The Greatest Books of All Time on Intellectuals

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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
1872 To the Finland Station Edmund Wilson 1940 American English
2205 The Gate of Heavenly Peace Jonathan Spence 1981 American English
2935 The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution C. P. Snow 1959 British English
2960 Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci 1948 Italian Italian
3324 The Apes of God Wyndham Lewis 1930 British English
4758 Baptism Yang Jiang 1988 Chinese Chinese
6225 The Chinese Enlightenment Vera Schwarcz 1986 Unknown English
6682 The Opium Of The Intellectuals Raymond Aron 1955 French French
6969 The End Of Ideology Daniel Bell 1960 American English
8752 Russian Thinkers Isaiah Berlin 1978 British English
9514 Memoirs Raymond Aron 1983 French French
11515 The Intellectuals And The Masses John Carey 1992 British English
13583 A People's Tragedy Orlando Figes 1996 British English
15897 On The Shoulders Of Giants Robert K. Merton 1965 American English
17117 Thinking The Twentieth Century Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder 2012 American English
17117 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
17117 Who Paid The Pipers Of Western Marxism? Gabriel Rockhill American English
17117 Als Zeuge Der Zeit Arthur Koestler 1983 German Unknown