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
10412 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10443 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10496 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
10499 Dekada '70 Lualhati Bautista 1984 Filipino Filipino
10711 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10763 A Moonless, Starless Sky Alexis Okeowo 2017 American English
10765 The Blue Bicycle Régine Deforges 1983 French French
10812 The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy 2014 Indian English
10815 Tomorrow, When The War Began John Marsden 1993 Australian English
10817 ‘Gapô Lualhati Bautista 1988 Filipino Filipino
10840 Target Land Svoboda Bachvarova 2010 Bulgarian Unknown
10944 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
10964 Radiant Terminus Antoine Volodine 2014 French French
10998 The Twilight Zone Nona Fernández 2016 Chilean Spanish
11001 How We Won The War Võ Nguyên Giáp 1976 Vietnamese Vietnamese
11046 The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste 2019 American English
11086 Tell Them I Said No Martin Herbert 2017 Unknown English
11141 Imperial Reckoning Caroline Elkins 2005 British English
11167 Krilon Eyvind Johnson 1941 Swedish Swedish
11180 Black List, Section H Francis Stuart 1971 Irish English
11200 Silence Of The Sea Jean Bruller 1942 French French
11255 Éthiopiques Léopold Sédar Senghor 1956 Senegalese French
11257 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
11257 Scraps Of Life Marjorie Agosín 1983 Chilean Spanish
11337 Memoirs From The Women’s Prison Nawal El Saadawi 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11366 Refusal To Obey Jean Giono French French
11445 Awaiting Trespass Linda Ty-Casper 1985 Philippine English
11445 The Land Of Look Behind Michelle Cliff 1985 American English
11445 Mohawk Trail Beth Brant 1985 Canadian English
11445 A Mountainous Journey Fadwa Tuqan 1985 Palestinian Arabic
11445 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal 1985 Indian English
11500 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11500 What The Colonists Never Knew Dennis Foley, Peter Read 2020 Unknown English
11582 Frangipani House Beryl Gilroy 1986 Caribbean English
11582 Getting Home Alive Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales 1986 American English
11582 The Impenetrable Madam X Griselda Gambaro 1986 Argentinian Spanish
11829 The Mother Of All Questions Rebecca Solnit 2017 American English
11856 You Left On A May Day Yannis Ritsos Greek Greek
11868 The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde 1997 American English
11870 Century Of Locusts Malika Mokedden 1999 Algerian French
11901 Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman 1988 Polish English
11901 Dumba Nengue, Run For Your Life Lina Magaia 1988 Mozambican Portuguese
11901 Grey Is The Colour Of Hope Irina Ratushinskaya 1988 Russian Russian
11901 Sans Souci And Other Stories Dionne Brand 1988 Canadian English
12029 Night Train To Lisbon Pascal Mercier 2004 Swiss German
12084 Talking Back bell hooks 1989 American English
12259 And They Didn't Die Lauretta Ngcobo 1990 South African English
12302 Shadows Of Tender Fury Subcomandante Marcos 1995 Mexican Spanish
12310 Pavane Keith Roberts 1968 British English
12419 Desert J. M. G. Le Clezio 1980 French French
12450 Changó, The Biggest Badass Manuel Zapata Olivella 1983 Colombian Spanish
12515 Family Album Claribel Alegría 1991 Nicaraguan Spanish
12515 How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed Slavenka Drakulic 1991 Croatian English
12515 Nampally Road Meena Alexander 1991 Indian English
12515 Rebellion Minnie Bruce Pratt 1991 American English
12795 The Red Star Anthoninthasan Jesuthasan Unknown Unknown
12896 Orphan Of Asia Zhuoliu Wu 1945 Taiwanese Chinese
12949 Four Generations Under One Roof Lao She 1944 Chinese Chinese
13077 The Isle In The Silver Sea Tasha Suri 2025 British English
13144 A Historian In Gaza Jean-Pierre Filiu 2025 French Unknown
13237 Making Trouble Loa Ho 1930 Chinese Chinese
13269 Burmese Looking Glass Edith Mirante 1993 American English
13316 Who Will Remember The People... Jean Raspail 1986 French French
13513 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
13578 One With Others C. D. Wright 2010 American English
13600 Raboliot Maurice Genevoix 1925 French French
13600 Mon Village à L'heure Allemande Jean-Louis Bory 1945 French French
13600 The Forests Of The Night Jean-Louis Curtis 1992 French French
13600 The Priest Beatrix Beck 1952 French French
13600 Cry, Mother Spain Lydie Salvayre 2014 French French
13739 The Late Bourgeois World Nadine Gordimer 1966 South African English
13772 Flood Of Fire Amitav Ghosh 2015 Indian English
13818 Il Clandestino Mario Tobino 1962 Italian Italian
13818 La Morte Del Fiume Guglielmo Petroni 1958 Italian Italian
13818 Army Of The Lost Rivers Carlo Sgorlon 1985 Italian Italian
13818 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
13886 Underground Airlines Ben H. Winters 2016 American English
14025 Ardency Kevin Young 2011 American English
14063 Silent Close No. 6 Monika Maron 1991 German German
14072 The Girl Who Played Go Shan Sa 2001 Chinese French
14078 Deaf Republic Ilya Kaminsky 2019 American English
14107 Sa Aking Henerasyon Kerima Lorena Tariman Filipino Filipino
14107 Kulto Ni Santiago Kristian Cordero Filipino Filipino
14138 The Lesser Evil Victor Klemperer German Unknown
14210 The Word For World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 American English
14232 The Year of the French Thomas Flanagan 1979 American English
14232 Freedom Is A Constant Struggle Angela Davis 2016 American English
14434 Taiwanese Trilogy Chung Chao-cheng 1984 Taiwanese Chinese
14493 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
14714 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
14732 The Secret Of Santa Vittoria Robert Crichton 1966 American English
14899 We Die Alone David Howarth 1955 British English
14899 The Longest Day Cornelius Ryan 1959 American English
14880 War In Val D'orcia Iris Origo 1947 Italian English
14944 Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut 1952 American English
14986 The Internal Enemy Alan Taylor 2013 American English
14986 Iron Council China Miéville 2004 British English
14986 The Chimes Anna Smaill 2015 New Zealand English
14986 Age Of Iron J. M. Coetzee 1990 South African English
14986 The City We Became N. K. Jemisin 2020 American English
14986 Number The Stars Lois Lowry 1989 American English
14986 Salt Earl Lovelace 1996 Trinidadian English
14986 The World At Night Alan Furst 1996 American English
14986 Normal Women Philippa Gregory 2023 British English
15596 The Mandela Plot Kenneth Bonert 2018 Canadian English
15688 River Spirit Leila Aboulela 2023 Sudanese English
15918 We A Badd Ddd People Sonia Sanchez 1970 American English
15918 Sizwe Bansi Is Dead Athol Fugard 1972 South African English
15918 Their Finest Hour Winston Churchill 1949 British English
15918 Ill Met By Moonlight W. Stanley Moss 1950 British English
15918 The Walls Came Tumbling Down Henriette Roosenburg 1957 Dutch English
15918 Blood Of The Martyrs Naomi Mitchison 1948 British English
15918 Fourteenth Of October Bryher 1952 British English
15918 Conceived In Liberty Howard Fast 1945 American English
16556 The Nez Perce Indians And The Opening Of The Northwest Jr., Alvin Josephy 1965 American English
16725 The Stars, Like Dust Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
17169 Reflections from Captivity Ho Chi Minn 1965 Vietnamese Vietnamese
17169 The Carhullan Army Sarah Hall 2007 British English
17169 The Wine of Astonishment Earl Lovelace 1982 Trinidadian English
17169 The Telling Ursula K. Le Guin 2000 American English