The Greatest Books of All Time on Redemption

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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
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
57 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 Russian Russian
63 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 British English
74 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 American English
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
96 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 German German
127 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
133 Confessions Augustine 397 Roman Latin
137 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 British English
149 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren 1946 American English
176 The End of the Affair Graham Greene 1951 British English
181 Light in August William Faulkner 1932 American English
187 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 1940 British English
193 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
201 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin 1929 German German
208 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor 1953 American English
211 The Tempest William Shakespeare 1623 British English
216 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843 British English
219 Brighton Rock Graham Greene 1938 British English
225 Fairy Tales and Stories Hans Christian Andersen 1835 Danish Danish
234 The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
238 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud 1873 French French
248 Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 British English
255 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee 1999 South African English
258 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1824 Scottish English
274 The Stand Stephen King 1978 American English
285 Oresteia Aeschylus -458 Greek Ancient greek
298 Herzog Saul Bellow 1964 American English
299 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
350 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor 1971 American English
351 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
353 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953 American English
358 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1886 British English
362 Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor 1952 American English
366 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo 1831 French French
367 Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en 1592 Chinese Chinese
378 Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Robert Maturin 1820 British English
381 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
383 Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles -401 Greek Ancient greek
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
387 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1864 British English
420 The Human Stain Philip Roth 2000 American English
421 A Visit From The Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010 American English
454 The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch 1978 British English
479 Four Quartets T. S. Eliot 1943 British English
488 The Shipping News Annie Proulx 1993 Canadian English
489 Manon Lescaut Abbe Prevost 1731 French French
500 Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor 1965 American English
523 Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Pérez Galdós 1887 Spanish Spanish
529 Life Is a Dream Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1635 Spanish Spanish
551 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 British English
601 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 American English
603 Barabbas Par Lagerkvist 1950 Swedish Swedish
623 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985 American English
627 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe 1604 British English
643 Silas Marner George Eliot 1861 British English
667 The Book of Job Unknown -600 Israeli Hebrew
784 Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1990 American English
796 The Fall Albert Camus 1956 French French
866 The Black Spider Jeremias Gotthelf 1842 Swiss German
878 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 1998 American English
883 Thaïs Anatole France 1890 French French
886 Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1912 American English
888 Drunkard Émile Zola 1877 French Unknown
892 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 Afghan English
924 Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver 1988 American English
962 The Diary of a Country Priest Georges Bernanos 1936 French French
968 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
973 The Burning Plain and Other Stories Juan Rulfo 1953 Mexican Spanish
995 Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1846 British English
1072 Gösta Berling's Saga Selma Lagerlöf 1891 Swedish Swedish
1079 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
1089 Suttree Cormac McCarthy 1979 American English
1090 The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy 1889 Russian Russian
1103 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë 1848 British English
1107 The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene 1948 British English
1116 Hadrian the Seventh Frederick Rolfe 1904 British English
1157 Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
1205 The Enchanted Wanderer Nikolai Leskov 1873 Russian Russian
1239 The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne John Donne 1952 British English
1290 Lilith George MacDonald 1895 Scottish English
1291 Parzival Wolfram Eschenbach 1200 German Middle high german
1300 The Guide R. K. Narayan 1958 Indian English
1314 Under Satan's Sun Georges Bernanos 1926 French French
1362 The Heart Of Midlothian Sir Walter Scott 1818 Scottish English
1371 The Devil's Elixir E. T. A. Hoffmann 1815 German German
1373 Winter's Tale Mark Helprin 1983 American English
1385 The Bell Iris Murdoch 1958 British English
1430 The Wandering Jew Eugène Sue 1844 French French
1464 Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1855 British English
1501 The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer 1960 Polish Yiddish
1652 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
1770 The Emperor of Portugallia Selma Lagerlöf 1914 Swedish Swedish
1793 The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle 1968 American English
1795 Victory Joseph Conrad 1915 British English
1808 Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1843 British English
1813 Swan Song Robert R. McCammon 1987 American English
1833 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C. S. Lewis 1952 British English
1876 Home Marilynne Robinson 2008 American English
1898 Tenth of December George Saunders 2013 American English
1918 The Lady Of The Camellias Alexandre Dumas 1848 French French
1958 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 2009 Irish English
1998 Ben-Hur Lew Wallace 1880 American English
2055 Satan In Goray Isaac Bashevis Singer 1935 Polish Yiddish
2071 The Assistant Bernard Malamud 1957 American English
2127 Restoration Rose Tremain 1989 British English
2233 Resurrection Leo Tolstoy 1899 Russian Russian
2260 The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill 1946 American English
2285 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy 1994 American English
2302 Ironweed William Kennedy 1983 American English
2343 Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 2021 Irish English
2344 Goblin Market Christina Georgina Rossetti 1862 British English
2385 Viper’s Tangle François Mauriac 1932 French French
2475 The Last Battle C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
2491 A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines 1993 American English