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
10500 Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera 2009 Mexican Spanish
10552 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
10597 The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare 1590 British English
10886 Brand New Ancients Kae Tempest 2013 British English
10898 Rising Out Of Hatred Eli Saslow 2018 American English
11027 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11079 Mirror Sydney Vanessa Berry 2017 Australian English
11106 Stations of the Tide Michael Swanwick 1991 American English
11131 An Arrow’s Flight Mark Merlis 1998 American English
11218 Malpertuis Jean Ray 1943 Belgian French
11262 Blanca & Roja Anna-Marie McLemore 2018 American English
11295 The Adventures Of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 2017 Argentinian Spanish
11360 Un Feu Au Cœur Du Vent Zéno Bianu French French
11360 Échappée Agnès Dargent Unknown Unknown
11405 Hildegarde Léo Henry 2018 French French
11465 Furnace Livia Llewellyn 2016 American English
11537 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11650 Mammoth Eva Baltasar 2022 Catalan Catalan
11796 The Snow Queen Joan D. Vinge 1980 American English
11824 The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken 2023 Danish English
11857 I Is Another Arthur Rimbaud French French
11872 Awakenings Oliver Sacks 1973 British English
11932 This Young Monster Charlie Fox 2017 British English
11939 God Jack Miles 1995 American English
12034 When The Moon Was Ours Anna-Marie McLemore 2016 American English
12045 Chimera John Barth 1972 American English
12083 Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee 1989 American English
12258 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12404 Shapeshifters Aimee Cox 2015 American English
12445 A Legendary Tradition Of Kamapua’a Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa 1996 American English
12832 The Painted Alphabet Diana Darling 1992 Indonesian English
12971 Once Was Willem M. R. Carey 2025 Unknown Unknown
13089 The Wood Wife Terri Windling 1996 American English
13256 She’s Not There Jennifer Finney Boylan 2003 American English
13359 The Amphibian Man Alexander Belyaev 1928 Russian Russian
13359 The Wizard Of The Emerald City Alexander Wolkow 1939 Russian Russian
13530 Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler 1980 American English
13582 Heartland Wilson Harris 1964 Guyanese English
13599 A Father's Love Jacques Chessex 1973 Swiss French
13750 The Dead Heart Douglas Kennedy 1994 American English
13792 Vampires In The Lemon Grove Karen Russell 2013 American English
14025 Split Tooth Tanya Tagaq 2018 Canadian English
14047 Emergent Strategy adrienne maree brown 2017 American English
14063 The Troika Stepan Chapman 1997 American English
14138 They'd Rather Be Right Mark Clifton 1954 American English
14163 D'aulaires' Book Of Greek Myths Ingri d'Aulaire 1962 American English
14196 The Mabinogion Unknown 1400 Multiple Middle welsh
14232 Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman, Lenny Henry, Mónica Faerna 2005 British English
14232 She Who Became The Sun Shelley Parker-Chan 2021 Australian English
14329 The Admirable Crichton J. M. Barrie 1902 British English
14347 Middle Passage Charles R. Johnson 1990 American English
14347 In America Susan Sontag 2000 American English
14427 The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1907 British English
14431 American Innovations Rivka Galchen 2014 American English
14454 The Shepherd Of The Hills Harold Bell Wright 1907 American English
14457 Nog Rudy Wurlitzer 1969 American English
14484 The Servant In The House Charles Rann Kennedy 1908 British English
14498 The Iron Dragon's Daughter Michael Swanwick 1993 American English
14730 The Changeling Joy Williams 1978 American English
14748 Children Of Dune Frank Herbert 1976 American English
14730 Hit Refresh Satya Nadella 2017 American English
14773 Slippy Mc Gee Marie Conway Oemler 1917 American English
14849 The Playboy Of The Western World John Millington Synge 1907 Irish English
14983 Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes 1997 British English
14983 Thomas the Rhymer Ellen Kushner 1990 American English
14983 Redemption in Indigo Karen Lord 2010 Barbadian English
14983 Frogkisser Garth Nix 2017 Australian English
14983 Tender Morsels Margo Lanagan 2008 Australian English
14983 Tokyo Ghoul Sui Ishida 2011 Japanese Japanese
14983 Cloud 9 Caryl Churchill 1979 British English
14983 Sailing To Sarantium Guy Gavriel Kay 1998 Canadian English
14983 The Rediscovery Of Man Cordwainer Smith 1975 American English
14983 Skellig David Almond 1998 British English
14983 The Hero Of Ages Brandon Sanderson 2008 American English
14983 Treacle Walker Alan Garner 2023 British English
15777 Perrault's Fairy Tales Charles Perrault 1697 French French
15804 A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket On The Hearth Charles Dickens 1843 British English
15897 Hagoromo Japan 1450 Japanese Japanese
15897 Diving Into The Wreck Adrienne Rich 1973 American English
15897 Year Of The Unicorn Andre Norton 1965 American English
15897 The Greek Myths Robert Graves 1955 British English
15882 God Emperor Of Dune Frank Herbert 1981 American English
15874 Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell 1972 American English
16491 An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures Clarice Lispector 1969 Brazilian Portuguese
15897 How The Whale Became Ted Hughes 1963 British English
15897 The Corn King And The Spring Queen Naomi Mitchison 1931 British English
15897 The Tentmaker Julius Berstl 1935 Unknown German
15897 Not Built With Hands Helen C. White 1936 American English
15897 The Eagle And The Rock Frances Winwar 1944 Unknown English
15897 The King Of The Golden River John Ruskin 1851 British English
15897 The Naked Woman Armonía Somers 1950 Uruguayan Spanish
16594 Le Comte De Monte Cristo I Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
16612 Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1950 Armenian Russian
16702 Croatian Tales of Long Ago Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic 1916 Croatian Croatian
16666 Psychology And Alchemy C.G. Jung 1944 Swiss German
16707 The Peregrine J. A. Baker 1967 British English
16730 Travel Light Naomi Mitchison 1952 British English
17117 The Chymical Wedding Lindsay Clarke 1989 British English
16793 Castaways Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca 1542 Spanish Spanish
17117 The Stain Rikki Ducornet 1984 American English
17117 Entering Fire Rikki Ducornet 1986 American English
17117 The Citadel of the Autarch Gene Wolfe 1983 American English
17117 The Song of Rhiannon Evangeline Walton 1972 British English
17117 When Voiha Wakes Joy Chant 1983 British English
17117 The Folk of the Air Peter S. Beagle 1986 American English
17117 The Porcelain Dove Delia Sherman 1993 American English
17117 Something Rich and Strange Patricia A. McKillip 1984 American English
17117 The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye A. S. Byatt 1994 British English
17117 Solstice Wood Patricia A. McKillip 2006 American English
17117 In the Night Garden Catherynne M. Valente 2006 American English
17117 In the Cities of Coin and Spice Catherynne M. Valente 2007 American English
17117 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
17117 Owl in Love Patrice Kindl 1993 American English
17117 Dark Lord of Derkholm Diana Wynne Jones, Magali Mangin 1998 British English
17117 The Folk Keeper Franny Billingsley 1999 American English
17117 The Hollow Kingdom Clare B. Dunkle 2003 American English
17117 Nova Swing M. John Harrison 2006 British English
17117 Deep Wheel Orcadia Harry Josephine Giles 2021 Scottish Orcadian
17117 Maybe Something Beautiful F. Isabel Campoy 2016 American English
17117 The Impressionist Hari Kunzru 2002 British English