The Greatest Books of All Time Set in England

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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
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
27 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 British English
28 Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 British English
32 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
38 Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1860 British English
47 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1849 British English
52 Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 British English
53 Dracula Bram Stoker 1897 British English
59 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1938 British English
61 The Golden Notebook Doris May Lessing 1962 British English
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
69 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 British English
73 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 1881 American English
78 A Passage to India E. M. Forster 1924 British English
83 Emma Jane Austen 1815 British English
84 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
85 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1915 British English
89 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
95 Orlando Virginia Woolf 1928 British English
105 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1847 British English
110 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
117 Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891 British English
121 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1852 British English
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
131 King Lear William Shakespeare 1608 British English
134 Tom Jones Henry Fielding 1749 British English
136 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 British English
139 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1860 British English
141 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 British English
144 Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
153 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 British English
155 Macbeth William Shakespeare 1606 British English
164 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 1902 British English
173 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 British English
176 The End of the Affair Graham Greene 1951 British English
188 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1859 British English
189 The Turn of the Screw Henry James 1898 American English
191 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 1939 British English
192 Persuasion Jane Austen 1817 British English
196 Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence 1928 British English
197 Howards End E. M. Forster 1910 British English
204 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 British English
205 The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1927 British English
216 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1843 British English
218 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
219 Brighton Rock Graham Greene 1938 British English
221 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 British English
227 Women in Love D. H. Lawrence 1920 British English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
246 The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy 1906 British English
248 Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 British English
251 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 British English
261 Wings of the Dove Henry James 1902 American English
262 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2001 German German
277 The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1836 British English
286 The Once and Future King T. H. White 1958 British English
287 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1895 British English
289 A Room With a View E. M. Forster 1908 British English
292 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1915 British English
297 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 1819 British English
300 The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell 1791 British English
304 The Double Helix James D. Watson 1968 American English
325 A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell 1951 British English
332 Clarissa Samuel Richardson 1748 British English
339 The Adventures of Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1837 British English
343 The Sonnets William Shakespeare 1609 British English
344 The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1915 British English
345 Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1651 British English
351 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
352 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 1766 British English
358 The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1886 British English
372 War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1898 British English
376 The Golden Bowl Henry James 1904 American English
381 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
382 Parade's End Ford Madox Ford 1924 British English
387 Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1864 British English
390 The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1908 British English
392 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 British English
393 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1868 British English
397 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 2009 British English
410 The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham 1944 British English
414 The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1860 British English
415 The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth 1971 British English
419 The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey 1951 British English
423 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 British English
425 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1811 British English
435 Scoop Evelyn Waugh 1938 British English
439 North and South Elizabeth Gaskell 1855 British English
444 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton 1908 British English
450 Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1903 British English
454 The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch 1978 British English
457 The Hollow Man John Dickson Carr 1935 British English
467 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh 1934 British English
468 Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1876 British English
470 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 1907 British English
479 Four Quartets T. S. Eliot 1943 British English
480 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1932 British English
486 Adam Bede George Eliot 1859 British English
492 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell, Peter Miles 1914 British English
497 Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L. Sayers 1933 British English
503 Pamela Samuel Richardson 1740 British English
508 Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1877 British English
520 Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1814 British English
534 Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 1988 British English
542 Uncle Silas Sheridan Le Fanu 1864 Irish English
548 Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory 1485 British Middle english
551 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 British English
556 The Code of the Woosters P. G. Wodehouse 1938 British English
567 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles 1969 British English
569 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen 1938 British, Irish English
575 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948 British English
581 The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
588 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1989 British English
590 Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1817 British English
602 The Go-Between L. P. Hartley 1953 British English
606 New Grub Street George Gissing 1891 British English
618 Poems of W. H. Auden W. H. Auden 1930 British English