The Greatest Books of All Time on Ideology

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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
12302 Shadows Of Tender Fury Subcomandante Marcos 1995 Mexican Spanish
13031 Tomatoes + Why Doesn't The Far Left Read Literature? Nathalie Quintane French French
13795 艷陽天 Hao Ran 1964 Chinese Chinese
13818 Il Desiderio Di Essere Come Tutti Francesco Piccolo 2013 Italian Italian
13818 M Antonio Scurati 2018 Italian Italian
14023 The Man Who Stayed Behind Sidney Rittenberg 1993 American English
14232 Founding Brothers Joseph Ellis 2000 American English
14232 Berlin Antony Beevor 2002 British English
14360 Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein 2020 American English
14375 Stones In The Wall Dai Houying 1980 Chinese Chinese
14435 The Age Of Extremes Eric Hobsbawm 1994 British English
14483 A Race Of Generals Chen Yingzhen 1988 Chinese Chinese
14731 Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem 2013 American English
14850 The True Believer Eric Hoffer 1951 American English
14899 The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Bernard Bailyn 1967 American English
14985 The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta Mario Vargas Llosa 1984 Peruvian Spanish
14985 Red Memory Tania Branigan 2023 Chinese English
14985 The Battle For God Karen Armstrong 2000 British English
14985 Hitler And Stalin Alan Bullock 1991 British English
14985 The Battle For Spain Antony Beevor 2006 British English
15800 Runaway Horses Yukio Mishima 1969 Japanese Japanese
15830 A History Of Political Theory George Holland Sabine 1937 American English
15916 Part Of Our Time Murray Kempton 1955 American English
15916 Red Star Over China Edgar Snow 1937 American English
15916 How The Steel Was Tempered Nikolai Ostrovsky 1932 Russian Russian
15916 Listen, Yankee C. Wright Mills 1960 American English
15916 In Defence Of Politics Bernard Crick 1962 British English
15916 Wallace Marshall Frady 1968 English
15916 None Dare Call It Treason John A. Stormer 1964 American English
16724 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
17164 The Radicalism of the American Revolution Gordon S. Wood 1992 American English
17164 Fatal Purity Ruth Scurr 2006 British English
17164 You Bright and Risen Angels William T. Vollmann 1987 American English
17164 How Democracies Perish Jean François Revel 1983 French French
17164 Crusade and Jihad Bassam Tibi 2017 German English
17069 Dulce Ca Mierea E Glonțul Patriei Petru Popescu 1974 Romanian Romanian
17164 Black Bolshevik Harry Haywood 1978 American English
17164 Defenders Of The Truth Ullica Segerstrale 1986 American English
17164 Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum 2012 American English
17026 For My Legionaries Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1936 Romanian Romanian
17164 The Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky 1983 American English
17164 Anatomy Of A War Gabriel Kolko 1985 American English
17164 America Right Or Wrong Anatol Lieven 2004 British English
17164 Indignation Philip Roth 2008 American English
17164 Corbyn Richard Seymour 2016 British English
17164 Status And Culture Karl Marx Unknown Unknown
17137 Dialectical And Historical Materialism Joseph Stalin 1938 Russian Russian
17164 Red Plenty Francis Spufford 2010 British English
17164 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17164 The Identity Trap Yascha Mounk 2023 Unknown English
17164 What Tech Calls Thinking Daub, Adrian 2020 Unknown English
17164 The Gods Are Thirsty Tabitha Lee Unknown Unknown
17164 The Rise Of The Counter Establishment Sidney Blumenthal 1986 American English
17164 What The Taliban Told Me Ian Fritz 2023 Unknown Unknown
17164 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17164 There Will Be Fire Rory Carroll 2023 Unknown English
17164 Siblings Brigitte Reimann 2023 German German
17164 The Cause Joseph Ellis 2021 American English
17164 The Russia House John le Carré 1989 British English
17164 Who Paid The Pipers Of Western Marxism? Gabriel Rockhill American English
16840 The Assassins Elia Kazan 1972 American English
17164 Gray Mirror Yarvin, Curtis American English