The Greatest Books of All Time on Devotion

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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
422 Ramayana Valmiki -200 Indian Sanskrit
1349 Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore 1910 Indian Bengali
2343 Song of Songs Christian Church -500 Jewish Hebrew
2613 Book of Common Prayer Thomas Cranmer 1549 British English
2913 Délie Maurice Scève 1544 French French
2913 A Simple Soul Gustave Flaubert 1877 French French
3605 The Temple George Herbert 1633 British English
4232 Mariette In Ecstasy Ron Hansen 1991 American English
4420 Poems Of George Herbert George Herbert 1633 British English
4878 Massâlik Al Jinân Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba 1895 Senegalese Arabic
6004 The Life Of Rancé François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1844 French French
6767 The Bay Psalm Book Stephen Daye 1640 American English
7216 Rime Gaspara Stampa 1554 Italian Italian
8009 100 Love Sonnets Pablo Neruda 1959 Chilean Spanish
9228 Sun Dancing Geoffrey Moorhouse 1997 British English
9890 Songs Of Kabir Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 2011 Indian Hindi
10795 The Stripping of the Altars Eamon Duffy 1992 British English
11216 Book Of My Mother Albert Cohen 1954 French French
11567 The Imitation Of Christ Thomas à Kempis 1418 German Latin
13362 Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850 British English
13362 The Christian Year John Keble 1827 British English
17152 Icons And Saints Of The Eastern Orthodox Church Alfredo Tradigo 2006 Unknown Italian
17152 Sur Le Bord De La Rivière Piedra, Je Me Suis Assise Et J'ai Pleuré Paulo Coelho 1994 Brazilian Portuguese