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
2270 In a Glass Darkly Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 Irish English
2335 Libra Don DeLillo 1988 American English
2351 The Box Man Kobo Abé 1973 Japanese Japanese
2357 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Jack Finney 1955 American English
2419 The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai 1989 Hungarian Hungarian
2930 Martian Time Slip Philip K. Dick 1964 American English
3046 Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin 2014 Argentinian Spanish
3053 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
4877 Heroes And Tombs Ernesto Sábato 1961 Argentinian Spanish
4996 A Nest Of Nightmares Lisa Tuttle 1986 American English
5230 Dark Feasts Ramsey Campbell 1987 British English
5575 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 American English
5760 The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun Sebastien Japrisot 1966 French French
5946 Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon 2009 American English
6002 The Burrow Franz Kafka 1924 Austrian German
6674 Uzumaki Junji Ito 1998 Japanese Japanese
6678 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
7567 The Puppet Masters Robert A. Heinlein 1951 American English
7697 The Ruins Scott Smith 2006 American English
8008 Victims Of Duty Eugène Ionesco 1953 French French
9329 Authority Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9510 A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 American English
9960 Mailman J. Robert Lennon 2003 American English
10490 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
10567 The Censors Luisa Valenzuela 1976 Argentinian Spanish
10728 What Is This Buzzing, Do You Hear It Too? Luigi Malerba 1989 Italian Italian
10964 The Hunger Alma Katsu 2018 American English
11027 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11231 The Horla Guy de Maupassant 1887 French French
11544 A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 Lu Xun 1918 Chinese Chinese
11613 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
12016 Infidel Pornsak Pichetshote 2018 Unknown English
12070 Night Shift Stephen King 1978 American English
12140 Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts 2009 British English
12219 The Victim Saul Bellow 1947 American English
13715 When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale 2007 British English
13730 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
14896 Devil Take The Blue Tail Fly John Franklin Bardin 1948 American English
14933 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Philip K. Dick 1974 American English
14975 Time Out Of Joint Philip K. Dick 1959 American English
16502 The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Evelyn Waugh 1957 British English
15897 The Red Right Hand Joel Townsley Rogers 1945 American English
15897 The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing 1946 American English
17117 Far Away Caryl Churchill 2000 British English
17117 Little Darlings Melanie Golding 2019 British English
17117 The Shadow Knows Diane Johnson 1974 American English
17117 Negative Space B.R. Yeager 2020 American English
17117 The Illuminatus! Trilogy Robert Shea 1975 American English
17117 The Ark Sakura Kobo Abé 1984 Japanese Japanese
17117 The Twenty Days Of Turin Giorgio De Maria 1977 Italian Italian
17117 My Heart Hemmed In Marie NDiaye 2007 French French
16765 دایی جان ناپلئون Iraj Pezeshkzad 1973 Iranian Persian
17117 Under The Eye Of Power Colin Dickey 2023 American English
17117 I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom Jason Pargin American Unknown
17117 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Philip K. Dick American English
16835 Nightmares And Geezenstacks Frederic Brown 1961 American English
17117 Focault's Pendulum Umberto Eco 1988 Italian Italian