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
11164 Selected Poetry Jaroslav Seifert 1986 Czech Czech
11164 Foe J. M. Coetzee 1986 South African English
11244 Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins 1971 American English
11246 The Island Of Slaves Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1725 French French
11274 The Ill Fated Peregrinations Of Fray Servando Reinaldo Arenas 1987 Cuban Spanish
11298 The Adventures Of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 2017 Argentinian Spanish
11333 Memoirs From The Women’s Prison Nawal El Saadawi 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11363 Le Monde Tel Qu'il Est Salvat Etchart French Unknown
11363 Échappée Agnès Dargent Unknown Unknown
11390 Love Me Tender Constance Debré 2020 French French
11452 Elbow Room James Alan McPherson 1977 American English
11442 A Mountainous Journey Fadwa Tuqan 1985 Palestinian Arabic
11487 I Shall Not Be Moved Maya Angelou 1990 American English
11498 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11506 The Roaring Girl Greg Hollingshead 1995 Canadian English
11518 Enchiridion Of Epictetus Epictetus 135 Greek Greek
11538 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11568 The Swallower Swallowed Réjean Ducharme 1966 Canadian French
11576 Inside The Whale And Other Essays George Orwell 1940 British English
11580 The Impenetrable Madam X Griselda Gambaro 1986 Argentinian Spanish
11661 On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed 2021 American English
11661 A State Of Freedom Neel Mukherjee 2018 British English
11850 Havana Real Yoani Sánchez 2011 Cuban Spanish
11854 You Left On A May Day Yannis Ritsos Greek Greek
12048 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12083 Women Of Sand And Myrrh Hanan Al-Shaykh 1989 Lebanese Arabic
12136 Mandragon R. M. Koster 1979 Unknown English
12165 Running Close To The Wind Alexandra Rowland 2024 Unknown English
12258 The Loony Bin Trip Kate Millett 1990 American English
12310 Pavane Keith Roberts 1968 British English
12325 The Island Gustaw Herling 1958 Polish Polish
12325 Cloudsplitter Russell Banks 1998 American English
12514 How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed Slavenka Drakulic 1991 Croatian English
12726 The Bird King G. Willow Wilson 2019 American English
12833 Princess Jean Sasson 1992 American English
12833 Veils Nahid Rachlin 1992 Iranian English
12903 Ilaria, Or The Conquest Of Disobedience Gabriella Zalapi Unknown Unknown
13360 Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1869 British English
13499 The Ship Of Fools Cristina Peri Rossi 2021 Uruguayan Spanish
13360 The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1810 British English
13360 The Slave Isaac Bashevis Singer 1962 Polish Yiddish
13360 Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 1819 American English
13510 Machinal Sophie Treadwell 1928 American English
13522 Island Aldous Huxley 1962 British English
13551 Waiting for the Mahatma R. K. Narayan 1955 Indian English
13560 I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai 2013 Pakistani English
13600 Not Everybody Lives the Same Way Jean-Paul Dubois 2019 French French
13600 Raboliot Maurice Genevoix 1925 French French
13716 What I Was Meg Rosoff 2007 British English
13751 The Dead Heart Douglas Kennedy 1994 American English
13771 Garibaldi And The Thousand, May 1860 George Macaulay Trevelyan 1907 British English
13818 The Eunuch Of Constantinople Zülfü Livaneli Turkish Unknown
13886 Underground Airlines Ben H. Winters 2016 American English
13886 Elmer Gerry Alanguilan 2009 Unknown English
13923 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
13938 Marat Sade Peter Weiss 1963 German German
13941 The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker 2013 American English
14025 Ardency Kevin Young 2011 American English
14093 Leviathan Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1981 American English
14122 The Choice Dr. Edith Eva Eger 2017 American English
14152 The Rover Aphra Behn 1677 British English
14207 Planet Of The Apes Pierre Boulle 1963 French French
14232 Freedom Is A Constant Struggle Angela Davis 2016 American English
14232 Jerusalem Jez Butterworth 2009 British English
14347 Middle Passage Charles R. Johnson 1990 American English
14376 The Complete Poetical Works Of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1890 American English
14477 The Sword Of Truth Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
14553 волкодав Maria Semyonova 1995 Russian Russian
14730 Tragic Magic Wesley Brown 1978 American English
14777 Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
14831 21 Lessons For The 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 2018 Israeli English
14897 The Long Walk Slavomir Rawicz 1956 Polish English
14894 The Collected Works Kahlil Gibran 1920 Lebanese Arabic
14897 The Room On The Roof Ruskin Bond 1956 Indian English
14897 When Rain Clouds Gather Bessie Head 1968 Botswana English
14887 Black Spring Henry Miller 1936 American English
14952 Persian Letters Montesquieu 1721 French French
14961 The Sovereignty Of Good Iris Murdoch 1970 British English
14984 The March E. L. Doctorow 2005 American English
14984 Freedom Orlando Patterson 1991 Jamaican English
14984 The Hemingses of Monticello Annette Gordon-Reed 2008 American English
14984 Beyond Freedom and Dignity B. F. Skinner 1971 American English
14984 The Internal Enemy Alan Taylor 2013 American English
14984 Skinny Legs and All Tom Robbins 1990 American English
14984 Wild at Heart Barry Gifford 1990 American English
14984 Iron Council China Miéville 2004 British English
14984 Exit Strategy Martha Wells 2018 American English
14984 Property Valerie Martin 2003 American English
14977 Time Out Of Joint Philip K. Dick 1959 American English
14984 The Real Story Stephen R. Donaldson 1991 American English
14984 Crossing The River Caryl Phillips 1993 British English
14984 Alif The Unseen G. Willow Wilson 2012 American English
14984 The Sweetness Of Water Nathan Harris 2021 American English
14984 The Rediscovery Of Man Cordwainer Smith 1975 American English
14984 Mockingjay Suzanne Collins 2010 American English
14984 Salt Earl Lovelace 1996 Trinidadian English
14984 Shelley Richard Holmes 1974 British English
14984 The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J. Gaines 1971 American English
14984 Women Without Men Shahrnush Parsipur 1989 Iranian Persian
14984 Tar Beach Faith Ringgold 1991 American English
14984 The Unit Ninni Holmqvist 2006 Swedish Swedish
14984 The Blazing World Jonathan Healey 2023 Unknown English
15600 A Few Figs From Thistles Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920 American English
15604 Miss Lulu Bett Zona Gale 1920 American English
15682 The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems Diane Wakoski American English
15682 Literature And Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre French French
15682 The Human Agenda Roderic Gorney Unknown English
15736 Deliver Us From Love Suzanne Brogger 1976 Danish Danish
15747 Fahrenheit 451 Tim Hamilton 1953 American English
15755 I Live Leila Baalbaki 1958 Lebanese Arabic
15749 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
15798 Gypsy, Gypsy Rumer Godden 1940 British English
15821 Rabbit Angstrom John Updike 1960 American English
15800 Collected Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956 American English
15857 On Revolution Hannah Arendt 1963 American English
15871 No Beast So Fierce Edward Bunker 1973 American English
15867 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1876 American English
15902 The Drunken Boat Arthur Rimbaud 1871 French French
15902 Iola Leroy Frances Harper 1892 American English
15902 Born Free Joy Adamson 1960 British English