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
3954 The Complete Works Dionysios Solomos 1818 Greek Greek
4121 Life's Good, Brother Nâzim Hikmet 1962 Turkish Turkish
4206 Ghana Kwame Nkrumah 1957 Ghanaian English
4208 Here's to You, Jesusa! Elena Poniatowska 1969 Mexican Spanish
4261 Petals of blood Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1977 Kenyan English
4287 In The Skin Of A Lion Michael Ondaatje 1987 Canadian English
4463 The Royal Physician's Visit Per Olov Enquist 1999 Swedish Swedish
4605 Babel R. F. Kuang 2022 American English
4658 Man And Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903 British English
4686 Extracts From Notes On The Bulgarian Uprisings Zahari Stoyanov 1884 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4785 The Princess Casamassima Henry James 1886 British English
4857 Der Tod Im Reisfeld Peter Scholl-Latour 1970 German German
4879 Heroes And Tombs Ernesto Sábato 1961 Argentinian Spanish
4938 Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García 1992 Cuban English
4981 The Emperor Ryszard Kapuscinski 1978 Polish Polish
5009 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
5151 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5157 The Gadfly Ethel Lilian Voynich 1897 British English
5186 The Struggle For Mozambique Eduardo Mondlane 1969 Mozambican English
5311 The Adams Jefferson Letters Lester J. Cappon 1959 American English
5314 A General Theory Of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa 2012 Angolan Portuguese
5320 The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1852 German German
5393 Selected Prose Thomas Carlyle 1800 British English
5497 Signs Of Fire Jorge de Sena 1979 Portuguese Portuguese
5623 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
5668 Le Polygone Etoile Kateb Yacine 1961 French French
5703 A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel 1992 British English
5783 The Old And The Young Luigi Pirandello 1913 Italian Italian
5897 The Plough And The Stars Sean O'Casey 1926 Irish English
5918 A Guest Of Honour Nadine Gordimer 1970 South African English
5915 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 1944 German German
5972 Data From The Decade Of The Sixties Thanassis Valtinos 1989 Greek Greek
5983 The Open Door Latifa Zayyat 1960 Egyptian Arabic
5999 The Dialectic Of Sex Shulamith Firestone 1970 American English
6075 The Dream Years Lisa Goldstein 1985 American English
6102 Unity And Struggle Amilcar Cabral 1979 Guinean Portuguese
6149 My Tender Matador Pedro Lemebel 2001 Chilean Spanish
6174 Ludo Conrad Detrez 1974 Belgian French
6190 Guerrillas V. S. Naipaul 1975 Trinidadian English
6206 A Geração Da Utopia Pepetela 1992 Angolan Portuguese
6251 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
6278 Citizens Simon Schama 1989 British English
6401 The Fencing Master Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1988 Spanish Spanish
6461 Never Did The Fire Diamela Eltit 2022 Chilean Spanish
6488 This Is The Hour Lion Feuchtwanger 1951 German German
6493 Living My Life Emma Goldman 1931 American English
6500 The Black Count Tom Reiss 2012 French English
6506 The Origins Of Totalitarian Democracy J. L. Talmon 1952 British English
6526 The Private Life of Chairman Mao Li Zhi-Sui 1994 Chinese English
6600 Shah Of Shahs Ryszard Kapuscinski 1982 Polish Polish
6611 The Russian Revolution Richard Pipes 1990 American English
6619 The Struggle For Mastery In Europe A. J. P. Taylor 1954 British English
6670 The Balcony Jean Genet 1957 French French
6710 The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019 Zambian English
6717 My Life Leon Trotsky 1930 Russian Russian
6790 The Eleven Pierre Michon 2009 French French
6795 An Analysis Of The Communist System Milovan Djilas 1957 Serbian Serbo-croatian
6915 Other Fires Maxim Gorky 1900 Russian Unknown
6919 S.C.U.M. Manifesto Valerie Solanas 1967 American English
6927 Travesties Tom Stoppard 1974 British English
6969 Six Studies In Communism Arthur Koestler, Richard Crossman 1960 Multiple English
6989 Red China Blues Jan Wong 1996 Canadian English
6995 Contours of American History William Appleman Williams 1961 American English
6996 Panegyric Guy Debord 1989 French French
7029 Il Resto Di Niente Enzo Striano 1986 Italian Italian
7100 Les Guerilleres Monique Wittig 1969 French French
7109 Ashes Stefan Zeromski 1904 Polish Polish
7169 The Life Of Klim Samgin Maxim Gorky 1930 Russian Russian
7216 Emperor And Galilean Henrik Ibsen 1873 Norwegian Norwegian
7216 Danton's Death Georg Buchner 1835 German German
7216 From The Other Shore Alexander Herzen 1850 Russian Russian
7216 On The Eve Ivan Turgenev 1860 Russian Russian
7216 What Is To Be Done? Nikolay Chernyshevsky 1863 Russian Russian
7216 Poems Of Bejamin Péret Bejamin Péret 1925 French French
7216 The Conquerors Andre Malraux 1928 French French
7216 Man's Hope Andre Malraux 1937 French French
7216 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7604 Sin Remedio Antonio Caballero 1984 Colombian Spanish
7656 Collected Poetry Aimé Césaire 1946 French French
7688 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
7692 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7700 El vuelo de la reina Tomás Eloy Martínez 1986 Argentinian Spanish
7717 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
7738 Becoming Madame Mao Anchee Min 2000 American English
7739 No Turning Back Rania Abouzeid 2018 Unknown English
7772 Napoleon Vincent Cronin 1971 British English
7772 Poems Of André Breton André Breton 1948 French French
7831 The Blue Flowers Raymond Queneau 1965 French French
8069 The Rise Of American Civilization Charles A. Beard, Mary Ritter Beard 1927 American English
8101 The Gates Of Europe Serhii Plokhy 2015 Ukrainian English
8144 Jerusalem Commands Michael Moorcock 1992 British English
8217 Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1993 American English
8253 Serve The People! Yan Lianke 2005 Chinese Chinese
8500 Serafim Ponte Grande Oswald De Andrade 1923 Brazilian Portuguese
8517 Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1996 American English
8585 The Road To Calvary Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1921 Russian Russian
8607 Hot Moon Mempo Giardinelli 1994 Argentinian Unknown
8724 Dancing With Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto 2004 Mexican Spanish
8759 Russian Thinkers Isaiah Berlin 1978 British English
8772 John Adams David McCullough 2001 American English
8780 On Guerilla Warfare Mao 1937 Chinese Chinese
8822 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8864 Mexico Enrique Krauze 1997 Mexican Spanish
9011 A Change Of Skin Carlos Fuentes 1967 Mexican Spanish
9076 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow 2004 American English
9094 Consuelo George Sand 1842 French French
9295 Project For A Revolution In New York Alain Robbe-Grillet 1970 French French
9343 Master Of The Crossroads Madison Smartt Bell 2000 American English
9366 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 2002 British English
9369 The Conspiracy Paul Nizan 1938 French French
9660 Spring Moon Betty Bao Lord 1981 Chinese English
9661 F Letter Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse 2021 Russian Russian
9745 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
9745 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9758 Fire in the Lake Frances FitzGerald 1972 American English
9768 The Reign Of Greed José Rizal 1891 Filipino Spanish
9810 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
9822 The Way To Paradise Mario Vargas Llosa 2003 Peruvian Spanish
9837 Poems Of Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975 Italian Italian
9837 The Fool Edward Bond 1975 British English