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
4941 Ghettoside Jill Leovy 2015 American English
4949 Sergeant Getúlio João Ubaldo Ribeiro 1971 Brazilian Portuguese
5090 Poetic Justice Amanda Cross 1970 American English
5095 Where Do We Go From Here Martin Luther King 1967 American English
5124 Killing The Black Body Dorothy E. Roberts 1997 American English
5125 Αντιποίησις Αρχής Alexandros Kotzias 1979 Greek Greek
5148 Clouds Of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers 1926 British English
5154 Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens 2018 American English
5188 The Lady, Or The Tiger? Frank R. Stockton 1882 American English
5275 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5322 The Remorseful Day Colin Dexter 1999 British English
5335 Bones And Silence Reginald Hill 1990 British English
5347 The Last Coyote Michael Connelly 1995 American English
5376 The Town in Black Kálmán Mikszáth 1910 Hungarian Hungarian
5465 Child 44 Tom Rob Smith 2008 Russian English
5481 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
5490 The Slap Christos Tsiolkas 2008 Australian English
5511 The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1956 Swiss German
5517 Dolores Claiborne Stephen King 1992 American English
5529 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
5530 Nikola The Outlaw Ivan Olbracht 1933 Czech Czech
5590 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5622 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
5642 These Truths Jill Lepore 2018 American English
5645 Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson 1964 American English
5661 Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke 2017 American English
5686 The Constant Gardener John le Carré 2001 British English
5696 Not A Penny More,Not A Penny Less Jeffrey Archer 1976 British English
5701 Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie 2013 American English
5702 A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel 1992 British English
5718 Anatomy Of A Murder Robert Traver 1958 American English
5734 Anne Of The Thousand Days Maxwell Anderson 1950 American English
5762 Cotton Comes To Harlem Chester Himes 1965 American English
5835 Six Tragedies Seneca 54 Roman Latin
5830 Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega 1619 Spanish Spanish
5861 Mary Stuart Friedrich Schiller 1800 German German
5893 The Power Of Darkness Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
5901 The Beggar's Opera John Gay 1728 British English
5900 Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms Franz Kafka 1935 Czech German
5917 A Guest Of Honour Nadine Gordimer 1970 South African English
5917 Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1862 British English
5916 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 1944 German German
5917 The Valley Of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle 1915 British English
5938 The Old Fox Deceiv'd Martha Grimes 1982 American English
5980 Chiefs Stuart Woods 1981 American English
6004 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
6004 The Ratcatcher Marina Tsvetaeva 1926 Russian Russian
6083 Dissolution C. J. Sansom 2003 British English
6104 A Storm Of Swords George R. R. Martin 2000 American English
6123 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6135 Country Of My Skull Antjie Krog 1998 South African Afrikaans
6159 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1883 American English
6175 Gideon Of Scotland Yard J. J. Marric 1955 British English
6176 The Mansion William Faulkner 1959 American English
6183 The Accursed Kings Series Maurice Druon 1955 French French
6194 Know My Name Chanel Miller 2019 American English
6196 One Piece Eiichiro Oda 1997 Japanese Japanese
6263 Shane Jack Schaefer 1949 American English
6286 The Colour Of Murder Julian Symons 1957 British English
6298 Guy Mannering Sir Walter Scott 1815 Scottish English
6310 Burial Rites Hannah Kent 2013 Australian English
6313 Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada 1947 German German
6333 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich 2020 American English
6376 Beartown Fredrik Backman 2016 Swedish Swedish
6381 The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights United Nations 1948 Multiple English
6411 Live Flesh Ruth Rendell 1986 British English
6425 Cape Fear John D. MacDonald 1957 American English
6472 The Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987 American English
6471 The Day Of Judgment Salvatore Satta 1977 Italian Italian
6493 The Hidden Hand Or, Capitola The Madcap E. D. E. N. Southworth 1859 American English
6557 King Matt The First Janusz Korczak 1923 Polish Polish
6569 Toxic Shock Sara Paretsky 1988 American English
6583 Hardball Sara Paretsky 2009 American English
6664 How The Word Is Passed Clint Smith 2021 American English
6717 The Conjure Man Dies Rudolph Fisher 1932 American English
6748 De Advocaat Van De Hanen A. F. Th. van der Heijden 1990 Dutch Dutch
6833 The Doorbell Rang Rex Stout 1965 American English
6846 The Complete Short Stories Of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce 1970 American English
6864 Wolf Hunt Ivaylo Petrov 1986 Bulgarian Bulgarian
6882 The Haunted Land Tina Rosenberg 1995 American English
6982 American Prison Shane Bauer 2018 American English
6986 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
7022 Crito Plato -389 Greek Ancient greek
7048 The King Of Torts John Grisham 2003 American English
7056 Write To Kill Daniel Pennac 1990 French Unknown
7063 Nightcrawling Leila Mottley 2022 American English
7065 Point Of Impact Stephen Hunter 1993 American English
7127 Blanche Passes Go Barbara Neely 2000 American English
7188 Pet Akwaeke Emezi 2019 American English
7215 Poems Of Tommaso Campanella Tommaso Campanella 1601 Italian Italian
7215 The Mayor Of Zalamea Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1636 Spanish Spanish
7215 The Poetical Works Of Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser 1590 British English
7215 The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd 1587 British English
7215 Comedies, Tragedies, Poems George Chapman 1600 British English
7215 The Revenger's Tragedy Cyril Tourneur 1607 British English
7215 A New Way To Pay Old Debts Philip Massinger 1633 British English
7215 Athaliah Jean Racine 1691 French French
7215 Five Plays Heinrich von Kleist 1808 German German
7215 Ursule Mirouet Honoré de Balzac 1842 French French
7215 Unto This Last John Ruskin 1860 British English
7215 Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1874 British English
7215 Weir Of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson 1896 Scottish English
7215 Danton's Death Georg Buchner 1835 German German
7215 Tales Nikolai Leskov 1870 Russian Russian
7215 Poems Of John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1838 American English
7215 Death In Silver Lester Dent 1934 American English
7215 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7573 The Fair Maid Of Perth Sir Walter Scott 1828 Scottish English
7576 The Racial Contract Charles W. Mills 1997 American English
7615 Crossfire Miyuki Miyabe 1998 Japanese Japanese
7622 The Little Red Chairs Edna O'Brien 2015 Irish English
7650 Angels In America Tony Kushner 1991 American English
7778 The Cold Moon Jeffrey Deaver 2006 American English
7811 Cain José Saramago 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
7842 Black And Blue Ian Rankin 1997 British English
7860 World Enough And Time Robert Penn Warren 1950 American English
7860 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
7908 The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly 2005 American English
7936 Absolute Power David Baldacci 1996 American English
7956 The House Gun Nadine Gordimer 1997 South African English