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
7671 The One And Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 2012 American English
7691 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7754 Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2007 Dutch English
7771 Poems Of André Breton André Breton 1948 French French
7838 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
7839 Riverfinger Women Elana Nachman 1974 American English
7860 Poems Of Blas De Otero Blas de Otero 1950 Spanish Spanish
7860 Poems Of René Char René Char 1950 French French
7930 Four Essays On Liberty Isaiah Berlin 1969 British English
7943 Lover Bertha Harris 1976 American English
7966 Saint Genet Jean Paul Sartre 1952 French French
7977 Anthem Ayn Rand 1938 American English
7994 We The Living Ayn Rand 1936 American English
8106 Thirty Years As A Slave And Four Years In The White House Elizabeth Keckley 1868 American English
8106 Letters Of A Javanese Princess Raden Adjeng Kartini 1911 Indonesian Dutch
8106 The History Of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave Mary Prince 1831 British English
8143 Alindarka’s Children Alhierld Bakharevich 2014 Belarusian Belarusian
8191 Temblor Rosa Montero 1990 Spanish Spanish
8196 Against The Inquisition Marco Aguinis 1991 Argentine Spanish
8274 The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter 1976 American English
8329 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
8335 The Rebellion Of Yale Marrat Robert H. Rimmer 1964 American English
8346 The Art Of Joy Goliarda Sapienza 1998 Italian Italian
8354 Libertinagem Manuel Bandeira 1930 Brazilian Portuguese
8356 Tracks Robyn Davidson 1980 Australian English
8362 Ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1949 German German
8386 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
8442 Journal Mireille Havet 2003 French French
8472 La Pell De Brau Salvador Espríu 1960 Catalan Catalan
8501 The Grass Harp Truman Capote 1956 American English
8516 Os Escravos Castro Alves 1883 Brazilian Portuguese
8563 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8578 In Thrall Jane DeLynn 1982 Unknown English
8606 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
8659 Krabat Otfried Preußler 1971 German German
8674 Birds Saint-John Perse 1963 French French
8731 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8762 Prentice Alvin Orson Scott Card 1989 American English
8799 Ann Veronica H. G. Wells 1909 British English
8818 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8834 The Flies Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8855 The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 2019 American English
8873 Yawning Heights Alexander Sinowjew 1976 Russian Russian
8875 April Morning Howard Fast 1961 American English
8880 Mockingbird Walter Tevis 1980 American English
8913 Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold 2003 American English
8930 A Escrava Isaura Bernardo Guimarães 1875 Brazilian Portuguese
8988 Falling Free Lois McMaster Bujold 1988 American English
9030 Citizen Of The Galaxy Robert A. Heinlein 1957 American English
9035 From A To X John Berger 2008 British English
9097 The Vanishing Generation Bagila Bukharbayeva 2019 Uzbek English
9127 Génie Divin Guillaume Dustan 2001 French French
9191 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9191 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9219 On Tyranny Timothy Snyder 2017 American English
9285 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Tom Robbins 1976 American English
9321 The Beautiful Room Is Empty Edmund White 1988 American English
9327 René’S Flesh Virgilio Piñera 1988 Cuban Spanish
9340 Master Of The Crossroads Madison Smartt Bell 2000 American English
9350 That Smell Sonallah Ibrahim 1966 Egyptian Arabic
9354 The Old Garden Hwang Sok-yong 2000 Korean Korean
9514 Joe Turner's Come And Gone August Wilson 1984 American English
9530 A Torch Against The Night Sabaa Tahir 2016 American English
9548 Poems Of Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Guillén 1972 Cuban Spanish
9597 The Noodle Maker Ma Jian 2004 Chinese Chinese
9628 Largo Desolato Vaclav Havel 1985 Czech Czech
9657 F Letter Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse 2021 Russian Russian
9674 Easy Reading Cristina Morales 2018 Spanish Spanish
9687 Development As Freedom Amartya Sen 1999 Indian English
9697 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
9818 The Way To Paradise Mario Vargas Llosa 2003 Peruvian Spanish
9830 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 2008 Indian English
9833 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
9857 Democratic Vistas Walt Whitman 1871 American English
9857 Nationalism Rabindranath Tagore 1917 Indian English
9883 The Wall Jean Paul Sartre 1939 French French
9915 Crooked Plow Itamar Vieira Junior 2019 Brazilian Portuguese
10003 The Dawn Of Everything David Graeber, David Wengrow 2021 British English
10035 Goat Days Benyamin 2008 Indian Malayalam
10059 Die Totalitäre Erfahrung Karl Dietrich Bracher 1987 German German
10076 Habibi Craig Thompson 2011 American English
10077 To Shape A New World Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry 2018 American English
10104 Orwell And Politics George Orwell 2001 British English
10260 Selected Poems Miguel Hernández 1979 Spanish Spanish
10291 La Otra Mano De Lepanto Carmen Boullosa 2004 Mexican Spanish
10290 Mandela Et Moi Lewis Nkosi 2009 Unknown French
10305 The Conquest Of Bread Petr Kropotkin 1892 Russian French
10305 Eros And Civilization Herbert Marcuse 1955 German English
10305 Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Victor Serge 1951 French French
10408 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10439 Two Women In One Nawal El Saadawi 1975 Egyptian Arabic
10495 Battlefield Earth L. Ron Hubbard 1982 American English
10496 Dekada '70 Lualhati Bautista 1984 Filipino Filipino
10528 Lumumba Speaks Patrice Lumumba 1967 Congolese French
10583 Heartfire Orson Scott Card 1998 American English
10610 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
10643 Poonachi Perumal Murugan 2016 Indian Tamil
10642 The Abstract Wild Jack Turner 1996 Unknown English
10723 Dominion Calvin Baker 2006 American English
10748 A Perfect Peace Amos Oz 1982 Israeli Hebrew
10748 The Moor's Account Laila Lalami 2014 American English
10759 A Moonless, Starless Sky Alexis Okeowo 2017 American English
10827 The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun 1985 Moroccan French
10836 Target Land Svoboda Bachvarova 2010 Bulgarian Unknown
10867 Copper Sun Sharon M. Draper 2006 American English
10923 Fear No Evil Natan Sharansky 1988 Israeli English
10943 Barracoon Zora Neale Hurston 2018 American English
10961 Heartsnatcher Boris Vian 1953 French French
10973 World Of Sex Henry Miller 1941 American English
10984 The Proper Study of Mankind Isaiah Berlin 1997 British English
10990 Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody 1987 American English
10991 Love And Will Rollo May 1969 American English
11042 Hellfire Leesa Gazi 2019 Bangladeshi Bengali
11073 Life Adjustment Center Ryan McGinley 2010 American Unknown
11087 Family Ba Jin 1931 Chinese Chinese
11109 The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton John Milton 2007 British English
11109 A Time of Changes Robert Silverberg 1971 American English
11109 Moving Mars Greg Bear 1993 American English
11109 Powers Ursula K. Le Guin 2007 American English
11088 Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin 2003 Australian English