The Greatest Books of All Time on Paranoia

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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
21 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
72 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 1962 American English
254 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 American English
259 Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs 1959 American English
295 Franz Kafka Franz Kafka 1971 Czech Unknown
441 The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966 American English
444 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
607 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 American English
683 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson 1971 American English
763 The Case of Comrade Tulayev Victor Serge 1949 French French
891 Golem Gustav Meyrink 1915 Austrian German
894 Rosemary's Baby Ira Levin 1967 American English
1071 The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham 1957 British English
1153 Beast In View Margaret Millar 1955 Canadian English
1361 The King In Yellow Robert W. Chambers 1895 American English
1748 The Fox Was Ever The Hunter Herta Müller 1992 German German
2271 In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 Irish English
2337 Libra Don DeLillo 1988 American English
2353 The Box Man Kobo Abé 1973 Japanese Japanese
2359 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Jack Finney 1955 American English
2421 The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai 1989 Hungarian Hungarian
2932 Martian Time Slip Philip K. Dick 1964 American English
3049 Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin 2014 Argentinian Spanish
3055 The Sinful Ones Fritz Leiber 1953 American English
3324 Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Daniel Paul Schreber 1903 German German
3511 Alone With The Horrors Ramsey Campbell 1993 British English
3534 The Birthday Party Harold Pinter 1958 British English
4879 Heroes And Tombs Ernesto Sábato 1961 Argentinian Spanish
5000 A Nest Of Nightmares Lisa Tuttle 1986 American English
5233 Dark Feasts Ramsey Campbell 1987 British English
5577 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 American English
5763 The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun Sebastien Japrisot 1966 French French
5950 Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon 2009 American English
6005 The Burrow Franz Kafka 1924 Austrian German
6675 Uzumaki Junji Ito 1998 Japanese Japanese
6679 The Imago Sequence And Other Stories Laird Barron 2007 American English
6928 The Repairer Of Reputations Robert W. Chambers 1895 American English
6933 The Tell Tale Heart And Other Writings Edgar Allan Poe 1843 American English
7568 The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein 1951 American English
7698 The Ruins Scott Smith 2006 American English
8009 Victims Of Duty Eugène Ionesco 1953 French French
9334 Authority Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9515 A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 American English
9964 Mailman J. Robert Lennon 2003 American English
10495 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
10573 The Censors Luisa Valenzuela 1976 Argentinian Spanish
10734 What Is This Buzzing, Do You Hear It Too? Luigi Malerba 1989 Italian Italian
10970 The Hunger Alma Katsu 2018 American English
11033 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11237 The Horla Guy de Maupassant 1887 French French
11546 A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 Lu Xun 1918 Chinese Chinese
11615 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
12017 Infidel Pornsak Pichetshote 2018 Unknown English
12071 Night Shift Stephen King 1978 American English
12141 Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts 2009 British English
12220 The Victim Saul Bellow 1947 American English
13716 When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale 2007 British English
13731 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
14001 The Eye In The Pyramid Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson 1975 American English
14899 Devil Take The Blue Tail Fly John Franklin Bardin 1948 American English
14936 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Philip K. Dick 1974 American English
14978 Time Out Of Joint Philip K. Dick 1959 American English
16522 The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Evelyn Waugh 1957 British English
15915 The Red Right Hand Joel Townsley Rogers 1945 American English
15915 The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing 1946 American English
17161 Far Away Caryl Churchill 2000 British English
17161 Little Darlings Melanie Golding 2019 British English
17161 The Shadow Knows Diane Johnson 1974 American English
17161 Negative Space B.R. Yeager 2020 American English
17161 The Illuminatus! Trilogy Robert Shea 1975 American English
17161 The Ark Sakura Kobo Abé 1984 Japanese Japanese
17161 The Twenty Days Of Turin Giorgio De Maria 1977 Italian Italian
17161 My Heart Hemmed In Marie NDiaye 2007 French French
16806 دایی جان ناپلئون Iraj Pezeshkzad 1973 Iranian Persian
17161 Under The Eye Of Power Colin Dickey 2023 American English
17161 I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom Jason Pargin American Unknown
17161 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Philip K. Dick American English
16868 Nightmares And Geezenstacks Frederic Brown 1961 American English
17161 Focault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian