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
7672 The One And Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 2012 American English
7692 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7755 Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2007 Dutch English
7772 Poems Of André Breton André Breton 1948 French French
7839 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
7840 Riverfinger Women Elana Nachman 1974 American English
7861 Poems Of Blas De Otero Blas de Otero 1950 Spanish Spanish
7861 Poems Of René Char René Char 1950 French French
7931 Four Essays On Liberty Isaiah Berlin 1969 British English
7944 Lover Bertha Harris 1976 American English
7967 Saint Genet Jean Paul Sartre 1952 French French
7978 Anthem Ayn Rand 1938 American English
7995 We The Living Ayn Rand 1936 American English
8107 Thirty Years As A Slave And Four Years In The White House Elizabeth Keckley 1868 American English
8107 Letters Of A Javanese Princess Raden Adjeng Kartini 1911 Indonesian Dutch
8107 The History Of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave Mary Prince 1831 British English
8144 Alindarka’s Children Alhierld Bakharevich 2014 Belarusian Belarusian
8192 Temblor Rosa Montero 1990 Spanish Spanish
8197 Against The Inquisition Marco Aguinis 1991 Argentine Spanish
8276 The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter 1976 American English
8331 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
8337 The Rebellion Of Yale Marrat Robert H. Rimmer 1964 American English
8348 The Art Of Joy Goliarda Sapienza 1998 Italian Italian
8356 Libertinagem Manuel Bandeira 1930 Brazilian Portuguese
8358 Tracks Robyn Davidson 1980 Australian English
8364 Ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1949 German German
8388 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
8444 Journal Mireille Havet 2003 French French
8474 La Pell De Brau Salvador Espríu 1960 Catalan Catalan
8503 The Grass Harp Truman Capote 1956 American English
8518 Os Escravos Castro Alves 1883 Brazilian Portuguese
8566 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8581 In Thrall Jane DeLynn 1982 Unknown English
8609 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
8662 Krabat Otfried Preußler 1971 German German
8677 Birds Saint-John Perse 1963 French French
8735 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8766 Prentice Alvin Orson Scott Card 1989 American English
8803 Ann Veronica H. G. Wells 1909 British English
8822 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8837 The Flies Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8858 The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 2019 American English
8876 Yawning Heights Alexander Sinowjew 1976 Russian Russian
8878 April Morning Howard Fast 1961 American English
8883 Mockingbird Walter Tevis 1980 American English
8916 Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold 2003 American English
8933 A Escrava Isaura Bernardo Guimarães 1875 Brazilian Portuguese
8991 Falling Free Lois McMaster Bujold 1988 American English
9033 Citizen Of The Galaxy Robert A. Heinlein 1957 American English
9038 From A To X John Berger 2008 British English
9100 The Vanishing Generation Bagila Bukharbayeva 2019 Uzbek English
9130 Génie Divin Guillaume Dustan 2001 French French
9194 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9194 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9222 On Tyranny Timothy Snyder 2017 American English
9288 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Tom Robbins 1976 American English
9324 The Beautiful Room Is Empty Edmund White 1988 American English
9330 René’S Flesh Virgilio Piñera 1988 Cuban Spanish
9343 Master Of The Crossroads Madison Smartt Bell 2000 American English
9353 That Smell Sonallah Ibrahim 1966 Egyptian Arabic
9357 The Old Garden Hwang Sok-yong 2000 Korean Korean
9517 Joe Turner's Come And Gone August Wilson 1984 American English
9533 A Torch Against The Night Sabaa Tahir 2016 American English
9551 Poems Of Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Guillén 1972 Cuban Spanish
9600 The Noodle Maker Ma Jian 2004 Chinese Chinese
9631 Largo Desolato Vaclav Havel 1985 Czech Czech
9661 F Letter Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse 2021 Russian Russian
9678 Easy Reading Cristina Morales 2018 Spanish Spanish
9691 Development As Freedom Amartya Sen 1999 Indian English
9701 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
9822 The Way To Paradise Mario Vargas Llosa 2003 Peruvian Spanish
9834 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 2008 Indian English
9837 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
9861 Democratic Vistas Walt Whitman 1871 American English
9861 Nationalism Rabindranath Tagore 1917 Indian English
9887 The Wall Jean Paul Sartre 1939 French French
9919 Crooked Plow Itamar Vieira Junior 2019 Brazilian Portuguese
10008 The Dawn Of Everything David Graeber, David Wengrow 2021 British English
10041 Goat Days Benyamin 2008 Indian Malayalam
10064 Die Totalitäre Erfahrung Karl Dietrich Bracher 1987 German German
10081 Habibi Craig Thompson 2011 American English
10082 To Shape A New World Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry 2018 American English
10109 Orwell And Politics George Orwell 2001 British English
10264 Selected Poems Miguel Hernández 1979 Spanish Spanish
10295 La Otra Mano De Lepanto Carmen Boullosa 2004 Mexican Spanish
10294 Mandela Et Moi Lewis Nkosi 2009 Unknown French
10309 The Conquest Of Bread Petr Kropotkin 1892 Russian French
10309 Eros And Civilization Herbert Marcuse 1955 German English
10309 Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Victor Serge 1951 French French
10412 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10443 Two Women In One Nawal El Saadawi 1975 Egyptian Arabic
10498 Battlefield Earth L. Ron Hubbard 1982 American English
10499 Dekada '70 Lualhati Bautista 1984 Filipino Filipino
10531 Lumumba Speaks Patrice Lumumba 1967 Congolese French
10586 Heartfire Orson Scott Card 1998 American English
10613 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
10647 Poonachi Perumal Murugan 2016 Indian Tamil
10646 The Abstract Wild Jack Turner 1996 Unknown English
10727 Dominion Calvin Baker 2006 American English
10752 A Perfect Peace Amos Oz 1982 Israeli Hebrew
10752 The Moor's Account Laila Lalami 2014 American English
10763 A Moonless, Starless Sky Alexis Okeowo 2017 American English
10831 The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun 1985 Moroccan French
10840 Target Land Svoboda Bachvarova 2010 Bulgarian Unknown
10872 Copper Sun Sharon M. Draper 2006 American English
10928 Fear No Evil Natan Sharansky 1988 Israeli English
10948 Barracoon Zora Neale Hurston 2018 American English
10966 Heartsnatcher Boris Vian 1953 French French
10978 World Of Sex Henry Miller 1941 American English
10989 The Proper Study of Mankind Isaiah Berlin 1997 British English
10995 Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody 1987 American English
10996 Love And Will Rollo May 1969 American English
11046 Hellfire Leesa Gazi 2019 Bangladeshi Bengali
11077 Life Adjustment Center Ryan McGinley 2010 American Unknown
11091 Family Ba Jin 1931 Chinese Chinese
11113 The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton John Milton 2007 British English
11113 A Time of Changes Robert Silverberg 1971 American English
11113 Moving Mars Greg Bear 1993 American English
11113 Powers Ursula K. Le Guin 2007 American English
11092 Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin 2003 Australian English