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
8897 Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis 2003 American English
8940 Queen Of The Conquered Kacen Callender 2019 American English
9047 Death as a Side Effect Ana María Shua 1997 Argentinian Spanish
9098 The Vanishing Generation Bagila Bukharbayeva 2019 Uzbek English
9098 Life Went On Anyway Oleg Sentsov 2019 Ukrainian Russian
9135 Raised From The Ground José Saramago 1980 Portuguese Portuguese
9159 Decolonising The Mind Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1986 Kenyan English
9184 A Theology Of Liberation Gustavo Gutierrez 1971 Peruvian Spanish
9242 Silences Tillie Olsen 1978 American English
9260 The Sexual Politics Of Meat Carol J. Adams 1990 American English
9261 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
9275 The Butcher's Wife And Other Stories Li Ang 1983 Taiwanese Chinese
9315 Exterminate All The Brutes Sven Lindqvist 1992 Swedish Swedish
9324 Terra Nullius Sven Lindqvist 2007 Swedish Swedish
9352 That Smell Sonallah Ibrahim 1966 Egyptian Arabic
9376 Stolen Spring Hans Scherfig 1940 Danish Danish
9532 A Torch Against The Night Sabaa Tahir 2016 American English
9550 Poems Of Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Guillén 1972 Cuban Spanish
9599 The Noodle Maker Ma Jian 2004 Chinese Chinese
9630 Largo Desolato Vaclav Havel 1985 Czech Czech
9676 Easy Reading Cristina Morales 2018 Spanish Spanish
9707 Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon 1952 French French
9743 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
9766 The Reign Of Greed José Rizal 1891 Filipino Spanish
9795 The Past Is Myself Christabel Bielenberg 1968 German English
9807 The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemisin 2016 American English
9835 The Fool Edward Bond 1975 British English
9835 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
9885 The Wall Jean Paul Sartre 1939 French French
9942 Crusade For Justice Ida B. Wells 1970 American English
10063 Die Totalitäre Erfahrung Karl Dietrich Bracher 1987 German German
10121 Angosta Héctor Abad Faciolince 2003 Colombian Spanish
10308 Walls Hiltgunt Zassenhaus 1974 German English
10308 Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Victor Serge 1951 French French
10442 Rain Of Scorpions And Other Stories Estela Portillo Trambley 1975 American English
10442 Two Women In One Nawal El Saadawi 1975 Egyptian Arabic
10442 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10488 Munnu Malik Sajad 2015 Indian English
10495 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
10497 Battlefield Earth L. Ron Hubbard 1982 American English
10498 Dekada '70 Lualhati Bautista 1984 Filipino Filipino
10509 Trinity Leon Uris 1976 American English
10530 Lumumba Speaks Patrice Lumumba 1967 Congolese French
10573 The Censors Luisa Valenzuela 1976 Argentinian Spanish
10646 Poonachi Perumal Murugan 2016 Indian Tamil
10744 The Collector Of Treasures Bessie Head 1977 Botswanan English
10762 A Moonless, Starless Sky Alexis Okeowo 2017 American English
10811 The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy 2014 Indian English
10830 The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun 1985 Moroccan French
10837 Ants Among Elephants Sujatha Gidla 2017 American English
10871 Copper Sun Sharon M. Draper 2006 American English
10927 Fear No Evil Natan Sharansky 1988 Israeli English
10943 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
10974 Pornography Andrea Dworkin 1981 American English
10994 Not Without My Daughter Betty Mahmoody 1987 American English
11046 Hellfire Leesa Gazi 2019 Bangladeshi Bengali
11113 Powers Ursula K. Le Guin 2007 American English
11167 Krilon Eyvind Johnson 1941 Swedish Swedish
11269 Empire Of Sand Tasha Suri 2018 British English
11257 Distant View Of A Minaret Alifa Rifaat 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11257 Loving In The War Years Cherríe Moraga 1983 American English
11257 Scraps Of Life Marjorie Agosín 1983 Chilean Spanish
11337 Memoirs From The Women’s Prison Nawal El Saadawi 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11346 Yours In Struggle Barbara Smith, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Elly Bulkin 1984 American English
11389 The Nemesis Manoranjan Byapari 2018 Unknown Bengali
11445 The Land Of Look Behind Michelle Cliff 1985 American English
11445 A Mountainous Journey Fadwa Tuqan 1985 Palestinian Arabic
11471 Batouala René Maran 1921 French French
11500 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11540 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11545 Half The Sky Nicholas Kristof 2009 American English
11547 A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 Lu Xun 1918 Chinese Chinese
11582 Getting Home Alive Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales 1986 American English
11582 The Impenetrable Madam X Griselda Gambaro 1986 Argentinian Spanish
11868 The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde 1997 American English
11870 Century Of Locusts Malika Mokedden 1999 Algerian French
11901 Dumba Nengue, Run For Your Life Lina Magaia 1988 Mozambican Portuguese
11901 Grey Is The Colour Of Hope Irina Ratushinskaya 1988 Russian Russian
12084 Talking Back bell hooks 1989 American English
12084 Women Of Sand And Myrrh Hanan Al-Shaykh 1989 Lebanese Arabic
12222 The Swallows Of Kabul Yasmina Khadra 2002 Algerian French
12259 And They Didn't Die Lauretta Ngcobo 1990 South African English
12302 Shadows Of Tender Fury Subcomandante Marcos 1995 Mexican Spanish
12311 Pavane Keith Roberts 1968 British English
12326 The Island Gustaw Herling 1958 Polish Polish
12419 Desert J. M. G. Le Clezio 1980 French French
12515 How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed Slavenka Drakulic 1991 Croatian English
12515 Nampally Road Meena Alexander 1991 Indian English
12515 Rebellion Minnie Bruce Pratt 1991 American English
12576 My Half Century Anna Akhmatova 1997 Russian Russian
12765 Father's On The Phone With The Flies Herta Müller 2012 German German
12834 Princess Jean Sasson 1992 American English
12834 The Straight Mind Monique Wittig 1992 French French
13237 Making Trouble Loa Ho 1930 Chinese Chinese
13279 This Blinding Absence Of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun 2001 French French
13269 Burmese Looking Glass Edith Mirante 1993 American English
13500 The Ship Of Fools Cristina Peri Rossi 2021 Uruguayan Spanish
13511 Machinal Sophie Treadwell 1928 American English
13600 The Savage State Georges Conchon French French
13818 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
13886 An Unkindness Of Ghosts Rivers Solomon 2017 American English
13938 Marat Sade Peter Weiss 1963 German German
14063 Silent Close No. 6 Monika Maron 1991 German German
14078 Riot Baby Tochi Onyebuchi 2020 American English
14078 Deaf Republic Ilya Kaminsky 2019 American English
14210 The Word For World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 American English
14232 Freedom Is A Constant Struggle Angela Davis 2016 American English
14331 Execution Of Mayor Yin Chen Ruoxi 1978 Chinese Chinese
14390 Early Novels and Stories James Baldwin 1984 American English
14665 Raise The Red Lantern Su Tong 1990 Chinese Chinese
14714 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
14718 El Supremo Edward Lucas White 1916 American English
14732 The Secret Of Santa Vittoria Robert Crichton 1966 American English
14899 The Third Life Of Grange Copeland Alice Walker 1970 American English
14899 When Rain Clouds Gather Bessie Head 1968 Botswana English
14951 The Dutchman Amiri Baraka 1964 American English
14985 Iron Council China Miéville 2004 British English
14985 Property Valerie Martin 2003 American English
14985 Age Of Iron J. M. Coetzee 1990 South African English
14985 Cloud 9 Caryl Churchill 1979 British English