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
3952 The Complete Works Dionysios Solomos 1818 Greek Greek
4119 Life's Good, Brother Nâzim Hikmet 1962 Turkish Turkish
4204 Ghana Kwame Nkrumah 1957 Ghanaian English
4206 Here's to You, Jesusa! Elena Poniatowska 1969 Mexican Spanish
4259 Petals of blood Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1977 Kenyan English
4285 In The Skin Of A Lion Michael Ondaatje 1987 Canadian English
4461 The Royal Physician's Visit Per Olov Enquist 1999 Swedish Swedish
4603 Babel R. F. Kuang 2022 American English
4656 Man And Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903 British English
4684 Extracts From Notes On The Bulgarian Uprisings Zahari Stoyanov 1884 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4783 The Princess Casamassima Henry James 1886 British English
4855 Der Tod Im Reisfeld Peter Scholl-Latour 1970 German German
4877 Heroes And Tombs Ernesto Sábato 1961 Argentinian Spanish
4936 Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García 1992 Cuban English
5006 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
5149 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5155 The Gadfly Ethel Lilian Voynich 1897 British English
5184 The Struggle For Mozambique Eduardo Mondlane 1969 Mozambican English
5310 The Adams Jefferson Letters Lester J. Cappon 1959 American English
5313 A General Theory Of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa 2012 Angolan Portuguese
5318 The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1852 German German
5392 Selected Prose Thomas Carlyle 1800 British English
5496 Signs Of Fire Jorge de Sena 1979 Portuguese Portuguese
5621 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
5666 Le Polygone Etoile Kateb Yacine 1961 French French
5701 A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel 1992 British English
5781 The Old And The Young Luigi Pirandello 1913 Italian Italian
5895 The Plough And The Stars Sean O'Casey 1926 Irish English
5916 A Guest Of Honour Nadine Gordimer 1970 South African English
5915 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 1944 German German
5970 Data From The Decade Of The Sixties Thanassis Valtinos 1989 Greek Greek
5981 The Open Door Latifa Zayyat 1960 Egyptian Arabic
5997 The Dialectic Of Sex Shulamith Firestone 1970 American English
6073 The Dream Years Lisa Goldstein 1985 American English
6100 Unity And Struggle Amilcar Cabral 1979 Guinean Portuguese
6147 My Tender Matador Pedro Lemebel 2001 Chilean Spanish
6172 Ludo Conrad Detrez 1974 Belgian French
6187 Guerrillas V. S. Naipaul 1975 Trinidadian English
6203 A Geração Da Utopia Pepetela 1992 Angolan Portuguese
6249 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
6276 Citizens Simon Schama 1989 British English
6399 The Fencing Master Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1988 Spanish Spanish
6446 The Emperor Ryszard Kapuscinski 1978 Polish Polish
6460 Never Did The Fire Diamela Eltit 2022 Chilean Spanish
6487 This Is The Hour Lion Feuchtwanger 1951 German German
6492 Living My Life Emma Goldman 1931 American English
6499 The Black Count Tom Reiss 2012 French English
6505 The Origins Of Totalitarian Democracy J. L. Talmon 1952 British English
6525 The Private Life of Chairman Mao Li Zhi-Sui 1994 Chinese English
6599 Shah Of Shahs Ryszard Kapuscinski 1982 Polish Polish
6610 The Russian Revolution Richard Pipes 1990 American English
6618 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
7168 The Life Of Klim Samgin Maxim Gorky 1930 Russian Russian
7215 Emperor And Galilean Henrik Ibsen 1873 Norwegian Norwegian
7215 Danton's Death Georg Buchner 1835 German German
7215 From The Other Shore Alexander Herzen 1850 Russian Russian
7215 On The Eve Ivan Turgenev 1860 Russian Russian
7215 What Is To Be Done? Nikolay Chernyshevsky 1863 Russian Russian
7215 Poems Of Bejamin Péret Bejamin Péret 1925 French French
7215 The Conquerors Andre Malraux 1928 French French
7215 Man's Hope Andre Malraux 1937 French French
7215 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7603 Sin Remedio Antonio Caballero 1984 Colombian Spanish
7655 Collected Poetry Aimé Césaire 1946 French French
7687 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
7691 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7699 El vuelo de la reina Tomás Eloy Martínez 1986 Argentinian Spanish
7716 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
7737 Becoming Madame Mao Anchee Min 2000 American English
7738 No Turning Back Rania Abouzeid 2018 Unknown English
7771 Napoleon Vincent Cronin 1971 British English
7771 Poems Of André Breton André Breton 1948 French French
7830 The Blue Flowers Raymond Queneau 1965 French French
8068 The Rise Of American Civilization Charles A. Beard, Mary Ritter Beard 1927 American English
8099 The Gates Of Europe Serhii Plokhy 2015 Ukrainian English
8142 Jerusalem Commands Michael Moorcock 1992 British English
8214 Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1993 American English
8250 Serve The People! Yan Lianke 2005 Chinese Chinese
8497 Serafim Ponte Grande Oswald De Andrade 1923 Brazilian Portuguese
8514 Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1996 American English
8581 The Road To Calvary Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1921 Russian Russian
8603 Hot Moon Mempo Giardinelli 1994 Argentinian Unknown
8720 Dancing With Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto 2004 Mexican Spanish
8754 Russian Thinkers Isaiah Berlin 1978 British English
8767 John Adams David McCullough 2001 American English
8774 On Guerilla Warfare Mao 1937 Chinese Chinese
8817 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8860 Mexico Enrique Krauze 1997 Mexican Spanish
9007 A Change Of Skin Carlos Fuentes 1967 Mexican Spanish
9072 Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow 2004 American English
9090 Consuelo George Sand 1842 French French
9292 Project For A Revolution In New York Alain Robbe-Grillet 1970 French French
9340 Master Of The Crossroads Madison Smartt Bell 2000 American English
9363 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 2002 British English
9366 The Conspiracy Paul Nizan 1938 French French
9656 Spring Moon Betty Bao Lord 1981 Chinese English
9657 F Letter Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse 2021 Russian Russian
9741 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
9741 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9754 Fire in the Lake Frances FitzGerald 1972 American English
9764 The Reign Of Greed José Rizal 1891 Filipino Spanish
9806 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
9818 The Way To Paradise Mario Vargas Llosa 2003 Peruvian Spanish
9833 Poems Of Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975 Italian Italian
9833 The Fool Edward Bond 1975 British English