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
9276 Invisible Reality Juan Ramón Jiménez 1983 Spanish Unknown
9294 The Double Dream Of Spring John Ashbery 1970 American English
9312 Wholeness And The Implicate Order David Bohm 1980 British English
9705 Astonishing the Gods Ben Okri 1995 Nigerian English
9860 The Meaning of Truth William James 1909 American English
9964 Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien 1978 American English
10042 Houseboat Days John Ashbery 1977 American English
10109 Don Quixote's Delusions Miranda France 2001 British English
10140 Sphere A. R. Ammons 1978 American English
10211 Neuromaani Jaakko Yli-Juonikas 2012 Finnish Finnish
10309 Mimesis Erich Auerbach 1946 German German
10454 Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt 2012 American English
10634 A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley 1710 Irish English
10852 Strange Pictures Uketsu 2022 Unknown Unknown
10949 The Event Juan José Saer 1988 Argentinian Spanish
11034 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11356 Memory And Dream Charles de Lint 1994 Canadian English
11366 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11572 Scepticism and Animal Faith George Santayana 1923 Spanish English
11640 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11653 All Of Us Raymond Carver 1996 American English
11663 Philosophical Explanations Robert Nozick 1981 American English
12442 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
12450 In The Beginning Was The Sea Tomás González 1983 Colombian Spanish
12973 When We Were Real Daryl Gregory 2025 American Unknown
13559 The Inverted World Christopher Priest 1974 British English
13600 Enemy Force John Antoine Nau 1903 French French
13731 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
14401 Los Estratos Juan Cárdenas 2013 Colombian Spanish
14432 American Innovations Rivka Galchen 2014 American English
14499 Fiction and the Figures of Life William H. Gass 1970 American English
14554 The Magic Of Reality Richard Dawkins 2011 British English
14817 The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
14870 Henry Iv Luigi Pirandello 1922 Italian Italian
14936 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Philip K. Dick 1974 American English
14985 The Dancing Wu Li Masters Gary Zukav 1979 American English
14985 The Book Of Form And Emptiness Ruth Ozeki 2021 Japanese English
14979 Time Out Of Joint Philip K. Dick 1959 American English
14985 In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat John Gribbin 1984 British English
14985 Some Kind Of Fairy Tale Graham Joyce 2012 British English
14985 The Bounds Of Sense P. F. Strawson 1966 British English
14985 A False Spring Pat Jordan 1975 American English
14985 Harold Steven Wright 2023 Unknown English
14985 Treacle Walker Alan Garner 2023 British English
14985 Evening Edged In Gold Arno Schmidt 1975 German German
15916 Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature Niels Bohr 1932 Danish English
15916 An Introduction to Metaphysics Henri Bergson 1903 French French
15916 Simulacron 3 Daniel F. Galouye 1964 American English
15916 An Inquiry Into The Good Nishida Kitarō 1911 Japanese Japanese
15916 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 Idealism And The Endgame Of Theory F. W. J. Schelling 1800 German German
16523 On Truth And Lies In A Nonmoral Sense Friedrich Nietzsche 1873 German German
15916 Above The Dark Circus Hugh Walpole 1931 British English
17163 Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology Niels Bohr 1949 Danish Unknown
17163 Up Ronald Sukenick 1968 American English
17163 The Invented Part Rodrigo Fresán 2014 Argentinian Spanish
17163 Corbenic Catherine Fisher 2002 British English
17163 Nova Swing M. John Harrison 2006 British English
17163 Osama Lavie Tidhar 2011 British English
17163 The Dream Master Roger Zelazny 1966 American English
17163 Galaxies Barry N. Malzberg 1975 American English
17163 Miracle Visitors Ian Watson 1978 British English
16925 Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll Ray Lawler 1955 Australian English
17163 The Silent Land Graham Joyce 2010 British English
17163 Universal Consciousness alexis karpouzos 2016 Greek Unknown
17163 The Hollow Places T. Kingfisher 2020 American English
17163 The Twisted Ones T. Kingfisher 2019 American English
17163 Paradigms Regained John L. Casti 2000 American English
17163 The Fabric Of Reality David Deutsch 1997 British English
17163 Fire In The Mind George Johnson 1995 American English
17163 What Does It All Mean? Thomas Nagel 1987 American English
17163 Sense And Sensibilia J. L. Austin 1962 British English
17163 Confessions Of A Philosopher Bryan Magee 1997 British English
17163 The Cosmic Code Heinz R. Pagels 1982 American English
17163 The Social Construction Of What? Ian Hacking 1999 Canadian English
17163 The View From Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1986 American English
17163 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
17163 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
17163 Labyrinths Of Reason William Poundstone 1988 American English
17163 The Middle Stories Sheila Heti 2001 Canadian English
17163 Rama And The Dragon Edward al Kharrat 1980 Egyptian Arabic
17163 Flesh Coloured Dominoes Zigmunds Skujiņš 1999 Latvian Latvian
17163 Ancient Light John Banville 2012 Irish English
16968 The World As Will And Representation, Volume I Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
17061 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
17163 Life As No One Knows It Sara Imari Walker 2024 Unknown English
17163 Piranesi Jonathan Scott 2020 Unknown English
17163 Mirror, Mirror On The Wall Stanley Ellin 1972 American English
17163 Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1995 Italian Italian
17163 The Book Of Sand And Shakespeare's Memory Jorge Luis Borges 1977 Argentinian Spanish
17163 O Tempo Dos Simulacros Philip K. Dick American Unknown
17163 Reality Transurfing Steps I V Vadim Zeland 2004 Russian Russian
17163 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
17163 The Race Nina Allan 2014 British English
17163 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You Marcus Chown 2007 British English
17163 Insignificance Terry Johnson 1982 British English
17163 On Earth As It Is On Television Emily Jane 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Same Dog Robert Aickman 2023 British Unknown
17163 To Name The Bigger Lie Sarah Viren 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Lights Ben Lerner 2023 American Unknown
17163 The Dimensions Of A Cave Greg Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 Unknown English
17163 Disruptions Steven Millhauser 2023 American Unknown
17163 Owlish Dorothy Tse 2023 Unknown Chinese
17163 Users Colin Winnette 2023 Unknown English
17163 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17163 Little Stalker Jennifer Belle 2007 American English
17163 Homestuck Andrew Hussie 2009 American English
17163 Earthlight André Breton 1923 French French
17163 The Gray House Mariam Petrosyan 2009 Armenian Russian
17163 It's All In Your Head Russ Rymer 1992 Unknown English
17163 O Dia Do Curinga Jostein Gaarder 1990 Norwegian Norwegian
17163 You Are Not A Brain Markus Gabriel 2015 German German
17163 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Philip K. Dick American English
17138 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1605 Spanish Spanish