The Greatest Books of All Time on Education

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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
14831 21 Lessons For The 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 2018 Israeli English
14853 Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter Simone de Beauvoir 1958 French French
14855 All Of A Kind Family Sydney Taylor 1951 American English
14897 Hypatia Charles Kingsley 1853 British English
14870 Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1903 American English
14871 The Common Reader Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
14929 Surprised By Joy C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
14960 On The Banks Of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder 1937 American English
14984 The Metaphysical Club Louis Menand 2001 American English
14984 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli 2015 Italian Italian
14969 The Trumpet Of The Swan E. B. White 1970 American English
14984 Translations Brian Friel 1980 Irish English
14984 The Golden Mean Annabel Lyon 2009 Canadian English
14984 The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt 2007 American English
14984 Of Boys And Men Richard Reeves 2022 Unknown English
15559 The Mind In The Making James Harvey Robinson 1921 American English
15560 Confessions Of A Book Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1919 American English
15561 The Moment Of Lift Melinda Gates 2019 American English
15561 Prepared Diane Tavenner 2019 American English
15645 The Days Of A Man David Starr Jordan 1922 American English
15677 Life And Confessions Of A Psychologist G. Stanley Hall 1923 American English
15751 The Tree Of Knowledge Pío Baroja 1911 Spanish Spanish
15748 The Children's Hour Lillian Hellman 1934 American English
15826 Autobiografija Branislav Nušić 1924 Serbian Serbian
15821 Children Of The Atom Wilmar H. Shiras 1953 American English
15829 The Little House Collection Laura Ingalls Wilder 1932 American English
15899 Experience and Education John Dewey 1938 American English
15899 The School and the Child John Dewey 1902 American English
15899 The life and letters of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 1817 American English
15899 Iola Leroy Frances Harper 1892 American English
15889 The Great Brain John Dennis Fitzgerald 1967 American English
15899 The Caxtons Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1849 British English
15899 The Autobiography Of Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger 1938 American English
15899 Advancement Of Learning Francis Bacon 1605 British English
15899 Study Is Hard Work William H. Armstrong 1956 American English
15899 Hons And Rebels Jessica Mitford 1960 British English
15899 Village School Miss Read 1955 British English
15899 Period Piece Gwen Raverat 1952 British English
15899 The Radium Woman Eleanor Doorly 1939 British English
15899 Dawn Blossoms Plucked At Dusk Lu Xun 1928 Chinese Chinese
15899 Physics For Entertainment Yakov Perelman 1913 Russian Russian
15899 Pastors And Masters Ivy Compton-Burnett 1925 British English
15899 Daily Life In Ancient Rome Jérôme Carcopino 1936 French French
15899 Father And Son Edmund Gosse 1907 British English
16532 Alton Locke Charles Kingsley 1850 British English
16570 Anne Of Avonlea L. M. Montgomery 1909 Canadian English
16580 Schopenhauer As Educator Friedrich Nietzsche 1874 German German
16683 Inherit The Wind Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee 1955 American English
16603 The Flying Classroom Erich Kästner 1933 German German
16609 Sounder William H. Armstrong 1969 American English
16686 Botchan Natsume Sōseki 1906 Japanese Japanese
16703 Sanshirō Natsume Sōseki 1908 Japanese Japanese
16736 Las Confesiones Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 Genevan French
16644 Personal Knowledge Michael Polanyi 1958 British English
17120 Summer for the Gods Edward Larson 1997 American English
17120 The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 Robert V. Bruce 1987 American English
17120 Under the Eye of the Clock Christopher Nolan 1987 Irish English
17120 The Growth of American Thought Merle Curti 1943 American English
17120 The Life of the Mind in America Perry Miller 1965 American English
17120 American Education Lawrence A. Cremin 1980 American English
17120 Little Wilson and Big God Anthony Burgess 1987 British English
17120 The Water Is Wide Pat Conroy 1972 American English
17120 Tisha Robert Specht 1976 American English
17120 Christy Catherine Marshall 1967 American English
17120 Die andere Bildung. Was man von den Naturwissenschaften wissen sollte Ernst Peter Fischer 2001 German German
17120 An American Childhood Annie Dillard 1987 American English
17120 The Child Garden Geoff Ryman 1989 British English
17120 Larry's Party Carol Shields 1997 Canadian English
16766 La edad de oro José Martí 1889 Cuban Spanish
17120 When And Where I Enter Paula Giddings 1984 American English
17120 Black Picket Fences Mary Pattillo-McCoy 1999 American English
17120 Blue Chip Black Karyn R. Lacy 2007 American English
17120 Pushout Monique W. Morris 2016 American English
17120 Unequal City Carla Shedd 2015 American English
17120 White Rage Carol Anderson 2016 American English
17120 The Complete Roderick John Sladek 1982 American English
17120 Empireland Sathnam Sanghera 2021 British English
17120 A Wind In The Door Madeleine L'Engle 1973 American English
17120 Robert Elsmere Mary Augusta Ward 1888 British English
17120 At Freddie's Penelope Fitzgerald 1982 British English
17120 The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs 2014 American English
17120 I'll Be Right There Kyung-sook Shin 2010 South Korean Korean
17120 From Dawn To Decadence Jacques Barzun 2000 American English
17052 Little Town On The Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder 1941 American English
17120 Thinking The Twentieth Century Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder 2012 American English
17120 Brother Astronomer Guy Consolmagno 2000 American English
17120 Magic Trees Of The Mind Marion Diamond, Janet Hopson 1998 American English
17120 Women In Science Rachel Ignotofsky 2016 American English
17120 So, You Want To Be A Coder? Jane Bedell 2016 American English
17120 Black Inventors For Children Charles Jones 2002 American Unknown
17120 Math Doesn't Suck Danica McKellar 2007 American English
17120 Candy Experiments Loralee Leavitt 2013 Unknown English
17120 Mythbusters Science Fair Book Samantha Margles 2011 American English
17120 Consider The Following Bill Nye 1995 American English
17120 Great Books David Denby 1996 American English
17120 A Classical Education Richard Cobb 2009 American English
17120 The Adventures Of Ibn Battuta Ross E. Dunn 1986 American English
17120 Book Of Ages Jill Lepore 2013 American English
17120 The Oldest Dead White European Males Bernard Knox 1993 American English
17120 The Lyttelton Hart Davis Letters George Lyttelton 1978 British English
17120 The Village Of Waiting George Packer 1988 American English
17120 Totto Chan, The Little Girl At The Window Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 1981 Japanese Japanese
17120 Advice To A Young Scientist Peter B. Medawar 1979 British English
17120 The Cannibal Galaxy Cynthia Ozick 1983 American English
17120 The Long Haul Myles Horton 1990 American English
17120 Deschooling Society Ivan Illich 1971 American English
17120 Innumeracy John Allen Paulos 1988 American English
17120 Al Mu’allim ‘Ala Abdul Karim Ghalib Unknown Unknown
17120 The Palace Thief Ethan Canin 1994 American English
17120 Wings Of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam 1999 Indian English
17120 Once Upon A Time In The East Xiaolu Guo 2017 British English
17120 She Comes First Ian Kerner 2004 American English
17120 Only Time Will Tell Jeffrey Archer 2011 British English
17120 Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson 2003 American English
17120 Vita Nostra Marina Dyachenko 2007 Ukrainian Russian
17120 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
17120 Free To Learn Peter O. Gray 2013 American English
16933 An Autobiography RG Collingwood 1939 British English
17120 The Story Of A New Name Elena Ferrante 2012 Italian Italian
16768 The Last Of The Wine Mary Renault 1956 British English