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
10450 Will In The World Stephen Greenblatt 2004 American English
10450 Crudo Olivia Laing 2018 British English
10450 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10450 The Tangled Tree David Quammen 2018 American English
10499 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10549 A Book Of Scars William Shaw 2015 British English
10610 Evenings And Weekends Oisin McKenna 2024 Unknown English
10624 Lives Of The Wives Carmela Ciuraru 2023 Unknown English
10630 Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense Edward Lear 1846 British English
10635 The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell 1937 British English
10630 Last Of The Barons Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1843 British English
10629 History Of England David Hume 1754 British English
10633 Collected Stories Constance Fenimore Woolson American English
10644 The Vanishing Man Laura Cumming 2016 British English
10649 Blue Sisters Coco Mellors 2024 Unknown English
10658 An Accidental Man Iris Murdoch 1971 British English
10670 Day One Abigail Dean 2024 Unknown English
10670 The Hounding Xenobe Purvis 2025 Unknown English
10724 Seminary Boy John Cornwell 2006 British English
10739 The Fifth Child Doris May Lessing 1988 British English
10794 The Stripping of the Altars Eamon Duffy 1992 British English
10798 A Woman Of Substance Barbara Taylor Bradford 1979 British English
10820 Skeleton Key Anthony Horowitz 2002 British English
10829 The Lime Twig John Hawkes 1961 American English
10830 Praxis Fay Weldon 1978 British English
10915 Common As Air Lewis Hyde 2010 American English
10924 The Health Services Since The War Charles Webster 1988 British English
10924 Robert Grosseteste R. W. Southern 1988 British English
10930 Wilt Tom Sharpe 1976 British English
10985 The Proper Study of Mankind Isaiah Berlin 1997 British English
11026 The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch 1985 British English
11046 Untold Stories Alan Bennett 2005 British English
11049 The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1969 British English
11050 An Imagined World June Goodfield 1981 British English
11048 Black Swan Green David Mitchell 2006 British English
11065 The Complete Works Of Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft 1989 British English
11065 The Thatcher Decade Peter Riddell 1989 British English
11074 London Rules Mick Herron 2018 British English
11110 The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton John Milton 2007 British English
11129 The Templar Legacy Steve Berry 2006 American English
11131 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11165 Foe J. M. Coetzee 1986 South African English
11165 A World Lit Only By Fire William Manchester 1992 American English
11165 Ordinary People Diana Evans 2018 British English
11214 A Sight for Sore Eyes Ruth Rendell 1999 British English
11216 The Black Flamingo Dean Atta 2019 British English
11239 The Book Of Guilt Catherine Chidgey 2025 New Zealander English
11296 No Way Out Cara Hunter 2019 British English
11308 Mysteries Of The Middle Ages Thomas Cahill 2006 American English
11333 The Blair Years Alastair Campbell 2007 British English
11361 The Illustrated Mum Jacqueline Wilson 1999 British English
11364 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11390 Marbot Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1981 German German
11391 Poor Caleb Femi 2020 British English
11404 A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson 2015 British English
11430 Girls Out Late Jacqueline Wilson 1999 British English
11435 Man And Boy Tony Parsons 1999 British English
11438 Field Notes From A Catastrophe Elizabeth Kolbert 2006 American English
11472 A Biography Of Dracula Harry Ludlam 1962 British English
11482 The Sparsholt Affair Alan Hollinghurst 2017 British English
11482 Ninety Nine Glimpses Of Princess Margaret Craig Brown 2017 British English
11495 Esther Waters George Moore 1894 British English
11517 The Intellectuals And The Masses John Carey 1992 British English
11546 Enemies of Promise Cyril Connolly 1938 British English
11546 Old St Paul's William Harrison Ainsworth 1841 British English
11546 Ten Thousand A Year Samuel Warren 1839 British English
11546 Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 1863 British English
11575 Inside The Whale And Other Essays George Orwell 1940 British English
11574 The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham 1925 British English
11580 Landscape For A Good Woman Carolyn Kay Steedman 1986 British English
11599 The Course Of The Heart M. John Harrison 1992 British English
11619 Every Living Thing James Herriot 1992 British English
11634 Frank Fairlegh Francis Edward Smedley 1850 British English
11647 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
11793 Felicia's Journey William Trevor 1994 British English
11661 Red Comet Heather L. Clark 2020 American English
11661 Shakespeare In A Divided America James Shapiro 2020 American English
11661 The Club Leo Damrosch 2019 American English
11661 Penelope Fitzgerald Hermione Lee 2013 British English
11661 A Short History Of Women Kate Walbert 2009 American English
11661 Mayflower Nathaniel Philbrick 2006 American English
11661 Conrad In The Nineteenth Century Ian Watt 1979 British English
11661 Attlee Kenneth Harris 1982 British English
11661 Keynes Robert Skidelsky 1983 British English
11661 Evelyn Waugh Martin Stannard 1986 Unknown English
11661 Staring At The Sun Julian Barnes 1986 British English
11661 Macmillan Alistair Horne 1988 American English
11661 Everything Under Daisy Johnson 2018 British English
11661 Last Stories William Trevor 2018 Irish English
11661 A View Of The Empire At Sunset Caryl Phillips 2018 British English
11661 Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World Ramachandra Guha 2018 Indian English
11661 She Has Her Mother's Laugh Carl Zimmer 2018 American English
11842 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11851 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11859 Swimming To Antarctica Lynne Cox 1994 American English
11873 London Orbital Iain Sinclair 2002 British English
11925 Sorcerer To The Crown Zen Cho 2015 Singaporean English
11925 World Without End Ken Follett 2007 British English
11931 The Land In Winter Andrew Miller 2024 British English
11939 The Life of Sir William Osler Harvey Cushing 1925 American English
11939 Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann 1987 American English
12013 John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856 British English
12083 The Potter's Field Ellis Peters 1989 British English
12124 The Zorg Siddharth Kara 2025 Unknown English
12159 At Seventy May Sarton 1984 American English
12172 The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall 2004 British English
12173 The Catch Yrsa Daley-Ward 2025 British English
12204 Lola Rose Jacqueline Wilson 2003 British English
12240 The Pretender Jo Harkin 2025 British English
12258 Lady's Maid Margaret Forster 1990 British English
12250 Beautiful People Simon Doonan 2005 British English
12310 Pavane Keith Roberts 1968 British English
12314 The Names Florence Knapp 2025 Unknown English
12325 Two Lives William Trevor 1991 Irish English
12325 Huxley Adrian Desmond 1997 British English
12325 Virginia Woolf Hermione Lee 1996 British English
12400 The History Boys Alan Bennett 2004 British English
12402 The Future Homemakers Of America Laurie Graham 2001 British English
12407 Slammerkin Emma Donoghue 2000 Irish English
12444 Hungerstone Kat Dunn 2025 Unknown English