The Greatest Books of All Time on Oppression

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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
4100 Четвёртая проза Osip Mandelstam 1930 Russian Russian
4141 Le Vieux Nègre Et La Médaille Ferdinand Oyono 1956 French French
4190 An Ember In The Ashes Sabaa Tahir 2015 American English
4196 The Oppermanns Lion Feuchtwanger 1933 German German
4203 Ain't I A Woman? bell hooks 1981 American English
4206 The Colonizer and the Colonized Albert Memmi 1957 French French
4270 Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? Nikolay Nekrasov 1870 Russian Russian
4273 The Noise Of Time Osip Mandelstam 1925 Russian Russian
4275 Journey From St. Petersburg To Moscow Alexander Radishchev 1790 Russian Russian
4310 The Mark Of Zorro Johnston McCulley 1919 American English
4413 The Iron Candlestick Dimitar Talev 1952 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4421 Trifles Susan Glaspell 1916 American English
4476 Al Mawt `Ala Al Asfalt `Abd al-Rahman Abnudi 1960 Egyptian Arabic
4511 The Palace Of Dreams Ismail Kadare 1981 Albanian Albanian
4557 The Blood Knot Athol Fugard 1961 South African English
4582 The Autobiography Of A Runaway Slave Miguel Barnet 1966 Cuban Spanish
4615 Gulag Anne Applebaum 2003 American English
4664 Dusklands J. M. Coetzee 1974 South African English
4674 Time Of Parting Anton Donchev 1964 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4686 Extracts From Notes On The Bulgarian Uprisings Zahari Stoyanov 1884 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4724 Mission Box Aris Alexandrou 1974 Greek Greek
4746 Nos Matamos O Cão Tinhoso Bernardo Honwana 1964 Mozambican Portuguese
4830 Cataract Mykhaylo Osadchy 1976 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4879 The Little Black Fish Samad Behrangi 1968 Iranian Persian
4935 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4941 In the Heart of the Country J. M. Coetzee 1977 South African English
5040 Eight Men Richard Wright 1961 American English
5127 Αντιποίησις Αρχής Alexandros Kotzias 1979 Greek Greek
5148 Dawn Elie Wiesel 1961 Romanian French
5149 Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez 2002 American English
5151 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5186 The Struggle For Mozambique Eduardo Mondlane 1969 Mozambican English
5276 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5293 Padre Padrone Gavino Ledda 1975 Italian Italian
5325 If He Hollers Let Him Go Chester Himes 1945 American English
5353 Stasiland Anna Funder 2002 Australian English
5448 The Burn Vassily Aksyonov 1975 Russian Russian
5448 Imperium Ryszard Kapuscinski 1993 Polish Polish
5502 Warsaw Diary Kazimierz Brandys 1978 Polish Polish
5520 Nós Os Do Makulusu José Luandino Vieira 1974 Angolan Portuguese
5531 Nikola The Outlaw Ivan Olbracht 1933 Czech Czech
5608 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5613 Zuleikha Guzel Yakhina 2015 Russian Russian
5623 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
5668 Le Polygone Etoile Kateb Yacine 1961 French French
5753 Shadows On The Tundra Dalia Grinkevičiutė 1997 Lithuanian Lithuanian
5753 Flight Of Ashes Monika Maron 1981 German German
5833 Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega 1619 Spanish Spanish
5926 In Search Of Our Mother’s Gardens Alice Walker 1983 American English
5958 The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena Elsa Joubert 1978 South African Afrikaans
5958 House Of Hunger Dambudzo Marechera 1978 Zimbabwean English
5999 The Dialectic Of Sex Shulamith Firestone 1970 American English
6005 A Woman Named Solitude André Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6005 Bound To Violence Yambo Ouologuem 1968 Malian French
6005 Night Edgar Hilsenrath 1964 German German
6092 They Burn the Thistles Yaşar Kemal 1969 Turkish Turkish
6102 Life and a Half Sony Labou Tansi 1979 French French
6149 My Tender Matador Pedro Lemebel 2001 Chilean Spanish
6155 Women As Lovers Elfriede Jelinek 1975 Austrian German
6200 Tóték István Örkény 1967 Hungarian Hungarian
6215 The Unconquered Country Geoff Ryman 1986 Canadian English
6251 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
6314 Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada 1947 German German
6336 Spartacus Raffaello Giovagnoli 1874 Italian Italian
6343 In Hitler's Germany Bernt Engelmann 1986 German English
6416 My Forbidden Face Latifa 2001 Afghan French
6455 The Arrivants Kamau Brathwaite 1973 Barbadian English
6467 The Overseer's Cabin Edouard Glissant 1981 French French
6493 Moses, Man Of The Mountain Zora Neale Hurston 1939 American English
6540 Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins 1990 American English
6713 The Land Of Green Plums Herta Müller 1994 German German
6746 The Seven Solitudes Of Lorsa Lopez Sony Labou Tansi 1985 Congolese French
6748 The Garlic Ballads Yan Mo 1988 Chinese Chinese
6748 The Silent Steppe Mukhamet Shayakhmetov 2006 Kazakh English
6756 The Corpse Walker Liao Yiwu 2008 Chinese Chinese
6793 Men Explain Things To Me Rebecca Solnit 2014 American English
6915 Other Fires Maxim Gorky 1900 Russian Unknown
6919 S.C.U.M. Manifesto Valerie Solanas 1967 American English
6951 Bones Chenjerai Hove 1988 Zimbabwean English
6986 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
7120 The Color Of Summer Reinaldo Arenas 1991 Cuban Spanish
7140 E. Luminata Diamela Eltit 1983 Chilean Spanish
7160 The Poems Of Manolis Anagnostakis Manolis Anagnostakis 2001 Greek Greek
7190 Close To The Knives David Wojnarowicz 1991 American English
7206 Flight From The Ussr Dato Turashvili 2010 Georgian Georgian
7214 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
7216 The Moon is Down John Steinbeck 1942 American English
7216 Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 German German
7216 The Storm Aleksandr Ostrovsky 1860 Russian Russian
7216 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7577 The Racial Contract Charles W. Mills 1997 American English
7656 Collected Poetry Aimé Césaire 1946 French French
7692 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7755 Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2007 Dutch English
7904 Move Your Shadow Joseph Lelyveld 1986 American English
7940 The Fourth World Diamela Eltit 1988 Chilean Spanish
7950 Woman On The Edge Of Time Marge Piercy 1976 American English
7963 The Good Hope William Heinesen 1964 Danish Danish
7978 Anthem Ayn Rand 1938 American English
7993 A World Apart Gustaw Herling 1951 Polish Polish
7995 We The Living Ayn Rand 1936 American English
8019 Mirrors Eduardo Galeano 2008 Uruguayan Spanish
8052 Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Paulo Freire 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
8066 The Price Of A Ticket James Baldwin 1985 American English
8103 I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Maryse Condé 1986 Guadeloupean French
8107 Daughter Of Earth Agnes Smedley 1929 American English
8144 Alindarka’s Children Alhierld Bakharevich 2014 Belarusian Belarusian
8144 Down Girl Kate Manne 2017 American English
8192 Temblor Rosa Montero 1990 Spanish Spanish
8245 The Work Of A Common Woman Judy Grahn 1978 American English
8255 In The Country Of Men Hisham Matar 2006 British English
8300 Khwabnama Akhtaruzzaman Elias 1996 Bangladeshi Bengali
8360 On Strike Against God Joanna Russ 1980 American English
8387 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
8473 La Pell De Brau Salvador Espríu 1960 Catalan Catalan
8517 Os Escravos Castro Alves 1883 Brazilian Portuguese
8564 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8618 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8733 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8744 Biko Donald Woods 1978 South African English