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
12084 Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan 1989 American English
12259 And They Didn't Die Lauretta Ngcobo 1990 South African English
12259 In Silence Ruth Sidransky 1990 American English
12259 Quiet Odyssey Mary Paik Lee 1990 Korean American English
12259 The Women Outside Stephanie Golden 1990 American English
12302 Shadows Of Tender Fury Subcomandante Marcos 1995 Mexican Spanish
12326 The Unknown Matisse Hilary Spurling 1998 British English
12450 In The Beginning Was The Sea Tomás González 1983 Colombian Spanish
12515 Bake Face And Other Guava Stories Opal Palmer Adisa 1991 Jamaican English
12834 I Been In Sorrow's Kitchen And Licked Out All The Pots Susan Straight 1992 American English
12834 Taste Of Power Elaine Brown 1992 American English
13269 Forged Under The Sun Fran Leeper Buss 1993 American English
13314 地之子 Tai Jingnong 1948 Chinese Unknown
13513 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
13521 My Native Land Chung Li-ho 1956 Chinese Chinese
13543 Spartina John Casey 1989 American English
13567 Johnny Cash Reinhard Kleist 2006 German German
13818 Poveri E Semplici Anna Maria Ortese 1967 Italian Italian
13818 Army Of The Lost Rivers Carlo Sgorlon 1985 Italian Italian
13818 La Strada Per Roma Paolo Volponi 1992 Italian Italian
13818 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
13818 Vita Melania Mazzucco 2003 Italian Italian
13818 The Mussolini Canal Antonio Pennacchi 2010 Italian Italian
14001 Conquest Of The Useless Werner Herzog 2009 German German
14011 The Life And Times Of Little Richard Charles White 1984 British English
14025 Ardency Kevin Young 2011 American English
14230 Fat City Leonard Gardner 1969 American English
14375 Stones In The Wall Dai Houying 1980 Chinese Chinese
14430 A Small Town Called Hibiscus Gu Hua 1983 Chinese Chinese
14519 Dogshit Food Liu Heng 1986 Chinese Unknown
14551 Turbulence Jia Pingwa 1987 Chinese Chinese
14667 Saville David Storey 1976 British English
14675 An Orphan World Giuseppe Caputo 2019 Colombian Spanish
14709 White Deer Plain Chen Zhongshi 1993 Chinese Chinese
14732 Tragic Magic Wesley Brown 1978 American English
14732 Farewell Companions James Plunkett 1977 Irish English
14830 The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1918 Norwegian Norwegian
14854 To Be Young, Gifted, And Black Lorraine Hansberry 1969 American English
14899 The Harp In The South Ruth Park 1948 Australian English
14985 Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis 2004 American English
14985 Cash Johnny Cash 1997 American English
14985 The Unnamed Joshua Ferris 2010 American English
14985 Salt Earl Lovelace 1996 Trinidadian English
14985 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah 2021 American English
15567 In The Valley Ron Rash 2020 American English
15679 Children Of Loneliness Anzia Yezierska 1923 American English
15713 Early Plays Eugene O'Neill 1932 American English
15732 Passionate Journey Frans Masereel 1919 Belgian German
15916 The Black Woman Toni Cade Bambara 1970 American English
15916 We A Badd Ddd People Sonia Sanchez 1970 American English
15916 Act One Moss Hart 1959 American English
15916 Anybody Can Do Anything Betty MacDonald 1950 American English
15916 Red Star Over China Edgar Snow 1937 American English
15916 How The Steel Was Tempered Nikolai Ostrovsky 1932 Russian Russian
15916 A Woman Of Genius Mary Austin 1912 American English
15916 Christ In Concrete Pietro di Donato 1939 American English
15916 North Star Country Meridel Le Sueur 1945 American English
15916 Blues Fell This Morning Paul Oliver 1960 British English
15916 Evening Descends Upon The Hills Anna Maria Ortese 1961 Italian Italian
15916 America Is In The Heart Carlos Bulosan 1946 Filipino English
15916 Montage Of A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes 1951 American English
15916 Not Built With Hands Helen C. White 1936 American English
15916 The Unconquered Ben Ames Williams 1953 American English
16531 The Sail And The Storm Hanna Mina 1966 Syrian Arabic
16748 Αναφορά στον Γκρέκο Nikos Kazantzakis 1961 Greek Greek
17163 Becoming a Man Paul Monette 1992 American English
17163 Reflections from Captivity Ho Chi Minn 1965 Vietnamese Vietnamese
17163 Docherty William McIlvanney 1975 Scottish English
17163 Raavan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar 1995 Indian English
17163 Poor Man's Tapestry G. Oliver Onions 1946 British English
17163 Blacks Gwendolyn Brooks 1987 American English
17163 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English
17163 Memoirs Of A Peon Frank Sargeson 1965 New Zealand Unknown
17163 Behind The Mask Tyson Fury 2019 British English
17163 Red John Logan 2009 American English
17163 Mama Terry McMillan 1987 American English
17163 Black Bolshevik Harry Haywood 1978 American English
17163 You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down Alice Walker 1981 American English
17163 Children Of The New World Assia Djebar 1999 Algerian French
17163 Between Two Worlds Miriam Tlali 1985 South African English
17163 Dancing In The Dark Caryl Phillips 2005 Dutch English
17163 No Name In The Street James Baldwin 1972 American English
17163 A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar 1998 American English
17163 The Cliff Dwellers Henry Blake Fuller 1893 American English
17163 Summer In Williamsburg Daniel Fuchs 1934 American English
17163 The Girl Meridel Le Sueur 1978 American English
17163 A Tunnel Lit By A Woman Ahmad Ibrahim al-Faqih 1995 Libyan Unknown
17163 No One Sleeps In Alexandria Ibrahim Abdel Meguid 1996 Egyptian Arabic
17163 For Bread Alone Mohamed Choukri 1973 Moroccan Arabic
17163 Najran Under Zero Yaha Yakhlaf 1975 Unknown Unknown
17163 Return To Exile Abu El Maati Abu El Naga 1972 Egyptian Unknown
17163 The Lodging House Khairy Shalaby 1999 Egyptian Arabic
17163 Wind From The South Abdelhamid Ben Haddouka 1971 Algerian Unknown
17163 The Emigration To The North Of The Children Of Hathoot Majid Tubia 1974 Egyptian Unknown
17163 Aisha Al-Bashir bin Salamah Multiple Unknown
17163 Door To The Courtyard Sahar Khalifeh 1995 Palestinian Arabic
17163 The Ace Tahar Wattar 1974 Algerian Arabic
17163 The Blockade Fawzia Rasheed 2017 Unknown Unknown
17163 And My Share Of The Horizon Abdel Qader Ben Shaikh Tunisian Unknown
17163 My Broken Language Quiara Alegría Hudes 2021 American English
17163 Happy Dreams Jia Pingwa 2007 Chinese Chinese
17163 Lotus Lijia Zhang 2017 Chinese English
17163 The Comfort Book Matt Haig 2021 British English
17163 The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish 2017 American English
17163 The Battlers Kylie Tennant 1941 Australian English
17163 The World That Made Mandela Luli Callinicos 2000 Unknown English
16906 Poemas Sociales, De Guerra Y De Muerte Miguel Hernández 1937 Spanish Spanish
16993 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner 1943 American English
17163 جای خالی سلوچ Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 1979 Iranian Persian
17163 Diego & Frida J. M. G. Le Clezio 1993 French French
17163 Audacious Hope Indrajit Roy Unknown English
17163 Ordeal By Silence Prudence Andrew Unknown Unknown
17163 The Agony And The Ecstacy Irving Stone 1961 American English
17163 The First Rebel Neil Swanson 2009 American English
17163 Winnie And Nelson Jonny Steinberg 2023 Unknown English
17163 Steady Rollin Fred Noland 2023 Unknown Unknown
17163 Brooklyn’s Last Secret Leslie Stein 2023 Unknown English
17163 Chrome Valley Mahogany L. Browne 2023 Unknown English
17163 To Free The Captives Tracy K. Smith 2023 Unknown English
17163 Winnie And Nelson Jonny Steinberg 2023 Unknown English