The Greatest Books of All Time on Revolution

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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
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
55 Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 British English
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
94 Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 Russian Russian
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
112 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1957 Russian Russian
116 A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert 1869 French French
172 Man's Fate Andre Malraux 1933 French French
188 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
212 Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler 1940 British German
283 Nostromo Joseph Conrad 1904 British English
291 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 1982 Chilean Spanish
324 Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels 1848 German German
356 Germinal Émile Zola 1885 French French
431 Memoirs From Beyond the Grave François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1849 French French
448 Homage to Catalonia George Orwell 1938 British English
535 Red Cavalry Isaac Babel 1926 Russian Russian
553 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 American English
571 And Quiet Flows The Don Mikhail Sholokhov 1928 Russian Russian
616 The Rebel Albert Camus 1951 French French
639 Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke 1790 British English
670 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
725 The Kingdom of This World Alejo Carpentier 1949 Cuban Spanish
730 Petersburg Andrei Bely 1913 Russian Russian
764 Mother Maxim Gorky 1906 Russian Russian
787 Quotations from Chairman Mao Mao 1964 Chinese Chinese
873 Call to Arms Lu Xun 1922 Chinese Chinese
903 Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991 Chinese English
907 Hyperion Friedrich Holderlin 1797 German German
930 The Seven Madmen Roberto Arlt 1929 Argentinian Spanish
952 Two Treatises of Government John Locke 1689 British English
955 Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 1926 Swiss French
959 A Tomb for Boris Davidovich Danilo Kiš 1976 Serbian Serbo-croatian
999 Chevengur Andrey Platonov 1928 Russian Russian
1081 The War of the End of the World Mario Vargas Llosa 1981 Peruvian Spanish
1112 The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake William Blake 1827 British English
1118 Germany, a Winter Tale Heinrich Heine 1844 German German
1215 Explosion In A Cathedral Alejo Carpentier 1962 Cuban Spanish
1226 What Is To Be Done? Vladimir Il’ich Lenin 1902 Russian Russian
1280 The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes 1962 Mexican Spanish
1416 Rights of Man Thomas Paine 1791 British English
1452 History And Class Consciousness Georg Lukacs 1923 German German
1508 Surrealist Manifesto André Breton 1924 French French
1516 The Bells of Basel Louis Aragon 1934 French French
1564 G. John Berger 1972 British English
1669 The Underdogs Mariano Azuela 1915 Mexican Spanish
1685 Burr Gore Vidal 1973 American English
1715 The Clay Machine-gun Victor Pelevin 1996 Russian Russian
1738 The Bedbug And Selected Poetry Vladimir Mayakovsky 1920 Russian Russian
1784 Marks of Identity Juan Goytisolo 1966 Spanish Spanish
1794 My Past And Thoughts Alexander Herzen 1861 Russian Russian
1804 Cartucho And My Mother's Hands Nellie Campobello 1931 Mexican Spanish
1856 Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad 1911 British English
1872 To the Finland Station Edmund Wilson 1940 American English
1874 The Proud Tower Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1966 American English
1917 In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez 1994 Dominican English
1927 Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed 1919 American English
1965 A Flag For Sunrise Robert Stone 1981 American English
2007 King Ubu Alfred Jarry 1896 French French
2016 The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley 1810 British English
2075 The Memory of Fire Trilogy Eduardo Galeano 1982 Uruguayan Spanish
2167 Bread And Wine Ignazio Silone 1936 Italian Italian
2168 Terra Nostra Carlos Fuentes 1975 Mexican Spanish
2180 Blue of Noon Georges Bataille 1957 French French
2205 The Gate of Heavenly Peace Jonathan Spence 1981 American English
2229 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
2272 The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon 1961 Algerian French
2277 The Twelve Alexander Blok 1918 Russian Russian
2289 The White Guard Mikhail Bulgakov 1925 Russian Russian
2347 Poems Of Louis Aragon Louis Aragon 1920 French French
2358 August 1914 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971 Russian Russian
2433 The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1905 British English
2452 Black Mischief Evelyn Waugh 1932 British English
2493 Miramar Naguib Mahfouz 1967 Egyptian Arabic
2585 A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn 1980 American English
2641 The Power Naomi Alderman 2016 British English
2660 The Years with Laura Diaz Carlos Fuentes 1999 Mexican Spanish
2728 La légende des siècles Victor Hugo 1859 French French
2811 Matigari Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1987 Kenyan Gikuyu
2876 The Patriot Antonio Fogazzaro 1906 Italian Italian
2926 The Great Shark Hunt Hunter S. Thompson 1979 American English
2959 Jefferson and His Time Dumas Malone 1948 American English
2960 Prison Notebooks Antonio Gramsci 1948 Italian Italian
2975 Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes 1943 American English
2997 A Cloud In Trousers Vladimir Mayakovsky 1915 Russian Russian
3004 Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1921 Italian English
3052 National Episodes Benito Pérez Galdós 1873 Spanish Spanish
3078 Los lanzallamas Roberto Arlt 1931 Argentinian Spanish
3101 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi 2003 Iranian English
3116 The White Album Joan Didion 1979 American English
3131 The Man Who Loved Dogs Leonardo Padura 2009 Cuban Spanish
3192 The Aesthetics Of Resistance Peter Weiss 1975 German German
3278 Holy Week Louis Aragon 1958 French French
3287 Savushun Simin Daneshvar 1969 Iranian Persian
3324 Insatiability Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz 1930 Polish Polish
3324 Summer Will Show Sylvia Townsend Warner 1936 British English
3387 Human Poems César Vallejo 1939 Peruvian Spanish
3391 Napoleon Emil Ludwig 1926 German German
3396 Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs 1981 American English
3424 Common Sense Thomas Paine 1776 British English
3514 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
3553 The Revolt Of The Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta 1973 American English
3557 The Black Jacobins C. L. R. James 1938 British English
3565 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
3580 Flowering Judas and Other Stories Katherine Anne Porter 1930 American English
3605 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3638 Memoirs Of A Revolutionist Vera Figner 1920 Russian Russian
3638 The Memoirs Of Princess Dashkova Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova 1840 Russian Russian
3638 The Gods Will Have Blood Anatole France 1912 French French
3638 Child Of The Revolution Wolfgang Leonhard 1955 German German
3808 Rousseau and Revolution Will Durant, Ariel Durant 1967 American English
3813 Reflections On Violence Georges Sorel 1908 French French
3822 Lenin's Tomb David Remnick 1993 American English
3824 The Search For Modern China Jonathan Spence 1990 American English
3888 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein 1966 American English
3942 Of Love and Shadows Isabel Allende 1984 Chilean Spanish
3953 Το φως που καίει Kostas Varnalis 1922 Greek Greek
3953 Μπολιβαρ Nikos Engonopoulos 1944 Greek Greek
3953 Odes Andreas Kalvos 1824 Greek Greek
3953 The Memoirs Of General Makriyannis Makriyannis 1907 Greek Greek