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
8665 Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas 1845 French French
8674 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8689 Wicked Gregory Maguire 1995 American English
8759 Rats And Gargoyles Mary Gentle 1990 British English
8762 Prentice Alvin Orson Scott Card 1989 American English
8814 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8825 The Laws Of Hospitality Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8834 The Flies Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8868 African Stories Doris May Lessing 1964 British English
8873 Yawning Heights Alexander Sinowjew 1976 Russian Russian
8888 Cendrillon Éric Reinhardt 2007 French French
8939 Queen Of The Conquered Kacen Callender 2019 American English
8946 Os Cavalinhos De Platiplanto José J. Veiga 1959 Brazilian Portuguese
8965 O Uraguai Basílio Da Gama 1769 Brazilian Portuguese
9000 The Emperor Of Ocean Park Stephen L. Carter 2002 American English
9002 Circe's Mountain Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1959 German Unknown
9008 Four Plays Jean Giraudoux 1967 French French
9021 Kalimantaan C. S. Godshalk 1998 American English
9073 Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow 1989 American English
9073 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9093 River God Wilbur Smith 1993 South African English
9115 The Wine Dark Sea Leonardo Sciascia 1968 Italian Italian
9131 Why the West Rules - For Now Ian Morris 2010 British English
9158 Decolonising The Mind Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1986 Kenyan English
9168 Oleanna David Mamet 1992 American English
9239 The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks 1977 American English
9250 Sor Juana Or, The Traps Of Faith Octavio Paz 1982 Mexican Spanish
9256 The Grace Of Kings Ken Liu 2015 American English
9261 The Price of Power Seymour M. Hersh 1983 American English
9292 Project For A Revolution In New York Alain Robbe-Grillet 1970 French French
9327 René’S Flesh Virgilio Piñera 1988 Cuban Spanish
9340 Master Of The Crossroads Madison Smartt Bell 2000 American English
9356 Equal Danger Leonardo Sciascia 1971 Italian Italian
9585 Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 1967 American English
9624 Three Women Lisa Taddeo 2019 American English
9626 Queenpin Megan Abbott 2007 American English
9680 Not Wanted On The Voyage Timothy Findley 1984 Canadian English
9699 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9699 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9705 Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon 1952 French French
9709 Katherine Of Aragon Alison Weir 2016 British English
9715 The Crucible Arthur Miller 1953 American English
9716 Laxdæla Saga Unknown 1245 Icelandic Old norse
9720 The Moon and the Sun Vonda N. McIntyre 1997 American English
9727 Gagner La Guerre Jean-Philippe Jaworski 2009 French French
9790 Cry To Heaven Anne Rice 1982 American English
9796 Minion L. A. Banks 2003 American English
9798 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
9805 The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemisin 2016 American English
9806 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
9857 Mary Queen Of Scots Antonia Fraser 1969 British English
9917 The Eyes Of The Dragon Stephen King 1987 American English
9918 Critical Race Theory Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas 1995 American English
9926 The Eagle's Throne Carlos Fuentes 2002 Mexican Spanish
9981 Shadow & Claw Gene Wolfe 1994 American English
9999 Seeing Like A Feminist Nivedita Menon 2012 Indian English
10002 Where Tigers Are At Home Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès 2008 French French
10013 The Zafarani Files Jamal al- Ghitani 1976 Egyptian Arabic
10025 The Dreaming City Michael Moorcock 1961 British English
10034 Maoism Julia Lovell 2019 British English
10104 Orwell And Politics George Orwell 2001 British English
10131 Advances Anita Burgh 1998 British English
10165 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
10219 Great Granny Webster Caroline Blackwood 1977 English English
10241 Oliver Cromwell L. du Garde Peach 1963 British English
10241 The Man Who Would Be King Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
10260 The Warrior Who Carried Life Geoff Ryman 1985 British English
10305 Shakespeare Our Contemporary Jan Kott 1961 Polish Polish
10305 History Of The Russian Revolution Leon Trotsky 1930 Russian Russian
10361 Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
10424 Abaddon's Gate James S. A. Corey 2013 American English
10449 Luce and His Empire W. A. Swanberg 1972 American English
10450 Intimacies Katie Kitamura 2021 American English
10486 Until The Lions Karthika Nair 2015 French English
10493 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
10522 Montana 1948 Larry Watson 1993 American English
10577 The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison 2014 American English
10583 Heartfire Orson Scott Card 1998 American English
10601 The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare 1590 British English
10629 Last Of The Barons Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1843 British English
10660 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10748 Spanking The Maid Robert Coover 1982 American English
10759 Notes On A Foreign Country Suzy Hansen 2017 American English
10764 A Darker Shade Of Magic V. E. Schwab 2015 American English
10765 An Embarrassment Of Riches Simon Schama 1987 British English
10769 Huey Long T. Harry Williams 1969 American English
10776 Sandalwood Death Yan Mo 2001 Chinese Chinese
10797 A Woman Of Substance Barbara Taylor Bradford 1979 British English
10818 An Untamed State Roxane Gay 2014 American English
10821 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
10844 The Wrath & The Dawn Renée Ahdieh 2015 American English
10852 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10864 Ancillary Sword Ann Leckie 2014 American English
10864 City Of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett 2014 American English
10883 A Man In Full (A Novel) Tom Wolfe 1998 American English
10896 After Many A Summer Dies The Swan Aldous Huxley 1939 British English
10920 Pope Joan Donna Cross 1996 American English
10945 Golden Hill Francis Spufford 2016 British English
10955 The City Of Brass S. A. Chakraborty 2017 Egyptian English
10955 The Magicians Lev Grossman 2009 American English
10959 Radiant Terminus Antoine Volodine 2014 French French
10960 Gideon The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2019 New Zealand English
10968 The Wall Of Storms Ken Liu 2016 American English
10970 Pornography Andrea Dworkin 1981 American English
10978 Man Made Language Dale Spender 1980 Australian English
10996 The History Of Sexuality Michel Foucault 1976 French French
11036 Babylon's Ashes James S. A. Corey 2016 American English
11042 The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste 2019 American English
11055 Two Years Eight Months And Twenty Eight Nights Salman Rushdie 2015 British English
11064 Manila Envelope James Fenton Unknown Unknown
11109 Stations of the Tide Michael Swanwick 1991 American English
11109 Moving Mars Greg Bear 1993 American English
11109 Powers Ursula K. Le Guin 2007 American English
11164 Foe J. M. Coetzee 1986 South African English
11173 Philosophy In The Boudoir Marquis de Sade 1795 French French
11174 Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov 1982 American English
11184 Die Puppenspieler Tanja Kinkel 1995 German German
11246 The Island Of Slaves Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1725 French French
11248 Queen Margot Alexandre Dumas 1845 French French
11265 Empire Of Sand Tasha Suri 2018 British English