The Greatest Books of All Time on Reform

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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
28 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
550 Max Havelaar Multatuli 1860 Dutch Dutch
965 Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey 1918 British English
1683 The Life Written By Himself the Archpriest Avvakum 1666 Russian Russian
2070 The Age of Reform Richard Hofstadter 1955 American English
2205 The Gate of Heavenly Peace Jonathan Spence 1981 American English
2362 Sybil Benjamin Disraeli 1845 British English
2417 The Age of Jackson Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 1945 American English
3109 The Warden Anthony Trollope 1855 British English
3112 The Life of Andrew Jackson Marquis James 1937 American English
3638 The Battle with the Slum Jacob A. Riis 1902 Danish English
3638 The House on Henry Street Lillian D. Wald 1915 American English
3638 The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens Lincoln Steffens 1931 American English
3638 Woman Suffrage and Politics Carrie Chapman Catt 1923 American English
3638 Memoirs Of A Revolutionist Vera Figner 1920 Russian Russian
3638 Oh, These Times Catherine the Great 1790 Russian Unknown
3824 The Search For Modern China Jonathan Spence 1990 American English
4274 Journey From St. Petersburg To Moscow Alexander Radishchev 1790 Russian Russian
4751 Origins of the New South C. Vann Woodward 1951 American English
5014 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Morris 1979 American English
5348 How the Other Half Lives Jacob A. Riis 1890 Danish English
6002 The Life Of Rancé François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1844 French French
6371 The Promise of American Life Herbert Croly 1909 American English
6414 Florence Nightingale Cecil Woodham-Smith 1950 British English
6937 Century Of Struggle Eleanor Flexner 1959 American English
7077 Autumn In The Heavenly Kingdom Stephen R. Platt 2012 American English
8358 On Being A Christian Hans Kueng 1974 German German
8893 Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis 2003 American English
9856 Critical And Historical Essays Thomas Babington Macaulay 1843 British English
10303 Reform Or Revolution? Rosa Luxemburg 1900 German German
10711 Burn It Down Maureen Ryan 2023 Unknown English
10766 Huey Long T. Harry Williams 1969 American English
10782 Peter the Great Robert K. Massie 1980 American English
11061 The Thatcher Decade Peter Riddell 1989 British English
11660 Attlee Kenneth Harris 1982 British English
11939 American Lion Jon Matteson 2008 American English
11939 The Most Famous Man in America Debby Applegate 2006 American English
11939 Charles W. Eliot Henry James 1909 American Unknown
11939 Theodore Roosevelt Henry F. Pringle 1931 American English
11939 Grover Cleveland Allan Nevins 1932 American English
11939 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters Ray Stannard Baker 1927 American English
11939 George Bancroft Russel Blaine Nye 1944 American English
11939 Charles Evans Hughes Merlo J. Pusey 1951 American English
11939 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet Arthur Walworth 1958 American English
11939 Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War David Donald 1960 American English
12289 The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin 2013 American English
12324 Tropical Gangsters Robert Klitgaard 1988 American English
12602 The Travels Of Lao Ts'an Liu T'ieh-yün 1907 Chinese Chinese
12641 Officialdom Unmasked Li Baojia 1903 Chinese Chinese
13216 Selections From The Speeches And Writings Of Edmund Burke Edmund Burke 1892 British English
13307 倪煥之 Ye Shengtao 1928 Chinese Chinese
13359 The History Of England Thomas Babington Macaulay 1848 British English
13359 Past And Present Thomas Carlyle 1843 British English
14211 Queen Victoria Lytton Strachey 1921 British English
14232 Catherine The Great Robert K. Massie 2011 American English
14334 A Short History Of The English People John Richard Green 1874 British English
14498 Health Care Will Not Reform Itself George C. Halvorson 2009 American English
14498 Liberating Learning Terry M. Moe 2009 American English
14519 Educational Economics Marguerite Roza 2010 American English
14519 Stretching The School Dollar Frederick M. Hess 2010 American English
14519 Beyond The Crash Gordon Brown 2010 British English
14553 Class Warfare Steven Brill 2011 American English
14553 Deng Xiaoping And The Transformation Of China Ezra F. Vogel 2011 American English
14649 Stress Test Timothy F. Geithner 2014 American English
14665 Yongzheng Emperor Eryue He 1990 Chinese Chinese
14678 Zeng Guofan Tang Haoming 1992 Chinese Chinese
14694 Seven Great Statesmen In The Warfare Of Humanity With Unreason Andrew Dickson White 1915 American English
14983 Adults in the Room Yanis Varoufakis 2017 Greek English
15897 Labor’s Untold Story Richard Boyer, Herbert Morais 1955 American English
15897 The Shame Of The Cities Lincoln Steffens 1904 American English
16672 L'italia Del Risorgimento Indro Montanelli 1972 Italian Italian
17117 The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 2003 British English
17117 Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph L. Rusk 1949 American English
17117 Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy Robert V. Remini 1984 American English
17117 The Era of Good Feelings George Dangerfield 1952 British English
17117 The Republican Era Leonard D. White, Jean Schneider 1958 American English
17117 In the Days of McKinley Margaret Leech 1959 American English
17117 American Education Lawrence A. Cremin 1980 American English
17117 Pushout Monique W. Morris 2016 American English
17117 Looking Backward, From The Year 2000 Mack Reynolds 1987 American English
17117 It Is Never Too Late To Mend Charles Reade 1856 British English
17117 The House Of The Dead Daniel Beer 2017 British English
17117 Collected Letters George Bernard Shaw 1972 British English
17117 Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris 2010 American English
17117 Aneurin Bevan Michael Foot 1973 British English
17117 The Storm Before The Storm Mike Duncan 2017 American English
17117 Dear Church lenny duncan 2019 American English
17117 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17117 The Rascal King Jack Beatty 1992 American English
17117 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17117 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17117 Gradual Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox 2022 Unknown English
17117 The History Of Italy Francesco Guicciardini 1540 Italian Italian
17117 The Lost Children Of Wilder Nina Bernstein 2001 American English