The Greatest Books of All Time on Dreams

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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
2950 Nevsky Prospekt Nikolai Gogol 1835 Russian Russian
2954 Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass Bruno Schulz 1937 Polish Polish
2957 The Lower Depths Maxim Gorky 1902 Russian Russian
2967 A Dream Play August Strindberg 1902 Swedish Swedish
3012 Friday Night Lights H. G. Bissinger 1990 American English
3019 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House Eric Hodgkins 1946 American English
3039 The Good Companions J. B. Priestley 1929 British English
3110 Anagrams Lorrie Moore 1986 American English
3118 Sessanta Racconti Dino Buzzati 1958 Italian Italian
3189 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
3216 Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 2014 American English
3228 Phantastes George McDonald 1858 British English
3240 Sweet Dreams Michael Frayn 1973 British English
3262 The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese 1968 Italian Italian
3274 The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll Alvaro Mutis 1993 Colombian Spanish
3324 The Tin Flute Gabrielle Roy 1945 Canadian French
3423 The Back Room Carmen Martín Gaite 1978 Spanish Spanish
3431 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury 1980 American English
3459 The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams 1944 American English
3461 The Complete Fiction Of Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz 1989 Polish Polish
3488 The Great Victorian Collection Brian Moore 1975 Canadian English
3573 Youth Tove Ditlevsen 1967 Danish Danish
3638 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas de Quincey 1821 British English
3638 The White Ship Chinghiz Aitmatov 1970 Kyrgyz Russian
3638 The Poor Musician Franz Grillparzer 1848 Austrian German
3638 L'après Midi D'un Faune Stéphane Mallarmé 1876 French French
3638 Scenes Of Bohemian Life Henri Murger 1845 French French
3828 Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991 Australian English
3850 The Unlimited Dream Company J. G. Ballard 1979 British English
3878 Subconscious Opens Like A Fan Yona Wallach 1985 Israeli Hebrew
3903 Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy 1998 American English
3919 Fences August Wilson 1985 American English
3934 One Hundred Poems Kenneth Slessor 1944 Australian English
3940 Three Case Histories Sigmund Freud 1963 Austrian German
3953 Συναξάρι Αντρέα Κορδοπάτη Thanassis Valtinos 1964 Greek Greek
3953 Modern Greek Stories Georgios Vizyinos 1883 Greek Greek
3953 The Only Journey Of His Life Georgios Vizyinos 1887 Greek Greek
3953 Ενδοχωρα Andreas Embiricos 1947 Greek Greek
3953 Υψικαμινος Andreas Embiricos 1935 Greek Greek
3953 Η Αυλή των Θαυμάτων Iakovos Kambanellis 1962 Greek Greek
3953 The Twelve Lays Of The Gypsy Kostis Palamas 1907 Greek Greek
3953 Ποιήματα Α' και Β' Miltos Sachtouris 1945 Greek Greek
4080 The White Hotel D. M. Thomas 1981 British English
4088 Love and Rockets Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez 1982 American English
4175 Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen 1867 Norwegian Norwegian
4204 The Arabian Nightmare Robert Irwin 1983 British English
4221 The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
4436 In Dreams Begin Responsibilities And Other Stories Delmore Schwartz 1938 American English
4493 The Little Match Girl Unknown 1845 Unknown Danish
4503 Killers of the Dream Lillian Smith 1949 American English
4510 The Palace Of Dreams Ismail Kadare 1981 Albanian Albanian
4556 The Blood Knot Athol Fugard 1961 South African English
4591 Vurt Jeff Noon 1993 British English
4625 Blue Bird Maurice Maeterlinck 1908 Belgian French
4653 True West Sam Shepard 1980 American English
4711 My Michael Amos Oz 1968 Israeli Hebrew
4723 Of Time and the River Thomas Wolfe 1935 American English
4783 Ice Anna Kavan 1967 British English
4789 The Master Builder Henrik Ibsen 1892 Norwegian Norwegian
4808 Oktana Andreas Embiricos 1975 Greek Greek
4819 Hotel De Dream Emma Tennant 1976 British English
4856 Best of Simple Langston Hughes 1961 American English
4856 Zettels Traum Arno Schmidt 1970 German German
4862 The Snowman Raymond Briggs 1978 British English
4952 Songs Of A Dead Dreamer And Grimscribe Thomas Ligotti 1985 American English
4955 Thunder On The Left Christopher Morley 1925 American English
4996 The Sun Is Also A Star Nicola Yoon 2016 American English
5023 Στην Κοιλαδα Με Τους Ροδωνες Nikos Engonopoulos 1978 Greek Greek
5043 Selected Poems Of George Sterling George Sterling 1923 American English
5125 Maria Nephele Odysseas Elytis 1979 Greek Greek
5188 Phantasmion Sara Coleridge 1837 British English
5247 Jews Without Money Michael Gold 1930 American English
5263 The Golden Key George MacDonald 1980 British English
5326 White Light Rudy Rucker 1980 American English
5349 A Street In Bronzeville Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 American English
5391 The Poems of Emily Bronte Emily Brontë 1846 British English
5446 The Moscoviad Yuri Andrukhovych 1993 Ukrainian Ukrainian
5476 Larva Julián Ríos 1983 Spanish Spanish
5500 The Trip To Panama Janosch 1978 German German
5571 Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link 2001 American English
5706 Ο Λουσίας Nikos Houliaras 1987 Greek Greek
5715 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
5722 White Mule William Carlos Williams 1937 American English
5736 Only Forward Michael Marshall Smith 1994 British English
5780 La Pietra Lunare Tommaso Landolfi 1939 Italian Italian
5780 Il Mare Non Bagna Napoli Anna Maria Ortese 1953 Italian Italian
5829 Poems Alkman -650 Greek Ancient greek
5827 The Easter Parade Richard Yates 1976 American English
5844 The Last Shot Darcy Frey 1994 American English
5860 At The Back Of The North Wind George MacDonald 1871 Scottish English
5897 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
5915 The Magic Toyshop Angela Carter 1967 British English
5900 Poems Of George Darley George Darley 1840 Irish English
5909 Poems Of Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa 1942 Portuguese Portuguese
5928 Light M. John Harrison 2002 British English
5953 Collected Stories Gabriel García Márquez 1996 Colombian Spanish
5964 Incarnate Ramsey Campbell 1983 British English
5983 Maximum City Suketu Mehta 2004 American English
6002 Leaves of Hypnos René Char 1946 French French
6072 The Dream Years Lisa Goldstein 1985 American English
6122 Obabakoak Bernardo Atxaga 1988 Spanish Basque
6177 The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1828 British English
6185 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami 2006 Japanese Japanese
6194 One Piece Eiichiro Oda 1997 Japanese Japanese
6200 The Bridge Iain Banks 1986 Scottish English
6293 Dream Story Arthur Schnitzler 1926 Austrian German
6301 Dreaming Of Babylon Richard Brautigan 1977 American English
6309 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
6320 Living Up The Street Gary Soto 1985 American English
6340 Reise Durch Die Nacht Friederike Mayröcker 1986 Austrian German
6347 A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami 1982 Japanese Japanese
6355 At Twilight They Return Zyranna Zateli 1993 Greek Greek
6359 Во сне ты горько плакал Yuri Kazakov 1995 Russian Russian
6412 The Portable Jung Carl Jung 1971 Swiss English
6430 La Jeune Parque Paul Valéry 1917 French French
6491 Life In The Iron Mills Rebecca Harding Davis 1861 American English
6614 The Poetics Of Space Gaston Bachelard 1958 French French
6631 Reveries Of The Wild Woman Hélène Cixous 2000 French French
6651 The Beast Óscar Martínez 2013 Salvadoran Spanish
6667 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish