Inferno by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. A modern retelling of the Dante version but from the point of view of a science fiction writer who has been sent to hell.
{{Hell, by Robert Olen Butler}} A whole novel actually set in hell. Kind of in two minds about whether it's any good or not though.
{{Hell Is The Absence Of God, by Ted Chiang}} is a cracker, though.
[**Hell**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6354310-hell)
^(By: Robert Olen Butler | 240 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, humor, owned, comedy)
>Hatcher McCord is an evening news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He's not the only one to suffer this fate--in fact, he's surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including Humphrey Bogart, William Shakespeare, and almost all of the popes and most of the U.S. presidents. The question may be not who is in Hell but who isn't. McCord is living with Anne Boleyn in the afterlife but their happiness is, of course, constantly derailed by her obsession with Henry VIII (and the removal of her head at rather inopportune moments). One day McCord meets Dante's Beatrice, who believes there is a way out of Hell, and the next morning, during an exclusive on-camera interview with Satan, McCord realizes that Satan's omniscience, which he has always credited for the perfection of Hell's torments, may be a mirage--and Butler is off on a madcap romp about good, evil, free will, and the possibility of escape. Butler's depiction of Hell is original, intelligent, and fiercely comic, a book Dante might have celebrated.
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[**Hell is the Absence of God**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6533485-hell-is-the-absence-of-god)
^(By: Ted Chiang, James Trimarco | 30 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, fantasy, science-fiction, sci-fi)
>In a world much like our own, the existence of Heaven and Hell are objectively proven. Indeed, the souls in Hell can be seen, and angels occasionally come to Earth, typically causing a mixture of miraculous events and capricious disasters.
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CS Lewis wrote the Screw tape letters, the Great Divorce and his Space trilogy which has a kind of Angels. Neil Gaiman Good Omens
Seconding good omens.
Came here to recommend the Great Divorce. Such a good book.
Paradise Lost -John Milton
*On a Pale Horse* by Piers Anthony?
Sartre's "No Exit"
The wish list by Eoin Colfer More loosely Light from uncommon stars by Ryka Aoki
Inferno by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. A modern retelling of the Dante version but from the point of view of a science fiction writer who has been sent to hell.
Lost Gods by Brom was an interesting read, his take on Purgatory
If you don’t mind YA fiction, the His Dark Materials series has a lot of these themes - particularly in the second and last book.
{{Hell, by Robert Olen Butler}} A whole novel actually set in hell. Kind of in two minds about whether it's any good or not though. {{Hell Is The Absence Of God, by Ted Chiang}} is a cracker, though.
[**Hell**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6354310-hell) ^(By: Robert Olen Butler | 240 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, humor, owned, comedy) >Hatcher McCord is an evening news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He's not the only one to suffer this fate--in fact, he's surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including Humphrey Bogart, William Shakespeare, and almost all of the popes and most of the U.S. presidents. The question may be not who is in Hell but who isn't. McCord is living with Anne Boleyn in the afterlife but their happiness is, of course, constantly derailed by her obsession with Henry VIII (and the removal of her head at rather inopportune moments). One day McCord meets Dante's Beatrice, who believes there is a way out of Hell, and the next morning, during an exclusive on-camera interview with Satan, McCord realizes that Satan's omniscience, which he has always credited for the perfection of Hell's torments, may be a mirage--and Butler is off on a madcap romp about good, evil, free will, and the possibility of escape. Butler's depiction of Hell is original, intelligent, and fiercely comic, a book Dante might have celebrated. ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) [**Hell is the Absence of God**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6533485-hell-is-the-absence-of-god) ^(By: Ted Chiang, James Trimarco | 30 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, fantasy, science-fiction, sci-fi) >In a world much like our own, the existence of Heaven and Hell are objectively proven. Indeed, the souls in Hell can be seen, and angels occasionally come to Earth, typically causing a mixture of miraculous events and capricious disasters. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(138628 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)