The Greatest Books of All Time on Transformation

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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
3638 The Golden Pot E. T. A. Hoffmann 1814 German German
3638 The Veil Of Veronica Gertrud von le Fort 1928 German German
3819 Weaveworld Clive Barker 1987 British English
3849 The Unlimited Dream Company J. G. Ballard 1979 British English
3850 Fourth Mansions R. A. Lafferty 1969 American English
3877 Subconscious Opens Like A Fan Yona Wallach 1985 Israeli Hebrew
3892 Oriental Tales Marguerite Yourcenar 1938 French French
3907 The Wind on the Moon Eric Linklater 1944 British English
3951 The Phoenix And The Mirror Avram Davidson 1969 American English
4137 The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit 2013 American English
4194 The Three Robbers Tomi Ungerer 1961 French English
4306 A Court Of Thorns And Roses Sarah J. Maas 2015 American English
4409 The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1995 Persian Persian
4535 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
4543 A New Life Bernard Malamud 1961 American English
4549 Restoree Anne McCaffrey 1967 American English
4591 La Demoiselle sauvage Corinna Bille 1974 French French
4626 Blue Bird Maurice Maeterlinck 1908 Belgian French
4632 The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo 2006 American English
4639 The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich 2001 American English
4662 The Complete Stories Clarice Lispector 2016 Brazilian Portuguese
4711 Grimus Salman Rushdie 1975 British English
4786 Amphitryon Plautus -184 Roman Latin
4814 Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov 1991 Russian Russian
4818 Ozma Of Oz L. Frank Baum 1907 American English
4935 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4947 The Breast Philip Roth 1972 American English
4957 Figures Of Earth James Branch Cabell 1921 American English
4957 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
4984 New Poems Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 German German
5022 The Werewolf Aksel Sandemose 1958 Norwegian Norwegian
5046 The Wonderful Visit H. G. Wells 1895 British English
5144 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 American English
5155 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5228 The Green Face Gustav Meyrink 1916 German German
5242 The Life And Adventures Of Trobadora Beatrice Irmtraud Morgner 1974 German German
5327 A Storm Of Wings M. John Harrison 1980 British English
5488 Body Rags Galway Kinnell 1968 American English
5514 The Shadow Over Innsmouth H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
5579 The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick 1997 American English
5613 Zuleikha Guzel Yakhina 2015 Russian Russian
5657 Tea With The Black Dragon R. A. MacAvoy 1983 American English
5762 The Scar China Miéville 2002 British English
5783 La Pietra Lunare Tommaso Landolfi 1939 Italian Italian
5863 Selected Poetry Rainer Maria Rilke 1902 German German
5927 Sylvester And The Magic Pebble William Steig 1969 American English
5995 The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf Victor Pelevin 2004 Russian Russian
6001 The Cipher Kathe Koja 1991 American English
6005 Travaux Georges Navel 1945 French French
6128 Selected Poems, 1965-1975 Margaret Atwood 1976 Canadian English
6137 Iron John Robert Bly 1990 American English
6138 The Queen Of The South Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2002 Spanish Spanish
6327 The Day Of Creation J. G. Ballard 1987 British English
6330 My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Amos Tutuola 1954 Nigerian English
6437 Blood Music Greg Bear 1985 American English
6489 The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1922 British English
6508 Arcadia Jim Crace 1992 British English
6508 Indigo Marina Warner 1992 British English
6521 The Escaped Cock D. H. Lawrence 1929 British English
6654 Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin 1994 Mexican Spanish
6675 Uzumaki Junji Ito 1998 Japanese Japanese
6831 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2007 British English
6903 Selected Poems II Margaret Atwood 1987 Canadian English
6916 The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories Ken Liu 2016 American English
6951 Mamy Wata and the Monster Veronique Tadjo 1988 French French
6972 The Exquisite Corpse Alfred Chester 1967 American English
7066 Double Star Robert A. Heinlein 1956 American English
7143 Black Hole Charles Burns 1995 American English
7159 Midnight Sun Ramsey Campbell 1990 British English
7206 Animalinside László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann 2010 Hungarian Hungarian
7216 Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Edmund Dulac 1916 British English
7216 The Mighty Magician Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1637 Spanish Spanish
7216 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
7216 Puck Of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1906 British English
7216 Lazarus Laughed Eugene O'Neill 1927 American English
7216 The Robber Bridegroom Eudora Welty 1942 American English
7216 Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio Pu Songling 1740 Chinese Classical chinese
7639 An Imaginary Life David Malouf 1978 Australian English
7722 Pig Tales Marie Darrieussecq 1996 French French
7845 The Accidental Ali Smith 2005 British English
7853 La Sorcière Marie NDiaye 1996 French French
7897 Dangerous Laughter Steven Millhauser 2008 American English
7979 Spinning Silver Naomi Novik 2018 American English
8144 Walker On Water Kristiina Ehin 2014 Estonian Estonian
8176 Saints And Strangers Angela Carter 1985 British English
8280 Selected Poems Hilda Doolittle 1957 American English
8473 The Guyana Quartet Wilson Harris 1960 British English
8535 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 American English
8618 Cooked Michael Pollan 2013 American English
8646 Spindle’s End Robin McKinley 2000 American English
8827 The Baphomet Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8905 Left Foot, Right Nalo Hopkinson 1996 Canadian Unknown
8918 As Metamorfoses Murilo Mendes 1938 Brazilian Portuguese
8958 Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999 British English
9003 Circe's Mountain Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1959 German Unknown
9022 Kalimantaan C. S. Godshalk 1998 American English
9058 In The Darkroom Susan Faludi 2016 American English
9098 Of Strangers And Bees Hamid Ismailov 2019 Uzbek Uzbek
9145 Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi 2014 British English
9262 Malcolm X Manning Marable 2011 American English
9281 Kurangaituku Whiti Hereaka 2022 New Zealander English
9334 Authority Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9334 Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9377 Saint Leon William Godwin 1799 British English
9618 Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall Neil Bartlett 1990 British English
9693 A Spell For Chameleon Piers Anthony 1977 American English
9705 Astonishing the Gods Ben Okri 1995 Nigerian English
9732 Una Novela China César Aira 2001 Argentinian Spanish
9784 Dead Collections Isaac Fellman 2022 Unknown English
9820 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009 Turkish Turkish
9833 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 2008 Indian English
9949 An Apartment On Uranus Paul B. Preciado 2019 Spanish French
10003 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil 2012 Indian English
10121 Through The Woods Emily Carroll 2014 Canadian English
10140 Maitreya Severo Sarduy 1978 Cuban Spanish
10199 Duplex Kathryn Davis 2013 American English
10264 The Warrior Who Carried Life Geoff Ryman 1985 British English
10309 Chinook Texts Franz Boas 1894 American English
10365 Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
10412 The Double Invention Of Komo Jay Wright 1980 American Unknown