The Greatest Books of All Time on Inequality

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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
492 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell, Peter Miles 1914 British English
506 The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith 1958 American English
557 The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois 1903 American English
1204 Nickel And Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 2001 American English
1384 Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 1997 American English
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
1462 An American Dilemma Gunnar Myrdal 1944 Swedish English
1495 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 American English
2626 Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty 2013 French French
3590 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
3601 Debt David Graeber 2011 American English
4455 Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder 2003 American English
4458 The Truly Disadvantaged William Julius Wilson 1987 American English
5587 Caste Isabel Wilkerson 2020 American English
5704 The Sum Of Us Heather McGhee 2021 American English
6483 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 1985 American English
6653 Invisible Child Andrea Elliott 2021 American English
7576 The Racial Contract Charles W. Mills 1997 American English
8256 Strangers In Their Own Land Arlie Russell Hochschild 2016 American English
8420 Coming Apart Charles Murray 2012 American English
8634 Other Russias Victoria Lomasko 2017 Russian Russian
8973 The Great Divide Joseph Stiglitz 2015 American English
9559 아픔이 길이 되려면 김승섭 2017 Korean Korean
9632 Resources, Values And Development Amartya Sen 1984 Indian English
9805 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
9908 The Capitalist Revolution Peter Berger 1986 American English
9917 Critical Race Theory Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas 1995 American English
10002 The Dawn Of Everything David Graeber, David Wengrow 2021 British English
10076 Give People Money Annie Lowrey 2018 American English
10234 Race For Profit Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2019 American English
10704 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10767 Halfway Home Reuben Jonathan Miller 2021 American English
10767 Career And Family Claudia Goldin 2021 American English
10918 Women Don’t Ask Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever 2003 American English
10984 A Brief History Of Neoliberalism David Harvey 2005 British English
11039 My Seditious Heart Arundhati Roy 2019 Indian English
11078 Praying for Sheetrock Melissa Fay Greene 1991 American English
11134 And Their Children After Them Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson 1989 American English
11134 His Name Is George Floyd Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa 2022 American English
11318 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge, Ana Camallonga 2017 British English
11660 Under The Skin Linda Villarosa 2023 American English
11660 Winners Take All Anand Giridharadas 2018 American English
11936 Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun Geoffrey Canada 1995 American English
12011 Paying For The Party Laura Hamilton, Elizabeth A. Armstrong 2013 American English
12599 The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek 2024 French French
13266 Working Class Women In The Academy Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Elizabeth A. Fay 1993 American English
13256 The Great Escape Angus Deaton 2013 British English
14553 Poor Economics Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2011 American English
14553 Class Warfare Steven Brill 2011 American English
14830 The Future Of Capitalism Paul Collier 2018 British English
14983 Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X. Kendi 2016 American English
14983 The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson 2009 British English
14983 Hood Feminism Mikki Kendall 2020 American English
14983 White Trash Nancy Isenberg 2016 American English
14983 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
15559 Good Economics For Hard Times Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2019 American English
15897 The Acquisitive Society R. H. Tawney 1920 British English
15897 Factories In The Fields Carey McWilliams 1939 American English
15897 Montage Of A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes 1951 American English
17117 Medical Apartheid Harriet A. Washington 2007 American English
17117 Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth 2017 British English
17117 Black Picket Fences Mary Pattillo-McCoy 1999 American English
17117 Where We Stand bell hooks 2000 American English
17117 Pushout Monique W. Morris 2016 American English
17117 Unequal City Carla Shedd 2015 American English
17117 Race After Technology Ruha Benjamin 2019 American English
17117 Essential Labor Angela Garbes 2021 American English
17117 Feminism For The 99% Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser 2019 American English
17117 The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs 2014 American English
17117 Political Order And Inequality Carles Boix 2015 Spanish English
17117 The Great Leveler Walter Scheidel 2017 American English
17117 Ultrasociety Peter Turchin 2016 American English
17117 If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? G. A. Cohen 2000 British English
17117 Radicalized Cory Doctorow 2019 Canadian English
17117 The Basic Political Writings Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1987 French French
17117 Wanting Tom Burgis 2021 Unknown English
17117 Breaking The Mould Raghuram Rajan, Rohit Lamba Unknown English
17117 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
17117 Time For Outrage Amelia Bean Unknown Unknown
17117 The Patriarchs Angela Saini 2023 British English
17117 Correction Ben Austen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17117 Live To See The Day Nikhil Goyal 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Two Parent Privilege Melissa S. Kearney 2023 Unknown English
17117 An Inconvenient Cop Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld 2023 Unknown English
17117 The People’s Hospital Ricardo Nuila 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Missing Billionaires Victor Haghani, James White 2023 Unknown English
17117 Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism Anne Case 2020 American English
17117 Another Day In The Death Of America Gary Younge 2016 British English
17117 The New Geography Of Jobs Enrico Moretti 2012 American English
17117 Common Wealth Jeffrey D. Sachs 2008 American English
17117 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English