The Greatest Books of All Time on Healing

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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
370 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005 American English
644 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992 Canadian English
814 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 1911 British English
867 Heidi Johanna Spyri 1881 Swiss German
1002 Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 American English
1125 Philoctetes Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
1144 A Month In The Country J. L. Carr 1980 British English
1145 The Bone People Keri Hulme 1984 New Zealand English
1313 The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty 1972 American English
1693 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 2002 American English
1877 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier 1997 American English
1902 The Physician Noah Gordon 1986 American English
2158 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel 1980 American English
2273 The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler 1985 American English
2283 Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian 1981 British English
2350 The Salt Eaters Toni Cade Bambara 1980 American English
2588 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
2596 Possessing the Secret of Joy Alice Walker 1992 American English
2678 H Is For Hawk Helen MacDonald 2014 British English
2749 Physica Hildegard of Bingen 1150 German Latin
2866 House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday 1968 American English
2955 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1996 Canadian English
3091 Disturbance Philippe Lançon 2018 French French
3377 Ordinary People Judith Guest 1976 American English
3506 Speak Laurie Halse Anderson 1999 American English
3608 Virgin River Robyn Carr 2007 American English
3638 On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs Olha Kobylianska 1909 Ukrainian Ukrainian
3638 The Seeress Of Prevorst Justinus Kerner 1829 German German
4393 The Friend Sigrid Nunez 2018 American English
4542 Ingenious Pain Andrew Miller 1997 British English
4636 Darkmans Nicola Barker 2007 British English
4942 Mama Day Gloria Naylor 1988 American English
5011 The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride 2016 Irish English
5098 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 American English
5141 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 American English
5256 Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
5389 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans 1995 British English
5408 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English
5735 The Ghost Road Pat Barker 1995 British English
5755 Brown Girl In The Ring Nalo Hopkinson 1998 Canadian English
5805 Mysterious Skin Scott Heim 1995 American English
6126 Three Day Road Joseph Boyden 2005 Canadian English
6192 Know My Name Chanel Miller 2019 American English
6316 The Artist's Way Julia Cameron 1992 American English
6415 The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan 2001 American English
6576 Indian Horse Richard Wagamese 2012 Canadian English
6655 Organon Of The Rational Art Of Healing Samuel Hahnemann 1989 German German
6664 Crying In H Mart Michelle Zauner 2021 American English
6685 Pain Zeruya Shalev 2015 Israeli Hebrew
6891 Bared To You Sylvia Day 2012 American English
7079 A Court Of Mist And Fury Sarah J. Maas 2016 American English
7122 Margot en de engelen Kristien Hemmerechts 1997 Belgian Dutch
7142 Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano 2023 American English
7174 Wild Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
7622 The Little Red Chairs Edna O'Brien 2015 Irish English
7645 All About Love bell hooks 2000 American English
7691 Quiet Flows The Una Faruk Šehić 2011 Bosnian Bosnian
7797 Dreamsnake Vonda N. McIntyre 1978 American English
8394 The Stag's Leap Sharon Olds 2012 American English
8454 The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander 2015 American English
8489 Paula Isabel Allende 1994 Chilean Spanish
8531 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 American English
8684 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer 2005 American English
8724 The History of Silence Pedro Zarraluki 1995 Spanish Spanish
8966 The Shack William P. Young 2007 American English
9018 The Fall Of A Sparrow Robert Hellenga 1998 American English
9088 The Cunning Man Robertson Davies 1994 Canadian English
9126 Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan 1991 American English
9188 The Death Class Erika Hayasaki 2014 American English
9283 A Leg To Stand On Oliver Sacks 1984 British English
9284 The Lost And Found Bookshop Susan Wiggs 2020 American English
9337 The Tender Land Kathleen Finneran 2000 American English
9640 All Your Perfects Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
9789 Sassafrass, Cypress, And Indigo Ntozake Shange 1982 American English
9806 Journal Julie Delporte 2013 Unknown French
9910 Thera Zeruya Shalev 2005 Israeli Hebrew
9941 Medicine Walk Richard Wagamese 2014 Canadian English
9969 Care of the Soul Thomas Moore 1992 American English
9984 I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb 1998 American English
10016 Mending Bodies Hon Lai-Chu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10022 Wounds Of Passion bell hooks 1997 American English
10234 The Apology Eve Ensler 2019 American English
10296 Dirt Music Tim Winton 2001 Australian English
10384 The Remains Of Love Zeruya Shalev 2011 Israeli Hebrew
10510 Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie Diaz 2020 American English
10551 The Body Keeps The Score Bessel van der Kolk 2014 American English
10653 Grief Observed C. S. Lewis 1961 British English
10791 Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin 2005 American English
10936 We Are Okay Nina LaCour 2017 American English
10952 The City Of Brass S. A. Chakraborty 2017 Egyptian English
11079 Insomniac City Bill Hayes 2017 American English
11106 The Healer's War Elizabeth Ann Scarborough 1988 American English
11106 Slow River Nicola Griffith 1995 British English
11351 The Girl In The Green Dress Jeni Haynes 2019 Unknown English
11403 Women Who Run With The Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estés 1992 American English
11620 Finding Beauty In A Broken World Terry Tempest Williams 2008 American English
11641 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11660 Falling Through The Earth Danielle Trussoni 2006 American English
11811 My Father's House Sylvia Fraser 1987 Canadian English
11811 Road Song Natalie Kusz 1987 American English
11899 The Ultraviolet Sky Alma Luz Villanueva 1988 American English
12048 The Detour Gerbrand Bakker 2010 Dutch Dutch
12172 The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall 2004 British English
12213 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2017 British English
12258 The Worry Girl Andrea Freud Loewenstein 1990 American English
12410 Unconditional Love Jocelyn Moorhouse Unknown English
12513 The Other Mother Carol Schaefer 1991 American English
12832 Killing Color Charlotte W. Sherman 1992 American English
12832 Still Loved By The Sun Migael Scherer 1992 American English
13086 P.S. I Love You Cecelia Ahern 2004 Irish English
13048 Marguerite By The Lake Mary Dixie Carter 2025 Unknown English
13067 We Loved To Run Stephanie Reents 2025 American English
13336 Home Toni Morrison 2012 American English
13337 Name All The Animals Alison Smith 2004 American English
13599 Live Fast Brigitte Giraud 2022 French French
13817 The Hummingbird Sandro Veronesi 2019 Italian Italian
14025 The Kingdom Of Copper S. A. Chakraborty 2019 American English
14025 Heart Berries Terese Marie Mailhot 2018 Canadian English
14122 The Choice Dr. Edith Eva Eger 2017 American English
14232 LaRose Louise Erdrich 2016 American English