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
3820 Weaveworld Clive Barker 1987 British English
3850 The Unlimited Dream Company J. G. Ballard 1979 British English
3851 Fourth Mansions R. A. Lafferty 1969 American English
3878 Subconscious Opens Like A Fan Yona Wallach 1985 Israeli Hebrew
3893 Oriental Tales Marguerite Yourcenar 1938 French French
3908 The Wind on the Moon Eric Linklater 1944 British English
3950 The Phoenix And The Mirror Avram Davidson 1969 American English
4136 The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit 2013 American English
4193 The Three Robbers Tomi Ungerer 1961 French English
4305 A Court Of Thorns And Roses Sarah J. Maas 2015 American English
4408 The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1995 Persian Persian
4533 Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
4541 A New Life Bernard Malamud 1961 American English
4547 Restoree Anne McCaffrey 1967 American English
4589 La Demoiselle sauvage Corinna Bille 1974 French French
4624 Blue Bird Maurice Maeterlinck 1908 Belgian French
4630 The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo 2006 American English
4637 The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich 2001 American English
4660 The Complete Stories Clarice Lispector 2016 Brazilian Portuguese
4709 Grimus Salman Rushdie 1975 British English
4784 Amphitryon Plautus -184 Roman Latin
4812 Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov 1991 Russian Russian
4816 Ozma Of Oz L. Frank Baum 1907 American English
4932 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4944 The Breast Philip Roth 1972 American English
4954 Figures Of Earth James Branch Cabell 1921 American English
4954 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
4980 New Poems Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 German German
5018 The Werewolf Aksel Sandemose 1958 Norwegian Norwegian
5042 The Wonderful Visit H. G. Wells 1895 British English
5141 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 American English
5152 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5225 The Green Face Gustav Meyrink 1916 German German
5240 The Life And Adventures Of Trobadora Beatrice Irmtraud Morgner 1974 German German
5325 A Storm Of Wings M. John Harrison 1980 British English
5485 Body Rags Galway Kinnell 1968 American English
5511 The Shadow Over Innsmouth H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
5577 The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick 1997 American English
5610 Zuleikha Guzel Yakhina 2015 Russian Russian
5654 Tea With The Black Dragon R. A. MacAvoy 1983 American English
5759 The Scar China Miéville 2002 British English
5780 La Pietra Lunare Tommaso Landolfi 1939 Italian Italian
5860 Selected Poetry Rainer Maria Rilke 1902 German German
5924 Sylvester And The Magic Pebble William Steig 1969 American English
5991 The Sacred Book Of The Werewolf Victor Pelevin 2004 Russian Russian
5998 The Cipher Kathe Koja 1991 American English
6002 Travaux Georges Navel 1945 French French
6125 Selected Poems, 1965-1975 Margaret Atwood 1976 Canadian English
6134 Iron John Robert Bly 1990 American English
6135 The Queen Of The South Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2002 Spanish Spanish
6324 The Day Of Creation J. G. Ballard 1987 British English
6327 My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Amos Tutuola 1954 Nigerian English
6434 Blood Music Greg Bear 1985 American English
6487 The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1922 British English
6506 Arcadia Jim Crace 1992 British English
6506 Indigo Marina Warner 1992 British English
6519 The Escaped Cock D. H. Lawrence 1929 British English
6652 Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin 1994 Mexican Spanish
6674 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
7205 Animalinside László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann 2010 Hungarian Hungarian
7215 Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Edmund Dulac 1916 British English
7215 The Mighty Magician Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1637 Spanish Spanish
7215 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
7215 Puck Of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1906 British English
7215 Lazarus Laughed Eugene O'Neill 1927 American English
7215 The Robber Bridegroom Eudora Welty 1942 American English
7215 Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio Pu Songling 1740 Chinese Classical chinese
7638 An Imaginary Life David Malouf 1978 Australian English
7720 Pig Tales Marie Darrieussecq 1996 French French
7844 The Accidental Ali Smith 2005 British English
7852 La Sorcière Marie NDiaye 1996 French French
7896 Dangerous Laughter Steven Millhauser 2008 American English
7978 Spinning Silver Naomi Novik 2018 American English
8142 Walker On Water Kristiina Ehin 2014 Estonian Estonian
8174 Saints And Strangers Angela Carter 1985 British English
8278 Selected Poems Hilda Doolittle 1957 American English
8468 The Guyana Quartet Wilson Harris 1960 British English
8531 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 American English
8614 Cooked Michael Pollan 2013 American English
8642 Spindle’s End Robin McKinley 2000 American English
8822 The Baphomet Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8901 Left Foot, Right Nalo Hopkinson 1996 Canadian Unknown
8914 As Metamorfoses Murilo Mendes 1938 Brazilian Portuguese
8954 Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999 British English
8999 Circe's Mountain Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1959 German Unknown
9018 Kalimantaan C. S. Godshalk 1998 American English
9053 In The Darkroom Susan Faludi 2016 American English
9093 Of Strangers And Bees Hamid Ismailov 2019 Uzbek Uzbek
9140 Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi 2014 British English
9258 Malcolm X Manning Marable 2011 American English
9276 Kurangaituku Whiti Hereaka 2022 New Zealander English
9329 Authority Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9329 Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9372 Saint Leon William Godwin 1799 British English
9614 Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall Neil Bartlett 1990 British English
9689 A Spell For Chameleon Piers Anthony 1977 American English
9701 Astonishing the Gods Ben Okri 1995 Nigerian English
9728 Una Novela China César Aira 2001 Argentinian Spanish
9780 Dead Collections Isaac Fellman 2022 Unknown English
9816 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009 Turkish Turkish
9829 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 2008 Indian English
9944 An Apartment On Uranus Paul B. Preciado 2019 Spanish French
9998 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil 2012 Indian English
10116 Through The Woods Emily Carroll 2014 Canadian English
10135 Maitreya Severo Sarduy 1978 Cuban Spanish
10193 Duplex Kathryn Davis 2013 American English
10258 The Warrior Who Carried Life Geoff Ryman 1985 British English
10303 Chinook Texts Franz Boas 1894 American English
10359 Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
10406 The Double Invention Of Komo Jay Wright 1980 American Unknown