Chandler | 1950 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Means Of Ascent | Robert Caro | 1990 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Midnight In Sicily | Peter Robb | 1996 | Italian | English | |
| 14331 | Execution Of Mayor Yin | Chen Ruoxi | 1978 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 14348 | Shadow Country | Peter Matthiessen | 2008 | American | English | |
| 14404 | The Titan | Theodore Dreiser | 1914 | American | English | |
| 14411 | A Man Of The People | Chinua Achebe | 1966 | Nigerian | English | |
| 14435 | Foma Gordeyev | Maxim Gorky | 1899 | Russian | Russian | |
| 14449 | Q & A | Vikas Swarup | 2005 | Indian | English | |
| 14453 | Making Money | Terry Pratchett | 2007 | British | English | |
| 14499 | News Of A Kidnapping | Gabriel García Márquez | 1996 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 14585 | Lai Suo | Huang Fan | 1987 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 14554 | It's Our Turn To Eat | Michela Wrong | 2009 | British | English | |
| 14725 | Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories | Sallust | -40 | Roman | Latin | |
| 14731 | The Looting Machine | Tom Burgis | 2015 | British | English | |
| 14731 | The Death Of Rex Nhongo | C. B. George | 2015 | Unknown | English | |
| 14834 | Billion Dollar Whale | Tom Wright, Bradley Hope | 2018 | American | English | |
| 14899 | Power Without Glory | Frank Hardy | 1950 | Australian | English | |
| 14925 | Johann Holtrop | Rainald Goetz | 2012 | German | German | |
| 14934 | Piers The Ploughman | William Langland | 1370 | English | Middle english | |
| 14958 | The Front Page | Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | 1928 | American | English | |
| 14957 | The High Window | Raymond Chandler | 1942 | American | English | |
| 14985 | The Night Manager | John le Carré | 1993 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down | Ishmael Reed | 1969 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Double Whammy | Carl Hiaasen | 1987 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Accidental Death Of An Anarchist | Dario Fo | 1970 | Italian | Italian | |
| 14985 | Forward The Foundation | Isaac Asimov | 1993 | American | English | |
| 14985 | The Blade Itself | Joe Abercrombie | 2006 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Flash Boys | Michael M. Lewis | 2014 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Altered Carbon | Richard Morgan | 2002 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Chasm City | Alastair Reynolds | 2001 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Artemis | Andy Weir | 2017 | American | English | |
| 14985 | The Rainmaker | John Grisham | 1995 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Skin Tight | Carl Hiaasen | 1989 | American | English | |
| 14985 | The Water Outlaws | S. L. Huang | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 14985 | La Confidential | James Ellroy | 1990 | American | English | |
| 15616 | The New Centurions | Joseph Wambaugh | 1970 | American | English | |
| 15655 | Hu Xueyan | Gao Yang | 2007 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 15667 | Do Not Disturb | Michela Wrong | 2021 | British | English | |
| 15686 | The Whitewashed Tombs | Kwei Quartey | 2023 | Ghanaian | English | |
| 15767 | King's Row | Henry Bellamann | 1940 | American | English | |
| 15763 | Night In Bombay | Louis Bromfield | 1940 | American | English | |
| 15780 | Xala | Ousmane Sembène | 1973 | Senegalese | French | |
| 15781 | World's End | Upton Sinclair | 1940 | American | English | |
| 15826 | The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1937 | British | English | |
| 15828 | Fame Is The Spur | Howard Spring | 1940 | Welsh | English | |
| 15874 | Lord Of The Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1954 | British | English | |
| 15916 | The Maurizius Case | Jakob Wassermann | 1928 | German | German | |
| 15916 | Success | Lion Feuchtwanger | 1930 | German | German | |
| 15916 | Rienzi | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 1835 | British | English | |
| 15916 | The Shame Of The Cities | Lincoln Steffens | 1904 | American | English | |
| 15916 | Boss | Mike Royko | 1971 | American | English | |
| 16526 | What Makes Sammy Run? | Budd Schulberg | 1941 | American | English | |
| 16548 | Oil! | Upton Sinclair | 1927 | American | English | |
| 16624 | Casa De Campo | José Donoso | 1978 | Chilean | Spanish | |
| 16680 | Waste | Harley Granville Barker | 1907 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Kruger's Alp | Christopher Hope | 1984 | South African | English | |
| 17162 | Legs | William Kennedy | 1975 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Parliament of Whores | P. J. O'Rourke | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Indian Lawyer | James Welch | 1990 | Native American | English | |
| 17162 | An American Dream | Norman Mailer | 1965 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Distraction | Bruce Sterling | 1998 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Shag Incident | Stephanie Johnson | 2002 | New Zealander | English | |
| 17162 | The Devil All The Time | Donald Ray Pollock | 2011 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Alice | Christina Henry | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Delhi | Khushwant Singh | 1990 | Indian | English | |
| 17162 | Death In Andes | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1993 | Peruvian | Spanish | |
| 17162 | Linden Hills | Gloria Naylor | 1985 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Physiognomy | Jeffrey Ford | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Thraxas | Martin Scott | 1999 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Bug Jack Barron | Norman Spinrad | 1969 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Interpreters | Wole Soyinka | 1965 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17162 | Red Notice | Bill Browder | 2015 | American | English | |
| 16858 | Sweet Bird Of Youth | Tennessee Williams | 1959 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Between Riverside & Crazy | Stephen Adly Guirgis | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17162 | It Is Never Too Late To Mend | Charles Reade | 1856 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Hard Cash | Charles Reade | 1863 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Blackwing | Ed McDonald | 2017 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Evil And The Mask | Fuminori Nakamura | 2010 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17162 | The Appeal | John Grisham | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Pelican Brief | John Grisham | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Brethren | John Grisham | 2000 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Runaway Jury | John Grisham | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Broker | John Grisham | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Cross Country | James Patterson | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Street Lawyer | John Grisham | 1998 | American | English | |
| 17162 | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders | Daniyal Mueenuddin | 2009 | Pakistani | English | |
| 17162 | Friends In High Places | Donna Leon | 1999 | French | English | |
| 17162 | The Quaker City, Or The Monks Of Monk Hall | George Lippard | 1845 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Confessions Of A Muckraker | Jack Anderson | 1979 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Politics Of Heroin | Alfred McCoy | 1972 | American | English | |
| 17162 | A Month And A Day | Ken Saro-Wiwa | 1995 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17162 | Honor | Sonallah Ibrahim | 2017 | Egyptian | Arabic | |
| 17162 | War In The Land Of Egypt | Yusuf al-Qa’id | 1978 | Egyptian | Arabic | |
| 17162 | The Elephants | Fathi Ghanem | 1965 | Egyptian | Unknown | |
| 17162 | The Windy City | Moussa Ould Ebnou | 1998 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | Seeds Of Corruption | Sabri Moussa | 1973 | Egyptian | Arabic | |
| 17162 | The Ace | Tahar Wattar | 1974 | Algerian | Arabic | |
| 17162 | Leave Me Alone | Murong Xuecun | 2002 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17162 | The Informant | Kurt Eichenwald | 2000 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Crooked Kingdom | Leigh Bardugo | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Under The Dome | Stephen King | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Cadillac Jukebox | James Lee Burke | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Havana Black | Leonardo Padura | 1998 | Cuban | Spanish |