The Greatest Books of All Time on Justice

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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
1732 A Harlot High And Low Honoré de Balzac 1839 French French
1779 Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott 1817 British English
1801 A Time To Kill John Grisham 1989 American English
1815 The Ring And The Book Robert Browning 1868 British English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
1849 Z Vassilis Vassilikos 1967 Greek Greek
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
1930 Killing Floor Lee Child 1997 British English
1940 The Four Just Men Edgar Wallace 1905 British English
1959 Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault 1975 French French
2070 The Round House Louise Erdrich 2012 American English
2075 Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson 1994 American English
2091 Strong Poison Dorothy L. Sayers 1930 British English
2106 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez 1981 Colombian Spanish
2125 True Grit Charles Portis 1968 American English
2136 Cop Hater Ed McBain 1956 American English
2173 Italian Folktales Italo Calvino 1956 Italian Italian
2189 No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 2005 American English
2211 Exemplary Stories Miguel de Cervantes 1613 Spanish Spanish
2215 The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht 1928 German German
2234 Resurrection Leo Tolstoy 1899 Russian Russian
2250 Emil And The Detectives Erich Kästner 1929 German German
2266 The Murderess Alexandros Papadiamantis 1903 Greek Greek
2269 The Jewel In The Crown Paul Scott 1966 British English
2333 The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Charles Perrault 1697 French French
2429 A View From The Bridge Arthur Miller 1955 American English
2445 Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain 1894 American English
2450 Bostan Saadi 1257 Persian Persian
2462 The League Of Frightened Men Rex Stout 1935 American English
2475 On Obligations Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Roman Latin
2517 L.A. Confidential James Ellroy 1990 American English
2533 Day Of The Owl Leonardo Sciascia 1961 Italian Italian
2550 Stories Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German
2581 Trial And Error Anthony Berkeley 1937 British English
2613 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 1600 British English
2621 The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1881 American English
2636 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 American English
2643 Perpetual Peace Immanuel Kant 1795 German German
2684 Calamity Town Ellery Queen 1942 American English
2720 Richard Ii William Shakespeare 1595 British English
2729 La légende des siècles Victor Hugo 1859 French French
2731 The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer 1979 American English
2752 Satyagraha in South Africa Gandhi 1928 Indian Gujarati
2777 Helmbrecht Wernher der Gartenaere 1250 German Middle high german
2782 The Legend Of Thyl Ulenspiegel And Lamme Goedzak Charles de Coster 1867 Belgian French
2813 Matigari Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1987 Kenyan Gikuyu
2918 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2012 British English
2926 The Return Hisham Matar 2016 Libyan English
2983 Blind Man with a Pistol Chester Himes 1969 American English
2989 The Robber Hotzenplotz Otfried Preußler 1962 German German
3005 Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1921 Italian English
3021 The Murder At The Vicarage Agatha Christie 1930 British English
3021 Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1922 British English
3098 Why We Can't Wait Martin Luther King 1964 American English
3106 The Adventures Of Cipollino Gianni Rodari 1951 Italian Italian
3166 Paris Trout Pete Dexter 1988 American English
3188 The Judas Window Carter Dickson 1938 British English
3217 Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil John Berendt 1994 American English
3226 Millennium Trilogy Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
3249 Death On The Nile Agatha Christie 1937 British English
3257 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
3271 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 2013 New Zealand English
3280 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
3300 The Red Record Ida B. Wells 1895 American English
3323 Thomas of Reading, Or, The Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West Thomas Deloney 1599 British English
3375 Le Cid Pierre Corneille 1637 French French
3378 Zadig Voltaire 1747 French French
3388 Death Of A Red Heroine Qiu Xiaolong 2000 Chinese English
3418 Plays Pierre Corneille 1641 French French
3503 The Big Blowdown George P. Pelecanos 1996 American English
3523 The Good Society Walter Lippmann 1937 American English
3536 The Death of Woman Wang MMP Jonathan Spence 1978 American English
3537 Amelia Henry Fielding 1751 British English
3544 I, The Jury Mickey Spillane 1947 American English
3552 The Revolt Of The Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta 1973 American English
3555 Tragedy At Law Cyril Hare 1942 British English
3589 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
3637 Charter of the United Nations United Nations 1945 Multiple English
3637 Memoirs Of A Revolutionist Vera Figner 1920 Russian Russian
3637 The Gods Will Have Blood Anatole France 1912 French French
3637 Der Großtyrann Und Das Gericht Werner Bergengruen 1935 German German
3637 Jew Süss Lion Feuchtwanger 1925 German German
3637 The River Pirates Of The Mississippi Friedrich Gerstäcker 1848 German German
3637 Doctors Of Infamy Unknown 1947 Unknown English
3637 The Criminal Of Lost Honor Friedrich Schiller 1786 German German
3637 The Large Testament And The Small Testament François Villon 1461 French French
3637 Rinaldo Rinaldini, The Robber Captain Christian August Vulpius 1799 German German
3637 The Ringer Edgar Wallace 1925 British English
3802 Manon des sources Marcel Pagnol 1963 French French
3804 The Ponder Heart Eudora Welty 1954 American English
3873 The Alienist Caleb Carr 1994 American English
3890 The Concept Of Law H. L. A. Hart 1961 British English
3915 Zayni Barakat Jamal al- Ghitani 1974 Egyptian Arabic
3931 Mean Spirit Linda Hogan 1990 American English
3939 Collected Stories Raymond Chandler 1964 American English
3954 Odes Andreas Kalvos 1824 Greek Greek
3954 Κατά Σαδδουκαίων Michalis Katsaros 1953 Greek Greek
4068 Lives Other Than My Own Emmanuel Carrère 2009 French French
4159 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families Philip Gourevitch 1998 American English
4218 Hecuba Euripides -424 Greek Ancient greek
4225 Orestes Euripides -408 Greek Ancient greek
4231 The Wasps Aristophanes -422 Greek Ancient greek
4257 Scenes From The Past Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin 1869 Russian Russian
4262 A Morbid Taste For Bones Ellis Peters 1977 British English
4292 Mystic River Dennis Lehane 2001 American English
4310 A Gun For Sale Graham Greene 1936 British English
4310 The Mark Of Zorro Johnston McCulley 1919 American English
4421 Trifles Susan Glaspell 1916 American English
4431 Das Große Protokoll Gegen Zwetschkenbaum Albert Drach 1964 Austrian German
4474 Alias Grace Margaret Atwood 1996 Canadian English
4561 The Lady's Not For Burning Christopher Fry 1948 British English
4616 The Fifth Woman Henning Mankell 1996 Swedish Swedish
4646 The Blue Room Georges Simenon 1964 French French
4668 Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw 1923 Irish English
4675 The Witness For The Prosecution Agatha Christie 1925 British English
4706 The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1922 British English
4724 The Bone is Pointed Arthur William Upfield 1938 Australian English
4736 The Headless Horseman Thomas Mayne Reid 1865 Irish English
4741 Tell Me How It Ends Valeria Luiselli 2017 Mexican English
4900 The Theory Of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith 1759 Scottish English