The Anatomy of Dreams

Bones of the Moon

Jonathan Carroll · 217 pages

The End of Mr. Y

Scarlett Thomas · 416 pages

When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the eccentric Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that copies are exceedingly rare. And, some say, cursed. With Mr. Y under her arm, Ariel finds herself swept into a thrilling adventure of love, sex, death and time-travel.

The Memoirs of a Survivor

Doris Lessing · 191 pages

In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city's disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy.

The Coma

Alex Garland · 192 pages

Having been attacked on the Underground, a man wakes up in a hospital and begins to question his emergence from a coma.

Just Dreaming

Kerstin Gier · 370 pages

The course of dream travel never did run smooth at least, not in Liv Silver's experience. Able to visit other people's dreams (whether they want her to or not), Liv has solved mysteries, unearthed difficult truths, fought madmen, and escaped life-threatening peril, all from the comfort of her own bed. But Liv's troubles are just beginning.

The Other Side

Alfred Kubin · 271 pages

"Tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconscious."--Back cover.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami · 416 pages

Nod

Adrian Barnes · 199 pages

Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and theyve all shared the same golden dream.

Lincoln's Dreams

Connie Willis · 228 pages

"A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."--The Washington Post Book World"A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much tension had been generated, how engrossed I was in the characters, how much I cared about their fates."--The New York Times Book ReviewFor Jeff Johnston, a y

number9dream

David Mitchell · 400 pages

At age twenty, Eiji goes to Tokyo to search for the wealthy father he's never known. He stumbles upon the hidden power centers of the Japanese underworld and instead of finding his father, finds himself.

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

Dorothy Bryant · 222 pages

The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You is a 1971 novel by American writer Dorothy Bryant. Blending utopian fantasy with spiritual allegory and science fiction, the book follows a self-centered man’s eye-opening journey to a mystical island society governed by dreams . Originally self-published after mainstream publishers rejected it, the novel later gained a cult following and was picked up by Random

Peony in Love

Lisa See · 304 pages

"I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret."For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle f

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 40 pages

Lilith

George MacDonald · 264 pages

Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September, 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

村上春樹 · 416 pages

The Unlimited Dream Company

J.G. Ballard · 221 pages

"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." ― New York Times Book Review When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is transformed. Vultures invad

Demian

Hermann Hesse · 166 pages

A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillme

Belzhar

Meg Wolitzer · 272 pages

Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.

The Unconsoled

Kazuo Ishiguro · 535 pages

A surrealistic novel on a man who finds himself in a strange city, not knowing what he is doing there, but everyone seems to know him. What is more, he must be important because people ask him for favors. As he goes from encounter to encounter, the man discovers himself.

Dreamstrider

Lindsay Smith · 396 pages

"Livia can enter other people's bodies through their dreams, an ability that makes her an invaluable and dangerous spy for her kingdom"--

Dreamland

Alyson Noel

Eager to contact her sister Ever, ghost Riley goes in search of the place where dreams are made, where she finds a renegade ghost boy who has been flouting the rules of Dreamland for decades.

Sleep Donation

Karen Russell · 140 pages

You've Been Warned

James Patterson, Howard Roughan · 385 pages

Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, ‘don’t think, just shoot’ – pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as nanny to the fabulously wealthy Turnbull family, looking after their two children and waiting for her life as a New York fashion photographer to begin. But Kristin has a major distraction: forbidden love. The man of her dreams is almost hers for

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Angela Carter · 224 pages

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and spac