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
17163 When Dreams Travel Githa Hariharan 1999 Indian English
17163 The Gasteropod Maggie Ross 1968 Unknown Unknown
17163 Persephone Jenny Joseph 1986 British Unknown
17163 Sacred Country Rose Tremain 1992 British English
17163 Godmother Night Rachel Pollack 1996 American English
17163 The Physiognomy Jeffrey Ford 1997 American English
17163 Heroes And Villains Angela Carter 1969 British English
17163 Downward To The Earth Robert Silverberg 1970 American English
17163 The Fifth Head Of Cerberus Gene Wolfe 1972 American English
17163 The Invasion K. A. Applegate 1996 American English
17163 Marked (House Of Night) Unknown 2007 American English
17163 Calling On Dragons Patricia C. Wrede 1993 American English
17163 Castle In The Air Diana Wynne Jones 1990 British English
17163 Butterfly Valley Inger Christensen 1991 Danish Danish
17163 The Serpent Mage Greg Bear 1986 American English
17163 Dun Lady's Jess Doranna Durgin 1994 American English
17163 The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, And Five Doris May Lessing 1980 British English
17163 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making Catherynne M. Valente 2011 American English
17163 Valiant Holly Black 2005 American English
17163 Lavondyss Robert Holdstock 1988 British English
17163 The Tiger And The Wolf Adrian Tchaikovsky 2016 British English
17163 Sleeping Beauties Stephen King, Owen King 2017 American English
17163 Souldancer Brian Niemeier 2016 American English
17127 Hauff's Fairy Tales Wilhelm Hauff 1825 German German
16964 At The Hawk's Well William Butler Yeats 1916 Irish English
16972 Orpheus Jean Cocteau 1926 French French
17163 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever James Tiptree Jr. 1990 American English
17163 A Bloodsmoor Romance Joyce Carol Oates 1982 American English
17163 My Year Abroad Chang-rae Lee 2021 American English
16979 The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit 1907 British English
17163 Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk 1999 American English
17163 Good To Great Jim Collins 2001 American English
17163 The Acid House Irvine Welsh 1994 British English
17163 The Last White Man Mohsin Hamid 2022 Pakistani English
17163 What Should Be Wild Julia Fine 2018 American English
17163 Gild Raven Kennedy 2020 Unknown English
17163 The Secret Life Of Insects Bernardo Esquinca 2023 Unknown English
17163 Season Of The Swamp Yuri Herrera 2022 Unknown English
17163 Flesh Coloured Dominoes Zigmunds Skujiņš 1999 Latvian Latvian
17163 The Power Of Myth Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers 1988 American English
17163 Honeybee Craig Silvey 2020 Australian English
17163 The Hike Drew Magary 2016 American English
17163 The Shaman's Mind Jonathan Hammond 2020 Unknown English
17163 Habitus Emma Rooksby Unknown Unknown
17163 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
17163 All The Names They Used For God Anjali Sachdeva 2018 American English
17163 Goblin Secrets William Alexander 2012 American English
17163 St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Karen Russell 2024 American English
17163 August Blue Deborah Levy 2023 British English
17163 The Gate Of The Feral Gods Matt Dinniman 2022 American English
17163 Magisteria Nicholas Spencer Unknown Unknown
17163 Un Monde à Portée De Main Maylis de Kerangal 2018 French French
17163 My Heart Hemmed In Marie NDiaye 2007 French French
17158 O Livro Das 1001 Noites; Volume 2 Of 7 Unknown -800 Multiple Arabic
17163 Kallimachos And Chrysorrhoe Unknown Unknown Unknown
17163 Joseph Had A Little Overcoat Simms Taback 1977 American English
17163 Gold Raven Kennedy 2020 Unknown English
17163 Rouge Mona Awad 2023 Canadian English
17163 House Of Hollow Krystal Sutherland 2021 Australian English
17163 Time's Convert Deborah Harkness 2018 American English
17163 Lord Of The Mysteries Volume 1 Ai Qianshui de Wuzei 2018 Chinese Chinese
17163 King Of The World David Remnick 1998 American English
16978 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17163 The Converts Rex Warner 1967 British English
17163 Ruan Bryher 1960 British English
17163 Harry Of Monmouth A. Maugham Unknown Unknown
17163 Nicodemus Sidney Alexander 1965 Unknown English
17163 Pilgrims Gerard Mac Unknown English
17163 The River Has Roots Amal El Mohtar 2025 Unknown Unknown
17163 Heavenbreaker Christa Wolf Unknown Unknown
17163 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17163 Elixir Theresa Levitt 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Same Dog Robert Aickman 2023 British Unknown
17163 The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet Vandana Singh 2009 Indian English
17163 Strega Johanne Lykke Holm, Saskia Vogel 2020 Unknown Swedish
17163 The Glow Jessie Gaynor 2023 Unknown English
17163 Grand Tour Elisa Gonzalez 2023 Unknown English
17163 Foreign Bodies Simon Schama 2023 British English
17163 Dragon Palace Hiromi Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
17163 The Book Of Eve Carmen Boullosa 2023 Unknown Spanish
17163 Tiger Work Ben Okri 2023 British English
17163 Owlish Dorothy Tse 2023 Unknown Chinese
17163 Raving McKenzie Wark 2023 Unknown English
17163 White Cat, Black Dog Kelly Link 2023 American English
17163 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
17163 The New Life Tom Crewe 2023 Unknown English
17163 Chrome Valley Mahogany L. Browne 2023 Unknown English
17163 Holding Pattern Jenny Xie 2023 Unknown English
17163 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Strange Nathan Ballingrud 2023 American English
17163 The Magicians Blexbolex, Karin Snelson 2022 Unknown French
16859 Olağanüstü Bir Gece Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
17163 The Book Of Doors Gareth Brown Unknown Unknown
17163 Such Sharp Teeth Rachel Harrison 2022 American English
17163 Bride Of The Tornado James Kennedy Unknown Unknown
17163 Dear Mothman Robin Gow 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Prince And The Coyote David Bowles 2023 Unknown English
17112 The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde And Other Stories Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
17163 O Monge Que Vendeu O Seu Ferrari Kriti Sharma 1997 Unknown English
17163 A World Without Princes Soman Chainani 2014 American English
17163 The Art Of Possibility Rosamund Stone Zander 2000 American English
17163 Paul Takes The Form Of A Mortal Girl Andrea Lawlor 2017 American English
17163 The Primal Hunter Zogarth 2020 Unknown English
17163 Alive At The End Of The World Saeed Jones 2022 American English
17163 The Fifth Agreement Don Miguel Ruiz 2010 Mexican English
17163 The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again M. John Harrison 2020 British English
17163 Mouthful Of Birds Samanta Schweblin 2009 Argentinian Spanish
17163 Fox Dubravka Ugrešić 2017 Croatian Croatian
17163 Sweeney Astray Seamus Heaney 1983 Irish English
17163 Homage To The Lame Wolf Vasko Popa 1979 Serbian Serbo-croatian
17163 Smell Nagabe Unknown Unknown
17163 Matrescence Lucy Jones 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Nirvana Express Mick Brown 2023 Unknown English
17163 Rip It Up And Start Again. Post Punk 1978 1984 Simon Reynolds 2005 British English
17163 Hekate Nikita Gill 2023 British English
16955 The King And The Corpse Heinrich Zimmer 1948 German English
17163 Die Kunst Des Verschwindens. Jim Dodge 1990 Unknown German
17009 The Seed Tarjei Vesaas 1940 Norwegian Norwegian
17163 Coffeeshop In An Alternate Universe C.B. Lee Unknown Unknown
17163 Odyssee Stephen Fry British Unknown