The Greatest Books of All Time on Pilgrimage

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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
110 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
551 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 British English
1224 The Snow Leopard Peter Matthiessen 1978 American English
2469 Hyperion Dan Simmons 1989 American English
2535 The Way of a Pilgrim Unknown 1884 Russian Russian
2691 The Book Of Margery Kempe Margery Kempe 1436 British Middle english
3324 The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda Miguel de Cervantes 1617 Spanish Spanish
5235 Deep River Shūsaku Endō 1993 Japanese Japanese
7215 Clarel Herman Melville 1876 American English
10613 Along The Ganges Ilija Trojanow 2005 German German
13359 The Sarashina Diary Sugawara no Takasue no Musume 1050 Japanese Classical japanese
14132 A History of the Crusades Stephen Runciman 1951 British English
14161 My Journey to Lhasa Alexandra David-Neel 1927 French French
15897 Plymouth Adventure Ernest Gebler 1952 Irish English
16596 Morgenlandfahrt Hermann Hesse 1932 Swiss German
17117 Jerusalem Simon Sebag Montefiore 2011 British English
17117 The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane 2012 British English
17117 To Calais In Ordinary Time James Meek 2019 British English
17117 Station Island Seamus Heaney 1984 Irish English
17117 Roads To Santiago Cees Nooteboom 1992 Dutch Dutch
17092 The Relic Eça de Queirós 1887 Portuguese Portuguese