The Greatest Books of All Time on Injustice

Click to learn how this list is calculated.

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.

View: List Grid Table
Filter by: Genres Dates Countries

Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
6101 Life and a Half Sony Labou Tansi 1979 French French
6217 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
6250 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
6252 The Vortex José Eustacio Rivera 1924 Colombian Spanish
6415 My Forbidden Face Latifa 2001 Afghan French
6493 Life In The Iron Mills Rebecca Harding Davis 1861 American English
6669 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
6697 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris 2018 Australian English
6748 The Garlic Ballads Yan Mo 1988 Chinese Chinese
6756 The Corpse Walker Liao Yiwu 2008 Chinese Chinese
6813 La Barraca Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1898 Spanish Spanish
6951 Bones Chenjerai Hove 1988 Zimbabwean English
7086 Lajja Taslima Nasrin 1993 Bangladeshi Bengali
7110 Journey Into The Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg 1967 Russian Russian
7136 Chronicler Of The Winds Henning Mankell 1995 Swedish Swedish
7215 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
7215 The Short Fiction Charles W. Chesnutt 1899 American English
7215 Selected Poems Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
7574 I Have Lived a Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson 1997 Hungarian English
7711 Child Of The Dark Carolina Maria De Jesus 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
7903 Move Your Shadow Joseph Lelyveld 1986 American English
7992 A World Apart Gustaw Herling 1951 Polish Polish
8018 Mirrors Eduardo Galeano 2008 Uruguayan Spanish
8102 I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Maryse Condé 1986 Guadeloupean French
8106 The History Of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave Mary Prince 1831 British English
8106 Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1884 American English
8252 The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841 British English
8422 The Green Mile Stephen King 1996 American English
8516 Os Escravos Castro Alves 1883 Brazilian Portuguese
8563 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8566 Slavery by Another Name Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 American English
8617 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8674 Collected Poems Wilfred Owen 1963 British English
8742 Biko Donald Woods 1978 South African English
8777 Proud Shoes Pauli Murray 1956 American English
8844 Zeitoun Dave Eggers 2009 American English
8930 A Escrava Isaura Bernardo Guimarães 1875 Brazilian Portuguese
8935 The White Girl Tony Birch 2019 Australian English
8956 The Vagrants Yiyun Li 2009 American English
9134 Raised From The Ground José Saramago 1980 Portuguese Portuguese
9191 A Sliver Of Light Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd 2014 American English
9261 Malcolm X Manning Marable 2011 American English
9374 Stolen Spring Hans Scherfig 1940 Danish Danish
9542 Sofia Petrovna Lydia Chukovskaya 1965 Russian Russian
9548 Poems Of Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Guillén 1972 Cuban Spanish
9857 This Child's Gonna Live Sarah E. Wright 1969 American English
9890 Bhimayana Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand 2011 Indian English
9973 Legend Marie Lu 2011 American English
10027 Obsidio Amie Kaufman 2018 Australian English
10165 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
10192 How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue 2021 Cameroonian English
10260 Selected Poems Miguel Hernández 1979 Spanish Spanish
10305 Walls Hiltgunt Zassenhaus 1974 German English
10450 Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number Jacobo Timerman 1981 Argentinian Spanish
10643 Poonachi Perumal Murugan 2016 Indian Tamil
10722 In The Belly Of The Beast Jack Henry Abbott 1981 American English
10734 Le Pull Over Rouge Gilles Perrault 1978 French French
10808 The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy 2014 Indian English
10867 Copper Sun Sharon M. Draper 2006 American English
10974 Stalin's Meteorologist Olivier Rolin 2014 French French
10985 The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder 1967 American English
11137 Devil in the Grove Gilbert King 2012 American English
11253 Scraps Of Life Marjorie Agosín 1983 Chilean Spanish
11333 Memoirs From The Women’s Prison Nawal El Saadawi 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11478 Jessica Bryce Courtenay 1998 Australian English
11661 Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2018 American English
11800 The Ballad Of Black Tom Victor LaValle 2016 American English
11899 Dumba Nengue, Run For Your Life Lina Magaia 1988 Mozambican Portuguese
11899 Grey Is The Colour Of Hope Irina Ratushinskaya 1988 Russian Russian
11899 A War Of Eyes And Other Stories Wanda Coleman 1988 American English
12163 On the Bus with Rosa Parks Rita Dove 1999 American English
12221 The Swallows Of Kabul Yasmina Khadra 2002 Algerian French
12258 And They Didn't Die Lauretta Ngcobo 1990 South African English
12301 Shadows Of Tender Fury Subcomandante Marcos 1995 Mexican Spanish
12514 Nampally Road Meena Alexander 1991 Indian English
13507 Train To Pakistan Khushwant Singh 1956 Indian English
13578 One With Others C. D. Wright 2010 American English
13818 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
13886 Underground Airlines Ben H. Winters 2016 American English
14006 The Five Hallie Rubenhold 2019 British English
14078 Deaf Republic Ilya Kaminsky 2019 American English
14156 The Poems of Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen 1920 British English
14518 Dogshit Food Liu Heng 1986 Chinese Unknown
14787 For The Term Of His Natural Life Marcus Clarke 1874 Australian English
14852 To Be Young, Gifted, And Black Lorraine Hansberry 1969 American English
14984 Say You’re One of Them Uwem Akpan 2008 Nigerian English
14984 Eva Luna Isabel Allende 1987 Chilean Spanish
14984 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 Irish English
14984 A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher 2020 American English
14984 Age Of Iron J. M. Coetzee 1990 South African English
14984 Arthur And George Julian Barnes 2005 British English
14984 The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J. Gaines 1971 American English
15751 The Children's Hour Lillian Hellman 1934 American English
15903 Creatures that Once Were Men Maxim Gorky 1905 Russian Russian
15903 The Maurizius Case Jakob Wassermann 1928 German German
15903 Sizwe Bansi Is Dead Athol Fugard 1972 South African English
15903 Adventures Of Sanmao The Orphan Zhang Leping 1935 Chinese Chinese
15903 Montage Of A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes 1951 American English
16529 A Mirror for Witches Esther Forbes 1928 American English
16615 Sounder William H. Armstrong 1969 American English
17130 Sons of Mississippi Paul Hendrickson 2003 American English
17130 The Water Is Wide Pat Conroy 1972 American English
17130 Wolf Hollow Lauren Wolk 2016 American English
17130 Blacks Gwendolyn Brooks 1987 American English
17130 White Rage Carol Anderson 2016 American English
17130 Palestine Joe Sacco 1993 American English
17130 Far Away Caryl Churchill 2000 British English
17130 Bingo Edward Bond 1973 British English
16933 Jammers Minde Leonora Christina 1869 Danish Danish
17130 It Is Never Too Late To Mend Charles Reade 1856 British English
17028 The Slave Dancer Paula Fox 1973 American English
17130 Alex Cross's Trial James Patterson 2009 American English
17130 The House Of The Dead Daniel Beer 2017 British English
17130 Between Two Worlds Miriam Tlali 1985 South African English
17130 No Name In The Street James Baldwin 1972 American English
17130 The Faber Book Of Reportage John Carey 1987 British English
17130 Blood At The Root Patrick Phillips 2016 British English
17130 Geronimo Angie Debo 1976 American English
17130 A Month And A Day Ken Saro-Wiwa 1995 Nigerian English
17130 War In The Land Of Egypt Yusuf al-Qa’id 1978 Egyptian Arabic