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
10408 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10439 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10493 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
10496 Dekada '70 Lualhati Bautista 1984 Filipino Filipino
10707 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10759 A Moonless, Starless Sky Alexis Okeowo 2017 American English
10761 The Blue Bicycle Régine Deforges 1983 French French
10808 The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy 2014 Indian English
10811 Tomorrow, When The War Began John Marsden 1993 Australian English
10813 ‘Gapô Lualhati Bautista 1988 Filipino Filipino
10836 Target Land Svoboda Bachvarova 2010 Bulgarian Unknown
10939 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
10959 Radiant Terminus Antoine Volodine 2014 French French
10993 The Twilight Zone Nona Fernández 2016 Chilean Spanish
10996 How We Won The War Võ Nguyên Giáp 1976 Vietnamese Vietnamese
11042 The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste 2019 American English
11082 Tell Them I Said No Martin Herbert 2017 Unknown English
11137 Imperial Reckoning Caroline Elkins 2005 British English
11163 Krilon Eyvind Johnson 1941 Swedish Swedish
11176 Black List, Section H Francis Stuart 1971 Irish English
11196 Silence Of The Sea Jean Bruller 1942 French French
11251 Éthiopiques Léopold Sédar Senghor 1956 Senegalese French
11253 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
11253 Scraps Of Life Marjorie Agosín 1983 Chilean Spanish
11333 Memoirs From The Women’s Prison Nawal El Saadawi 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11363 Refusal To Obey Jean Giono French French
11442 Awaiting Trespass Linda Ty-Casper 1985 Philippine English
11442 The Land Of Look Behind Michelle Cliff 1985 American English
11442 Mohawk Trail Beth Brant 1985 Canadian English
11442 A Mountainous Journey Fadwa Tuqan 1985 Palestinian Arabic
11442 Rich Like Us Nayantara Sahgal 1985 Indian English
11498 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11498 What The Colonists Never Knew Dennis Foley, Peter Read 2020 Unknown English
11580 Frangipani House Beryl Gilroy 1986 Caribbean English
11580 Getting Home Alive Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales 1986 American English
11580 The Impenetrable Madam X Griselda Gambaro 1986 Argentinian Spanish
11827 The Mother Of All Questions Rebecca Solnit 2017 American English
11854 You Left On A May Day Yannis Ritsos Greek Greek
11866 The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde 1997 American English
11868 Century Of Locusts Malika Mokedden 1999 Algerian French
11899 Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman 1988 Polish English
11899 Dumba Nengue, Run For Your Life Lina Magaia 1988 Mozambican Portuguese
11899 Grey Is The Colour Of Hope Irina Ratushinskaya 1988 Russian Russian
11899 Sans Souci And Other Stories Dionne Brand 1988 Canadian English
12027 Night Train To Lisbon Pascal Mercier 2004 Swiss German
12083 Talking Back bell hooks 1989 American English
12258 And They Didn't Die Lauretta Ngcobo 1990 South African English
12301 Shadows Of Tender Fury Subcomandante Marcos 1995 Mexican Spanish
12313 Pavane Keith Roberts 1968 British English
12418 Desert J. M. G. Le Clezio 1980 French French
12449 Changó, The Biggest Badass Manuel Zapata Olivella 1983 Colombian Spanish
12514 Family Album Claribel Alegría 1991 Nicaraguan Spanish
12514 How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed Slavenka Drakulic 1991 Croatian English
12514 Nampally Road Meena Alexander 1991 Indian English
12514 Rebellion Minnie Bruce Pratt 1991 American English
12794 The Red Star Anthoninthasan Jesuthasan Unknown Unknown
12895 Orphan Of Asia Zhuoliu Wu 1945 Taiwanese Chinese
12947 Four Generations Under One Roof Lao She 1944 Chinese Chinese
13075 The Isle In The Silver Sea Tasha Suri 2025 British English
13142 A Historian In Gaza Jean-Pierre Filiu 2025 French Unknown
13235 Making Trouble Loa Ho 1930 Chinese Chinese
13267 Burmese Looking Glass Edith Mirante 1993 American English
13314 Who Will Remember The People... Jean Raspail 1986 French French
13512 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
14433 Taiwanese Trilogy Chung Chao-cheng 1984 Taiwanese Chinese
14492 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
14713 The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 American English
14730 The Secret Of Santa Vittoria Robert Crichton 1966 American English
14897 We Die Alone David Howarth 1955 British English
14897 The Longest Day Cornelius Ryan 1959 American English
14877 War In Val D'orcia Iris Origo 1947 Italian English
14942 Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut 1952 American English
14984 The Internal Enemy Alan Taylor 2013 American English
14984 Iron Council China Miéville 2004 British English
14984 The Chimes Anna Smaill 2015 New Zealand English
14984 Age Of Iron J. M. Coetzee 1990 South African English
14984 The City We Became N. K. Jemisin 2020 American English
14984 Number The Stars Lois Lowry 1989 American English
14984 Salt Earl Lovelace 1996 Trinidadian English
14984 The World At Night Alan Furst 1996 American English
14984 Normal Women Philippa Gregory 2023 British English
15590 The Mandela Plot Kenneth Bonert 2018 Canadian English
15682 River Spirit Leila Aboulela 2023 Sudanese English
15903 We A Badd Ddd People Sonia Sanchez 1970 American English
15903 Sizwe Bansi Is Dead Athol Fugard 1972 South African English
15903 Their Finest Hour Winston Churchill 1949 British English
15903 Ill Met By Moonlight W. Stanley Moss 1950 British English
15903 The Walls Came Tumbling Down Henriette Roosenburg 1957 Dutch English
15903 Blood Of The Martyrs Naomi Mitchison 1948 British English
15903 Fourteenth Of October Bryher 1952 British English
15903 Conceived In Liberty Howard Fast 1945 American English
16535 The Nez Perce Indians And The Opening Of The Northwest Jr., Alvin Josephy 1965 American English
16689 The Stars, Like Dust Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
17125 Reflections from Captivity Ho Chi Minn 1965 Vietnamese Vietnamese
17125 The Carhullan Army Sarah Hall 2007 British English
17125 The Wine of Astonishment Earl Lovelace 1982 Trinidadian English
17125 The Telling Ursula K. Le Guin 2000 American English