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
5345 Epileptic David B 1996 French French
5350 A Street In Bronzeville Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 American English
5409 Melancholy Jon Fosse 1995 Norwegian Norwegian
5416 Kard és Kasza Albert Wass 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
5488 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
5520 Nós Os Do Makulusu José Luandino Vieira 1974 Angolan Portuguese
5591 How It Is Samuel Beckett 1961 Irish French
5668 Le Polygone Etoile Kateb Yacine 1961 French French
5692 All God’s Dangers Theodore Rosengarten 1974 American English
5724 The Rosy Crucifixion Henry Miller 1949 American English
5725 White Mule William Carlos Williams 1937 American English
5745 Taebaek Sanmaek Jo Jung-rae 1986 South Korean Korean
5763 Dear Theo Irving Stone, Jean Stone 1937 American English
5783 Il Mare Non Bagna Napoli Anna Maria Ortese 1953 Italian Italian
5783 The Sergeant In The Snow Mario Rigoni Stern 1953 Italian Italian
5847 The Last Shot Darcy Frey 1994 American English
5918 Hard Labor Cesare Pavese 1938 Italian Italian
5926 In Search Of Our Mother’s Gardens Alice Walker 1983 American English
5958 The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena Elsa Joubert 1978 South African Afrikaans
6005 Waiting For Nothing And Other Writings Tom Kromer 1935 American English
6005 Travaux Georges Navel 1945 French French
6092 They Burn the Thistles Yaşar Kemal 1969 Turkish Turkish
6251 Assata Assata Shakur 1987 American English
6261 Give Me Back My Mountains Albert Wass 1971 Hungarian Hungarian
6343 The Lost Country Luminița Cioabă 2002 Romanian Unknown
6370 All Aunt Hagar’s Children Edward P. Jones 2006 American English
6717 The Son of a Servant August Strindberg 1886 Swedish Swedish
6717 My Life Leon Trotsky 1930 Russian Russian
6733 Jubilee Margaret Walker 1966 American English
6767 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
7178 The Last Harmattan Of Alusine Dunbar Syl Cheney-Choker 1990 Sierra Leonean English
7216 Barbarian Odes Giosué Carducci 1877 Italian Italian
7216 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
7216 Poems Of Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough 1862 British English
7216 Man's Hope Andre Malraux 1937 French French
7216 Perched On Nothing's Branch Attila József 1932 Hungarian Hungarian
7216 The Nightingale Sholem Aleichem 1917 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 Poems Of Moshe Leib Halpern Moshe-Leib Halpern 1919 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 An Egyptian Childhood Taha Husayn 1929 Egyptian Arabic
7216 Poems Of Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897 American English
7216 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
7216 Vein Of Iron Ellen Glasgow 1935 American English
7576 The Toilers Of The Sea Victor Hugo 1866 French French
7593 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Grace Paley 1974 American English
7647 Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night Sindiwe Magona 1991 South African English
7655 A Better World Than This Marie Joseph 1982 British English
7671 The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh 1914 Dutch Dutch
7861 Poems Of Blas De Otero Blas de Otero 1950 Spanish Spanish
7872 Poor Cow Nell Dunn 1967 British English
7995 We The Living Ayn Rand 1936 American English
8107 Daughter Of The Hills Myra Page 1938 American English
8107 Early Spring Tove Ditlevsen 1940 Danish Danish
8107 Weeds Edith Summers Kelley 1923 Canadian English
8245 The Work Of A Common Woman Judy Grahn 1978 American English
8300 Khwabnama Akhtaruzzaman Elias 1996 Bangladeshi Bengali
8389 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8394 Eventide Kent Haruf 2004 American English
8406 Meek Heritage Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1919 Finnish Finnish
8564 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8583 The Last Of The Vikings Johan Bojer 1921 Norwegian Norwegian
8583 The Road To Calvary Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1921 Russian Russian
8607 Poems Of Robert Hayden Robert Hayden 1962 American English
8655 The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954 American English
8733 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8793 What Work Is Philip Levine 1991 American English
8827 Harlem Gallery M. B. Tolson 1965 American English
8892 Chronicles Bob Dylan 2004 American English
8976 The Mother Pearl S. Buck 1934 American English
9135 Raised From The Ground José Saramago 1980 Portuguese Portuguese
9342 Rails Under My Back Jeffery Renard Allen 2000 American English
9507 False Years Josefina Vicens 1964 Mexican Unknown
9507 God Bless The Child Kristin Hunter 1964 American English
9550 Poems Of Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Guillén 1972 Cuban Spanish
9699 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
9820 The Way To Paradise Mario Vargas Llosa 2003 Peruvian Spanish
9835 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
9859 This Child's Gonna Live Sarah E. Wright 1969 American English
10215 Hjortronlandet Sara Lidman 1955 Swedish Swedish
10217 Prisoner Of Love Jean Genet 1986 French French
10236 A Step From Heaven An Na 2001 American English
10308 Episodes Of The Cuban Revolutionary War Che Guevara 1963 Argentinian Spanish
10308 Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Victor Serge 1951 French French
10411 The Harder They Come Michael Thelwell 1980 American English
10453 War Trash Ha Jin 2004 Chinese English
10509 Trinity Leon Uris 1976 American English
10573 Women Of The Shadows Ann Cornelisen 1976 American English
10646 Poonachi Perumal Murugan 2016 Indian Tamil
10726 Dominion Calvin Baker 2006 American English
10788 Jackson Pollock Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith 1989 American English
10832 A Weave Of Women E. M. Broner 1978 American English
10856 The Stories Bernard Malamud 1983 American English
10893 Brand New Ancients Kae Tempest 2013 British English
10982 A Belfast Woman Mary Beckett 1980 Irish English
10982 Portrait Of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1980 American English
11002 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11189 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11208 Slaves Of New York Tama Janowitz 1986 American English
11257 From The Lanai And Other Hawaii Stories Jessica Saiki 1983 American English
11346 Berji Kristin Latife Tekin 1984 Turkish Turkish
11346 Rituals Of Survival Nicholasa Mohr 1984 American English
11346 The Stillborn Zaynab Alkali 1984 Nigerian English
11389 The Nemesis Manoranjan Byapari 2018 Unknown Bengali
11455 Scarlet Sister Mary Julia Peterkin 1928 American English
11455 Journey in the Dark Martin Flavin 1943 American English
11445 A Mountainous Journey Fadwa Tuqan 1985 Palestinian Arabic
11472 Please, Momma Chesya Burke 2015 American Unknown
11489 I Shall Not Be Moved Maya Angelou 1990 American English
11582 Homemade Love J. California Cooper 1986 American English
11634 Las Estrellas Son Negras Arnoldo Palacios 1949 Colombian Spanish
11663 Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009 American English
11861 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
11870 Century Of Locusts Malika Mokedden 1999 Algerian French
11901 Dumba Nengue, Run For Your Life Lina Magaia 1988 Mozambican Portuguese
11901 A War Of Eyes And Other Stories Wanda Coleman 1988 American English