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
7579 Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 American English
7860 Poems Of Blas De Otero Blas de Otero 1950 Spanish Spanish
7860 World Enough And Time Robert Penn Warren 1950 American English
7860 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
7936 The Keys To The Street Ruth Rendell 1996 British English
7942 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
8025 The Dew Breaker Edwidge Danticat 2004 American English
8053 The Urth Of The New Sun Gene Wolfe 1987 American English
8064 Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt 2022 American English
8097 Day A. L. Kennedy 2007 British English
8223 The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles 2021 American English
8419 The Green Mile Stephen King 1996 American English
8468 Babylon Revisited And Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 1960 American English
8468 The Patrick Melrose Novels Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
8634 Somersault Kenzaburō Ōe 1999 Japanese Japanese
8651 El Hermano Asno Eduardo Barrios 1922 Chilean Spanish
8668 Peace Like A River Leif Enger 2001 American English
8671 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8693 Too Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko 2018 Australian English
8723 The Living End Stanley Elkin 1979 American English
8846 The Munch Mancini Mystery Series Barbara Seranella 1997 American English
8856 Lucíola José de Alencar 1862 Brazilian Portuguese
8910 Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold 2003 American English
8966 The Shack William P. Young 2007 American English
9155 La Blessure Et La Soif Laurence Plazenet 2009 French French
9188 American Rust Philipp Meyer 2009 American English
9181 Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch 1969 British English
9271 Angels Denis Johnson 1983 American English
9309 White Man Falling Mike Stocks 2006 British English
9361 A Dark Night's Passing Naoya Shiga 1937 Japanese Japanese
9609 The Tin Roof Blowdown James Lee Burke 2007 American English
9669 Strange Shores Arnaldur Indriðason 2010 Icelandic Icelandic
9656 The Story Of The Just Casper And Fair Annie Clemens Brentano German German
9656 The Messiah Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2012 German German
9656 Nedokoro No Kyoudai Kenzaburō Ōe Japanese Japanese
9798 The Shepherd's Hut Tim Winton 2018 Australian English
9831 The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti 2017 American English
9856 The Pirate Sir Walter Scott 1822 Scottish English
9980 Shadow & Claw Gene Wolfe 1994 American English
10163 A River Sutra Gita Mehta 1993 Indian English
10234 The Apology Eve Ensler 2019 American English
10296 Dirt Music Tim Winton 2001 Australian English
10400 Drama City George P. Pelecanos 2005 American English
10504 October Light John Gardner 1976 American English
10634 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom 2003 American English
10767 Halfway Home Reuben Jonathan Miller 2021 American English
10849 The Stories Bernard Malamud 1983 American English
10849 The Albany Cycle William Kennedy 1983 American English
10849 Modern Baptists James Wilcox 1983 American English
10898 Rising Out Of Hatred Eli Saslow 2018 American English
10962 The Hair of Harold Roux Thomas Williams 1974 American English
10982 The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder 1967 American English
11011 Camino de Perdición Luis Mateo Díez 2007 Spanish Spanish
11022 The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch 1985 British English
11045 The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1969 British English
11061 The Flood John Broderick 2000 Irish English
11106 The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton John Milton 2007 British English
11271 The Playmaker Thomas Keneally 1987 Australian English
11270 A Monkey In Winter Antoine Blondin 1959 French French
11271 Shella Andrew Vachss 1993 American English
11313 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
11360 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
11360 Évangile Des égarés Georgina Tacou Unknown French
11400 A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson 2015 British English
11449 The Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson 1923 American English
11449 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow 1941 American English
11493 The Black Prophet William Carleton 1847 Irish English
11533 The Twelve Labours of Hercules Unknown -100 Multiple Ancient greek
11626 May We Be Forgiven A. M. Homes 2012 American English
11641 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11650 Above The River James Wright 1990 American English
11660 Brothers And Keepers John Edgar Wideman 1984 American English
11859 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
12129 The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell 1996 American English
12225 A Conjuring Of Light V. E. Schwab 2017 American English
12392 Little Lazarus Michael Bible 2025 American English
12586 Diamond Dogs Alan Watt 2000 Unknown English
12655 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
12971 Once Was Willem M. R. Carey 2025 Unknown Unknown
13071 Can't Get Enough Kennedy Ryan 2025 American English
13073 Sacrament Susan Straight 2025 American English
13256 True Notebooks Mark Salzman 2003 American English
13318 Mirror Dance Lois McMaster Bujold 1994 American English
13336 Home Toni Morrison 2012 American English
13359 The Slave Isaac Bashevis Singer 1962 Polish Yiddish
13359 Rain And Other South Sea Stories W. Somerset Maugham 1921 British English
13511 Gil's All Fright Diner A. Lee Martinez 2005 American English
13576 Anxious People Fredrik Backman 2019 Swedish Swedish
13566 Johnny Cash Reinhard Kleist 2006 German German
13583 Two Years Ago Charles Kingsley 1857 British English
13592 We Were The Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates 1996 American English
13593 The Book Of Joe Jonathan Tropper 2004 American English
13599 Le Chèvrefeuille, Le Purgatoire, Le Chapitre Xiii Thierry Sandre French French
13599 Hath Not The Potter Maxence Van Der Meersch 1936 French English
13599 The Mercy Of God Jean Cau 1961 French French
13599 Un Grand Pas Vers Le Bon Dieu Jean Vautrin 1989 French French
13759 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13771 The Third Angel Alice Hoffman 2008 American English
13788 Ocean Sea Alessandro Baricco 1993 Italian Italian
13817 Don't Move Margaret Mazzantini 2001 Italian Italian
13885 City Of Miracles Robert Jackson Bennett 2017 American English
14100 The Royal Family William T. Vollmann 2000 American English
14167 Going Postal Terry Pratchett 2004 British English
14212 Dragons Of Spring Dawning Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman 1985 American English
14232 The Damned Utd David Peace 2006 British English
14232 Zoo City Lauren Beukes 2010 South African English
14347 Middle Passage Charles R. Johnson 1990 American English
14406 The Weavers Sir Gilbert Parker 1907 Canadian English
14454 The Shepherd Of The Hills Harold Bell Wright 1907 American English
14476 The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1910 British English
14484 The Servant In The House Charles Rann Kennedy 1908 British English
14490 Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 2006 French French
14546 Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1911 American English
14649 The Green Knight Iris Murdoch 1993 British English
14758 The Nazarene Sholem Asch 1939 Polish Yiddish
14773 Slippy Mc Gee Marie Conway Oemler 1917 American English
14787 For The Term Of His Natural Life Marcus Clarke 1874 Australian English
14822 The Wild Duck Henrik Ibsen 1884 Norwegian Norwegian
14825 Bad Habit Alana S. Portero Unknown Unknown
14896 The Third Life Of Grange Copeland Alice Walker 1970 American English