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
2529 Life of Christ Giovanni Papini 1921 Italian Italian
2535 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
2554 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 Greek Greek
2563 Gospels Unknown 70 Multiple Greek
2587 Empire Falls Richard Russo 2001 American English
2612 The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 1623 British English
2723 Perelandra C. S. Lewis 1943 British English
2729 La légende des siècles Victor Hugo 1859 French French
2733 Seize The Day Saul Bellow 1956 American English
2742 Jerusalem Selma Lagerlöf 1901 Swedish Swedish
2748 Poor Henry Hartmann von Aue 1190 German Middle high german
2823 The Damnation Game Clive Barker 1985 British English
2911 Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell 1853 British English
2918 Legend David Gemmell 1984 British English
2951 Some Hope Edward St Aubyn 1994 British English
2979 The Demon Mikhail Lermontov 1829 Russian Russian
3042 East Lynne Ellen Wood 1861 British English
3065 The Secret River Kate Grenville 2005 Australian English
3127 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis 1942 British English
3172 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English
3224 Forever Flowing Vasily Grossman 1970 Russian Russian
3279 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
3439 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
3830 Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
3954 Γιούγκερμαν M. Karagatsis 1938 Greek Greek
4121 Each Man In His Darkness Julien Green 1960 French French
4222 The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
4219 Heracles Euripides -416 Greek Ancient greek
4224 The Spectre Of Alexander Wolf Gaito Gazdanov 1947 French Russian
4271 Eight Million Ways To Die Lawrence Block 1982 American English
4310 Ennui Maria Edgeworth 1809 Irish English
4310 The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom Tobias Smollett 1753 British English
4421 Poems Of George Herbert George Herbert 1633 British English
4506 Different Seasons Stephen King 1982 American English
4526 Falconer John Cheever 1977 American English
4543 A New Life Bernard Malamud 1961 American English
4560 Star Of The Sea Joseph O'Connor 2003 Irish English
4561 The Lady's Not For Burning Christopher Fry 1948 British English
4614 Cold Heaven Brian Moore 1983 British English
4619 Deacon King Kong James McBride 2020 American English
4631 De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1905 British English
4633 Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti 2001 British English
4640 The Vintner's Luck Elizabeth Knox 1998 New Zealand English
4688 The Lord Romano Guardini 1934 German German
4709 Six Of Crows Leigh Bardugo 2015 American English
4721 The Sword of the Lictor Gene Wolfe 1982 American English
4742 The Man With The Golden Touch Mór Jókai 1872 Hungarian Hungarian
4829 The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Denis Johnson 2018 American English
5104 Антихрист Emilian Stanev 1939 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5112 The Winter Of Our Discontent John Steinbeck 1961 American English
5154 Quarantine Jim Crace 1997 British English
5232 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
5237 Deep River Shūsaku Endō 1993 Japanese Japanese
5252 The War Hound And The World's Pain Michael Moorcock 1981 British English
5268 A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 2007 Sierra Leonean English
5281 At Last Edward St Aubyn 2011 British English
5352 The Book Of Mormon Unknown 1830 American English
5393 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions John Donne 1624 British English
5411 The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy 1986 American English
5447 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
5458 Mercy Among The Children David Adams Richards 2000 Canadian English
5474 The Unicorn Iris Murdoch 1963 British English
5482 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
5499 The Underground Man Ross Macdonald 1971 American English
5513 Riders In The Chariot Patrick White 1961 Australian English
5668 The Passionate Heart Beatrix Beck 1955 French French
5694 Night Boat To Tangier Kevin Barry 2019 Irish English
5839 Paradise Regained John Milton 1671 British English
5863 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
6005 Master And Man Leo Tolstoy 1895 Russian Russian
6005 Tous N'étaient Pas Des Anges Joseph Kessel 1970 French French
6124 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6132 The Fool In Christ Gerhart Hauptmann 1910 German German
6156 Use Of Weapons Iain Banks 1990 Scottish English
6161 The Star Of Redemption Franz Rosenzweig 1971 German German
6177 The Mansion William Faulkner 1959 American English
6412 Live Flesh Ruth Rendell 1986 British English
6442 The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud 1958 American English
6472 The Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987 American English
6681 Blacktop Wasteland S. A. Cosby 2020 American English
6748 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
7166 A Fable William Faulkner 1954 American English
7191 The Complete Plays Of Eugene O'neill Eugene O'Neill 1959 American English
7212 Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton 2018 Australian English
7216 The Mighty Magician Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1637 Spanish Spanish
7216 Silex Scintillans, Etc Henry Vaughan 1650 British English
7216 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
7216 Samson Agonistes John Milton 1671 British English
7216 To Damascus August Strindberg 1898 Swedish Swedish
7216 The Poems And Plays Of Thomas Wade Thomas Wade 1800 British English
7216 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
7216 Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1874 British English
7216 Short Novels Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 Russian Russian
7216 Short Novels Leo Tolstoy 1900 Russian Russian
7216 The Woman Of The Pharisees François Mauriac 1941 French French
7216 The Wheel Of Fire George Wilson Knight 1930 British English
7216 Selected Poems Angelos Sikelianos 1900 Greek Greek
7216 Poems Of Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897 American English
7216 Poems Of Robinson Jeffers Robinson Jeffers 1920 American English
7576 The Toilers Of The Sea Victor Hugo 1866 French French