The Greatest Books of All Time on Rebellion

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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
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
88 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1916 Irish English
91 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 German German
125 Antigone Sophocles -441 Greek Ancient greek
127 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
150 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
154 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 American English
238 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud 1873 French French
320 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963 American English
321 We Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 Russian Russian
355 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño 1998 Chilean Spanish
380 American Pastoral Philip Roth 1997 American English
384 Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz 1937 Polish Polish
408 The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus 1942 French French
429 The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino 1957 Italian Italian
450 Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1903 British English
463 The Songs of Maldoror Comte de Lautréamont 1868 French French
482 Jakob Von Gunten Robert Walser 1909 Swiss German
526 Gormenghast Mervyn Peake 1950 British English
540 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe 1968 American English
541 The Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence 1926 British English
616 The Rebel Albert Camus 1951 French French
629 Titus Groan Mervyn Peake 1946 British English
647 Lolly Willowes Sylvia Townsend Warner 1926 British English
687 The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa 1963 Peruvian Spanish
701 The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa 2000 Peruvian Spanish
705 Oroonoko Aphra Behn 1688 British English
724 Michael Kohlhaas Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German
745 Memed, My Hawk Yashar Kemal 1955 Turkish Turkish
804 The Vegetarian Han Kang 2007 Korean Korean
955 Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 1926 Swiss French
964 Paroles Jacques Prévert 1946 French French
1006 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe 1958 British English
1008 Professor Unrat Heinrich Mann 1905 German German
1012 Invitation To A Beheading Vladimir Nabokov 1935 American Russian
1040 The German Lesson Siegfried Lenz 1968 German German
1117 The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
1151 The Water Margin Shi Naian 1370 Chinese Chinese
1154 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey 2000 Australian English
1180 Annals Cornelius Tacitus 109 Roman Latin
1232 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egyptian Arabic
1253 Absolute Beginners Colin MacInnes 1959 British English
1256 Prometheus Bound Aeschylus -455 Greek Ancient greek
1329 Exodus Leon Uris 1958 American English
1341 The Graduate Charles Webb 1963 American English
1353 William Tell Friedrich Schiller 1804 German German
1359 Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud 1886 French French
1367 Like Water For Chocolate Laura Esquivel 1989 Mexican Spanish
1451 The Children of Men P. D. James 1992 British English
1455 Antigone Jean Anouilh 1944 French French
1461 Oranges are not the only Fruit Jeanette Winterson 1985 British English
1469 Last Afternoons With Teresa Juan Marsé 1966 Spanish Spanish
1497 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez 1991 Dominican English
1504 Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey 1964 American English
1541 The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 1967 American English
1575 Borstal Boy Brendan Behan 1958 Irish English
1608 The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner Alan Sillitoe 1959 British English
1616 Under the Yoke Ivan Vazov 1888 Bulgarian Bulgarian
1687 The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington 1974 British English
1779 Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott 1817 British English
1802 Kallocain Karin Boye 1940 Swedish Swedish
1820 Fontamara Ignazio Silone 1933 Italian Italian
1834 Histories Cornelius Tacitus 100 Roman Latin
1866 The Lion of Flanders Hendrik Conscience 1838 Belgian Dutch
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
1912 World's End T. C. Boyle 1987 American English
1961 Demian Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
1995 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 American English
2001 The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner 2013 American English
2046 The Brothers Lionheart Astrid Lindgren 1973 Swedish Swedish
2051 Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
2066 The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter 1972 British English
2084 Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996 American English
2136 Conan The Conqueror Robert E. Howard 1935 American English
2170 Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 2001 British English
2208 Trainspotting Irvine Welsh 1993 Scottish English
2241 Collected Poems Arthur Rimbaud 1898 French French
2243 The Tombs Of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
2267 A Grain Of Wheat Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1967 Kenyan English
2270 The Nun Denis Diderot 1796 French French
2281 Boris Godunov Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
2345 The Well Of The Unicorn Fletcher Pratt 1948 American English
2454 Frost In May Antonia White 1933 British English
2458 Shirley Charlotte Brontë 1849 British English
2481 Blood and Guts in High School Kathy Acker 1978 American English
2496 Mortals Norman Rush 2003 American English
2500 Rebellion In The Backlands Euclides da Cunha 1902 Brazilian Portuguese
2512 Howl, Kaddish And Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 1956 American English
2514 The New Sorrows of Young W. Ulrich Plenzdorf 1972 German German
2553 Disobedience Alberto Moravia 1948 Italian Italian
2556 Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell 1936 British English
2625 The Captain's Daughter Alexander Pushkin 1836 Russian Russian
2669 This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 1989 American English
2681 The Czar's Madman Jaan Kross 1978 Estonian Estonian
2719 Richard Ii William Shakespeare 1595 British English
2776 Helmbrecht Wernher der Gartenaere 1250 German Middle high german
2781 The Legend Of Thyl Ulenspiegel And Lamme Goedzak Charles de Coster 1867 Belgian French
2788 The Weavers Gerhart Hauptmann 1892 German German
2813 La Débâcle Émile Zola 1892 French French
2843 The Book Of Ptath A. E. van Vogt 1943 American English
2853 Swami and Friends R. K. Narayan 1935 Indian English
2888 Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy 1912 Russian Russian
2902 Waverley Sir Walter Scott 1814 British English
2957 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai 2006 Indian English
2988 Eragon Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
3085 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey 1968 American English
3107 The Adventures Of Cipollino Gianni Rodari 1951 Italian Italian
3230 Growing Up Absurd Paul Goodman 1960 American English
3248 Memoirs of Cardinal De Retz Cardinal de Retz 1717 French French
3266 Old Mortality Sir Walter Scott 1816 Scottish English
3307 Henry IV, Part I William Shakespeare 1597 British English
3323 Post Office Charles Bukowski 1971 American English
3397 Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs 1981 American English
3403 Shadow Over Mars Leigh Brackett 1944 American English
3436 On Wings Of Song Thomas M. Disch 1979 American English
3437 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
3445 Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids Kenzaburō Ōe 1958 Japanese Japanese
3451 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
3537 The Death of Woman Wang MMP Jonathan Spence 1978 American English