The Greatest Books of All Time on Reportage

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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
86 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
109 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 American English
206 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian Russian
375 Kolyma Stories Varlam Shalamov 1954 Russian Russian
435 Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938 British English
448 Homage to Catalonia George Orwell 1938 British English
451 Hiroshima John Hersey 1946 American English
456 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee 1941 American English
535 Red Cavalry Isaac Babel 1926 Russian Russian
652 Dispatches Michael Herr 1977 American English
697 The Rings of Saturn W. G. Sebald 1995 German German
706 The Skin Curzio Malaparte 1949 Italian Italian
799 Kaputt Curzio Malaparte 1944 Italian Italian
941 Collected Essays of George Orwell George Orwell 1968 British English
969 Storm of Steel Ernst Jünger 1920 German German
1027 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
1138 The Unwomanly Face Of War Svetlana Alexievich 1985 Russian Russian
1245 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 1933 British English
1315 Voices from Chernobyl Svetlana Alexievich 1997 Belarusian Russian
1366 The Adversary Emmanuel Carrère 2000 French French
1495 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 American English
1927 Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed 1919 American English
2423 Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer 1997 American English
3071 The Armies of the Night Norman Mailer 1968 American English
3147 All the President's Men Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein 1974 American English
3277 Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell 1992 American English
3508 The Journalist and the Murderer Janet Malcolm 1990 American English
3638 The Battle with the Slum Jacob A. Riis 1902 Danish English
3638 Notes From The Blockade Lydia Ginzburg 1960 Russian Russian
3941 The Sweet Science A. J. Liebling 1956 American English
4158 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families Philip Gourevitch 1998 American English
4268 Sevastopol Sketches Leo Tolstoy 1855 Russian Russian
5445 Imperium Ryszard Kapuscinski 1993 Polish Polish
6263 Der Baader Meinhof Komplex Stefan Aust 1985 German German
6552 The Bottom Of The Harbor Joseph Mitchell 1959 American English
6598 Shah Of Shahs Ryszard Kapuscinski 1982 Polish Polish
7624 Hard Times Studs Terkel 1970 American English
8553 The Tall Man Chloe Hooper 2008 Australian English
9240 O Que é Isso, Companheiro? Fernando Gabeira 1979 Brazilian Portuguese
9269 Naples 44 Norman Lewis 1978 British English
15897 The Beveridge Report William Beveridge 1942 British English
16665 A Woman In Berlin Unknown 1954 German German
17117 The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow Elin Anna Labba, Fiona Graham 2020 Unknown Swedish
17117 The Breaks Of The Game David Halberstam 1981 American English
17117 Among The Thugs Bill Buford 1990 American English
17117 No Cheering In The Press Box Jerome Holtzman 1974 American English
17117 The Pink Line Mark Gevisser 2020 South African English