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
8143	Down Girl	Kate Manne	2017	American	English
8162	The Girl Who Played With Fire	Stieg Larsson	2006	Swedish	Swedish
8182	Dead Time	Eleanor Taylor Bland	1992	American	English
8219	Rumpole Of The Bailey	John Mortimer	1978	British	English
8230	Frankenstein In Baghdad	Ahmed Saadawi	2013	Iraqi	Arabic
8304	The Ghost Riders Of Ordebec	Fred Vargas	2011	French	French
8314	The Bottoms	Joe R. Lansdale	2000	American	English
8314	Last Seen In Massilia	Steven Saylor	2000	American	English
8360	Anarchy, State And Utopia	Robert Nozick	1974	American	English
8362	Moral Man And Immoral Society	Reinhold Niebuhr	1932	American	English
8362	Ethics	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	1949	German	German
8427	She Said	Jodi Kantor	2019	American	English
8457	March	John Lewis	2013	American	English
8472	La Pell De Brau	Salvador Espríu	1960	Catalan	Catalan
8502	Soul of a Citizen	Paul Rogat Loeb	1999	American	English
8504	The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest	Stieg Larsson	2007	Swedish	Swedish
8509	The Broken Shore	Peter Temple	2005	Australian	English
8510	Euthyphro	Plato	-399	Greek	Ancient greek
8537	Lady Joker	Kaoru Takamura	1997	Japanese	Japanese
8541	Plays Of John Arden	John Arden	1961	British	English
8547	Monster	Walter Dean Myers	1999	American	English
8556	The Tall Man	Chloe Hooper	2008	Australian	English
8559	Under The Banner Of Heaven	Jon Krakauer	2003	American	English
8641	The Fraud	Zadie Smith	2023	British	English
8643	Catiline Orations	Marcus Tullius Cicero	-63	Roman	Latin
8646	The Raj Quartet	Paul Scott	1976	British	English
8651	Jane	Maggie Nelson	2005	American	English
8663	Taking Rights Seriously	Ronald Dworkin	1977	American	English
8671	Peace Like A River	Leif Enger	2001	American	English
8697	Inner City Blues	Paula L. Woods	1999	American	English
8749	The Leper Of Saint Giles	Ellis Peters	1981	British	English
8752	금요일엔 돌아오렴	세월호 참사 기록위원회 작가기록단 엮음	2014	Korean	Korean
8824	Plenilunio	Antonio Muñoz Molina	1997	Spanish	Spanish
8834	The Flies	Jean Paul Sartre	1943	French	French
8881	Hard Revolution	George P. Pelecanos	2004	American	English
8891	The Fatal Shore	Robert Hughes	1987	Australian	English
8896	Are Prisons Obsolete?	Angela Davis	2003	American	English
8922	In My Father's Court	Isaac Bashevis Singer	1966	Polish	Yiddish
8961	A Frolic of His Own	William Gaddis	1994	American	English
8968	Asking For It	Louise O'Neill	2015	Irish	English
8979	Crook Manifesto	Colson Whitehead	2023	American	English
9000	The Emperor Of Ocean Park	Stephen L. Carter	2002	American	English
9006	August Heat	Andrea Camilleri	2006	Italian	Italian
9026	The Other Americans	Laila Lalami	2019	Moroccan	English
9115	The Wine Dark Sea	Leonardo Sciascia	1968	Italian	Italian
9150	Mercy	Jussi Adler-Olsen	2007	Danish	Danish
9191	American Rust	Philipp Meyer	2009	American	English
9191	Violation	Sallie Tisdale	2016	American	English
9236	Primal Fear	William Diehl	1993	American	English
9299	The Client	John Grisham	1993	American	English
9363	Night Watch	Terry Pratchett	2002	British	English
9356	Equal Danger	Leonardo Sciascia	1971	Italian	Italian
9356	True Confessions	John Gregory Dunne	1977	American	English
9517	Spheres Of Justice	Michael Walzer	1983	American	English
9531	City Of Veils	Zoë Ferraris	2009	Saudi Arabian	English
9531	Black Water Rising	Attica Locke	2009	American	English
9603	Hogfather	Terry Pratchett	1996	British	English
9611	The Tin Roof Blowdown	James Lee Burke	2007	American	English
9611	A Quiet Belief In Angels	R. J. Ellory	2007	British	English
9617	Give Us The Ballot	Ari Berman	2015	American	English
9657	The Story Of The Just Casper And Fair Annie	Clemens Brentano		German	German
9657	The Unlucky Murderer	Håkan Nesser		Swedish	Swedish
9677	Gone Baby Gone	Dennis Lehane	1998	American	English
9716	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	1953	American	English
9739	Crime	Ferdinand Von Schirach	2009	German	German
9754	Carry Me Home	Diane McWhorter	2001	American	English
9821	The Collini Case	Ferdinand Von Schirach	2011	German	German
9855	Wife Of The Gods	Kwei Quartey	2009	Ghanaian	English
9857	The Black Dwarf	Sir Walter Scott	1816	Scottish	English
9857	Peveril Of The Peak	Sir Walter Scott	1823	British	English
9912	Miracle Creek	Angie Kim	2019	American	English
9912	Your House Will Pay	Steph Cha	2019	American	English
9918	Critical Race Theory	Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas	1995	American	English
9939	Crusade For Justice	Ida B. Wells	1970	American	English
10020	Race Matters	Cornel West	1993	American	English
10062	The Killings At Badger's Drift	Caroline Graham	1987	British	English
10077	To Shape A New World	Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry	2018	American	English
10109	Tokyo Year Zero	David Peace	2007	British	English
10119	Dogstar Rising	Parker Bilal	2013	Egyptian	English
10155	A Bell for Adano	John Hersey	1944	American	English
10158	The Confession; Liberation Movements	Olen Steinhauer	2004	American	English
10200	From Hell	Alan Moore	1991	British	English
10224	The Trees	Percival Everett	2021	American	English
10290	Mandela Et Moi	Lewis Nkosi	2009	Unknown	French
10300	Death Notice	Zhou Haohui	2014	Chinese	Chinese
10305	The Need For Roots	Simone Weil	1949	French	French
10367	Sweet Land Stories	E. L. Doctorow	2004	American	English
10402	Drama City	George P. Pelecanos	2005	American	English
10439	The Words Of César Chávez	César Chávez	2002	American	English
10450	Intimacies	Katie Kitamura	2021	American	English
10522	Montana 1948	Larry Watson	1993	American	English
10528	Lumumba Speaks	Patrice Lumumba	1967	Congolese	French
10549	The Darkness	Ragnar Jonasson	2015	Icelandic	Icelandic
10549	A Book Of Scars	William Shaw	2015	British	English
10554	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher	Kate Summerscale	2008	British	English
10569	Land Of Shadows	Rachel Howzell Hall	2014	American	English
10583	Heartfire	Orson Scott Card	1998	American	English
10598	Firekeeper's Daughter	Angeline Boulley	2021	American	English
10660	Men At Arms	Terry Pratchett	1993	British	English
10734	Le Pull Over Rouge	Gilles Perrault	1978	French	French
10741	The Collector Of Treasures	Bessie Head	1977	Botswanan	English
10748	Ballad Of Dogs' Beach	José Cardoso Pires	1982	Portuguese	Portuguese
10776	Sandalwood Death	Yan Mo	2001	Chinese	Chinese
10785	The Dead Are Arising	Les Payne	2020	American	English
10824	The Ox Bow Incident	Walter Van Tilburg Clark	1940	American	English
10839	I, Alex Cross	James Patterson	2009	American	English
10852	Berlin Noir	Philip Kerr	1989	British	English
10852	American Appetites	Joyce Carol Oates	1989	American	English
10864	Ancillary Sword	Ann Leckie	2014	American	English
10883	A Man In Full (A Novel)	Tom Wolfe	1998	American	English
10931	Consent To Kill	Vince Flynn	2005	American	English
10939	The 57 Bus	Dashka Slater	2017	American	English
10945	Golden Hill	Francis Spufford	2016	British	English
11014	Camino de Perdición	Luis Mateo Díez	2007	Spanish	Spanish
11064	Manila Envelope	James Fenton		Unknown	Unknown
11073	Smoke And Ashes	Abir Mukherjee	2018	British	English
11081	Praying for Sheetrock	Melissa Fay Greene	1991	American	English
11109	The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton	John Milton	2007	British	English
11131	The Widows Of Malabar Hill	Sujata Massey	2018	American	English
11133	The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester	1953	American	English