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
15901 North Star Country Meridel Le Sueur 1945 American English
15901 Listen, Yankee C. Wright Mills 1960 American English
15901 Twelve Who Ruled R. R. Palmer 1941 American English
15901 Richard Caqrvel Winston Churchill 1899 American English
15901 Conceived In Liberty Howard Fast 1945 American English
15901 Citizen Tom Paine Howard Fast 1943 American English
15901 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
15901 Trumpet To Arms Bruce Lancaster 1944 Unknown English
15901 Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker S. Weir Mitchell 1896 American English
15901 Tree Of Liberty Elizabeth Page 1939 Unknown English
15901 Arundel Kenneth Roberts 1930 American English
15901 Rabble In Arms Kenneth Roberts 1933 American English
15901 Lydia Bailey Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
15901 Childhood, Youth And Exile Alexander Herzen 1852 Russian Russian
16523 Return Of The Soul Tawfiq al-Hakim 1933 Egyptian Arabic
16532 Mga Ibong Mandaragit Amado V. Hernandez 1969 Filipino Filipino
16616 Fanshen William Hinton 1966 American English
16686 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
16671 L'italia Del Risorgimento Indro Montanelli 1972 Italian Italian
16743 Dyyni Frank Herbert 1965 American English
16719 Os Miseráveis 2 Victor Hugo 1862 French French
17122 Mistress to an Age J. Christopher Herold 1958 American English
17122 The Radicalism of the American Revolution Gordon S. Wood 1992 American English
17122 In Our Image Stanley Karnow 1989 American English
17122 Fatal Purity Ruth Scurr 2006 British English
17122 With Americans of Past and Present Days Jean Jules Jusserand 1916 French English
17122 The American Revolution Charles Howard McIlwain 1923 American English
17122 A History of the United States Edward Channing 1905 American English
17122 The War of Independence Claude H. Van Tyne 1929 American English
17122 Paul Revere and the World He Lived In Esther Forbes 1942 American English
17122 Embers of War Fredrik Logevall 2012 American English
17122 Pure Andrew Miller 2011 British English
17122 You Bright and Risen Angels William T. Vollmann 1987 American English
17122 The Almanac of the Dead Leslie Marmon Silko 1991 American English
17122 German History 1800–1918 Thomas Nipperdey 1983 German German
17122 Fairyland Paul J. McAuley 1995 British English
17122 Distraction Bruce Sterling 1998 American English
17122 The Secret City Hugh Walpole 1919 British English
17122 A Book Of Common Prayer Joan Didion 1977 American English
17122 Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone Diana Gabaldon 2021 American English
17122 The Fiery Cross Diana Gabaldon 2001 American English
17122 Written In My Own Heart's Blood Diana Gabaldon 2014 American English
17122 The Sky Road Ken MacLeod 1999 Scottish English
17122 Black Bolshevik Harry Haywood 1978 American English
17122 The Great Leveler Walter Scheidel 2017 American English
17122 Cuba Ada Ferrer 2021 American English
17122 Children Of The New World Assia Djebar 1999 Algerian French
16996 For My Legionaries Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1936 Romanian Romanian
17122 The Faber Book Of Reportage John Carey 1987 British English
17122 The American Crucible Robin Blackburn 2011 British English
17122 Detroit Dan Georgakas 1975 Unknown English
17122 The World Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill 1972 British English
17122 Anatomy Of A War Gabriel Kolko 1985 American English
17122 The Dada Painters and Poets Robert Motherwell 1978 American English
17122 An Unfinished History Of The World Hugh Thomas 1979 British English
17122 Memory In The Flesh Ahlam Mosteghanemi 1993 Algerian Arabic
17122 The Ace Tahar Wattar 1974 Algerian Arabic
16879 There Is A Man In Our House Ihsan Abdul Quddus 1957 Egyptian Arabic
17122 Edge Of Eternity Ken Follett 2014 British English
17122 Winter Of The World Ken Follett 2012 British English
17122 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett 2010 British English
17122 The Master Of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee 1994 South African English
17122 Caribbean James A. Michener 1989 American English
17122 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
17122 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
17122 The First American H.W. Brands 2000 American English
17122 Kalpa Imperial Angélica Gorodischer 1983 Argentinian Spanish
17122 The Cultural Revolution Frank Dikötter 2016 Chinese English
16875 Poemas Sociales, De Guerra Y De Muerte Miguel Hernández 1937 Spanish Spanish
17122 My Sad Republic Eric Gamalinda 2000 Filipino English
17122 The Storm Before The Storm Mike Duncan 2017 American English
17122 Rites Of Spring Modris Eksteins 1989 Canadian English
17122 Rizal In Saga Nick Joaquin 1996 Philippine English
17122 The System Of The World Neal Stephenson 2004 American English
17122 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
17122 All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 2014 American English
17122 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
16817 The Belly Of Paris Émile Zola 1873 French French
17122 Nexus Ramez Naam 2012 American English
17122 Savarkar Vikram Sampath 2019 Indian English
17122 Chains Laurie Halse Anderson 2008 American English
17122 Velvet Was The Night Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2021 Mexican English
17122 Q Luther Blissett 1999 Italian Italian
17122 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
17122 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English
17122 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17122 A Door Between Us Ehsaneh Sadr 2020 Unknown English
17122 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17122 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17122 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17122 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17122 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17122 The Romanovs Simon Sebag Montefiore 2016 British English
17096 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17122 Man Of Nazareth Anthony Burgess 1979 British English
17122 The Glass Blowers Daphne du Maurier 1963 British English
17122 The Gods Are Thirsty Tabitha Lee Unknown Unknown
17122 Vindication Frances Sherwood 1993 Unknown English
17122 So Brief A Spring Claude Manceron 1971 French French
17122 The End Of The Hunt Thomas Flanagan 1994 American English
17122 Liberty Tavern Thomas Fleming 1976 American English
17122 Guns Of Burgoyne Bruce Lancaster 1975 American English
17122 Time For Outrage Amelia Bean Unknown Unknown
17122 Mandarin Robert S. Elegant 1983 American English
17122 Peking Anthony Grey 1988 British English
17122 All Soul's Rising Madison Smartt Bell 1995 American English
17122 The Revolutionary Temper Robert Darnton 2023 American English
17122 Blood In The Machine Brian Merchant 2023 Unknown English
17122 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17122 War And Punishment Mikhail Zygar 2023 Unknown Russian
17122 There Will Be Fire Rory Carroll 2023 Unknown English
17122 Palestine 1936 Oren Kessler 2023 Unknown English
17122 Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
17122 The Cause Joseph Ellis 2021 American English
17122 Memoirs Pablo Neruda 1974 Chilean Spanish
17122 Modern Russian Poetry Vladimir Markov, Merrill Sparks 1967 Unknown English
17122 Like Hidden Fire: The Plot To Bring Down The British Empire hopkirk 1994 Unknown English
17007 The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions Larry Mitchell 1977 American English
17122 1984 & Animal Farm George Orwell British English
17122 Tom Mix And Pancho Villa Clifford Irving 1982 American English