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
1725 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
1929 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
2069 The Round House Louise Erdrich 2012 American English
2074 Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson 1994 American English
2090 Strong Poison Dorothy L. Sayers 1930 British English
2105 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez 1981 Colombian Spanish
2124 True Grit Charles Portis 1968 American English
2135 Cop Hater Ed McBain 1956 American English
2171 Italian Folktales Italo Calvino 1956 Italian Italian
2188 No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 2005 American English
2210 Exemplary Stories Miguel de Cervantes 1613 Spanish Spanish
2214 The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht 1928 German German
2233 Resurrection Leo Tolstoy 1899 Russian Russian
2249 Emil And The Detectives Erich Kästner 1929 German German
2265 The Murderess Alexandros Papadiamantis 1903 Greek Greek
2268 The Jewel In The Crown Paul Scott 1966 British English
2331 The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Charles Perrault 1697 French French
2427 A View From The Bridge Arthur Miller 1955 American English
2443 Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain 1894 American English
2448 Bostan Saadi 1257 Persian Persian
2460 The League Of Frightened Men Rex Stout 1935 American English
2473 On Obligations Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Roman Latin
2515 L.A. Confidential James Ellroy 1990 American English
2531 Day Of The Owl Leonardo Sciascia 1961 Italian Italian
2547 Stories Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German
2580 Trial And Error Anthony Berkeley 1937 British English
2614 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 1600 British English
2620 The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1881 American English
2635 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 American English
2642 Perpetual Peace Immanuel Kant 1795 German German
2683 Calamity Town Ellery Queen 1942 American English
2719 Richard Ii William Shakespeare 1595 British English
2728 La légende des siècles Victor Hugo 1859 French French
2730 The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer 1979 American English
2751 Satyagraha in South Africa Gandhi 1928 Indian Gujarati
2776 Helmbrecht Wernher der Gartenaere 1250 German Middle high german
2781 The Legend Of Thyl Ulenspiegel And Lamme Goedzak Charles de Coster 1867 Belgian French
2812 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
3099 Why We Can't Wait Martin Luther King 1964 American English
3107 The Adventures Of Cipollino Gianni Rodari 1951 Italian Italian
3167 Paris Trout Pete Dexter 1988 American English
3189 The Judas Window Carter Dickson 1938 British English
3218 Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil John Berendt 1994 American English
3227 Millennium Trilogy Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
3250 Death On The Nile Agatha Christie 1937 British English
3258 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
3272 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 2013 New Zealand English
3281 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
3301 The Red Record Ida B. Wells 1895 American English
3324 Thomas of Reading, Or, The Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West Thomas Deloney 1599 British English
3376 Le Cid Pierre Corneille 1637 French French
3379 Zadig Voltaire 1747 French French
3389 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
3937 Collected Stories Raymond Chandler 1964 American English
3952 Odes Andreas Kalvos 1824 Greek Greek
3952 Κατά Σαδδουκαίων Michalis Katsaros 1953 Greek Greek
4066 Lives Other Than My Own Emmanuel Carrère 2009 French French
4157 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families Philip Gourevitch 1998 American English
4216 Hecuba Euripides -424 Greek Ancient greek
4223 Orestes Euripides -408 Greek Ancient greek
4229 The Wasps Aristophanes -422 Greek Ancient greek
4255 Scenes From The Past Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin 1869 Russian Russian
4260 A Morbid Taste For Bones Ellis Peters 1977 British English
4290 Mystic River Dennis Lehane 2001 American English
4308 A Gun For Sale Graham Greene 1936 British English
4308 The Mark Of Zorro Johnston McCulley 1919 American English
4419 Trifles Susan Glaspell 1916 American English
4429 Das Große Protokoll Gegen Zwetschkenbaum Albert Drach 1964 Austrian German
4472 Alias Grace Margaret Atwood 1996 Canadian English
4559 The Lady's Not For Burning Christopher Fry 1948 British English
4614 The Fifth Woman Henning Mankell 1996 Swedish Swedish
4644 The Blue Room Georges Simenon 1964 French French
4666 Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw 1923 Irish English
4673 The Witness For The Prosecution Agatha Christie 1925 British English
4704 The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1922 British English
4722 The Bone is Pointed Arthur William Upfield 1938 Australian English
4734 The Headless Horseman Thomas Mayne Reid 1865 Irish English
4739 Tell Me How It Ends Valeria Luiselli 2017 Mexican English
4898 The Theory Of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith 1759 Scottish English