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
8666 Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas 1845 French French
8675 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8690 Wicked Gregory Maguire 1995 American English
8761 Rats And Gargoyles Mary Gentle 1990 British English
8764 Prentice Alvin Orson Scott Card 1989 American English
8816 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8827 The Laws Of Hospitality Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8835 The Flies Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8869 African Stories Doris May Lessing 1964 British English
8874 Yawning Heights Alexander Sinowjew 1976 Russian Russian
8889 Cendrillon Éric Reinhardt 2007 French French
8940 Queen Of The Conquered Kacen Callender 2019 American English
8947 Os Cavalinhos De Platiplanto José J. Veiga 1959 Brazilian Portuguese
8966 O Uraguai Basílio Da Gama 1769 Brazilian Portuguese
9001 The Emperor Of Ocean Park Stephen L. Carter 2002 American English
9003 Circe's Mountain Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1959 German Unknown
9009 Four Plays Jean Giraudoux 1967 French French
9022 Kalimantaan C. S. Godshalk 1998 American English
9074 Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow 1989 American English
9074 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9094 River God Wilbur Smith 1993 South African English
9116 The Wine Dark Sea Leonardo Sciascia 1968 Italian Italian
9132 Why the West Rules - For Now Ian Morris 2010 British English
9159 Decolonising The Mind Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1986 Kenyan English
9169 Oleanna David Mamet 1992 American English
9240 The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks 1977 American English
9251 Sor Juana Or, The Traps Of Faith Octavio Paz 1982 Mexican Spanish
9257 The Grace Of Kings Ken Liu 2015 American English
9262 The Price of Power Seymour M. Hersh 1983 American English
9294 Project For A Revolution In New York Alain Robbe-Grillet 1970 French French
9329 René’S Flesh Virgilio Piñera 1988 Cuban Spanish
9342 Master Of The Crossroads Madison Smartt Bell 2000 American English
9358 Equal Danger Leonardo Sciascia 1971 Italian Italian
9587 Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 1967 American English
9626 Three Women Lisa Taddeo 2019 American English
9628 Queenpin Megan Abbott 2007 American English
9683 Not Wanted On The Voyage Timothy Findley 1984 Canadian English
9702 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9702 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9708 Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon 1952 French French
9712 Katherine Of Aragon Alison Weir 2016 British English
9718 The Crucible Arthur Miller 1953 American English
9719 Laxdæla Saga Unknown 1245 Icelandic Old norse
9723 The Moon and the Sun Vonda N. McIntyre 1997 American English
9730 Gagner La Guerre Jean-Philippe Jaworski 2009 French French
9793 Cry To Heaven Anne Rice 1982 American English
9799 Minion L. A. Banks 2003 American English
9801 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
9808 The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemisin 2016 American English
9809 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
9860 Mary Queen Of Scots Antonia Fraser 1969 British English
9920 The Eyes Of The Dragon Stephen King 1987 American English
9921 Critical Race Theory Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas 1995 American English
9930 The Eagle's Throne Carlos Fuentes 2002 Mexican Spanish
9985 Shadow & Claw Gene Wolfe 1994 American English
10003 Seeing Like A Feminist Nivedita Menon 2012 Indian English
10006 Where Tigers Are At Home Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès 2008 French French
10017 The Zafarani Files Jamal al- Ghitani 1976 Egyptian Arabic
10029 The Dreaming City Michael Moorcock 1961 British English
10038 Maoism Julia Lovell 2019 British English
10109 Orwell And Politics George Orwell 2001 British English
10135 Advances Anita Burgh 1998 British English
10169 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
10224 Great Granny Webster Caroline Blackwood 1977 English English
10246 Oliver Cromwell L. du Garde Peach 1963 British English
10246 The Man Who Would Be King Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
10264 The Warrior Who Carried Life Geoff Ryman 1985 British English
10309 Shakespeare Our Contemporary Jan Kott 1961 Polish Polish
10309 History Of The Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky 1930 Russian Russian
10365 Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
10428 Abaddon's Gate James S. A. Corey 2013 American English
10453 Luce and His Empire W. A. Swanberg 1972 American English
10454 Intimacies Katie Kitamura 2021 American English
10489 Until The Lions Karthika Nair 2015 French English
10496 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
10525 Montana 1948 Larry Watson 1993 American English
10580 The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison 2014 American English
10586 Heartfire Orson Scott Card 1998 American English
10604 The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare 1590 British English
10634 Last Of The Barons Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1843 British English
10664 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10752 Spanking The Maid Robert Coover 1982 American English
10763 Notes On A Foreign Country Suzy Hansen 2017 American English
10768 A Darker Shade Of Magic V. E. Schwab 2015 American English
10769 An Embarrassment Of Riches Simon Schama 1987 British English
10773 Huey Long T. Harry Williams 1969 American English
10780 Sandalwood Death Yan Mo 2001 Chinese Chinese
10801 A Woman Of Substance Barbara Taylor Bradford 1979 British English
10822 An Untamed State Roxane Gay 2014 American English
10826 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
10847 The Wrath & The Dawn Renée Ahdieh 2015 American English
10856 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10868 Ancillary Sword Ann Leckie 2014 American English
10868 City Of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett 2014 American English
10887 A Man In Full (A Novel) Tom Wolfe 1998 American English
10900 After Many A Summer Dies The Swan Aldous Huxley 1939 British English
10924 Pope Joan Donna Cross 1996 American English
10949 Golden Hill Francis Spufford 2016 British English
10959 The City Of Brass S. A. Chakraborty 2017 Egyptian English
10959 The Magicians Lev Grossman 2009 American English
10963 Radiant Terminus Antoine Volodine 2014 French French
10964 Gideon The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2019 New Zealand English
10972 The Wall Of Storms Ken Liu 2016 American English
10974 Pornography Andrea Dworkin 1981 American English
10982 Man Made Language Dale Spender 1980 Australian English
11000 The History Of Sexuality Michel Foucault 1976 French French
11040 Babylon's Ashes James S. A. Corey 2016 American English
11046 The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste 2019 American English
11059 Two Years Eight Months And Twenty Eight Nights Salman Rushdie 2015 British English
11068 Manila Envelope James Fenton Unknown Unknown
11113 Stations of the Tide Michael Swanwick 1991 American English
11113 Moving Mars Greg Bear 1993 American English
11113 Powers Ursula K. Le Guin 2007 American English
11168 Foe J. M. Coetzee 1986 South African English
11177 Philosophy In The Boudoir Marquis de Sade 1795 French French
11178 Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov 1982 American English
11188 Die Puppenspieler Tanja Kinkel 1995 German German
11250 The Island Of Slaves Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1725 French French
11252 Queen Margot Alexandre Dumas 1845 French French
11269 Empire Of Sand Tasha Suri 2018 British English