The Greatest Books of All Time on Pain

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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
1764 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
1799 The Giver Lois Lowry 1993 American English
1933 Capital of Pain Paul Éluard 1926 French French
3638 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas de Quincey 1821 British English
4542 Ingenious Pain Andrew Miller 1997 British English
6535 The Empathy Exams Leslie Jamison 2014 American English
6685 Pain Zeruya Shalev 2015 Israeli Hebrew
7215 A Philosophical Enquiry Into...The Sublime And Beautiful Edmund Burke 1757 British English
7715 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
7958 La Casa De La Fuerza Angélica Liddell 2009 Spanish Spanish
8973 Clavícula Marta Sanz 2015 Spanish Spanish
10258 The Ether Dome And Other Poems Allen Grossman 1979 American English
10934 The Art Of Cruelty Maggie Nelson 2011 American English
11134 The Undying Anne Boyer 2019 American English
11250 Frida Hayden Herrera 1983 American English
11544 Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 1863 British English
11939 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
12172 The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall 2004 British English
15608 The Primal Scream Arthur Janov 1970 American English
17117 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
17117 I Would Leave Me If I Could Halsey 2020 American English
17117 She Felt Like Feeling Nothing r.h. Sin 2018 American English
17117 Empty Bottles Full Of Stories r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake 2019 American English
17117 Slow Getting Up Nate Jackson 2013 American English
16996 The Problem Of Pain C. S. Lewis 1940 British English
17117 Healing Back Pain John E. Sarno 1982 American English
17117 Tudo é Rio Carla Madeira 2014 Brazilian Portuguese