The Greatest Books of All Time on Freedom

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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
4580 The Zone Sergei Dovlatov 1982 Russian Russian
4580 The Autobiography Of A Runaway Slave Miguel Barnet 1966 Cuban Spanish
4606 The Dice Man Luke Rhinehart 1971 American English
4610 Complete Short Stories D. H. Lawrence 1950 British English
4684 Extracts From Notes On The Bulgarian Uprisings Zahari Stoyanov 1884 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4730 Don Carlos Friedrich Schiller 1787 German German
4732 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation M. T. Anderson 2006 American English
4744 Oeuvre Poétique Léopold Sédar Senghor 1964 Senegalese French
4811 Slave Old Man Patrick Chamoiseau 1997 French French
4828 Cataract Mykhaylo Osadchy 1976 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4877 The Little Black Fish Samad Behrangi 1968 Iranian Persian
4898 The Discovery Of Freedom Rose Wilder Lane 1943 American English
4992 Utenzi Wa Vita Vya Uhuru Robert Bin Shabaan 1967 Tanzanian Swahili
4995 Persepolis Two Marjane Satrapi 2004 Iranian French
5095 Where Do We Go From Here Martin Luther King 1967 American English
5142 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 American English
5147 Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez 2002 American English
5149 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5184 The Struggle For Mozambique Eduardo Mondlane 1969 Mozambican English
5276 Slave Of The Huns Géza Gárdonyi 1901 Hungarian Hungarian
5292 Padre Padrone Gavino Ledda 1975 Italian Italian
5361 To Have Or To Be? The Nature Of The Psyche Erich Fromm 1976 German English
5447 The Burn Vassily Aksyonov 1975 Russian Russian
5447 The Politics of Ecstasy Timothy Leary 1968 American English
5447 Vor Den Vätern Sterben Die Söhne Thomas Brasch 1977 German German
5473 The Unicorn Iris Murdoch 1963 British English
5487 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
5530 Nikola The Outlaw Ivan Olbracht 1933 Czech Czech
5607 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5622 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
5637 The Alteration Kingsley Amis 1976 British English
5642 These Truths Jill Lepore 2018 American English
5667 Le Polygone Etoile Kateb Yacine 1961 French French
5688 The Friendly Young Ladies Mary Renault 1943 British English
5703 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5723 The Rosy Crucifixion Henry Miller 1949 American English
5752 Flight Of Ashes Monika Maron 1981 German German
5778 My Happy Days In Hell György Faludy 1962 Hungarian Hungarian
5833 Pseudolus Plautus -191 Roman Latin
5899 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
5917 The Magic Toyshop Angela Carter 1967 British English
5913 The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1863 Russian Russian
5982 The Open Door Latifa Zayyat 1960 Egyptian Arabic
6004 The Story Of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
6004 A Woman Named Solitude André Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6004 Septentrion Louis Calaferte 1963 French French
6004 The Motorcycle André Pieyre de Mandiargues 1963 French French
6004 The Ratcatcher Marina Tsvetaeva 1926 Russian Russian
6004 The Red Balloon Iela Mari 1967 Unknown Italian
6004 The Sailor From Gibraltar Marguerite Duras 1952 French French
6133 L'hiver De Force Réjean Ducharme 1973 Canadian French
6145 Roosevelt James MacGregor Burns 1970 American English
6152 Hell's Angels Hunter S. Thompson 1966 American English
6177 Notebooks Albert Camus 1935 French French
6196 One Piece Eiichiro Oda 1997 Japanese Japanese
6204 A Geração Da Utopia Pepetela 1992 Angolan Portuguese
6225 Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane 1986 South African English
6241 The Chaneysville Incident David Bradley 1981 American English
6250 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
6261 At The Existentialist Café Sarah Bakewell 2016 British English
6335 Spartacus Raffaello Giovagnoli 1874 Italian Italian
6353 The Perennial Scope Of Philosophy Karl Jaspers 1949 German German
6381 The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights United Nations 1948 Multiple English
6413 All Systems Red Martha Wells 2017 American English
6415 My Forbidden Face Latifa 2001 Afghan French
6419 Collected Poems Dalia Rabikovitch 2009 Israeli Hebrew
6426 Le Pays Où Tout Est Permis Sophie Podolski 1979 Unknown French
6431 Ideas and Opinions Albert Einstein 1954 German English
6438 The Gaudy Image William Talsman 1958 American English
6446 The Bridge Of Beyond Simone Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6464 Comment S'en Sortir Sans Sortir Ghérasim Luca 1980 French French
6467 The Overseer's Cabin Edouard Glissant 1981 French French
6488 This Is The Hour Lion Feuchtwanger 1951 German German
6493 Moses, Man Of The Mountain Zora Neale Hurston 1939 American English
6493 Living My Life Emma Goldman 1931 American English
6500 The Black Count Tom Reiss 2012 French English
6506 The Origins Of Totalitarian Democracy J. L. Talmon 1952 British English
6519 Free to Choose Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman 1980 American English
6521 The Escaped Cock D. H. Lawrence 1929 British English
6622 Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2003 Nigerian English
6623 Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima 1993 Czech Czech
6637 Autonauts Of The Cosmoroute Julio Cortazar 1983 Argentinian Spanish
6669 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
6717 On The Aesthetic Education Of Man Friedrich Schiller 1794 German German
6733 Jubilee Margaret Walker 1966 American English
6767 Harriet, The Moses Of Her People Sarah H. Bradford 1886 American English
6787 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman 2019 American English
6806 Maudit Manège Philippe Djian 1986 French French
6865 Loupežník Karel Čapek 1988 Czech Czech
6906 Washington Black Esi Edugyan 2018 Canadian English
6951 Bones Chenjerai Hove 1988 Zimbabwean English
6963 Sheeper Irving Rosenthal 1967 American English
6986 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
7055 Golden Age Wang Xiaobo 1997 Chinese Chinese
7079 A Court Of Mist And Fury Sarah J. Maas 2016 American English
7086 A Short Border Handbook Gazmend Kapllani 2009 Greek Albanian
7086 The Crocodile Bird Ruth Rendell 1993 British English
7120 The Color Of Summer Reinaldo Arenas 1991 Cuban Spanish
7160 The Poems Of Manolis Anagnostakis Manolis Anagnostakis 2001 Greek Greek
7176 The Asylum Seeker Arnon Grunberg 2003 Dutch Dutch
7205 Flight From The Ussr Dato Turashvili 2010 Georgian Georgian
7213 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
7215 The Moon is Down John Steinbeck 1942 American English
7215 Poems Of Tommaso Campanella Tommaso Campanella 1601 Italian Italian
7215 Poems Of William Cowper William Cowper 1782 British English
7215 School For Husbands Molière 1661 French French
7215 Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 German German
7215 Hymn To Satan Giosué Carducci 1865 Italian Italian
7215 The Lady From The Sea Henrik Ibsen 1888 Norwegian Norwegian
7215 From The Other Shore Alexander Herzen 1850 Russian Russian
7215 The Storm Aleksandr Ostrovsky 1860 Russian Russian
7215 Poems Of John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1838 American English
7215 The Short Fiction Charles W. Chesnutt 1899 American English
7215 Poems Of Paul éluard Paul Éluard 1920 French French
7215 Poems Of Bejamin Péret Bejamin Péret 1925 French French
7215 Studies In Classic American Literature D. H. Lawrence 1923 British English
7215 It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis 1935 American English
7215 The Journal Of Albion Moonlight Kenneth Patchen 1941 American English
7651 The Republic Of Nothing Lesley Choyce 1994 Canadian English
7655 Collected Poetry Aimé Césaire 1946 French French