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
17120 Drum Dream Girl Margarita Engle 2015 Cuban English
17043 The Man Who Sold The Moon Robert A. Heinlein 1950 American English
17120 Raavan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar 1995 Indian English
17120 Thomas And Beulah Rita Dove 1986 American English
17120 The Other Wind Ursula K. Le Guin 2001 American English
17120 The Dream Master Roger Zelazny 1966 American English
17120 Miracle Visitors Ian Watson 1978 British English
16978 Domnisoara Christina. Sarpele Mircea Eliade 1936 Romanian Romanian
17120 Love Her Wild Atticus 2017 Canadian English
17120 Intimate Apparel Lynn Nottage 2003 American English
17120 The Flick Annie Baker 2014 American English
17120 Radio Golf August Wilson 2007 American English
17120 The Aliens Annie Baker 2010 American English
16856 The Time Of Your Life William Saroyan 1939 American English
16948 You Can't Take It With You George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart 1936 American English
17120 Anna In The Tropics Nilo Cruz 2003 American English
17120 Model Home Eric Puchner 2010 American English
17120 Palimpsest Catherynne M. Valente 2009 American English
17120 The Killing Moon N. K. Jemisin 2012 American English
17120 Tales From Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett 1989 American English
17120 The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace Jeff Hobbs 2014 American English
17120 Requiem Graham Joyce 1995 British English
17120 A Painted House John Grisham 2001 American English
16946 Misty Of Chincoteague Marguerite Henry 1947 American English
17120 Beyond The Story BTS, Myeongseok Kang 2021 South Korean Korean
16931 Orpheus Jean Cocteau 1926 French French
17120 The Feast Of Love Charles Baxter 2000 American English
17120 Lost In Place Mark Salzman 1995 American English
17120 Reveries Of A Bachelor Donald Grant Mitchell 1850 American English
17120 Summer In Williamsburg Daniel Fuchs 1934 American English
17120 The Middle Stories Sheila Heti 2001 Canadian English
17120 Rama And The Dragon Edward al Kharrat 1980 Egyptian Arabic
17120 The Lodging House Khairy Shalaby 1999 Egyptian Arabic
17120 And My Share Of The Horizon Abdel Qader Ben Shaikh Tunisian Unknown
17120 Wings Of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam 1999 Indian English
17120 Happy Dreams Jia Pingwa 2007 Chinese Chinese
17120 Lotus Lijia Zhang 2017 Chinese English
17120 Jewels Of The Sun Nora Roberts 1999 American English
17120 The Sandman, Vol. 5 Neil Gaiman 1993 British English
17120 The Sandman, Vol. 4 Neil Gaiman 1992 British English
17120 Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman 1989 British English
17120 The Great And Secret Show Clive Barker 1989 British English
17020 Of Mice And Men / Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1937 American English
17120 The Last Lecture Randy Pausch 2008 American English
17120 After Dark Haruki Murakami 2004 Japanese Japanese
17120 The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire 2009 Canadian English
17120 The Sandman, Vol. 7 Neil Gaiman 1994 British English
17120 The Sandman, Vol. 10 Neil Gaiman 1997 British English
17120 The Sandman, Vol. 9 Neil Gaiman 1996 British English
17120 Latro In The Mist Gene Wolfe 2003 American English
17120 Evening Class Maeve Binchy 1996 Irish English
17120 Heaven Is A Playground Rick Telander 1976 American English
17120 The Republic Of Dreams Nélida Piñon 1984 Brazilian Portuguese
17120 We Were Dreamers Marjorie Liu 2022 Unknown English
16969 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner 1943 American English
17120 Strange The Dreamer Laini Taylor 2017 American English
17120 Heartless Marissa Meyer 2016 American English
17120 The Sea Came In At Midnight Steve Erickson 1999 American English
17120 The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1999 American English
17120 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
17116 Uncle’s Dream Fyodor Dostoevsky 1859 Russian Russian
17120 Ben’s Trumpet Rachel Isadora 1979 American English
17120 Tokyo Express Taiyō Matsumoto Unknown Unknown
17120 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
17120 Our Ecstatic Days Steve Erickson 2005 American English
17120 Five Carat Soul James McBride 2017 American English
17120 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17120 The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer 2005 American English
17120 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
16965 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17120 Kick The Latch Kathryn Scanlan 2022 American English
17120 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17120 How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The Fa Cup JL Carr 1975 British English
17120 The Dreaming Barbara Wood 1991 American English
17120 I Must Be Dreaming Roz Chast 2023 American English
17120 The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa Stephen Buoro 2023 Unknown English
17120 Owlish Dorothy Tse 2023 Unknown Chinese
17120 White Cat, Black Dog Kelly Link 2023 American English
17120 Brooklyn’s Last Secret Leslie Stein 2023 Unknown English
17120 Ghost Music An Yu 2022 Unknown English
17120 The Many Assassinations Of Samir, The Seller Of Dreams Daniel Nayeri 2023 Unknown English
17120 I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times Taylor Byas 2023 Unknown English
17120 Behind Her Eyes Sarah Pinborough 2017 British English
17120 The Path To Paradise Sam Wasson 2023 Unknown English
17120 Montpelier Parade Karl Geary 2017 Irish English
17120 Girl In Translation Jean Kwok 2010 American English
17120 Mouthful Of Birds Samanta Schweblin 2009 Argentinian Spanish
17120 The Marvelous Misadventures Of Sebastian Lloyd Alexander 1970 American English
17120 Bert Breen's Barn Walter D. Edmonds 1975 American English
17120 Parrot In The Oven, Mi Vida Victor Martinez 1996 American English
17120 True Believer Virginia Euwer Wolff 2001 American English
17120 Selected Writings Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French
17120 Earthlight André Breton 1923 French French
17120 Gossamer Lois Lowry 2006 American English
17120 The Cat's Pajamas Ray Bradbury 2004 American English
16966 The Other Side Alfred Kubin 1909 Austrian English
17120 Reach For The Stars Michael Cragg 2023 Unknown English
17120 Awakening The Dreamer Philip M. M. Bromberg 2006 American English
17120 Landscape Painted With Tea Milorad Pavic 1988 Serbian Serbian
17120 The Complete Fiction Of H.P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft American English
17120 The Windup Bird Chronicle haruki murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
17120 After The Quake haruki murakami 2000 Japanese Japanese