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
10305 The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali Salvador Dali 1942 Spanish Spanish
10381 Tiger Daughter Rebecca Lim 2021 Australian English
10450 House Tracy Kidder 1985 American English
10450 Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 2009 American English
10556 Seven Plays Sam Shepard 1981 American English
10692 The Faraway World Patricia Engel 2023 American English
10748 Selected Stories Robert Walser 1982 Swiss German
10852 The Stories Bernard Malamud 1983 American English
10911 Gaspard De La Nuit Aloysius Bertrand 1842 French French
10939 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
10943 Latitudes Of Longing Shubhangi Swarup 2018 Indian English
11013 Gergő és Az álomfogók Gyula Böszörményi 2007 Hungarian Hungarian
11025 Poems Of Charles Simic Charles Simic 1985 American English
11191 Love And Sleep John Crowley 1994 American English
11242 Liberty Or Love! Robert Desnos 1929 French French
11265 Empire Of Sand Tasha Suri 2018 British English
11274 Kisses From Another Dream Antonio Porta 1987 Italian Italian
11301 A Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry 1959 American English
11303 My Last Sigh Luis Buñuel 1982 Spanish Spanish
11309 Tarry Flynn Patrick Kavanagh 1948 Irish English
11342 Berji Kristin Latife Tekin 1984 Turkish Turkish
11342 The Stillborn Zaynab Alkali 1984 Nigerian English
11352 Memory And Dream Charles de Lint 1994 Canadian English
11363 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11363 La Vie Rêvée Antonia Pozzi Italian Italian
11363 The Watch Nikos Kavvadias Greek Greek
11390 Always Astonished Fernando Pessoa 1988 Portuguese Portuguese
11426 Gods Of Jade And Shadow Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2019 Mexican English
11431 Midwinter Day Bernadette Mayer 1982 American English
11452 Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser 1996 American English
11442 Various Miracles Carol Shields 1985 Canadian English
11506 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
11580 The Last Of The Menu Girls Denise Chávez 1986 American English
11651 The Continuous Life Mark Strand 1990 American English
11651 All Of Us Raymond Carver 1996 American English
11811 On The Golden Porch Tatyana Tolstaya 1987 Russian Russian
11888 Flow Chart John Ashbery 1991 American English
11899 A War Of Eyes And Other Stories Wanda Coleman 1988 American English
12083 Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan 1989 American English
12200 The House on Via Gemito Domenico Starnone 2000 Italian Italian
12258 Riding In Cars With Boys Beverly Donofrio 1990 American English
12410 Daller Gut Dream Department Store Miye Lee Unknown Unknown
12448 In The Beginning Was The Sea Tomás González 1983 Colombian Spanish
12586 How All This Started Pete Fromm 2000 American English
12586 Counting Coup Larry Colton 2000 American English
12655 And The Stars Were Shining John Ashbery 1994 American English
12739 With The Fire On High Elizabeth Acevedo 2019 American English
12814 Flanagan's Run Tom McNab 1982 British English
13003 Thus Were Their Faces Silvina Ocampo 1988 Argentinian Spanish
13285 Nocilla Dream Agustín Fernández Mallo 2006 Spanish Spanish
13301 Maze Of Blood Marly Youmans 2015 American English
13356 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein 1974 American English
13520 星星．月亮．太陽 Su Xu 1955 Chinese Unknown
13715 The God Of Animals Aryn Kyle 2007 American English
13817 Allegri, Gioventù Manlio Cancogni 1959 Italian Italian
13817 A Caso Tommaso Landolfi 1975 Italian Italian
13817 Vita Melania Mazzucco 2003 Italian Italian
14074 Pilgrim Timothy Findley 1999 Canadian English
14077 Kavanagh Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1849 American English
14087 The Girl With The Louding Voice Abi Daré 2020 Nigerian English
14122 Why We Sleep Matthew Walker 2017 American English
14138 On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu 2021 American English
14171 A Child's Garden Of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson 1885 American English
14203 Duermevela Melba Escobar 2010 Colombian Unknown
14209 Awake And Sing! Clifford Odets 1935 American English
14212 Thank You and Other Poems Kenneth Koch 1962 American English
14232 The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee 1988 Indian English
14232 Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman 1992 American English
14232 In Custody Anita Desai 1984 Indian English
14230 Fat City Leonard Gardner 1969 American English
14389 The Collected Stories Richard Yates 2001 American English
14400 Los Estratos Juan Cárdenas 2013 Colombian Spanish
14455 The Spell Of The Yukon Robert W. Service 1907 British English
14549 April Witch Majgull Axelsson 1997 Swedish Swedish
14620 The Book Of Wonder Lord Dunsany 1912 British English
14622 The Promised Land Mary Antin 1912 American English
14627 Collected Poems By Alfred Noyes Alfred Noyes 1913 British English
14641 Somos Luces Abismales Carolina Sanin 2018 Colombian Spanish
14644 Love And Sleep Sean O'Reilly 2002 Unknown Unknown
14649 A Night In The Luxembourg Remy de Gourmont 1906 French French
14674 An Orphan World Giuseppe Caputo 2019 Colombian Spanish
14730 Farewell Companions James Plunkett 1977 Irish English
14757 Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1917 British English
14780 The Peony Pavilion Tang Xianzu 1598 Chinese Chinese
14788 The Unconscious Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
14788 Mr. Popper's Penguins Florence and Richard Atwater 1938 American English
14820 The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
14829 The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1918 Norwegian Norwegian
14853 To Be Young, Gifted, And Black Lorraine Hansberry 1969 American English
14868 Palm Of The Hand Stories Yasunari Kawabata 1949 Japanese Japanese
14939 Man and His Symbols Carl Jung 1964 Swiss English
14938 The Red Pony John Steinbeck 1933 American English
14930 Miss Mac Intosh, My Darling Marguerite Young 1965 American English
14944 Picnic William Inge 1953 American English
14984 Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue 2016 Cameroonian English
14983 M.C. Higgins, The Great Virginia Hamilton 1974 American English
14984 A False Spring Pat Jordan 1975 American English
14984 The Four Winds Kristin Hannah 2021 American English
14984 Tar Beach Faith Ringgold 1991 American English
14984 How Much Of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang 2020 American English
15604 Moon Calf Floyd Dell 1920 American English
15635 Merton Of The Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1922 American English
15673 Children Of Loneliness Anzia Yezierska 1923 American English
15707 Early Plays Eugene O'Neill 1932 American English
15788 Sweet Thursday John Steinbeck 1954 American English
15759 The Best Of Everything Rona Jaffe 1958 American English
15899 The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
16491 The Prince Of Homburg Heinrich von Kleist 1821 German German
15899 Act One Moss Hart 1959 American English
15899 The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1913 Indian Bengali
15899 The Life And Work Of Sigmund Freud Ernest Jones 1953 British English
15899 Evening Descends Upon The Hills Anna Maria Ortese 1961 Italian Italian
15899 The Dreams In The Witch House And Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1933 American English
16501 O Sonho De Um Homem Ridículo Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 Russian Russian
15899 Montage Of A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes 1951 American English
15899 Above The Dark Circus Hugh Walpole 1931 British English
17120 Hobby Jane Yolen 1996 American Unknown
17120 Aria of the Sea Dia Calhoun 2000 American English
17120 Front Desk Kelly Yang 2018 American English
17120 Dreamers Yuyi Morales 2018 Mexican English