The Greatest Books of All Time on Sin

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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
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
74 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 American English
127 Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 British English
133 Confessions Augustine 397 Roman Latin
187 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene 1940 British English
238 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud 1873 French French
258 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1824 Scottish English
299 Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
353 Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 1953 American English
653 Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas 1274 Italian Latin
742 The Crime of Father Amaro Eça de Queirós 1875 Portuguese Portuguese
866 The Black Spider Jeremias Gotthelf 1842 Swiss German
1157 Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
1314 Under Satan's Sun Georges Bernanos 1926 French French
1459 The City of God Augustine 413 Roman Latin
1939 The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne 1860 American English
2534 Young Goodman Brown & Other Short Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1835 American English
3127 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis 1942 British English
3496 Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin 1536 French Latin
3605 The Temple George Herbert 1633 British English
3637 Everyman Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1911 Austrian German
4120 Each Man In His Darkness Julien Green 1960 French French
5104 Антихрист Emilian Stanev 1939 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5173 Mosses From An Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne 1846 American English
5393 Holy Dying Jeremy Taylor 1651 British English
5482 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
5668 Moira Julien Green 1950 French French
6767 New England Primer Unknown 1687 American English
7216 Silex Scintillans, Etc Henry Vaughan 1650 British English
7216 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
7926 Letters From The Earth Mark Twain 1962 American English
8727 The Living End Stanley Elkin 1979 American English
11566 The Sickness Unto Death Soren Kierkegaard 1849 Danish Danish
13600 The Mercy Of God Jean Cau 1961 French French
14876 Scivias Hildegard of Bingen 1151 German Latin
15811 The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
15914 Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners John Bunyan 1666 British English
15914 God's Angry Man Leonard Ehrlich 1932 American English
16514 King James Version Of The Bible various 1611 English English
16587 Screwtape Letters Clive Staples Lewis 1942 British English
17158 The Mysteries Tony Harrison 1985 British English
17081 Purgatorio Dante Alighieri 1315 Italian Italian
17158 The Wonderful Works Of God Herman Bavinck, R. Carlton Wynne Dutch Dutch
17158 The Vulgate Bible Ronald Knox, translator English English