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
4098 Четвёртая проза Osip Mandelstam 1930 Russian Russian
4139 Le Vieux Nègre Et La Médaille Ferdinand Oyono 1956 French French
4188 An Ember In The Ashes Sabaa Tahir 2015 American English
4194 The Oppermanns Lion Feuchtwanger 1933 German German
4201 Ain't I A Woman? bell hooks 1981 American English
4204 The Colonizer and the Colonized Albert Memmi 1957 French French
4268 Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? Nikolay Nekrasov 1870 Russian Russian
4271 The Noise Of Time Osip Mandelstam 1925 Russian Russian
4273 Journey From St. Petersburg To Moscow Alexander Radishchev 1790 Russian Russian
4308 The Mark Of Zorro Johnston McCulley 1919 American English
4411 The Iron Candlestick Dimitar Talev 1952 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4419 Trifles Susan Glaspell 1916 American English
4474 Al Mawt `Ala Al Asfalt `Abd al-Rahman Abnudi 1960 Egyptian Arabic
4509 The Palace Of Dreams Ismail Kadare 1981 Albanian Albanian
4555 The Blood Knot Athol Fugard 1961 South African English
4580 The Autobiography Of A Runaway Slave Miguel Barnet 1966 Cuban Spanish
4613 Gulag Anne Applebaum 2003 American English
4662 Dusklands J. M. Coetzee 1974 South African English
4672 Time Of Parting Anton Donchev 1964 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4684 Extracts From Notes On The Bulgarian Uprisings Zahari Stoyanov 1884 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4722 Mission Box Aris Alexandrou 1974 Greek Greek
4744 Nos Matamos O Cão Tinhoso Bernardo Honwana 1964 Mozambican Portuguese
4828 Cataract Mykhaylo Osadchy 1976 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4877 The Little Black Fish Samad Behrangi 1968 Iranian Persian
4933 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4939 In the Heart of the Country J. M. Coetzee 1977 South African English
5037 Eight Men Richard Wright 1961 American English
5125 Αντιποίησις Αρχής Alexandros Kotzias 1979 Greek Greek
5146 Dawn Elie Wiesel 1961 Romanian French
5147 Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez 2002 American English
5149 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5184 The Struggle For Mozambique Eduardo Mondlane 1969 Mozambican English
5275 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5292 Padre Padrone Gavino Ledda 1975 Italian Italian
5324 If He Hollers Let Him Go Chester Himes 1945 American English
5352 Stasiland Anna Funder 2002 Australian English
5447 The Burn Vassily Aksyonov 1975 Russian Russian
5447 Imperium Ryszard Kapuscinski 1993 Polish Polish
5501 Warsaw Diary Kazimierz Brandys 1978 Polish Polish
5519 Nós Os Do Makulusu José Luandino Vieira 1974 Angolan Portuguese
5530 Nikola The Outlaw Ivan Olbracht 1933 Czech Czech
5606 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5611 Zuleikha Guzel Yakhina 2015 Russian Russian
5621 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
5666 Le Polygone Etoile Kateb Yacine 1961 French French
5751 Shadows On The Tundra Dalia Grinkevičiutė 1997 Lithuanian Lithuanian
5751 Flight Of Ashes Monika Maron 1981 German German
5829 Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega 1619 Spanish Spanish
5924 In Search Of Our Mother’s Gardens Alice Walker 1983 American English
5956 The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena Elsa Joubert 1978 South African Afrikaans
5956 House Of Hunger Dambudzo Marechera 1978 Zimbabwean English
5997 The Dialectic Of Sex Shulamith Firestone 1970 American English
6003 A Woman Named Solitude André Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6003 Bound To Violence Yambo Ouologuem 1968 Malian French
6003 Night Edgar Hilsenrath 1964 German German
6090 They Burn the Thistles Yaşar Kemal 1969 Turkish Turkish
6100 Life and a Half Sony Labou Tansi 1979 French French
6147 My Tender Matador Pedro Lemebel 2001 Chilean Spanish
6153 Women As Lovers Elfriede Jelinek 1975 Austrian German
6197 Tóték István Örkény 1967 Hungarian Hungarian
6212 The Unconquered Country Geoff Ryman 1986 Canadian English
6249 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
6312 Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada 1947 German German
6334 Spartacus Raffaello Giovagnoli 1874 Italian Italian
6341 In Hitler's Germany Bernt Engelmann 1986 German English
6414 My Forbidden Face Latifa 2001 Afghan French
6454 The Arrivants Kamau Brathwaite 1973 Barbadian English
6466 The Overseer's Cabin Edouard Glissant 1981 French French
6492 Moses, Man Of The Mountain Zora Neale Hurston 1939 American English
6539 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
7189 Close To The Knives David Wojnarowicz 1991 American English
7205 Flight From The Ussr Dato Turashvili 2010 Georgian Georgian
7213 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
7215 The Moon is Down John Steinbeck 1942 American English
7215 Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1788 German German
7215 The Storm Aleksandr Ostrovsky 1860 Russian Russian
7215 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7576 The Racial Contract Charles W. Mills 1997 American English
7655 Collected Poetry Aimé Césaire 1946 French French
7691 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7754 Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2007 Dutch English
7903 Move Your Shadow Joseph Lelyveld 1986 American English
7939 The Fourth World Diamela Eltit 1988 Chilean Spanish
7949 Woman On The Edge Of Time Marge Piercy 1976 American English
7962 The Good Hope William Heinesen 1964 Danish Danish
7977 Anthem Ayn Rand 1938 American English
7992 A World Apart Gustaw Herling 1951 Polish Polish
7994 We The Living Ayn Rand 1936 American English
8018 Mirrors Eduardo Galeano 2008 Uruguayan Spanish
8051 Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Paulo Freire 1970 Brazilian Portuguese
8065 The Price Of A Ticket James Baldwin 1985 American English
8101 I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Maryse Condé 1986 Guadeloupean French
8105 Daughter Of Earth Agnes Smedley 1929 American English
8142 Alindarka’s Children Alhierld Bakharevich 2014 Belarusian Belarusian
8142 Down Girl Kate Manne 2017 American English
8190 Temblor Rosa Montero 1990 Spanish Spanish
8243 The Work Of A Common Woman Judy Grahn 1978 American English
8253 In The Country Of Men Hisham Matar 2006 British English
8298 Khwabnama Akhtaruzzaman Elias 1996 Bangladeshi Bengali
8358 On Strike Against God Joanna Russ 1980 American English
8385 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
8471 La Pell De Brau Salvador Espríu 1960 Catalan Catalan
8515 Os Escravos Castro Alves 1883 Brazilian Portuguese
8562 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8616 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8730 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8741 Biko Donald Woods 1978 South African English