The Greatest Books of All Time on Persecution

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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
113 The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 1947 Dutch Dutch
187 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 1940 British English
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
610 Requiem Anna Akhmatova 1963 Russian Russian
740 Silence Shūsaku Endō 1966 Japanese Japanese
757 The Adventures of Caleb Williams William Godwin 1794 British English
832 The Last Of The Just André Schwarz-Bart 1959 French French
1021 If Not Now, When? Primo Levi 1982 Italian Italian
1028 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally 1982 Australian English
1303 The Seventh Cross Anna Seghers 1942 German German
1329 Exodus Leon Uris 1958 American English
1362 The Heart Of Midlothian Sir Walter Scott 1818 Scottish English
1430 The Wandering Jew Eugène Sue 1844 French French
1683 The Life Written By Himself the Archpriest Avvakum 1666 Russian Russian
1718 The Fixer Bernard Malamud 1966 American English
2133 I Will Bear Witness Victor Klemperer 1995 German German
2190 Les Tragiques Agrippa d'Aubigné 1616 French French
2422 Galileo Bertolt Brecht 1938 German German
2616 The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman Andrzej Szczypiorski 1986 Polish Polish
2710 Alan Turing Andrew Hodges 1983 British English
3279 Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas 1992 Cuban Spanish
3479 The Use Of Man Aleksandar Tišma 1976 Serbian Serbo-croatian
3624 Sepharad Antonio Muñoz Molina 2001 Spanish Spanish
3638 Armenian Atrocities Arnold J. Toynbee 1915 British English
3638 Exile Lion Feuchtwanger 1940 German German
4099 Четвёртая проза Osip Mandelstam 1930 Russian Russian
4101 Life And Death In Shanghai Nien Cheng 1986 Chinese English
4195 The Oppermanns Lion Feuchtwanger 1933 German German
4553 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr 1971 German English
4828 Cataract Mykhaylo Osadchy 1976 Ukrainian Ukrainian
5435 Communism In Spain In The Franco Era Jorge Semprún 1980 Spanish Spanish
5776 My Happy Days In Hell György Faludy 1962 Hungarian Hungarian
5935 Die Bertinis Ralph Giordano 1982 German German
6215 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
6340 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6340 In Hitler's Germany Bernt Engelmann 1986 German English
6747 The Silent Steppe Mukhamet Shayakhmetov 2006 Kazakh English
7040 Hope Against Hope Nadezhda Mandelstam 1970 Russian Russian
7086 Lajja Taslima Nasrin 1993 Bangladeshi Bengali
7110 Journey Into The Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg 1967 Russian Russian
7151 The Shawl Cynthia Ozick 1989 American English
7215 Poems Of H. Leivick H. Leivick 1918 Yiddish Yiddish
7615 The Heretic Miguel Delibes 1998 Spanish Spanish
8101 I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Maryse Condé 1986 Guadeloupean French
8195 Against The Inquisition Marco Aguinis 1991 Argentine Spanish
8666 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 1971 Dutch English
9792 The Past Is Myself Christabel Bielenberg 1968 German English
10135 Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 1978 Israeli Hebrew
10167 Dragon's Teeth Upton Sinclair 1942 American English
10280 A Bag Of Marbles Joseph Joffo 1973 French French
10303 Walls Hiltgunt Zassenhaus 1974 German English
10437 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10448 Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without A Number Jacobo Timerman 1981 Argentinian Spanish
10883 Sabbatai Sevi Gershom Scholem 1973 German German
11271 The Ill Fated Peregrinations Of Fray Servando Reinaldo Arenas 1987 Cuban Spanish
11899 Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman 1988 Polish English
11939 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
12324 Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer 1991 American English
13885 Anne Frank Francine Prose 2009 American English
14879 Dulcitius Hrotsvitha 990 German Latin
14983 Number The Stars Lois Lowry 1989 American English
15897 October 16, 1943 Giacomo Debenedetti 1944 Italian Italian
15897 Blood Of The Martyrs Naomi Mitchison 1948 British English
16520 A Mirror for Witches Esther Forbes 1928 American English
16581 The Diary Of Anne Frank Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich 1955 American English
17117 The Statement Brian Moore 1995 Irish English
17117 The Ruin Of All Witches Malcolm Gaskill 2021 British English
17117 Bent Martin Sherman 1979 British English
17117 All Can Be Saved Stuart B. Schwartz 2008 American English
17117 A Man From Bashmour Salwa Bakr 2007 Egyptian Arabic
16890 Dear And Glorious Physician Taylor Caldwell 1959 American English
17117 The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer 2010 American English
17117 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17117 Voyage Of The Damned Frances White 2024 Unknown English
17117 The Days Of Vengeance David H. Chilton 1987 Canadian English
16881 Flotsam Erich Maria Remarque 1939 German German