The Greatest Books of All Time on Nationalism

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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
159 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
580 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Rebecca West 1941 British English
716 Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler 1925 German German
848 Der Judenstaat Theodor Herzl 1896 Austro-Hungarian German
1087 Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1916 Indian Bengali
1118 Germany, a Winter Tale Heinrich Heine 1844 German German
1575 Borstal Boy Brendan Behan 1958 Irish English
1638 Postwar Tony Judt 2005 British English
1874 The Proud Tower Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1966 American English
2273 The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon 1961 Algerian French
2673 Autobiographies William Butler Yeats 1926 Irish English
3385 The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh 1988 Indian English
3515 In the American Grain William Carlos Williams 1925 American English
3637 The Questionnaire Ernst von Salomon 1951 German German
3823 The Search For Modern China Jonathan Spence 1990 American English
3860 Ethiopia Unbound J. E. Casely Hayford 1911 Ghanaian English
4206 Ghana Kwame Nkrumah 1957 Ghanaian English
4310 Ali And Nino Kurban Said 1937 Azerbaijani German
4557 Os Nacionalismos Africanos Mario de Andrade 1961 Brazilian Portuguese
4686 Extracts From Notes On The Bulgarian Uprisings Zahari Stoyanov 1884 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5897 The Plough And The Stars Sean O'Casey 1926 Irish English
6102 Unity And Struggle Amilcar Cabral 1979 Guinean Portuguese
6673 India After Gandhi Ramachandra Guha 2007 Indian English
6926 The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine Rashid Khalidi 2020 American English
7216 Poems Of Hugh Mac Diarmid Hugh MacDiarmid 1925 Scottish Scots
7796 The Politics of American English, 1776-1950 David Simpson 1986 American English
8069 The Rise Of American Civilization Charles A. Beard, Mary Ritter Beard 1927 American English
8559 The Sad End Of Policarpo Quaresma Lima Barreto 1911 Brazilian Portuguese
8648 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1976 British English
8863 Mexico Enrique Krauze 1997 Mexican Spanish
9286 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
9338 Showa 1926-1939 Shigeru Mizuki 2009 Japanese Japanese
9520 Nations And Nationalism Ernest Gellner 1983 British English
9758 Fire in the Lake Frances FitzGerald 1972 American English
9768 The Reign Of Greed José Rizal 1891 Filipino Spanish
9861 Nationalism Rabindranath Tagore 1917 Indian English
10241 Putin's World Angela Stent 2019 American English
10454 A Peace To End All Peace David Fromkin 1989 American English
10531 Lumumba Speaks Patrice Lumumba 1967 Congolese French
11006 Balkan Ghosts Robert D. Kaplan 1993 American English
11134 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11412 The Egyptian, Syrian, And Iraqi Revolutions Hanna Batatu 1984 American Unknown
11500 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11663 The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark 2012 British English
11663 The Tenants Of Time Thomas Flanagan 1988 American English
12326 The First World War John Keegan 1998 British English
12804 Gilded Rage Jacob Silverman 2025 American English
12896 Orphan Of Asia Zhuoliu Wu 1945 Taiwanese Chinese
13237 Making Trouble Loa Ho 1930 Chinese Chinese
13551 Waiting for the Mahatma R. K. Narayan 1955 Indian English
13600 The Savage State Georges Conchon French French
14232 The Year of the French Thomas Flanagan 1979 American English
14833 21 Lessons For The 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 2018 Israeli English
14833 Identity Francis Fukuyama 2018 American English
14985 War Without Mercy John W. Dower 1986 American English
15637 A History Of The Great War John Buchan 1921 British English
16539 Return Of The Soul Tawfiq al-Hakim 1933 Egyptian Arabic
16714 L'italia Del Risorgimento Indro Montanelli 1972 Italian Italian
17164 In Our Image Stanley Karnow 1989 American English
17164 The Coming of the War, 1914 Bernadotte E. Schmitt 1930 American English
17164 The Era of Good Feelings George Dangerfield 1952 British English
17164 The Americans Daniel J. Boorstin 1973 American English
17164 German History 1800–1918 Thomas Nipperdey 1983 German German
17164 War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 2002 American English
17164 Empireland Sathnam Sanghera 2021 British English
17026 For My Legionaries Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1936 Romanian Romanian
17164 America Right Or Wrong Anatol Lieven 2004 British English
17164 Please Don’t Call Me Human Wang Shuo 1991 Chinese Chinese
17164 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
17164 The Baltic Revolution Anatol Lieven 1993 British English
17164 The Anglo Boer War, 1899 1902 F. Pretorius 1999 Unknown English
17164 Rizal In Saga Nick Joaquin 1996 Philippine English
17164 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17164 Savarkar Vikram Sampath 2019 Indian English
17164 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
17106 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17164 The Tennants Of Time Thomas Flannagan 1988 Unknown English
17164 The End Of The Hunt Thomas Flanagan 1994 American English
17164 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Unknown Russian
17164 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17164 Palestine 1936 Oren Kessler 2023 Unknown English
17164 Borderland Anna Reid 1997 British English
17164 The Tao Of Cricket Ashis Nandy 1989 Indian English
17164 Like Hidden Fire: The Plot To Bring Down The British Empire hopkirk 1994 Unknown English
17164 The Great Experiment Yascha Mounk 2022 American English
17164 The Age Of Kali William Dalrymple 1998 British English
17164 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English