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
2627 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
4456 Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder 2003 American English
4459 The Truly Disadvantaged William Julius Wilson 1987 American English
5589 Caste Isabel Wilkerson 2020 American English
5707 The Sum Of Us Heather McGhee 2021 American English
6485 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 1985 American English
6655 Invisible Child Andrea Elliott 2021 American English
7577 The Racial Contract Charles W. Mills 1997 American English
8258 Strangers In Their Own Land Arlie Russell Hochschild 2016 American English
8424 Coming Apart Charles Murray 2012 American English
8638 Other Russias Victoria Lomasko 2017 Russian Russian
8977 The Great Divide Joseph Stiglitz 2015 American English
9564 아픔이 길이 되려면 김승섭 2017 Korean Korean
9636 Resources, Values And Development Amartya Sen 1984 Indian English
9808 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
9911 The Capitalist Revolution Peter Berger 1986 American English
9920 Critical Race Theory Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas 1995 American English
10006 The Dawn Of Everything David Graeber, David Wengrow 2021 British English
10081 Give People Money Annie Lowrey 2018 American English
10240 Race For Profit Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2019 American English
10710 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10773 Halfway Home Reuben Jonathan Miller 2021 American English
10773 Career And Family Claudia Goldin 2021 American English
10924 Women Don’t Ask Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever 2003 American English
10990 A Brief History Of Neoliberalism David Harvey 2005 British English
11045 My Seditious Heart Arundhati Roy 2019 Indian English
11084 Praying for Sheetrock Melissa Fay Greene 1991 American English
11140 And Their Children After Them Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson 1989 American English
11140 His Name Is George Floyd Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa 2022 American English
11324 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge, Ana Camallonga 2017 British English
11662 Under The Skin Linda Villarosa 2023 American English
11662 Winners Take All Anand Giridharadas 2018 American English
11937 Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun Geoffrey Canada 1995 American English
12012 Paying For The Party Laura Hamilton, Elizabeth A. Armstrong 2013 American English
12601 The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek 2024 French French
13269 Working Class Women In The Academy Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Elizabeth A. Fay 1993 American English
13259 The Great Escape Angus Deaton 2013 British English
14554 Poor Economics Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2011 American English
14554 Class Warfare Steven Brill 2011 American English
14833 The Future Of Capitalism Paul Collier 2018 British English
14985 Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X. Kendi 2016 American English
14985 The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson 2009 British English
14985 Hood Feminism Mikki Kendall 2020 American English
14985 White Trash Nancy Isenberg 2016 American English
14985 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
15567 Good Economics For Hard Times Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo 2019 American English
15915 The Acquisitive Society R. H. Tawney 1920 British English
15915 Factories In The Fields Carey McWilliams 1939 American English
15915 Montage Of A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes 1951 American English
17161 Medical Apartheid Harriet A. Washington 2007 American English
17161 Doughnut Economics Kate Raworth 2017 British English
17161 Black Picket Fences Mary Pattillo-McCoy 1999 American English
17161 Where We Stand bell hooks 2000 American English
17161 Pushout Monique W. Morris 2016 American English
17161 Unequal City Carla Shedd 2015 American English
17161 Race After Technology Ruha Benjamin 2019 American English
17161 Essential Labor Angela Garbes 2021 American English
17161 Feminism For The 99% Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser 2019 American English
17161 The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs 2014 American English
17161 Political Order And Inequality Carles Boix 2015 Spanish English
17161 The Great Leveler Walter Scheidel 2017 American English
17161 Ultrasociety Peter Turchin 2016 American English
17161 If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? G. A. Cohen 2000 British English
17161 Radicalized Cory Doctorow 2019 Canadian English
17161 The Basic Political Writings Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1987 French French
17161 Wanting Tom Burgis 2021 Unknown English
17161 Breaking The Mould Raghuram Rajan, Rohit Lamba Unknown English
17161 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
17161 Time For Outrage Amelia Bean Unknown Unknown
17161 The Patriarchs Angela Saini 2023 British English
17161 Correction Ben Austen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17161 Live To See The Day Nikhil Goyal 2023 Unknown English
17161 The Two Parent Privilege Melissa S. Kearney 2023 Unknown English
17161 An Inconvenient Cop Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld 2023 Unknown English
17161 The People’s Hospital Ricardo Nuila 2023 Unknown English
17161 The Missing Billionaires Victor Haghani, James White 2023 Unknown English
17161 Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism Anne Case 2020 American English
17161 Another Day In The Death Of America Gary Younge 2016 British English
17161 The New Geography Of Jobs Enrico Moretti 2012 American English
17161 Common Wealth Jeffrey D. Sachs 2008 American English
17161 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English