The Greatest Books of All Time on Faith

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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
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
69 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 British English
133 Confessions Augustine 397 Roman Latin
141 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 British English
156 Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 1890 American English
176 The End of the Affair Graham Greene 1951 British English
187 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 1940 British English
234 The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
265 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948 South African English
273 The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni 1827 Italian Italian
353 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953 American English
362 Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor 1952 American English
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
391 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 1927 American English
446 Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann 1933 German German
475 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004 American English
479 Four Quartets T. S. Eliot 1943 British English
505 The Quran Unknown 610 Arabic Arabic
524 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 1989 American English
534 Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 1988 British English
551 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 British English
598 Night Elie Wiesel 1958 French French
603 Barabbas Par Lagerkvist 1950 Swedish Swedish
618 Poems of W. H. Auden W. H. Auden 1930 British English
631 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder 1927 American English
646 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 1902 American English
653 Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas 1274 Italian Latin
667 The Book of Job Unknown -600 Israeli Hebrew
707 Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson 1830 British English
740 Silence Shūsaku Endō 1966 Japanese Japanese
832 The Last Of The Just André Schwarz-Bart 1959 French French
880 Orthodoxy G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
919 The Poems Of Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
943 The Bacchae Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
962 The Diary of a Country Priest Georges Bernanos 1936 French French
1011 Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis 1952 British English
1019 The Interior Castle Teresa of Avila 1588 Spanish Spanish
1032 In The Heart Of The Seas Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1938 Israeli Hebrew
1068 The Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton 1948 American English
1072 Gösta Berling's Saga Selma Lagerlöf 1891 Swedish Swedish
1142 Life of Pi Yann Martel 2001 Canadian English
1143 Tevye The Dairyman And The Railroad Stories Sholem Aleichem 1894 Jewish Yiddish
1232 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egyptian Arabic
1273 Robert Browning's Poetry Robert Browning 1833 British English
1291 Parzival Wolfram Eschenbach 1200 German Middle high german
1298 The Days of His Grace Eyvind Johnson 1960 Swedish Swedish
1314 Under Satan's Sun Georges Bernanos 1926 French French
1378 The Towers Of Trebizond Rose Macauley 1956 British English
1398 The Exorcist William Peter Blatty 1971 American English
1451 The Children of Men P. D. James 1992 British English
1459 The City of God Augustine 413 Roman Latin
1461 Oranges are not the only Fruit Jeanette Winterson 1985 British English
1467 Everyman Unknown 1501 Unknown Middle english
1501 The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer 1960 Polish Yiddish
1560 Forest of the Hanged Liviu Rebreanu 1922 Romanian Romanian
1592 Niels Lyhne Jens Peter Jacobson 1880 Danish Danish
1601 Three Treatises Martin Luther 1520 German German
1683 The Life Written By Himself the Archpriest Avvakum 1666 Russian Russian
1718 The Fixer Bernard Malamud 1966 American English
1746 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion David Hume 1779 British English
1796 Collected Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1982 Polish English
1814 Christ Recrucified Nikos Kazantzakis 1948 Greek Greek
1854 The Courage to Be Paul Tillich 1952 German English
1865 Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis 1927 American English
1876 Home Marilynne Robinson 2008 American English
1998 Ben-Hur Lew Wallace 1880 American English
2008 Job Joseph Roth 1930 Austrian German
2012 The Habit of Being Flannery O'Connor 1979 American English
2055 Satan In Goray Isaac Bashevis Singer 1935 Polish Yiddish
2150 The Conference Of The Birds Attar Neyshabouri 1177 Persian Persian
2190 Les Tragiques Agrippa d'Aubigné 1616 French French
2192 American Gods Neil Gaiman 2001 British English
2230 The Cathedral Folk Nikolai Leskov 1872 Russian Russian
2257 A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters Julian Barnes 1989 British English
2270 The Nun Denis Diderot 1796 French French
2277 The Twelve Alexander Blok 1918 Russian Russian
2280 The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner 1948 British English
2342 Song of Songs Christian Church -500 Jewish Hebrew
2352 Contact Carl Sagan 1985 American English
2372 The Vatican Cellars André Gide 1914 French French
2448 Bostan Saadi 1257 Persian Persian
2462 Poems Of William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant 1821 American English
2475 The Last Battle C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
2489 Murder In The Cathedral T. S. Eliot 1935 British English
2525 The Everlasting Man G. K. Chesterton 1925 British English
2527 Life of Christ Giovanni Papini 1921 Italian Italian
2532 Young Goodman Brown & Other Short Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1835 American English
2535 The Way of a Pilgrim Unknown 1884 Russian Russian
2552 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 Greek Greek
2556 Alamut Vladimir Bartol 1938 Slovenian Slovene
2562 Gospels Unknown 70 Multiple Greek
2568 Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1864 British English
2578 Les Contemplations Victor Hugo 1856 French French
2612 Book of Common Prayer Thomas Cranmer 1549 British English
2720 The Life Of Saint Teresa Of Avila By Herself Teresa of Avila 1588 Spanish Spanish
2739 Dark Night of the Soul St. John of the Cross 1578 Spanish Spanish
2741 Jerusalem Selma Lagerlöf 1901 Swedish Swedish
2747 Poor Henry Hartmann von Aue 1190 German Middle high german
2775 Gedichte Walther von der Vogelweide 1200 German Middle high german
2816 The Gnostic Gospels Elaine Pagels 1979 American English
2864 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer 1953 Polish Yiddish
2881 Septology Jon Fosse 2019 Norwegian Norwegian
2911 A Simple Soul Gustave Flaubert 1877 French French
3000 Monsignor Quixote Graham Greene 1982 British English
3065 Montaillou Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 1975 French French
3089 The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross St. John of the Cross 1578 Spanish Spanish
3126 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis 1942 British English
3151 The Complete Poems Of San Juan De La Cruz San Juan de la Cruz 1618 Spanish Spanish
3177 Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood 2017 American English
3191 The Age of Reason Thomas Paine 1794 British English
3218 The Long Loneliness Dorothy Day 1952 American English
3232 The Books Of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk 2014 Polish Polish
3324 The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda Miguel de Cervantes 1617 Spanish Spanish
3324 Monica Saunders Lewis 1930 British Welsh
3383 Poems Miguel de Unamuno 1907 Spanish Spanish
3387 Human Poems César Vallejo 1939 Peruvian Spanish
3422 Daylight Czesław Miłosz 1975 Polish Polish
3426 The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O'Connor 1960 American English