The Greatest Books of All Time on Imagination

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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
7216 Poems Of Bejamin Péret Bejamin Péret 1925 French French
7216 Collected Poems Walter de la Mare 1920 British English
7216 The Journal Of Albion Moonlight Kenneth Patchen 1941 American English
7216 Tamarisk Row Gerald Murnane 1974 Australian English
7612 Selected Poetry And Prose Stéphane Mallarmé 1945 French French
7653 Wave Suzy Lee 2008 Unknown English
7670 Julián Is A Mermaid Jessica Love 2018 American English
7717 Complete Nonsense Edward Lear 1947 British English
7772 Poems Of André Breton André Breton 1948 French French
7820 Selected Writings Henri Michaux 1949 French French
7861 Selected Writings Paul Valéry 1950 French French
7861 The Plains Gerald Murnane 1982 Australian English
7967 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
8280 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
8301 Lizard Tails Juan Marsé 2004 Spanish Spanish
8675 The Peanuts Treasury Charles M. Schulz 1969 American English
8685 Miss Peabody’s Inheritance Elizabeth Jolley 1983 Australian English
8686 Fantasy Literature For Children And Young Adults Ruth Nadelman Lynn 1989 American English
8706 Strategies Of Fantasy Brian Attebery 1992 American English
8725 Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog Dylan Thomas 1940 British English
8775 See Under: Love David Grossman 1986 Israeli Hebrew
8879 Invenção De Orfeu Jorge De Lima 1952 Brazilian Portuguese
8996 Inkheart Cornelia Funke 2003 German German
9055 Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes Billy Collins 2000 American English
9116 Bending The Bow Robert Duncan 1968 American English
9294 The Double Dream Of Spring John Ashbery 1970 American English
9550 Collected Poems A. R. Ammons 1972 American English
9635 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
9648 Sentinel Syd Mead 1979 Unknown English
9777 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
9836 Poems Of Pierre Reverdy Pierre Reverdy 1975 French French
9860 Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817 British English
10109 Don Quixote's Delusions Miranda France 2001 British English
10140 What I Love Odysseas Elytis 1978 Greek Greek
10309 The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali Salvador Dali 1942 Spanish Spanish
10690 The Possibility Of Life Jaime Green 2023 Unknown English
10852 Strange Pictures Uketsu 2022 Unknown Unknown
10915 Gaspard De La Nuit Aloysius Bertrand 1842 French French
11168 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11246 Liberty Or Love! Robert Desnos 1929 French French
11356 Memory And Dream Charles de Lint 1994 Canadian English
11366 La Patrie Empaillée Jacques Izoard Belgian French
11366 Notes Boulet French Unknown
11393 Always Astonished Fernando Pessoa 1988 Portuguese Portuguese
11569 The Swallower Swallowed Réjean Ducharme 1966 Canadian French
11663 Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett 2021 Irish English
11859 I Is Another Arthur Rimbaud French French
12113 Hotel Lautréamont John Ashbery 1992 American English
12385 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
12657 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
12753 Border Districts Gerald Murnane 2017 Australian English
13067 Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson 1977 American English
13246 When God Talks Back Tanya Luhrmann 2012 American English
13359 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein 1974 American English
13362 Beezus And Ramona Beverly Cleary 1955 American English
13753 The Poetical Works Of Johnson, Parnell, Gray And Smollett George Gilfillan 1855 Scottish English
13879 Edwin Mullhouse Steven Millhauser 1972 American English
13886 Essential Pleasures Robert Pinsky 2009 American English
14171 A Child's Garden Of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson 1885 American English
14212 Thank You and Other Poems Kenneth Koch 1962 American English
14232 Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman 1992 American English
14232 Where Is The Green Sheep? Mem Fox 2004 Australian English
14435 The Function Of The Poet, And Other Essays James Russell Lowell 1893 American English
14499 Fiction and the Figures of Life William H. Gass 1970 American English
14643 The Spirit Of American Literature John Albert Macy 1913 American English
14650 Superfiction Joe David Bellamy 1975 American English
14680 Letters To A Young Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa 2002 Peruvian Spanish
14715 Eloise Kay Thompson 1955 American English
14727 Little Bear Else Holmelund Minarik 1957 American English
14732 The World Within the Word William H. Gass 1978 American English
14788 Betsy Tacy Maud Hart Lovelace 1940 British English
14788 Mr. Popper's Penguins Florence and Richard Atwater 1938 American English
14876 The Real Mother Goose Blanche Fisher Wright 1916 American English
14985 Sailing Alone Around The Room Billy Collins 2001 American English
14985 Shelley Richard Holmes 1974 British English
14985 Olivia Ian Falconer 2000 American English
14985 Press Here Herve Tullet 2010 French French
14985 The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore William Joyce 2011 American English
14985 Tar Beach Faith Ringgold 1991 American English
15658 Companionable Books Henry Van Dyke 1922 American English
15795 Marcovaldo Italo Calvino 1963 Italian Italian
15796 Writings And Drawings James Thurber 1973 American English
15825 Half Magic Edward Eager 1954 American English
15865 Days With Frog And Toad Arnold Lobel 1979 American English
15916 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
15916 The Drunken Boat Arthur Rimbaud 1871 French French
15916 A Hole Is To Dig Ruth Krauss 1952 American English
15916 Cronopios And Famas Julio Cortazar 1962 Cuban Spanish
15916 Letters Of John Keats John Keats 1848 British English
15916 Sparkle And Spin Ann Rand 1957 American English
15916 The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1913 Indian Bengali
15916 The Machine In The Garden Leo Marx 1964 American English
15916 And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street Dr. Seuss 1937 American English
15916 Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Betty MacDonald 1947 American English
15916 Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens J. M. Barrie 1906 British English
15916 How The Whale Became Ted Hughes 1963 British English
16508 Table Talk William Hazlitt 1822 English English
16532 Children's Stories And Pictures Vladimir Suteev 1950 Russian Russian
16596 Anne Of Avonlea L. M. Montgomery 1909 Canadian English
16614 Profiles Of The Future Arthur C. Clarke 1962 British English
16592 Tolkien On Fairy Stories J. R. R. Tolkien 1947 British English
16629 Badjelly The Witch Spike Milligan 1973 New Zealander English
16645 100 Selected Poems E. E. Cummings 1954 American English
16727 The Complete Tales And Poems Of Winnie The Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
16639 Borges On Writing Jorge Luis Borges 1973 Argentinian Spanish
16679 Der Spaziergang Robert Walser 1917 Swiss German
16764 Elements Of Criticism Henry Home, Lord Kames 1762 Scottish English
17163 An American Childhood Annie Dillard 1987 American English
17163 The Kingdom of Kevin Malone Suzy McKee Charnas 1977 American English
17163 Hobby Jane Yolen 1996 American Unknown
17163 Doll Bones Holly Black 2013 American English
17163 Journey Aaron Becker 2013 American English
17163 The Book With No Pictures B. J. Novak 2014 American English
17163 The Looking Glass Wars Frank Beddor 2004 American English
17163 Art Matters Neil Gaiman 2018 British English
17163 A Light In The Attic (20th Anniversary Edition Book & Cd) Shel Silverstein 1981 American English
17163 Telephone Tales Gianni Rodari 1962 Italian Italian
17163 Васко да Гама от село Рупча the Mormarev Brothers 1977 Bulgarian Bulgarian
17163 Небивалици Donald Bissett 1968 British Russian
17163 The Indian In The Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks 1980 British English