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
7580 Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 American English
7861 Poems Of Blas De Otero Blas de Otero 1950 Spanish Spanish
7861 World Enough And Time Robert Penn Warren 1950 American English
7861 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
7937 The Keys To The Street Ruth Rendell 1996 British English
7943 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
8026 The Dew Breaker Edwidge Danticat 2004 American English
8054 The Urth Of The New Sun Gene Wolfe 1987 American English
8065 Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt 2022 American English
8099 Day A. L. Kennedy 2007 British English
8225 The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles 2021 American English
8423 The Green Mile Stephen King 1996 American English
8473 Babylon Revisited And Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 1960 American English
8473 The Patrick Melrose Novels Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
8638 Somersault Kenzaburō Ōe 1999 Japanese Japanese
8655 El Hermano Asno Eduardo Barrios 1922 Chilean Spanish
8672 Peace Like A River Leif Enger 2001 American English
8675 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8697 Too Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko 2018 Australian English
8728 The Living End Stanley Elkin 1979 American English
8850 The Munch Mancini Mystery Series Barbara Seranella 1997 American English
8860 Lucíola José de Alencar 1862 Brazilian Portuguese
8914 Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold 2003 American English
8970 The Shack William P. Young 2007 American English
9160 La Blessure Et La Soif Laurence Plazenet 2009 French French
9192 American Rust Philipp Meyer 2009 American English
9185 Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch 1969 British English
9276 Angels Denis Johnson 1983 American English
9314 White Man Falling Mike Stocks 2006 British English
9366 A Dark Night's Passing Naoya Shiga 1937 Japanese Japanese
9613 The Tin Roof Blowdown James Lee Burke 2007 American English
9673 Strange Shores Arnaldur Indriðason 2010 Icelandic Icelandic
9660 The Story Of The Just Casper And Fair Annie Clemens Brentano German German
9660 The Messiah Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2012 German German
9660 Nedokoro No Kyoudai Kenzaburō Ōe Japanese Japanese
9802 The Shepherd's Hut Tim Winton 2018 Australian English
9835 The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti 2017 American English
9860 The Pirate Sir Walter Scott 1822 Scottish English
9985 Shadow & Claw Gene Wolfe 1994 American English
10168 A River Sutra Gita Mehta 1993 Indian English
10241 The Apology Eve Ensler 2019 American English
10302 Dirt Music Tim Winton 2001 Australian English
10406 Drama City George P. Pelecanos 2005 American English
10510 October Light John Gardner 1976 American English
10641 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom 2003 American English
10774 Halfway Home Reuben Jonathan Miller 2021 American English
10856 The Stories Bernard Malamud 1983 American English
10856 The Albany Cycle William Kennedy 1983 American English
10856 Modern Baptists James Wilcox 1983 American English
10905 Rising Out Of Hatred Eli Saslow 2018 American English
10969 The Hair of Harold Roux Thomas Williams 1974 American English
10989 The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder 1967 American English
11018 Camino de Perdición Luis Mateo Díez 2007 Spanish Spanish
11029 The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch 1985 British English
11052 The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1969 British English
11068 The Flood John Broderick 2000 Irish English
11113 The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton John Milton 2007 British English
11278 The Playmaker Thomas Keneally 1987 Australian English
11277 A Monkey In Winter Antoine Blondin 1959 French French
11278 Shella Andrew Vachss 1993 American English
11320 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
11366 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
11366 Évangile Des égarés Georgina Tacou Unknown French
11406 A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson 2015 British English
11455 The Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson 1923 American English
11455 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow 1941 American English
11497 The Black Prophet William Carleton 1847 Irish English
11536 The Twelve Labours of Hercules Unknown -100 Multiple Ancient greek
11629 May We Be Forgiven A. M. Homes 2012 American English
11644 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11653 Above The River James Wright 1990 American English
11663 Brothers And Keepers John Edgar Wideman 1984 American English
11861 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
12130 The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell 1996 American English
12226 A Conjuring Of Light V. E. Schwab 2017 American English
12394 Little Lazarus Michael Bible 2025 American English
12588 Diamond Dogs Alan Watt 2000 Unknown English
12657 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
12974 Once Was Willem M. R. Carey 2025 Unknown Unknown
13074 Can't Get Enough Kennedy Ryan 2025 American English
13076 Sacrament Susan Straight 2025 American English
13259 True Notebooks Mark Salzman 2003 American English
13321 Mirror Dance Lois McMaster Bujold 1994 American English
13339 Home Toni Morrison 2012 American English
13362 The Slave Isaac Bashevis Singer 1962 Polish Yiddish
13362 Rain And Other South Sea Stories W. Somerset Maugham 1921 British English
13513 Gil's All Fright Diner A. Lee Martinez 2005 American English
13577 Anxious People Fredrik Backman 2019 Swedish Swedish
13567 Johnny Cash Reinhard Kleist 2006 German German
13584 Two Years Ago Charles Kingsley 1857 British English
13593 We Were The Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates 1996 American English
13594 The Book Of Joe Jonathan Tropper 2004 American English
13600 Le Chèvrefeuille, Le Purgatoire, Le Chapitre Xiii Thierry Sandre French French
13600 Hath Not The Potter Maxence Van Der Meersch 1936 French English
13600 The Mercy Of God Jean Cau 1961 French French
13600 Un Grand Pas Vers Le Bon Dieu Jean Vautrin 1989 French French
13760 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13772 The Third Angel Alice Hoffman 2008 American English
13789 Ocean Sea Alessandro Baricco 1993 Italian Italian
13818 Don't Move Margaret Mazzantini 2001 Italian Italian
13886 City Of Miracles Robert Jackson Bennett 2017 American English
14100 The Royal Family William T. Vollmann 2000 American English
14166 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
14348 Middle Passage Charles R. Johnson 1990 American English
14407 The Weavers Sir Gilbert Parker 1907 Canadian English
14455 The Shepherd Of The Hills Harold Bell Wright 1907 American English
14477 The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1910 British English
14485 The Servant In The House Charles Rann Kennedy 1908 British English
14491 Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 2006 French French
14547 Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1911 American English
14650 The Green Knight Iris Murdoch 1993 British English
14757 The Nazarene Sholem Asch 1939 Polish Yiddish
14776 Slippy Mc Gee Marie Conway Oemler 1917 American English
14788 For The Term Of His Natural Life Marcus Clarke 1874 Australian English
14823 The Wild Duck Henrik Ibsen 1884 Norwegian Norwegian
14827 Bad Habit Alana S. Portero Unknown Unknown
14899 The Third Life Of Grange Copeland Alice Walker 1970 American English