The Greatest Books of All Time on Discrimination

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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
755 The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall 1928 British English
909 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
1117 The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
1119 The Street Ann Petry 1946 American English
1206 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 American English
1225 Untouchable Mulk Raj Anand 1935 Indian English
1462 An American Dilemma Gunnar Myrdal 1944 Swedish English
1536 Rubyfruit Jungle Rita Mae Brown 1973 American English
1662 Down Second Avenue Es'kia Mphahlele 1959 South African English
1771 Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg 1993 American English
1890 Obasan Joy Kogawa 1981 Canadian English
2134 I Will Bear Witness Victor Klemperer 1995 German German
2167 The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka 2011 American English
2172 Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 2001 British English
2430 The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead 1999 American English
2668 The Chrysalids John Wyndham 1955 Canadian English
3301 The Red Record Ida B. Wells 1895 American English
3437 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
4165 The Naked Civil Servant Quentin Crisp 1968 British English
5251 The Strange Career of Jim Crow C. Vann Woodward 1955 American English
5325 If He Hollers Let Him Go Chester Himes 1945 American English
5498 Ethnic America Thomas Sowell 1981 American English
5589 Caste Isabel Wilkerson 2020 American English
5707 The Sum Of Us Heather McGhee 2021 American English
5971 Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah 1997 Chinese English
6130 Negroland Margo Jefferson 2015 American English
6341 No No Boy John Okada 2024 American English
7712 Child Of The Dark Carolina Maria De Jesus 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
7904 Move Your Shadow Joseph Lelyveld 1986 American English
8266 Coming Of Age In Mississippi Anne Moody 1968 American English
8435 Arc of Justice Kevin Boyle 2004 American English
8546 Whipping Girl Julia Serano 2007 American English
8602 Nisei Daughter Monica Itoi Sone 1953 American English
8779 Like One Of The Family Alice Childress 1956 American English
8936 The White Girl Tony Birch 2019 Australian English
9223 Slan A. E. van Vogt 1940 Canadian English
9564 아픔이 길이 되려면 김승섭 2017 Korean Korean
9619 Give Us The Ballot Ari Berman 2015 American English
9892 Bhimayana Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand 2011 Indian English
9920 Critical Race Theory Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas 1995 American English
9942 Crusade For Justice Ida B. Wells 1970 American English
10240 Race For Profit Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2019 American English
10240 Biased Jennifer Eberhardt 2019 American English
10837 Ants Among Elephants Sujatha Gidla 2017 American English
10981 Man Made Language Dale Spender 1980 Australian English
11140 Devil in the Grove Gilbert King 2012 American English
11140 His Name Is George Floyd Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa 2022 American English
11256 Look Me In The Eye Barbara Macdonald, Cynthia Rich 1983 American English
11324 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge, Ana Camallonga 2017 British English
11512 Race Experts Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn 2001 American English
11662 Christianity, Social Tolerance, And Homosexuality John Boswell 1980 American English
11662 China Men Maxine Hong Kingston 1980 American English
11662 Fly Girls Keith O'Brien 2018 American English
11940 Bearing the Cross David J. Garrow 1986 American English
12259 Quiet Odyssey Mary Paik Lee 1990 Korean American English
13249 Stamped Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds 2020 American English
13362 Gentleman's Agreement Laura Z. Hobson 1947 American English
13362 Kingsblood Royal Sinclair Lewis 1947 American English
14232 Last Night At The Telegraph Club Malinda Lo 2021 American English
14408 Trans Juliet Jacques 2015 British English
14718 Nobody Knows My Name James Baldwin 1961 American English
14778 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912 American English
14985 Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X. Kendi 2016 American English
14985 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
17161 Neither Black Nor White Carl N. Degler 1971 American English
17161 Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston 1973 American English
17161 Beggars In Spain Nancy Kress 1991 American English
17161 Blue Chip Black Karyn R. Lacy 2007 American English
17161 The Ethnic Project Vilna Bashi Treitler 2013 American English
17161 Pushout Monique W. Morris 2016 American English
17161 White Rage Carol Anderson 2016 American English
17161 Race After Technology Ruha Benjamin 2019 American English
17161 Almost Astronauts Tanya Lee Stone 2009 American English
17161 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17161 Queer City Peter Ackroyd 2017 British English
17161 Retablos Mireya Solís 2018 Unknown Unknown
17161 Concerning My Daughter Hye-Jin Kim 2017 South Korean Korean
17161 The Happiest Refugee Anh Do 2010 Australian English
17161 Earth Girl Janet Edwards Australian English
17161 The Pink Line Mark Gevisser 2020 South African English