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
2133 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962 American English
2481 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
3896 The Meaning of Hitler Sebastian Haffner 1978 German German
4519 When The Wind Blows Raymond Briggs 1982 British English
5725 Politics And The English Language George Orwell 1946 British English
5863 The Last Days of Mankind Karl Kraus 1919 Austrian German
6343 In Hitler's Germany Bernt Engelmann 1986 German English
6478 Second World War John Keegan 1989 British English
6657 Aus Dem Wörterbuch Des Unmenschen Dolf Sternberger 1989 German German
6788 The Splendid And The Vile Erik Larson 2020 American English
7216 It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis 1935 American English
7964 Nothing Is True And Everything Is Possible Peter Pomerantsev 2014 British English
8387 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
9220 On Tyranny Timothy Snyder 2017 American English
10108 Orwell And Politics George Orwell 2001 British English
10308 Russia El Lissitsky 1930 Russian Russian
10501 The Second Oldest Profession Phillip Knightley 1986 British English
11035 Cinema And History Marc Ferro 1977 French French
11140 Black Flags Joby Warrick 2015 American English
12326 The First World War John Keegan 1998 British English
13506 Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman 1988 American English
13586 Octobriana And The Russian Underground Peter Sadecky 1971 Unknown English
13818 M Antonio Scurati 2018 Italian Italian
14710 History Of The World War Frank H. Simonds 1917 American English
14714 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
14985 War Without Mercy John W. Dower 1986 American English
14985 The Public Burning Robert Coover 1977 American English
14985 Mockingjay Suzanne Collins 2010 American English
14985 Hitler And Stalin Alan Bullock 1991 British English
15637 A History Of The Great War John Buchan 1921 British English
15753 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
15757 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15915 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Unknown 1903 Multiple Russian
15915 Berlin Diary William L. Shirer 1941 British English
15915 Red Star Over China Edgar Snow 1937 American English
15915 I, Claud Claud Cockburn 1962 Irish English
15915 None Dare Call It Treason John A. Stormer 1964 American English
16724 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
17161 Walter Lippmann and the American Century Ronald Steel 1980 American English
17161 War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 2002 American English
17068 Dulce Ca Mierea E Glonțul Patriei Petru Popescu 1974 Romanian Romanian
17161 The Jagged Orbit John Brunner 1969 British English
17161 Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum 2012 American English
17035 For My Legionaries Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1936 Romanian Romanian
17161 The Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky 1983 American English
17161 Harry Truman And The War Scare Of 1948 Frank Kofsky 1993 American English
17161 Please Don’t Call Me Human Wang Shuo 1991 Chinese Chinese
17161 The Fat Years Chan Koonchung 2009 Chinese Chinese
17161 The Cultural Revolution Frank Dikötter 2016 Chinese English
17161 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17161 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
17161 The Book At War Andrew Pettegree 2023 Unknown English
17161 Chinese Shadows Simon Leys 1974 Belgian French
17161 America, The Farewell Tour Chris Hedges 2018 American English
17161 1984 & Animal Farm George Orwell British English
17161 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English
17161 Who Paid The Pipers Of Western Marxism? Gabriel Rockhill American English
16963 1984 george orwell 1948 British English
17161 Tom Mix And Pancho Villa Clifford Irving 1982 American English
17101 1984 George Orwell 1948 British English
1984 George Orwell 1949 British English