The Greatest Crime and Political Books Since 1980
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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 488 '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 |
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282 | Bonfire of the Vanities | Tom Wolfe | 1987 | American | English | |
1090 | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James | 2014 | Jamaican | English | |
1796 | What a Carve Up! | Jonathan Coe | 1994 | British | English | |
2297 | Say Nothing | Patrick Radden Keefe | 2018 | American | English | |
2305 | In the Time of the Butterflies | Julia Alvarez | 1994 | Dominican | English | |
2510 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | 2008 | Indian | English | |
2528 | The Zone | Sergei Dovlatov | 1982 | Russian | Russian | |
2563 | The Witness | Juan José Saer | 1983 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
3047 | Freakonomics | Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner | 2005 | American | English | |
3307 | Dreamland | Sam Quinones | 2015 | American | English | |
3403 | Our Lady of the Assassins | Fernando Vallejo | 1994 | Colombian | Spanish | |
3633 | The Emperor Of Ocean Park | Stephen L. Carter | 2002 | American | English | |
3672 | There Are No Children Here | Alex Kotlowitz | 1991 | American | English | |
3725 | De Niro's Game | Rawi Hage | 2006 | Canadian | English | |
4328 | The Late-night News | Petros Markaris | 1995 | Greek | Greek | |
4604 | Gomorrah | Roberto Saviano | 2006 | Italian | Italian | |
4993 | News Of A Kidnapping | Gabriel García Márquez | 1996 | Colombian | Spanish | |
5029 | One Of Us | Asne Seierstad | 2013 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
5235 | The Constant Gardener | John le Carré | 2001 | British | English | |
5424 | Carbide | Andriy Lyubka | 2014 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
5583 | American Prison | Shane Bauer | 2018 | American | English | |
5884 | Other Russias | Victoria Lomasko | 2017 | Russian | Russian | |
6223 | Locking Up Our Own | James Forman | 2017 | American | English | |
6281 | The Spirit Level | Richard Wilkinson | 2009 | British | English | |
6704 | Slavery by Another Name | Douglas A. Blackmon | 2008 | American | English | |
7759 | Rogue Forces | Mark Willacy | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
7885 | 419 | Will Ferguson | 2012 | Canadian | English | |
8352 | When The Clock Broke | John Ganz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
8885 | Soldiers And Kings | Jason De León | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
8949 | The Border | Don Winslow | 2019 | American | English | |
9149 | Gb84 | David Peace | 2004 | British | English | |
9413 | Money To Burn | Ricardo Piglia | 1997 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
10439 | The Siege | Ben Macintyre | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
11671 | Shadow Country | Peter Matthiessen | 2008 | American | English | |
12453 | Billion Dollar Whale | Tom Wright, Bradley Hope | 2018 | American | English | |
14371 | The Ghost | Robert Harris | 2007 | British | English | |
14371 | Red Notice | Bill Browder | 2015 | American | English | |
14371 | Consent To Kill | Vince Flynn | 2005 | American | English | |
14371 | Blowback | Brad Thor | 2005 | American | English | |
14371 | Cadillac Jukebox | James Lee Burke | 1996 | American | English | |
14371 | L'ange Gardien | Jérôme Leroy | 2014 | French | French | |
14371 | Murder In Memoriam | Didier Daeninckx | 1984 | French | French | |
14371 | Show Me The Bodies | Peter Apps | 2022 | Unknown | English |