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
4943 Ghettoside Jill Leovy 2015 American English
4951 Sergeant Getúlio João Ubaldo Ribeiro 1971 Brazilian Portuguese
5092 Poetic Justice Amanda Cross 1970 American English
5097 Where Do We Go From Here Martin Luther King 1967 American English
5126 Killing The Black Body Dorothy E. Roberts 1997 American English
5127 Αντιποίησις Αρχής Alexandros Kotzias 1979 Greek Greek
5150 Clouds Of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers 1926 British English
5156 Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens 2018 American English
5190 The Lady, Or The Tiger? Frank R. Stockton 1882 American English
5276 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5324 The Remorseful Day Colin Dexter 1999 British English
5337 Bones And Silence Reginald Hill 1990 British English
5349 The Last Coyote Michael Connelly 1995 American English
5377 The Town in Black Kálmán Mikszáth 1910 Hungarian Hungarian
5466 Child 44 Tom Rob Smith 2008 Russian English
5482 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
5491 The Slap Christos Tsiolkas 2008 Australian English
5512 The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1956 Swiss German
5518 Dolores Claiborne Stephen King 1992 American English
5530 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
5531 Nikola The Outlaw Ivan Olbracht 1933 Czech Czech
5592 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5623 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
5643 These Truths Jill Lepore 2018 American English
5646 Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson 1964 American English
5662 Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke 2017 American English
5687 The Constant Gardener John le Carré 2001 British English
5697 Not A Penny More,Not A Penny Less Jeffrey Archer 1976 British English
5702 Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie 2013 American English
5703 A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel 1992 British English
5719 Anatomy Of A Murder Robert Traver 1958 American English
5735 Anne Of The Thousand Days Maxwell Anderson 1950 American English
5763 Cotton Comes To Harlem Chester Himes 1965 American English
5837 Six Tragedies Seneca 54 Roman Latin
5833 Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega 1619 Spanish Spanish
5862 Mary Stuart Friedrich Schiller 1800 German German
5894 The Power Of Darkness Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
5902 The Beggar's Opera John Gay 1728 British English
5901 Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms Franz Kafka 1935 Czech German
5918 A Guest Of Honour Nadine Gordimer 1970 South African English
5918 Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1862 British English
5915 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 1944 German German
5918 The Valley Of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle 1915 British English
5939 The Old Fox Deceiv'd Martha Grimes 1982 American English
5981 Chiefs Stuart Woods 1981 American English
6005 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
6005 The Ratcatcher Marina Tsvetaeva 1926 Russian Russian
6084 Dissolution C. J. Sansom 2003 British English
6105 A Storm Of Swords George R. R. Martin 2000 American English
6124 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6136 Country Of My Skull Antjie Krog 1998 South African Afrikaans
6160 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1883 American English
6176 Gideon Of Scotland Yard J. J. Marric 1955 British English
6177 The Mansion William Faulkner 1959 American English
6184 The Accursed Kings Series Maurice Druon 1955 French French
6196 Know My Name Chanel Miller 2019 American English
6198 One Piece Eiichiro Oda 1997 Japanese Japanese
6264 Shane Jack Schaefer 1949 American English
6287 The Colour Of Murder Julian Symons 1957 British English
6299 Guy Mannering Sir Walter Scott 1815 Scottish English
6311 Burial Rites Hannah Kent 2013 Australian English
6314 Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada 1947 German German
6334 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich 2020 American English
6377 Beartown Fredrik Backman 2016 Swedish Swedish
6382 The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights United Nations 1948 Multiple English
6412 Live Flesh Ruth Rendell 1986 British English
6426 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
7021 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
7189 Pet Akwaeke Emezi 2019 American English
7216 Poems Of Tommaso Campanella Tommaso Campanella 1601 Italian Italian
7216 The Mayor Of Zalamea Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1636 Spanish Spanish
7216 The Poetical Works Of Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser 1590 British English
7216 The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd 1587 British English
7216 Comedies, Tragedies, Poems George Chapman 1600 British English
7216 The Revenger's Tragedy Cyril Tourneur 1607 British English
7216 A New Way To Pay Old Debts Philip Massinger 1633 British English
7216 Athaliah Jean Racine 1691 French French
7216 Five Plays Heinrich von Kleist 1808 German German
7216 Ursule Mirouet Honoré de Balzac 1842 French French
7216 Unto This Last John Ruskin 1860 British English
7216 Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1874 British English
7216 Weir Of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson 1896 Scottish English
7216 Danton's Death Georg Buchner 1835 German German
7216 Tales Nikolai Leskov 1870 Russian Russian
7216 Poems Of John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1838 American English
7216 Death In Silver Lester Dent 1934 American English
7216 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7574 The Fair Maid Of Perth Sir Walter Scott 1828 Scottish English
7577 The Racial Contract Charles W. Mills 1997 American English
7616 Crossfire Miyuki Miyabe 1998 Japanese Japanese
7623 The Little Red Chairs Edna O'Brien 2015 Irish English
7651 Angels In America Tony Kushner 1991 American English
7779 The Cold Moon Jeffrey Deaver 2006 American English
7812 Cain José Saramago 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
7843 Black And Blue Ian Rankin 1997 British English
7861 World Enough And Time Robert Penn Warren 1950 American English
7861 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
7909 The Lincoln Lawyer Michael Connelly 2005 American English
7937 Absolute Power David Baldacci 1996 American English
7957 The House Gun Nadine Gordimer 1997 South African English