The Greatest Books of All Time on Struggle

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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
5344 Epileptic David B 1996 French French
5349 A Street In Bronzeville Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 American English
5407 Melancholy Jon Fosse 1995 Norwegian Norwegian
5414 Kard és Kasza Albert Wass 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
5486 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
5518 Nós Os Do Makulusu José Luandino Vieira 1974 Angolan Portuguese
5665 Le Polygone Etoile Kateb Yacine 1961 French French
5689 All God’s Dangers Theodore Rosengarten 1974 American English
5721 The Rosy Crucifixion Henry Miller 1949 American English
5722 White Mule William Carlos Williams 1937 American English
5742 Taebaek Sanmaek Jo Jung-rae 1986 South Korean Korean
5760 Dear Theo Irving Stone, Jean Stone 1937 American English
5780 Il Mare Non Bagna Napoli Anna Maria Ortese 1953 Italian Italian
5780 The Sergeant In The Snow Mario Rigoni Stern 1953 Italian Italian
5844 The Last Shot Darcy Frey 1994 American English
5915 Hard Labor Cesare Pavese 1938 Italian Italian
5923 In Search Of Our Mother’s Gardens Alice Walker 1983 American English
5954 The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena Elsa Joubert 1978 South African Afrikaans
6002 Waiting For Nothing And Other Writings Tom Kromer 1935 American English
6002 Travaux Georges Navel 1945 French French
6089 They Burn the Thistles Yaşar Kemal 1969 Turkish Turkish
6248 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
6258 Give Me Back My Mountains Albert Wass 1971 Hungarian Hungarian
6340 The Lost Country Luminița Cioabă 2002 Romanian Unknown
6367 All Aunt Hagar’s Children Edward P. Jones 2006 American English
6661 How It Is Samuel Beckett 1961 Irish French
6716 The Son of a Servant August Strindberg 1886 Swedish Swedish
6716 My Life Leon Trotsky 1930 Russian Russian
6732 Jubilee Margaret Walker 1966 American English
6766 Sotileza Jose M. de Pereda 1885 Spanish Spanish
6816 Open Andre Agassi 2009 American English
6886 Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage Richard Holmes 1993 British English
6915 Other Fires Maxim Gorky 1900 Russian Unknown
6939 Shipwrecks Akira Yoshimura 1982 Japanese Japanese
6951 Bones Chenjerai Hove 1988 Zimbabwean English
7157 La Horde Du Contrevent Alain Damasio 2004 French French
7177 The Last Harmattan Of Alusine Dunbar Syl Cheney-Choker 1990 Sierra Leonean English
7215 Barbarian Odes Giosué Carducci 1877 Italian Italian
7215 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
7215 Poems Of Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough 1862 British English
7215 Man's Hope Andre Malraux 1937 French French
7215 Perched On Nothing's Branch Attila József 1932 Hungarian Hungarian
7215 The Nightingale Sholem Aleichem 1917 Yiddish Yiddish
7215 Poems Of Moshe Leib Halpern Moshe-Leib Halpern 1919 Yiddish Yiddish
7215 An Egyptian Childhood Taha Husayn 1929 Egyptian Arabic
7215 Poems Of Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897 American English
7215 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
7215 Vein Of Iron Ellen Glasgow 1935 American English
7575 The Toilers Of The Sea Victor Hugo 1866 French French
7592 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Grace Paley 1974 American English
7646 Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night Sindiwe Magona 1991 South African English
7654 A Better World Than This Marie Joseph 1982 British English
7675 The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh 1914 Dutch Dutch
7860 Poems Of Blas De Otero Blas de Otero 1950 Spanish Spanish
7871 Poor Cow Nell Dunn 1967 British English
7994 We The Living Ayn Rand 1936 American English
8105 Daughter Of The Hills Myra Page 1938 American English
8105 Early Spring Tove Ditlevsen 1940 Danish Danish
8105 Weeds Edith Summers Kelley 1923 Canadian English
8243 The Work Of A Common Woman Judy Grahn 1978 American English
8298 Khwabnama Akhtaruzzaman Elias 1996 Bangladeshi Bengali
8386 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8391 Eventide Kent Haruf 2004 American English
8403 Meek Heritage Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1919 Finnish Finnish
8561 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8580 The Last Of The Vikings Johan Bojer 1921 Norwegian Norwegian
8580 The Road To Calvary Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1921 Russian Russian
8604 Poems Of Robert Hayden Robert Hayden 1962 American English
8652 The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954 American English
8729 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8789 What Work Is Philip Levine 1991 American English
8823 Harlem Gallery M. B. Tolson 1965 American English
8889 Chronicles Bob Dylan 2004 American English
8973 The Mother Pearl S. Buck 1934 American English
9131 Raised From The Ground José Saramago 1980 Portuguese Portuguese
9338 Rails Under My Back Jeffery Renard Allen 2000 American English
9503 False Years Josefina Vicens 1964 Mexican Unknown
9503 God Bless The Child Kristin Hunter 1964 American English
9546 Poems Of Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Guillén 1972 Cuban Spanish
9696 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
9817 The Way To Paradise Mario Vargas Llosa 2003 Peruvian Spanish
9832 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
9856 This Child's Gonna Live Sarah E. Wright 1969 American English
10210 Hjortronlandet Sara Lidman 1955 Swedish Swedish
10212 Prisoner Of Love Jean Genet 1986 French French
10231 A Step From Heaven An Na 2001 American English
10304 Episodes Of The Cuban Revolutionary War Che Guevara 1963 Argentinian Spanish
10304 Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Victor Serge 1951 French French
10407 The Harder They Come Michael Thelwell 1980 American English
10449 War Trash Ha Jin 2004 Chinese English
10505 Trinity Leon Uris 1976 American English
10569 Women Of The Shadows Ann Cornelisen 1976 American English
10642 Poonachi Perumal Murugan 2016 Indian Tamil
10722 Dominion Calvin Baker 2006 American English
10784 Jackson Pollock Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith 1989 American English
10828 A Weave Of Women E. M. Broner 1978 American English
10851 The Stories Bernard Malamud 1983 American English
10888 Brand New Ancients Kae Tempest 2013 British English
10977 A Belfast Woman Mary Beckett 1980 Irish English
10977 Portrait Of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1980 American English
10997 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11184 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11203 Slaves Of New York Tama Janowitz 1986 American English
11252 From The Lanai And Other Hawaii Stories Jessica Saiki 1983 American English
11341 Berji Kristin Latife Tekin 1984 Turkish Turkish
11341 Rituals Of Survival Nicholasa Mohr 1984 American English
11341 The Stillborn Zaynab Alkali 1984 Nigerian English
11385 The Nemesis Manoranjan Byapari 2018 Unknown Bengali
11451 Scarlet Sister Mary Julia Peterkin 1928 American English
11451 Journey in the Dark Martin Flavin 1943 American English
11441 A Mountainous Journey Fadwa Tuqan 1985 Palestinian Arabic
11469 Please, Momma Chesya Burke 2015 American Unknown
11486 I Shall Not Be Moved Maya Angelou 1990 American English
11579 Homemade Love J. California Cooper 1986 American English
11631 Las Estrellas Son Negras Arnoldo Palacios 1949 Colombian Spanish
11660 Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009 American English
11859 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
11868 Century Of Locusts Malika Mokedden 1999 Algerian French
11899 Dumba Nengue, Run For Your Life Lina Magaia 1988 Mozambican Portuguese
11899 A War Of Eyes And Other Stories Wanda Coleman 1988 American English