📚 Suffering

Books with suffering on their catalogue record, first published between 1770 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject suffering in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 4,418 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The crook in the lot, or, The sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of men	Thomas Boston	1770	61
	The Problem of Pain	C. S. Lewis	1940	51
	When Things Fall Apart	Pema Chödrön	1997	23
	When bad things happen to good people	Harold S. Kushner	1981	12
	The secret of happiness	Billy Graham	1955	11
	God's Problem	Bart D. Ehrman	2008	11
	Till Armageddon	Billy Graham	1981	10
	Dictee	Theresa Hak Kyung Cha	1982	9
	The pain of Christ and the sorrow of God	Gerald Vann	1947	8
	Holding on to Hope	Nancy Guthrie	2002	8
	Dancing with life	Phillip Moffitt	2008	8
	Sermons of consolation	Greenwood, F.W.P. (Francis William Pitt), 1797-1843	1842	7
	De Lagrimas Y De Santos	Emil Cioran	1986	7
	When God Weeps	Joni Eareckson Tada	1997	7
	Broken Open	Elizabeth Lesser	2004	7
	The heartache no one sees	Sheila Walsh	2004	7
	The Sweet Spot	Paul Bloom	2021	7
	How to handle adversity	Charles F. Stanley	1989	6
	A path through suffering	Elisabeth Elliot	1990	6
	When God Doesn't Make Sense	James C. Dobson	1993	6
	Transform Your Life	Kelsang Gyatso	2001	6
	Dark Nights of the Soul	Thomas Moore	2004	6
	Why?	Anne Graham Lotz	2004	6
	Palliative Society	Byung-Chul Han	2021	6
	Face à la souffrance	Paul Tournier	1981	5
	Why Me, Why This, Why Now?	Robin Norwood	1994	5
	The Call to Joy and Pain	Ajith Fernando	2007	5
	Embrace the struggle	Zig Ziglar	2009	5
	Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering	Timothy J. Keller	2013	5
	Embracing vulnerability	Roberto Sirvent	2014	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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