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
1765 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
1799 The Giver Lois Lowry 1993 American English
1934 Capital of Pain Paul Éluard 1926 French French
3638 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas de Quincey 1821 British English
4544 Ingenious Pain Andrew Miller 1997 British English
6537 The Empathy Exams Leslie Jamison 2014 American English
6686 Pain Zeruya Shalev 2015 Israeli Hebrew
7216 A Philosophical Enquiry Into...The Sublime And Beautiful Edmund Burke 1757 British English
7717 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
7959 La Casa De La Fuerza Angélica Liddell 2009 Spanish Spanish
8977 Clavícula Marta Sanz 2015 Spanish Spanish
10264 The Ether Dome And Other Poems Allen Grossman 1979 American English
10941 The Art Of Cruelty Maggie Nelson 2011 American English
11141 The Undying Anne Boyer 2019 American English
11257 Frida Hayden Herrera 1983 American English
11547 Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 1863 British English
11941 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
12173 The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall 2004 British English
15616 The Primal Scream Arthur Janov 1970 American English
17163 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
17163 I Would Leave Me If I Could Halsey 2020 American English
17163 She Felt Like Feeling Nothing r.h. Sin 2018 American English
17163 Empty Bottles Full Of Stories r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake 2019 American English
17163 Slow Getting Up Nate Jackson 2013 American English
17044 The Problem Of Pain C. S. Lewis 1940 British English
17163 Healing Back Pain John E. Sarno 1982 American English
17163 Tudo é Rio Carla Madeira 2014 Brazilian Portuguese