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
2952 Nevsky Prospekt Nikolai Gogol 1835 Russian Russian
2956 Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass Bruno Schulz 1937 Polish Polish
2959 The Lower Depths Maxim Gorky 1902 Russian Russian
2969 A Dream Play August Strindberg 1902 Swedish Swedish
3015 Friday Night Lights H. G. Bissinger 1990 American English
3022 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House Eric Hodgkins 1946 American English
3042 The Good Companions J. B. Priestley 1929 British English
3111 Anagrams Lorrie Moore 1986 American English
3119 Sessanta Racconti Dino Buzzati 1958 Italian Italian
3190 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
3217 Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 2014 American English
3229 Phantastes George McDonald 1858 British English
3241 Sweet Dreams Michael Frayn 1973 British English
3263 The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese 1968 Italian Italian
3275 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
3827 Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991 Australian English
3849 The Unlimited Dream Company J. G. Ballard 1979 British English
3877 Subconscious Opens Like A Fan Yona Wallach 1985 Israeli Hebrew
3902 Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy 1998 American English
3918 Fences August Wilson 1985 American English
3934 One Hundred Poems Kenneth Slessor 1944 Australian English
3941 Three Case Histories Sigmund Freud 1963 Austrian German
3954 Συναξάρι Αντρέα Κορδοπάτη Thanassis Valtinos 1964 Greek Greek
3954 Modern Greek Stories Georgios Vizyinos 1883 Greek Greek
3954 The Only Journey Of His Life Georgios Vizyinos 1887 Greek Greek
3954 Ενδοχωρα Andreas Embiricos 1947 Greek Greek
3954 Υψικαμινος Andreas Embiricos 1935 Greek Greek
3954 Η Αυλή των Θαυμάτων Iakovos Kambanellis 1962 Greek Greek
3954 The Twelve Lays Of The Gypsy Kostis Palamas 1907 Greek Greek
3954 Ποιήματα Α' και Β' Miltos Sachtouris 1945 Greek Greek
4081 The White Hotel D. M. Thomas 1981 British English
4089 Love and Rockets Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez 1982 American English
4176 Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen 1867 Norwegian Norwegian
4205 The Arabian Nightmare Robert Irwin 1983 British English
4222 The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
4437 In Dreams Begin Responsibilities And Other Stories Delmore Schwartz 1938 American English
4494 The Little Match Girl Unknown 1845 Unknown Danish
4504 Killers of the Dream Lillian Smith 1949 American English
4511 The Palace Of Dreams Ismail Kadare 1981 Albanian Albanian
4557 The Blood Knot Athol Fugard 1961 South African English
4592 Vurt Jeff Noon 1993 British English
4626 Blue Bird Maurice Maeterlinck 1908 Belgian French
4654 True West Sam Shepard 1980 American English
4712 My Michael Amos Oz 1968 Israeli Hebrew
4724 Of Time and the River Thomas Wolfe 1935 American English
4784 Ice Anna Kavan 1967 British English
4790 The Master Builder Henrik Ibsen 1892 Norwegian Norwegian
4810 Oktana Andreas Embiricos 1975 Greek Greek
4820 Hotel De Dream Emma Tennant 1976 British English
4857 Best of Simple Langston Hughes 1961 American English
4857 Zettels Traum Arno Schmidt 1970 German German
4863 The Snowman Raymond Briggs 1978 British English
4954 Songs Of A Dead Dreamer And Grimscribe Thomas Ligotti 1985 American English
4957 Thunder On The Left Christopher Morley 1925 American English
4999 The Sun Is Also A Star Nicola Yoon 2016 American English
5026 Στην Κοιλαδα Με Τους Ροδωνες Nikos Engonopoulos 1978 Greek Greek
5046 Selected Poems Of George Sterling George Sterling 1923 American English
5127 Maria Nephele Odysseas Elytis 1979 Greek Greek
5190 Phantasmion Sara Coleridge 1837 British English
5248 Jews Without Money Michael Gold 1930 American English
5264 The Golden Key George MacDonald 1980 British English
5327 White Light Rudy Rucker 1980 American English
5350 A Street In Bronzeville Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 American English
5393 The Poems of Emily Bronte Emily Brontë 1846 British English
5448 The Moscoviad Yuri Andrukhovych 1993 Ukrainian Ukrainian
5478 Larva Julián Ríos 1983 Spanish Spanish
5502 The Trip To Panama Janosch 1978 German German
5573 Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link 2001 American English
5709 Ο Λουσίας Nikos Houliaras 1987 Greek Greek
5718 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
5725 White Mule William Carlos Williams 1937 American English
5739 Only Forward Michael Marshall Smith 1994 British English
5783 La Pietra Lunare Tommaso Landolfi 1939 Italian Italian
5783 Il Mare Non Bagna Napoli Anna Maria Ortese 1953 Italian Italian
5831 Poems Alkman -650 Greek Ancient greek
5830 The Easter Parade Richard Yates 1976 American English
5847 The Last Shot Darcy Frey 1994 American English
5863 At The Back Of The North Wind George MacDonald 1871 Scottish English
5900 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
5903 Poems Of George Darley George Darley 1840 Irish English
5918 The Magic Toyshop Angela Carter 1967 British English
5912 Poems Of Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa 1942 Portuguese Portuguese
5931 Light M. John Harrison 2002 British English
5956 Collected Stories Gabriel García Márquez 1996 Colombian Spanish
5967 Incarnate Ramsey Campbell 1983 British English
5986 Maximum City Suketu Mehta 2004 American English
6005 Leaves of Hypnos René Char 1946 French French
6075 The Dream Years Lisa Goldstein 1985 American English
6125 Obabakoak Bernardo Atxaga 1988 Spanish Basque
6180 The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1828 British English
6189 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami 2006 Japanese Japanese
6198 One Piece Eiichiro Oda 1997 Japanese Japanese
6204 The Bridge Iain Banks 1986 Scottish English
6296 Dream Story Arthur Schnitzler 1926 Austrian German
6304 Dreaming Of Babylon Richard Brautigan 1977 American English
6312 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
6323 Living Up The Street Gary Soto 1985 American English
6343 Reise Durch Die Nacht Friederike Mayröcker 1986 Austrian German
6350 A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami 1982 Japanese Japanese
6358 At Twilight They Return Zyranna Zateli 1993 Greek Greek
6362 Во сне ты горько плакал Yuri Kazakov 1995 Russian Russian
6415 The Portable Jung Carl Jung 1971 Swiss English
6433 La Jeune Parque Paul Valéry 1917 French French
6493 Life In The Iron Mills Rebecca Harding Davis 1861 American English
6616 The Poetics Of Space Gaston Bachelard 1958 French French
6633 Reveries Of The Wild Woman Hélène Cixous 2000 French French
6653 The Beast Óscar Martínez 2013 Salvadoran Spanish
6668 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish