The Greatest Books of All Time on Injustice

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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
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
117 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891 British English
148 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1962 Russian Russian
184 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 American English
206 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian Russian
248 Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 British English
265 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948 South African English
306 The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley 1965 American English
329 History Elsa Morante 1974 Italian Italian
339 The Adventures of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1837 British English
366 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 1831 French French
375 Kolyma Stories Varlam Shalamov 1954 Russian Russian
447 Gypsy Ballads Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
544 The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Unknown 1554 Spanish Spanish
549 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 1995 Indian English
558 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Alexander Brown 1970 American English
559 Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi 1945 Italian Italian
565 Amerika Franz Kafka 1927 Czech German
584 Poet in New York Federico García Lorca 1940 Spanish Spanish
610 Requiem Anna Akhmatova 1963 Russian Russian
712 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1889 American English
724 Michael Kohlhaas Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German
745 Memed, My Hawk Yashar Kemal 1955 Turkish Turkish
757 The Adventures of Caleb Williams William Godwin 1794 British English
764 Mother Maxim Gorky 1906 Russian Russian
770 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 American English
771 God's Bits of Wood Ousmane Sembène 1960 Senegalese French
913 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1845 American English
920 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 1974 German German
1003 A Dry White Season Andre Brink 1979 South African Afrikaans
1061 The Case of Sergeant Grischa Arnold Zweig 1927 German German
1146 Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1839 British English
1154 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey 2000 Australian English
1209 Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 American English
1233 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egyptian Arabic
1234 Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi 1975 Egyptian Arabic
1260 The President Miguel Angel Asturias 1946 Guatemalan Spanish
1308 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor 1976 American English
1333 Barefoot Zaharia Stancu 1948 Romanian Romanian
1430 The Wandering Jew Eugène Sue 1844 French French
1495 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 American English
1541 The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 1967 American English
1718 The Fixer Bernard Malamud 1966 American English
1749 First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 Russian Russian
1820 Fontamara Ignazio Silone 1933 Italian Italian
1861 Citizen Claudia Rankine 2014 American English
1917 In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez 1994 Dominican English
2054 Spain, Take This Chalice from Me César Vallejo 1939 Peruvian Spanish
2068 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman 1994 Scottish English
2188 No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel García Márquez 1961 Colombian Spanish
2191 Les Tragiques Agrippa d'Aubigné 1616 French French
2339 The Pearl John Steinbeck 1947 American English
2438 The Railway Children Edith Nesbit 1906 British English
2480 Artemisia Anna Banti 1947 Italian Italian
2493 A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines 1993 American English
2548 Martín Fierro José Hernández 1872 Argentinian Spanish
2550 The Enormous Room E. E. Cummings 1922 American English
2647 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2017 Mexican Spanish
2682 The Czar's Madman Jaan Kross 1978 Estonian Estonian
2709 The Help Kathryn Stockett 2009 American English
2730 Overcoat Nikolai Gogol 1842 Russian Russian
2790 The Weavers Gerhart Hauptmann 1892 German German
3010 The Octopus Frank Norris 1901 American English
3081 Waiting For Lefty Clifford Odets 1935 American English
3089 I, Rigoberta Menchú Rigoberta Menchú Tum 1983 Guatemalan Spanish
3183 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 2017 Palestinian Arabic
3224 Forever Flowing Vasily Grossman 1970 Russian Russian
3237 The Man Died Wole Soyinka 1972 Nigerian English
3273 Bohemian Lights Ramón del Valle-Inclán 1920 Spanish Spanish
3301 The Red Record Ida B. Wells 1895 American English
3324 Broad and Alien is the World Ciro Alegría 1941 Peruvian Spanish
3324 House in the Uplands Erskine Caldwell 1946 American English
3402 Shadow Over Mars Leigh Brackett 1944 American English
3514 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
3638 Bicycle Thieves Luigi Bartolini 1946 Italian Italian
3952 Clotel William Wells Brown 1853 American English
3954 Το φως που καίει Kostas Varnalis 1922 Greek Greek
3954 Η Γυναίκα της Ζακύνθου Dionysios Solomos 1829 Greek Greek
4071 Phantom Lady Cornell Woolrich 1942 American English
4094 Los Santos Inocentes Miguel Delibes 1981 Spanish Spanish
4099 Le Mauvais Sang Feu De Brousse à Trisse Coeur Tchicaya U. Tam'si 1955 Tchadian French
4102 Life And Death In Shanghai Nien Cheng 1986 Chinese English
4121 Life's Good, Brother Nâzim Hikmet 1962 Turkish Turkish
4208 Here's to You, Jesusa! Elena Poniatowska 1969 Mexican Spanish
4257 Scenes From The Past Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin 1869 Russian Russian
4270 Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? Nikolay Nekrasov 1870 Russian Russian
4275 Journey From St. Petersburg To Moscow Alexander Radishchev 1790 Russian Russian
4277 In The Ravine Anton Chekhov 1900 Russian Russian
4443 Oblivion Héctor Abad Faciolince 2006 Colombian Spanish
4476 Al Mawt `Ala Al Asfalt `Abd al-Rahman Abnudi 1960 Egyptian Arabic
4506 Different Seasons Stephen King 1982 American English
4576 The Black Brothers Lisa Tetzner 1941 German German
4581 Papillon Henri Charrière 1969 French French
4590 The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead 2019 American English
4669 Allah Is Not Obliged Ahmadou Kourouma 2000 French French
4746 Nos Matamos O Cão Tinhoso Bernardo Honwana 1964 Mozambican Portuguese
4758 The Faculty of Useless Knowledge Yuri Dombrovsky 1976 Russian Russian
4798 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin 1974 American English
4857 Best of Simple Langston Hughes 1961 American English
5040 Eight Men Richard Wright 1961 American English
5190 From Nine To Nine Leo Perutz 1918 Austrian German
5232 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
5248 Jews Without Money Michael Gold 1930 American English
5260 Cockroaches Scholastique Mukasonga 2006 French French
5270 Under The Feet Of Jesus Helena María Viramontes 1995 American English
5325 If He Hollers Let Him Go Chester Himes 1945 American English
5350 A Street In Bronzeville Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 American English
5353 Stasiland Anna Funder 2002 Australian English
5393 Poems Of Juana Inés De La Cruz Juana Inés de la Cruz 1689 Mexican Spanish
5458 Mercy Among The Children David Adams Richards 2000 Canadian English
5520 Nós Os Do Makulusu José Luandino Vieira 1974 Angolan Portuguese
5598 The Lazarus Project Aleksandar Hemon 2008 Bosnian English
5709 Διηγήματα Michail Mitsakis 1987 Greek Greek
5753 Shadows On The Tundra Dalia Grinkevičiutė 1997 Lithuanian Lithuanian
5958 The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena Elsa Joubert 1978 South African Afrikaans
6005 Night Edgar Hilsenrath 1964 German German
6005 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
6092 They Burn the Thistles Yaşar Kemal 1969 Turkish Turkish