🕊️ Religion & Spirituality · International
Best Religion & Spirituality Books from International
Religious and spiritual literature encompasses the foundational texts of human civilisation — the Bible, the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, the Tao Te Ching — and the enormous body of commentary, theology, mysticism, and personal testimony that has grown around them. International has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in religion & spirituality, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best religion & spirituality from International by editorial consensus.
#1
literary-fiction
The Art of War
孙武 (Sun Tzu)· 1900
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#2
literary-fiction
La Divina Commedia
Dante Alighieri· 1472
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#3
literary-fiction
Анна Каренина
Лев Толстой· 1876
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#4
literary-fiction
The Man Who Was Thursday
Gilbert Keith Chesterton· 1908
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#5
literary-fiction
πολιτεία
Plato· 1554
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#6
literary-fiction
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan· 1678
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#7
literary-fiction
Flatland
Edwin Abbott Abbott· 1884
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#8
literary-fiction
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo· 1482
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#9
literary-fiction
Tao te Ching
老子· 1842
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#10
literary-fiction
De la démocratie en Amérique
Alexis de Tocqueville· 1835
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#11
literary-fiction
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer· 1890
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#12
literary-fiction
The Book of the Dead
E. A. Wallis Budge· 1894
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#13
literary-fiction
Roots
Alex Haley· 1861
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#14
science-fiction
Nicolae
Tim F. LaHaye· 1997
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#15
fantasy
The Rosemary Tree
Elizabeth Goudge· 1956
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#16
biography-memoir
Lives of the saints
Alban Butler· 1894
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#17
religion-spirituality
The crook in the lot, or, The sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of men
Thomas Boston· 1770
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#18
religion-spirituality
The dairyman's daughter
Legh Richmond· 1800
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#19
religion-spirituality
The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform texts
Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht· 1893
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#20
religion-spirituality
Traité d'histoire des religions
Mircea Eliade· 1900
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#21
religion-spirituality
Dictionary of sects, heresies, ecclesiastical parties, and schools of religious thought
John Henry Blunt· 1874
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#22
religion-spirituality
Alberuni's India
Muhammad Ibn Ahmad, Abu al-Raihan al-Biruni.· 1888
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#23
religion-spirituality
Moeurs, institutions et cérémonies des peuples de l'Inde
J. A. Dubois· 1897
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#24
religion-spirituality
India's past
Arthur Anthony Macdonell· 1927
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#25
religion-spirituality
Du refus à l'invocation
Gabriel Marcel· 1940
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#26
religion-spirituality
From Adam's peak to Elephanta
Edward Carpenter· 1892
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#27
religion-spirituality
Nouvelles études d'histoire religieuse.
Ernest Renan· 1884
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#28
religion-spirituality
A study in Milton's Christian doctrine
Arthur Sewell· 1939
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#29
religion-spirituality
K'ungtse und der konfuzianismus
Richard Wilhelm· 1928
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#30
religion-spirituality
Religions d'Autorite.
Auguste Sabatier· 1904
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#31
religion-spirituality
Colloquia
Desiderius Erasmus· 1519
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#32
religion-spirituality
Heavenly footman
John Bunyan· 1698
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#33
religion-spirituality
Theologiae cursus completus ex tractatibus omnium perferctissimis ubique habitis, et a magna parte episcoporum necnon theologorum Europæe catholicae, universim ad hoc interrogatorum, designatis, unicè conflatus
J.-P Migne· 1837
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#34
religion-spirituality
Summa contra gentiles
Thomas Aquinas· 1475
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#35
religion-spirituality
Saint Paul
Ferdinand Prat· 1909
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#36
religion-spirituality
Ecclesiastical polity
Richard Hooker· 1597
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#37
religion-spirituality
Bertrami presbyteri De corpore et sanguine Domini liber, ad carolum magnum imperatore, ante DCC annos aeditus
Ratramnus monk of Corbie· 1541
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#38
religion-spirituality
Schriften zur Theologie
Karl Rahner· 1900
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#39
religion-spirituality
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart· 1914
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#40
religion-spirituality
D. Martin Luthers Werke
Martin Luther· 1883
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#41
religion-spirituality
Cur Deus homo
Anselm of Canterbury· 1474
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#42
religion-spirituality
The pilgrim's regress
C. S. Lewis· 1933
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#43
religion-spirituality
Attack upon "Christendom"
Søren Kierkegaard· 1944
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#44
religion-spirituality
Matean oghbergutʻean
Grigor Narekatsʻi, Saint· 1763
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#45
religion-spirituality
Ante-Nicene Christian library, Vol. II
Roberts, Alexander· 1867
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#46
religion-spirituality
Characteristics from the writings of John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman· 1874
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#47
religion-spirituality
Doctrine of the law and grace unfolded
John Bunyan· 1685
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#48
religion-spirituality
Homiliae quinquaginta (graece et latine)
Pseudo-Macarius· 1559
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#49
religion-spirituality
Contra Celsum
Origen comm· 1481
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#50
religion-spirituality
Der Glaube der Propheten
Martin Buber· 1949
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
