The Greatest Books of All Time on Power

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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
6855 Ualalapi Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa 1987 Mozambican Portuguese
6868 The Cruel Prince Holly Black 2018 American English
6890 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 2001 Irish English
6903 Selected Poems II Margaret Atwood 1987 Canadian English
6919 S.C.U.M. Manifesto Valerie Solanas 1967 American English
6922 Necropolitics Achille Mbembe 2003 French French
6921 São Bernardo Graciliano Ramos 1934 Brazilian Portuguese
6928 The Repairer Of Reputations Robert W. Chambers 1895 American English
6944 Elizabeth Ken Greenhall 1976 American English
6951 The Invention Of Africa V. Y. Mudimbe 1988 Congolese English
6986 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
6996 Dina's Book Herbjørg Wassmo 1989 Norwegian Norwegian
7034 Democracy And Power In An American City Robert Dahl 1961 American English
7034 Madness And Civilization Michel Foucault 1961 French French
7041 The Man In The Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas 1847 French French
7073 Augustus John Williams 1972 American English
7079 A Court Of Mist And Fury Sarah J. Maas 2016 American English
7093 Small Gods Terry Pratchett 1992 British English
7141 Jade City Fonda Lee 2017 Chinese English
7147 Captains And The Kings Taylor Caldwell 1972 American English
7203 Gb84 David Peace 2004 British English
7216 The Moon is Down John Steinbeck 1942 American English
7216 Saul Vittorio Alfieri 1782 Italian Italian
7216 The Mighty Magician Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1637 Spanish Spanish
7216 Plays Francis Beaumont 1607 British English
7216 The Revenger's Tragedy Cyril Tourneur 1607 British English
7216 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7216 Mémoires Philippe de Commynes 1524 French French
7216 Mark Antony Robert Garnier 1578 French French
7216 Nicomède Pierre Corneille 1651 French French
7216 Cinna Pierre Corneille 1641 French French
7216 Rodogune Pierre Corneille 1644 French French
7216 Britannicus Jean Racine 1669 French French
7216 Athaliah Jean Racine 1691 French French
7216 Verse Plays Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1800 German German
7216 Wallenstein Friedrich Schiller 1799 German German
7216 Five Plays Heinrich von Kleist 1808 German German
7216 Hymn To Satan Giosué Carducci 1865 Italian Italian
7216 Emperor And Galilean Henrik Ibsen 1873 Norwegian Norwegian
7216 The Dance Of Death August Strindberg 1900 Swedish Swedish
7216 The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1876 British English
7216 Danton's Death Georg Buchner 1835 German German
7216 The Conduct Of Life Ralph Waldo Emerson 1860 American English
7216 Selected Works Alfred Jarry 1901 French French
7216 The Woman Of The Pharisees François Mauriac 1941 French French
7216 The Wheel Of Fire George Wilson Knight 1930 British English
7216 The Burning Oracle George Wilson Knight 1939 British Unknown
7216 Lulu Plays Frank Wedekind 1895 German German
7216 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7216 Europe After The Rain Alan Burns 1965 British English
7216 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7216 The Bloater Rosemary Tonks 1968 English English
7589 Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen 1995 British English
7604 Sin Remedio Antonio Caballero 1984 Colombian Spanish
7672 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
7692 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7700 El vuelo de la reina Tomás Eloy Martínez 1986 Argentinian Spanish
7738 Becoming Madame Mao Anchee Min 2000 American English
7745 Désirée Annemarie Selinko 1951 Austrian German
7752 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff 2019 American English
7761 Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 2019 Jamaican English
7772 Napoleon Vincent Cronin 1971 British English
7804 Anno Dracula Kim Newman 1992 British English
7846 Kingdom Cons Yuri Herrera 2008 Mexican Spanish
7853 L'organisation Jean Rolin 1996 French French
7853 La Sorcière Marie NDiaye 1996 French French
7861 The Rehearsal Jean Anouilh 1950 French French
7883 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
7891 Love Toni Morrison 2003 American English
7915 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Ismail Kadare 2000 Albanian Albanian
7911 The Lesson Eugène Ionesco 1951 French French
7911 The Town William Faulkner 1957 American English
7923 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7937 Absolute Power David Baldacci 1996 American English
7943 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
7963 The Good Hope William Heinesen 1964 Danish Danish
7964 Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible Peter Pomerantsev 2014 British English
7967 Mountolive Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7977 Trust Exercise Susan Choi 2019 American English
7979 Spinning Silver Naomi Novik 2018 American English
8007 The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White 1973 Australian English
8019 Mirrors Eduardo Galeano 2008 Uruguayan Spanish
8023 Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer 1983 American English
8059 The Dragon Republic R. F. Kuang 2019 American English
8061 The Anarchy William Dalrymple 2019 British English
8107 Memoirs Of A Korean Queen Lady Hyegyeong 1795 Korean Korean
8144 Bathsheba Torgny Lindgren 1984 Swedish Swedish
8144 Down Girl Kate Manne 2017 American English
8176 Saints And Strangers Angela Carter 1985 British English
8178 Cards Of Identity Nigel Dennis 1955 British English
8192 Temblor Rosa Montero 1990 Spanish Spanish
8206 Waking the Moon Elizabeth Hand, Elisabeth Hand 1994 American English
8252 Serve The People! Yan Lianke 2005 Chinese Chinese
8292 Crónica De Un Iniciado Abelardo Castillo 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8296 La Guerra De Galio Héctor Aguilar Camín 1991 Mexican Spanish
8299 Empire Of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 American English
8314 Vigilia Del Almirante Augusto Roa Bastos 1992 Paraguayan Spanish
8322 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
8330 Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
8349 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
8363 Moral Man And Immoral Society Reinhold Niebuhr 1932 American English
8389 Becket Jean Anouilh 1959 French French
8401 Graceling Kristin Cashore 2008 American English
8405 Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett 1988 British English
8414 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
8425 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N. K. Jemisin 2010 American English
8445 The Diary Of A Gulag Prison Guard 1935 6 Ivan Chistyakov 2016 Russian Russian
8445 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8466 The Successor Ismail Kadare 2003 Albanian Albanian
8473 Three Novels Witold Gombrowicz 1960 Polish Polish
8528 The Secret History Procopius 550 Multiple Greek
8535 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 American English
8542 Plays Of John Arden John Arden 1961 British English
8553 Igur Neblí Miquel de Palol 1994 Spanish Unknown
8577 Witchmark C. L. Polk 2018 Canadian English
8594 The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss 2011 American English
8622 Age Of Fracture Daniel T. Rodgers 2011 American English
8633 Red Prophet Orson Scott Card 1988 American English
8647 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1976 British English
8660 Krabat Otfried Preußler 1971 German German