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
2159 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel 1980 American English
2274 The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler 1985 American English
2284 Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian 1981 British English
2352 The Salt Eaters Toni Cade Bambara 1980 American English
2589 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
2597 Possessing the Secret of Joy Alice Walker 1992 American English
2679 H Is For Hawk Helen MacDonald 2014 British English
2749 Physica Hildegard of Bingen 1150 German Latin
2869 House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday 1968 American English
2957 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1996 Canadian English
3092 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
4394 The Friend Sigrid Nunez 2018 American English
4544 Ingenious Pain Andrew Miller 1997 British English
4638 Darkmans Nicola Barker 2007 British English
4945 Mama Day Gloria Naylor 1988 American English
5015 The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride 2016 Irish English
5101 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 American English
5144 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 American English
5258 Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
5392 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans 1995 British English
5411 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English
5738 The Ghost Road Pat Barker 1995 British English
5758 Brown Girl In The Ring Nalo Hopkinson 1998 Canadian English
5808 Mysterious Skin Scott Heim 1995 American English
6129 Three Day Road Joseph Boyden 2005 Canadian English
6196 Know My Name Chanel Miller 2019 American English
6319 The Artist's Way Julia Cameron 1992 American English
6418 The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan 2001 American English
6578 Indian Horse Richard Wagamese 2012 Canadian English
6657 Organon Of The Rational Art Of Healing Samuel Hahnemann 1989 German German
6665 Crying In H Mart Michelle Zauner 2021 American English
6686 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
7175 Wild Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
7623 The Little Red Chairs Edna O'Brien 2015 Irish English
7646 All About Love bell hooks 2000 American English
7692 Quiet Flows The Una Faruk Šehić 2011 Bosnian Bosnian
7799 Dreamsnake Vonda N. McIntyre 1978 American English
8397 The Stag's Leap Sharon Olds 2012 American English
8459 The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander 2015 American English
8494 Paula Isabel Allende 1994 Chilean Spanish
8535 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 American English
8688 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer 2005 American English
8729 The History of Silence Pedro Zarraluki 1995 Spanish Spanish
8970 The Shack William P. Young 2007 American English
9022 The Fall Of A Sparrow Robert Hellenga 1998 American English
9093 The Cunning Man Robertson Davies 1994 Canadian English
9131 Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan 1991 American English
9192 The Death Class Erika Hayasaki 2014 American English
9288 A Leg To Stand On Oliver Sacks 1984 British English
9289 The Lost And Found Bookshop Susan Wiggs 2020 American English
9342 The Tender Land Kathleen Finneran 2000 American English
9644 All Your Perfects Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
9792 Sassafrass, Cypress, And Indigo Ntozake Shange 1982 American English
9809 Journal Julie Delporte 2013 Unknown French
9913 Thera Zeruya Shalev 2005 Israeli Hebrew
9945 Medicine Walk Richard Wagamese 2014 Canadian English
9973 Care of the Soul Thomas Moore 1992 American English
9988 I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb 1998 American English
10020 Mending Bodies Hon Lai-Chu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10026 Wounds Of Passion bell hooks 1997 American English
10240 The Apology Eve Ensler 2019 American English
10301 Dirt Music Tim Winton 2001 Australian English
10389 The Remains Of Love Zeruya Shalev 2011 Israeli Hebrew
10515 Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie Diaz 2020 American English
10557 The Body Keeps The Score Bessel van der Kolk 2014 American English
10659 Grief Observed C. S. Lewis 1961 British English
10797 Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin 2005 American English
10943 We Are Okay Nina LaCour 2017 American English
10959 The City Of Brass S. A. Chakraborty 2017 Egyptian English
11086 Insomniac City Bill Hayes 2017 American English
11113 The Healer's War Elizabeth Ann Scarborough 1988 American English
11113 Slow River Nicola Griffith 1995 British English
11358 The Girl In The Green Dress Jeni Haynes 2019 Unknown English
11409 Women Who Run With The Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estés 1992 American English
11623 Finding Beauty In A Broken World Terry Tempest Williams 2008 American English
11644 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11663 Falling Through The Earth Danielle Trussoni 2006 American English
11813 My Father's House Sylvia Fraser 1987 Canadian English
11813 Road Song Natalie Kusz 1987 American English
11901 The Ultraviolet Sky Alma Luz Villanueva 1988 American English
12050 The Detour Gerbrand Bakker 2010 Dutch Dutch
12173 The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall 2004 British English
12214 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 2017 British English
12259 The Worry Girl Andrea Freud Loewenstein 1990 American English
12412 Unconditional Love Jocelyn Moorhouse Unknown English
12515 The Other Mother Carol Schaefer 1991 American English
12834 Killing Color Charlotte W. Sherman 1992 American English
12834 Still Loved By The Sun Migael Scherer 1992 American English
13089 P.S. I Love You Cecelia Ahern 2004 Irish English
13051 Marguerite By The Lake Mary Dixie Carter 2025 Unknown English
13070 We Loved To Run Stephanie Reents 2025 American English
13339 Home Toni Morrison 2012 American English
13340 Name All The Animals Alison Smith 2004 American English
13600 Live Fast Brigitte Giraud 2022 French French
13818 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