The Greatest Books of All Time on Human Suffering
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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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 375 | Kolyma Stories | Varlam Shalamov | 1954 | Russian | Russian | |
| 559 | Christ Stopped at Eboli | Carlo Levi | 1945 | Italian | Italian | |
| 1137 | Miss Lonelyhearts | Nathanael West | 1933 | American | English | |
| 1315 | Voices from Chernobyl | Svetlana Alexievich | 1997 | Belarusian | Russian | |
| 1522 | Cancer Ward | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1967 | Russian | Russian | |
| 2957 | The Lower Depths | Maxim Gorky | 1902 | Russian | Russian | |
| 3387 | Human Poems | César Vallejo | 1939 | Peruvian | Spanish | |
| 4207 | The Case Worker | György Konrád | 1969 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 6002 | Les Murs De Fresnes | Henri Calet | 1945 | French | French | |
| 13817 | La Morte Del Fiume | Guglielmo Petroni | 1958 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17002 | The Fate Of A Man And Early Stories | Mikhail Sholokhov | 1967 | Russian | Russian |