The Greatest Books of All Time on Reality

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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
9274 Invisible Reality Juan Ramón Jiménez 1983 Spanish Unknown
9292 The Double Dream Of Spring John Ashbery 1970 American English
9310 Wholeness And The Implicate Order David Bohm 1980 British English
9702 Astonishing the Gods Ben Okri 1995 Nigerian English
9857 The Meaning of Truth William James 1909 American English
9960 Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien 1978 American English
10037 Houseboat Days John Ashbery 1977 American English
10104 Don Quixote's Delusions Miranda France 2001 British English
10136 Sphere A. R. Ammons 1978 American English
10206 Neuromaani Jaakko Yli-Juonikas 2012 Finnish Finnish
10305 Mimesis Erich Auerbach 1946 German German
10450 Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt 2012 American English
10629 A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley 1710 Irish English
10945 The Event Juan José Saer 1988 Argentinian Spanish
11030 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11352 Memory And Dream Charles de Lint 1994 Canadian English
11363 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11570 Scepticism and Animal Faith George Santayana 1923 Spanish English
11638 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11651 All Of Us Raymond Carver 1996 American English
11661 Philosophical Explanations Robert Nozick 1981 American English
12063 Strange Pictures Uketsu 2022 Unknown Unknown
12440 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
12448 In The Beginning Was The Sea Tomás González 1983 Colombian Spanish
12970 When We Were Real Daryl Gregory 2025 American Unknown
13558 The Inverted World Christopher Priest 1974 British English
13599 Enemy Force John Antoine Nau 1903 French French
13730 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
14063 The Troika Stepan Chapman 1997 American English
14232 Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman 1992 American English
14232 View With A Grain Of Sand Wislawa Szymborska 1995 Polish Polish
14400 Los Estratos Juan Cárdenas 2013 Colombian Spanish
14431 American Innovations Rivka Galchen 2014 American English
14498 Fiction and the Figures of Life William H. Gass 1970 American English
14553 The Magic Of Reality Richard Dawkins 2011 British English
14818 The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
14867 Henry Iv Luigi Pirandello 1922 Italian Italian
14935 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Philip K. Dick 1974 American English
14984 The Dancing Wu Li Masters Gary Zukav 1979 American English
14984 The Book Of Form And Emptiness Ruth Ozeki 2021 Japanese English
14977 Time Out Of Joint Philip K. Dick 1959 American English
14984 In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat John Gribbin 1984 British English
14984 Some Kind Of Fairy Tale Graham Joyce 2012 British English
14984 The Bounds Of Sense P. F. Strawson 1966 British English
14984 A False Spring Pat Jordan 1975 American English
14984 Harold Steven Wright 2023 Unknown English
14984 Treacle Walker Alan Garner 2023 British English
14984 Evening Edged In Gold Arno Schmidt 1975 German German
15901 Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature Niels Bohr 1932 Danish English
15901 An Introduction to Metaphysics Henri Bergson 1903 French French
15901 Simulacron 3 Daniel F. Galouye 1964 American English
15901 An Inquiry Into The Good Nishida Kitarō 1911 Japanese Japanese
15901 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15901 Idealism And The Endgame Of Theory F. W. J. Schelling 1800 German German
15901 Above The Dark Circus Hugh Walpole 1931 British English
16507 On Truth And Lies In A Nonmoral Sense Friedrich Nietzsche 1873 German German
17122 Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology Niels Bohr 1949 Danish Unknown
17122 Up Ronald Sukenick 1968 American English
17122 The Invented Part Rodrigo Fresán 2014 Argentinian Spanish
17122 Corbenic Catherine Fisher 2002 British English
17122 Nova Swing M. John Harrison 2006 British English
17122 Osama Lavie Tidhar 2011 British English
17122 The Dream Master Roger Zelazny 1966 American English
17122 Galaxies Barry N. Malzberg 1975 American English
17122 Miracle Visitors Ian Watson 1978 British English
16889 Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll Ray Lawler 1955 Australian English
17122 The Silent Land Graham Joyce 2010 British English
17122 Universal Consciousness alexis karpouzos 2016 Greek Unknown
17122 The Hollow Places T. Kingfisher 2020 American English
17122 The Twisted Ones T. Kingfisher 2019 American English
17122 Paradigms Regained John L. Casti 2000 American English
17122 The Fabric Of Reality David Deutsch 1997 British English
17122 Fire In The Mind George Johnson 1995 American English
17122 What Does It All Mean? Thomas Nagel 1987 American English
17122 Sense And Sensibilia J. L. Austin 1962 British English
17122 Confessions Of A Philosopher Bryan Magee 1997 British English
17122 The Cosmic Code Heinz R. Pagels 1982 American English
17122 The Social Construction Of What? Ian Hacking 1999 Canadian English
17122 The View From Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1986 American English
17122 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
17122 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
17122 Labyrinths Of Reason William Poundstone 1988 American English
17122 The Middle Stories Sheila Heti 2001 Canadian English
17122 Rama And The Dragon Edward al Kharrat 1980 Egyptian Arabic
17122 Flesh Coloured Dominoes Zigmunds Skujiņš 1999 Latvian Latvian
17122 Ancient Light John Banville 2012 Irish English
16955 The World As Will And Representation, Volume I Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
17037 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
17122 Life As No One Knows It Sara Imari Walker 2024 Unknown English
17122 Piranesi Jonathan Scott 2020 Unknown English
17122 Mirror, Mirror On The Wall Stanley Ellin 1972 American English
17122 Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1995 Italian Italian
17122 The Book Of Sand And Shakespeare's Memory Jorge Luis Borges 1977 Argentinian Spanish
17122 O Tempo Dos Simulacros Philip K. Dick American Unknown
17122 Reality Transurfing Steps I V Vadim Zeland 2004 Russian Russian
17122 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
17122 The Race Nina Allan 2014 British English
17122 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
17122 Insignificance Terry Johnson 1982 British English
17122 On Earth As It Is On Television Emily Jane 2023 Unknown English
17122 The Same Dog Robert Aickman 2023 British Unknown
17122 To Name The Bigger Lie Sarah Viren 2023 Unknown English
17122 The Lights Ben Lerner 2023 American Unknown
17122 The Dimensions Of A Cave Greg Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17122 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 Unknown English
17122 Disruptions Steven Millhauser 2023 American Unknown
17122 Owlish Dorothy Tse 2023 Unknown Chinese
17122 Users Colin Winnette 2023 Unknown English
17122 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17122 Little Stalker Jennifer Belle 2007 American English
17122 Homestuck Andrew Hussie 2009 American English
17122 Earthlight André Breton 1923 French French
17122 The Gray House Mariam Petrosyan 2009 Armenian Russian
17122 It's All In Your Head Russ Rymer 1992 Unknown English
17122 O Dia Do Curinga Jostein Gaarder 1990 Norwegian Norwegian
17122 You Are Not A Brain Markus Gabriel 2015 German German
17122 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Philip K. Dick American English
17095 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1605 Spanish Spanish