The Greatest Books of All Time on Propaganda

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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
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
55 Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 British English
440 The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt 1951 German English
448 Homage to Catalonia George Orwell 1938 British English
716 Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler 1925 German German
918 The Plot Against America Philip Roth 2004 American English
2132 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962 American English
2479 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer 1960 American English
3521 Nothing to Envy Barbara Demick 2009 American English
3638 The Language Of The Third Reich Victor Klemperer 1947 German German
3897 The Meaning of Hitler Sebastian Haffner 1978 German German
4517 When The Wind Blows Raymond Briggs 1982 British English
5722 Politics And The English Language George Orwell 1946 British English
5860 The Last Days of Mankind Karl Kraus 1919 Austrian German
6340 In Hitler's Germany Bernt Engelmann 1986 German English
6476 Second World War John Keegan 1989 British English
6655 Aus Dem Wörterbuch Des Unmenschen Dolf Sternberger 1989 German German
6787 The Splendid And The Vile Erik Larson 2020 American English
7215 It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis 1935 American English
7963 Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible Peter Pomerantsev 2014 British English
8384 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
9216 On Tyranny Timothy Snyder 2017 American English
10103 Orwell And Politics George Orwell 2001 British English
10303 Russia El Lissitsky 1930 Russian Russian
10496 The Second Oldest Profession Phillip Knightley 1986 British English
11029 Cinema And History Marc Ferro 1977 French French
11134 Black Flags Joby Warrick 2015 American English
12324 The First World War John Keegan 1998 British English
13504 Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman 1988 American English
13585 Octobriana And The Russian Underground Peter Sadecky 1971 Unknown English
13817 M Antonio Scurati 2018 Italian Italian
14709 History Of The World War Frank H. Simonds 1917 American English
14713 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
14983 War Without Mercy John W. Dower 1986 American English
14983 The Public Burning Robert Coover 1977 American English
14983 Mockingjay Suzanne Collins 2010 American English
14983 Hitler And Stalin Alan Bullock 1991 British English
15629 A History Of The Great War John Buchan 1921 British English
15749 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15745 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
15897 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Unknown 1903 Multiple Russian
15897 Berlin Diary William L. Shirer 1941 British English
15897 Red Star Over China Edgar Snow 1937 American English
15897 I, Claud Claud Cockburn 1962 Irish English
15897 None Dare Call It Treason John A. Stormer 1964 American English
16685 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
17117 Walter Lippmann and the American Century Ronald Steel 1980 American English
17117 War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 2002 American English
17029 Dulce Ca Mierea E Glonțul Patriei Petru Popescu 1974 Romanian Romanian
17117 The Jagged Orbit John Brunner 1969 British English
17117 Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum 2012 American English
16990 For My Legionaries Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1936 Romanian Romanian
17117 The Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky 1983 American English
17117 Harry Truman And The War Scare Of 1948 Frank Kofsky 1993 American English
17117 Please Don’t Call Me Human Wang Shuo 1991 Chinese Chinese
17117 The Fat Years Chan Koonchung 2009 Chinese Chinese
17117 The Cultural Revolution Frank Dikötter 2016 Chinese English
17117 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17117 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
17117 The Book At War Andrew Pettegree 2023 Unknown English
17117 Chinese Shadows Simon Leys 1974 Belgian French
17117 America, The Farewell Tour Chris Hedges 2018 American English
17117 1984 & Animal Farm George Orwell British English
17117 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English
17117 Who Paid The Pipers Of Western Marxism? Gabriel Rockhill American English
16926 1984 george orwell 1948 British English
17117 Tom Mix And Pancho Villa Clifford Irving 1982 American English