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
2527 Life of Christ Giovanni Papini 1921 Italian Italian
2533 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
2552 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 Greek Greek
2562 Gospels Unknown 70 Multiple Greek
2586 Empire Falls Richard Russo 2001 American English
2611 The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 1623 British English
2722 Perelandra C. S. Lewis 1943 British English
2728 La légende des siècles Victor Hugo 1859 French French
2732 Seize The Day Saul Bellow 1956 American English
2741 Jerusalem Selma Lagerlöf 1901 Swedish Swedish
2747 Poor Henry Hartmann von Aue 1190 German Middle high german
2820 The Damnation Game Clive Barker 1985 British English
2909 Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell 1853 British English
2916 Legend David Gemmell 1984 British English
2949 Some Hope Edward St Aubyn 1994 British English
2977 The Demon Mikhail Lermontov 1829 Russian Russian
3039 East Lynne Ellen Wood 1861 British English
3063 The Secret River Kate Grenville 2005 Australian English
3126 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis 1942 British English
3171 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English
3223 Forever Flowing Vasily Grossman 1970 Russian Russian
3278 Holy Week Louis Aragon 1958 French French
3318 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts 2003 Australian English
3324 The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby Charles Kingsley 1863 British English
3426 The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O'Connor 1960 American English
3438 The Needle's Eye Fanny Howe 1970 American English
3492 The Claw Of The Conciliator Gene Wolfe 1981 American English
3504 The Big Blowdown George P. Pelecanos 1996 American English
3590 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
3606 The Temple George Herbert 1633 British English
3638 Uli The Farmhand Jeremias Gotthelf 1841 Swiss German
3638 Das Unauslöschliche Siegel Elisabeth Langgässer 1946 German German
3638 The Veil Of Veronica Gertrud von le Fort 1928 German German
3638 The Criminal Of Lost Honor Friedrich Schiller 1786 German German
3638 The Large Testament And The Small Testament François Villon 1461 French French
3638 The Embezzled Heaven Franz Werfel 1940 Austrian German
3638 Everyman Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1911 Austrian German
3831 Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
3953 Γιούγκερμαν M. Karagatsis 1938 Greek Greek
4120 Each Man In His Darkness Julien Green 1960 French French
4221 The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
4218 Heracles Euripides -416 Greek Ancient greek
4223 The Spectre Of Alexander Wolf Gaito Gazdanov 1947 French Russian
4270 Eight Million Ways To Die Lawrence Block 1982 American English
4309 Ennui Maria Edgeworth 1809 Irish English
4309 The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom Tobias Smollett 1753 British English
4420 Poems Of George Herbert George Herbert 1633 British English
4504 Different Seasons Stephen King 1982 American English
4524 Falconer John Cheever 1977 American English
4541 A New Life Bernard Malamud 1961 American English
4558 Star Of The Sea Joseph O'Connor 2003 Irish English
4559 The Lady's Not For Burning Christopher Fry 1948 British English
4612 Cold Heaven Brian Moore 1983 British English
4617 Deacon King Kong James McBride 2020 American English
4629 De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1905 British English
4631 Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti 2001 British English
4638 The Vintner's Luck Elizabeth Knox 1998 New Zealand English
4686 The Lord Romano Guardini 1934 German German
4707 Six Of Crows Leigh Bardugo 2015 American English
4719 The Sword of the Lictor Gene Wolfe 1982 American English
4740 The Man With The Golden Touch Mór Jókai 1872 Hungarian Hungarian
4827 The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Denis Johnson 2018 American English
5101 Антихрист Emilian Stanev 1939 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5109 The Winter Of Our Discontent John Steinbeck 1961 American English
5151 Quarantine Jim Crace 1997 British English
5229 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
5235 Deep River Shūsaku Endō 1993 Japanese Japanese
5250 The War Hound And The World's Pain Michael Moorcock 1981 British English
5266 A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 2007 Sierra Leonean English
5279 At Last Edward St Aubyn 2011 British English
5350 The Book Of Mormon Unknown 1830 American English
5390 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions John Donne 1624 British English
5408 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English
5444 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
5455 Mercy Among The Children David Adams Richards 2000 Canadian English
5471 The Unicorn Iris Murdoch 1963 British English
5479 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
5496 The Underground Man Ross Macdonald 1971 American English
5510 Riders In The Chariot Patrick White 1961 Australian English
5665 The Passionate Heart Beatrix Beck 1955 French French
5691 Night Boat To Tangier Kevin Barry 2019 Irish English
5835 Paradise Regained John Milton 1671 British English
5860 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
6002 Master And Man Leo Tolstoy 1895 Russian Russian
6002 Tous N'étaient Pas Des Anges Joseph Kessel 1970 French French
6121 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6129 The Fool In Christ Gerhart Hauptmann 1910 German German
6153 Use Of Weapons Iain Banks 1990 Scottish English
6158 The Star Of Redemption Franz Rosenzweig 1971 German German
6174 The Mansion William Faulkner 1959 American English
6409 Live Flesh Ruth Rendell 1986 British English
6439 The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud 1958 American English
6470 The Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987 American English
6680 Blacktop Wasteland S. A. Cosby 2020 American English
6747 De Advocaat Van De Hanen A. F. Th. van der Heijden 1990 Dutch Dutch
6821 The Lost Weekend Charles Jackson 1944 American English
6839 The Awakening Of Helena Ritchie Margaret Deland 1906 American English
6939 A Reckless Character and Other Stories Ivan Turgenev 1883 Russian Russian
7051 The Sisters Brothers Patrick DeWitt 2011 Canadian English
7075 The Glorious Heresies Lisa McInerney 2015 Irish English
7137 Bury Your Dead Louise Penny 2010 Canadian English
7165 A Fable William Faulkner 1954 American English
7190 The Complete Plays Of Eugene O'neill Eugene O'Neill 1959 American English
7211 Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton 2018 Australian English
7215 The Mighty Magician Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1637 Spanish Spanish
7215 Silex Scintillans, Etc Henry Vaughan 1650 British English
7215 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
7215 Samson Agonistes John Milton 1671 British English
7215 To Damascus August Strindberg 1898 Swedish Swedish
7215 The Poems And Plays Of Thomas Wade Thomas Wade 1800 British English
7215 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
7215 Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1874 British English
7215 Short Novels Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 Russian Russian
7215 Short Novels Leo Tolstoy 1900 Russian Russian
7215 The Woman Of The Pharisees François Mauriac 1941 French French
7215 The Wheel Of Fire George Wilson Knight 1930 British English
7215 Selected Poems Angelos Sikelianos 1900 Greek Greek
7215 Poems Of Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897 American English
7215 Poems Of Robinson Jeffers Robinson Jeffers 1920 American English
7575 The Toilers Of The Sea Victor Hugo 1866 French French