The Greatest Books of All Time on Resistance

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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
5160 Die Söhne Der Großen Bärin Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich 1951 German German
5184 The Struggle For Mozambique Eduardo Mondlane 1969 Mozambican English
5292 Der Mädchenkrieg Manfred Bieler 1975 German German
5352 Stasiland Anna Funder 2002 Australian English
5437 Communism In Spain In The Franco Era Jorge Semprún 1980 Spanish Spanish
5447 Imperium Ryszard Kapuscinski 1993 Polish Polish
5496 Signs Of Fire Jorge de Sena 1979 Portuguese Portuguese
5501 Warsaw Diary Kazimierz Brandys 1978 Polish Polish
5519 Nós Os Do Makulusu José Luandino Vieira 1974 Angolan Portuguese
5606 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5666 Le Polygone Etoile Kateb Yacine 1961 French French
5730 In The Presence Of Absence Mahmoud Darwish 2006 Palestinian Arabic
5743 Taebaek Sanmaek Jo Jung-rae 1986 South Korean Korean
5751 Flight Of Ashes Monika Maron 1981 German German
5777 My Happy Days In Hell György Faludy 1962 Hungarian Hungarian
6003 Leaves of Hypnos René Char 1946 French French
6003 A Woman Named Solitude André Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6003 Bound To Violence Yambo Ouologuem 1968 Malian French
6003 Les Murs De Fresnes Henri Calet 1945 French French
6090 They Burn the Thistles Yaşar Kemal 1969 Turkish Turkish
6100 Life and a Half Sony Labou Tansi 1979 French French
6100 Unity And Struggle Amilcar Cabral 1979 Guinean Portuguese
6147 My Tender Matador Pedro Lemebel 2001 Chilean Spanish
6167 The Tower Uwe Tellkamp 2008 German German
6212 The Unconquered Country Geoff Ryman 1986 Canadian English
6249 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
6312 Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada 1947 German German
6327 No Good Men Among The Living Anand Gopal 2014 American English
6341 In Hitler's Germany Bernt Engelmann 1986 German English
6356 Heroes' Shrine For Sale or The Elegant Toilet Marios Hakkas 1993 Greek Greek
6414 My Forbidden Face Latifa 2001 Afghan French
6446 Warngedichte Erich Fried 1987 Austrian German
6454 The Arrivants Kamau Brathwaite 1973 Barbadian English
6460 Never Did The Fire Diamela Eltit 2022 Chilean Spanish
6466 The Overseer's Cabin Edouard Glissant 1981 French French
6471 Anthills Of The Savannah Chinua Achebe 1987 Nigerian English
6539 Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins 1990 American English
6713 The Land Of Green Plums Herta Müller 1994 German German
6737 Silver Stallion Junghyo Ahn 1990 Korean Korean
6763 Citizen And Subject Mahmood Mamdani 1996 Ugandan English
6787 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman 2019 American English
6855 Ualalapi Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa 1987 Mozambican Portuguese
6926 The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine Rashid Khalidi 2020 American English
6951 Bones Chenjerai Hove 1988 Zimbabwean English
6986 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
7040 Hope Against Hope Nadezhda Mandelstam 1970 Russian Russian
7100 Les Guerilleres Monique Wittig 1969 French French
7120 The Color Of Summer Reinaldo Arenas 1991 Cuban Spanish
7140 E. Luminata Diamela Eltit 1983 Chilean Spanish
7157 La Horde Du Contrevent Alain Damasio 2004 French French
7160 The Poems Of Manolis Anagnostakis Manolis Anagnostakis 2001 Greek Greek
7205 Flight From The Ussr Dato Turashvili 2010 Georgian Georgian
7213 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
7215 The Moon is Down John Steinbeck 1942 American English
7215 Poems Of Paul éluard Paul Éluard 1920 French French
7215 It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis 1935 American English
7567 The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein 1951 American English
7608 The Complete War Memoirs Of Charles De Gaulle Charles De Gaulle 1954 French French
7621 Dropbear Evelyn Araluen 2021 Australian English
7655 Collected Poetry Aimé Césaire 1946 French French
7691 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7816 In My Hands Irene Opdyke 1999 American English
7819 Men Of Maize Miguel Angel Asturias 1949 Guatemalan Spanish
7852 L'organisation Jean Rolin 1996 French French
7860 Poems Of René Char René Char 1950 French French
8018 Mirrors Eduardo Galeano 2008 Uruguayan Spanish
8061 Santo Oficio De La Memoria Mempo Giardinelli 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8068 Minor Angels Antoine Volodine 1999 French French
8072 How To Do Nothing Jenny Odell 2019 American English
8105 American Indian Stories Zitkala-Sa 1921 American English
8142 Alindarka’s Children Alhierld Bakharevich 2014 Belarusian Belarusian
8374 The Seed Is Mine Charles Van Onselen 1996 South African English
8443 The Diary Of A Gulag Prison Guard 1935 6 Ivan Chistyakov 2016 Russian Russian
8471 La Pell De Brau Salvador Espríu 1960 Catalan Catalan
8515 Os Escravos Castro Alves 1883 Brazilian Portuguese
8562 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8616 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8668 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 1971 Dutch English
8741 Biko Donald Woods 1978 South African English
8744 The Key To Rebecca Ken Follett 1980 British English
8756 Night Draws Near Anthony Shadid 2005 American English
8813 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8854 The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 2019 American English
9034 From A To X John Berger 2008 British English
9045 Death as a Side Effect Ana María Shua 1997 Argentinian Spanish
9096 The Vanishing Generation Bagila Bukharbayeva 2019 Uzbek English
9096 Life Went On Anyway Oleg Sentsov 2019 Ukrainian Russian
9133 Raised From The Ground José Saramago 1980 Portuguese Portuguese
9157 Decolonising The Mind Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1986 Kenyan English
9191 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9219 On Tyranny Timothy Snyder 2017 American English
9260 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
9322 The Butterfly’s Burden Mahmoud Darwish 2007 Palestinian Arabic
9350 That Smell Sonallah Ibrahim 1966 Egyptian Arabic
9354 The Old Garden Hwang Sok-yong 2000 Korean Korean
9548 Poems Of Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Guillén 1972 Cuban Spanish
9657 F Letter Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse 2021 Russian Russian
9657 The Cell Horst Bienek German Unknown
9731 Europe Central William T. Vollmann 2005 American English
9754 Carry Me Home Diane McWhorter 2001 American English
9766 Un Attieké Pour Elgass Tierno Monenembo 2021 French French
9764 The Reign Of Greed José Rizal 1891 Filipino Spanish
9793 The Past Is Myself Christabel Bielenberg 1968 German English
9830 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 2008 Indian English
9833 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
9915 Crooked Plow Itamar Vieira Junior 2019 Brazilian Portuguese
10027 Obsidio Amie Kaufman 2018 Australian English
10032 Hannah Senesh Hannah Senesh 1971 Hungarian Hebrew
10066 The Silences Of Hammerstein Hans Magnus Enzensberger 2008 German German
10092 Twenty Years And A Day Jorge Semprún 2003 Spanish Spanish
10136 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
10136 A Lesson From Aloes Athol Fugard 1978 South African English
10168 Dragon's Teeth Upton Sinclair 1942 American English
10192 How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue 2021 Cameroonian English
10213 Prisoner Of Love Jean Genet 1986 French French
10290 Mandela Et Moi Lewis Nkosi 2009 Unknown French
10305 Walls Hiltgunt Zassenhaus 1974 German English
10305 Episodes Of The Cuban Revolutionary War Che Guevara 1963 Argentinian Spanish
10305 The Broken Spears Miguel Leon-Portilla 1959 Mexican Spanish
10305 Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Victor Serge 1951 French French