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
15908 My Dog Tulip J. R. Ackerley 1956 British English
15908 Their Finest Hour Winston Churchill 1949 British English
15908 Memoirs Of A Medieval Woman Louise Collis 1964 British English
15908 A Fortunate Man John Berger 1967 American English
15908 The Works Of Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne 1686 British English
15908 Old Herbaceous Reginald Arkell 1950 British English
15908 The Journal Of A Disappointed Man W. N. P. Barbellion 1919 British English
15908 A Personal Record Joseph Conrad 1912 American English
15908 A Johnson Reader Samuel Johnson 1964 American English
15908 Letters Of John Keats John Keats 1848 British English
15908 Hons And Rebels Jessica Mitford 1960 British English
15908 Period Piece Gwen Raverat 1952 British English
15908 All Passion Spent Vita Sackville-West 1931 British English
15908 The Memoirs Of George Sherston Siegfried Sassoon 1928 British English
15908 The Trial Of Charles I C. V. Wedgwood 1964 British English
15908 Charlotte Temple Susanna Haswell Rowson 1791 American English
15908 Bid Me To Live Hilda Doolittle 1960 British English
15908 Ending Up Kingsley Amis 1974 British English
15908 I, Claud Claud Cockburn 1962 Irish English
15908 To Sir, With Love E. R. Braithwaite 1959 British English
15908 Sherlock Holmes, Volume I Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 British English
15890 Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier 1936 British English
15908 The Killer Colin Wilson 1970 British English
15908 The Beveridge Report William Beveridge 1942 British English
15908 In Defence Of Politics Bernard Crick 1962 British English
15908 The Bounty Trilogy Charles Nordhoff 1936 American English
15908 The Eagle Of The Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff 1954 British English
15908 Harold, The Last Of The Saxon Kings Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1848 British English
15908 Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1821 British English
15908 The Vicomte Of Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas 1847 French French
15908 The Female Wits Mary Pix, Catherine Trotter, Delariviere Manley 1696 British English
15908 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15908 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
15908 Biographies Of Good Women Charlotte M Yonge 1866 British English
15908 The Colossus And Other Poems Sylvia Plath 1960 American English
15897 Dracul Bram Stoker 1897 Unknown English
15908 Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens J. M. Barrie 1906 British English
15908 Doctor Faustus And Other Plays Christopher Marlowe 1604 English English
15908 Proceed, Sergeant Lamb Robert Graves 1940 British English
15908 Paradise Lost And Other Poems John Milton 1667 British English
15892 Space Trilogy C. S. Lewis 1938 British English
15908 Conscience Of The King Alfred Duggan 1951 British English
15908 Golden Warrior Hope Muntz 1949 British English
15908 Son Of Dust Hilda Prescott 1952 British English
15908 The Fifth Queen Ford Madox Ford 1908 British English
15908 Man On A Donkey Hilda Prescott 1952 British English
15908 Plymouth Adventure Ernest Gebler 1952 Irish English
15908 Richard Caqrvel Winston Churchill 1899 American English
15908 Citizen Tom Paine Howard Fast 1943 American English
15908 Tree Of Liberty Elizabeth Page 1939 Unknown English
15908 Lively Lady Kenneth Roberts 1931 American English
16514 The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton 1975 American English
15908 Father And Son Edmund Gosse 1907 British English
15908 Medieval Cities Henri Pirenne 1925 Belgian French
15908 A Pin To See The Peepshow F. Tennyson Jesse 1934 British English
16498 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16505 Table Talk William Hazlitt 1822 English English
16543 That's How It Was Maureen Duffy 1962 British English
16566 Moonraker Ian Fleming 1955 British English
16543 Alton Locke Charles Kingsley 1850 British English
16543 Akenfield Ronald Blythe 1969 American English
16597 The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde 1887 British English
16588 The Halloween Tree Ray Bradbury 1972 American English
16589 On The Principles Of Political Economy And Taxation David Ricardo 1817 British English
16543 My Son's Father Dom Moraes 1968 Indian English
16591 The Complete Works Of Shakespeare William Shakespeare 1623 British English
16605 Post Captain Patrick O'Brian 1972 British English
16543 Roman Wall Bryher 1954 British English
16577 Screwtape Letters Clive Staples Lewis 1942 British English
16542 The Arthurian Vulgate anonymous 1210 French Old french
16598 The Oxford Complete Shakespeare, 2nd Edition Oxford University Press 1623 British English
16635 The Ballad of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark 1960 British English
16713 The Principal Navigations Richard Hakluyt 1589 British English
16709 The Reluctant Widow Georgette Heyer 1946 British English
16672 Waste Harley Granville Barker 1907 British English
16692 The Daughter In Law D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
16674 Present Laughter Noel Coward 1942 British English
16635 Another Self James Lees-Milne 1970 British English
16758 Some Tame Gazelle Barbara Pym 1950 British English
16737 Guignol's Band I et II Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1944 French French
16697 An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde 1895 British English
16751 Theory Of Political Economy W. Stanley Jevons 1871 British English
16773 The Singing Sands Josephine Tey 1952 British English
16704 The Dam Busters P Brickhill 1951 British English
16724 The Peregrine J. A. Baker 1967 British English
16666 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
16764 Manalive G. K. Chesterton 1912 British English
16760 Las Confesiones Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 Genevan French
16702 Love And Freindship Jane Austen 1790 English English
16694 The Rambler Samuel Johnson 1784 English English
17150 The Plantagenet Saga Jean Plaidy 1976 British English
17150 The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 2003 British English
17150 Rough Crossings Simon Schama 2005 British English
17150 The Lion and the Throne Catherine Drinker Bowen 1957 American English
17150 Thursbitch Alan Garner 2003 British English
17150 The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson 2000 British English
17150 England in Particular Sue Clifford, Angela King 2006 British English
17150 Born Yesterday Gordon Burn 2008 British English
17150 English Passengers Matthew Kneale 2000 British English
17150 Twelve Bar Blues Patrick Neate 2001 British English
17150 The Bird of Night Susan Hill 1972 British English
17150 The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Iris Murdoch 1974 British English
17150 The Children of Dynmouth William Trevor 1976 British English
17150 Young Shoulders John Wain 1982 British English
17150 The Comforts of Madness Paul Sayer 1988 British English
17150 The Chymical Wedding Lindsay Clarke 1989 British English
17150 Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley 1990 British English
17150 The Queen of the Tambourine Jane Gardam 1991 British English
17150 Samuel Pepys Claire Tomalin 2002 British English
17150 Liberty's Exiles Maya Jasanoff 2011 American English
17150 The Soul of Kindness Elizabeth Taylor 1964 British English
16912 The Flight from the Enchanter Iris Murdoch 1956 British English
17150 Mr. American George MacDonald Fraser 1980 British English
17150 Levels of Life Julian Barnes 2013 British English
17150 The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye A. S. Byatt 1994 British English
17150 The Golem's Eye Jonathan Stroud 2004 British English
17150 Corbenic Catherine Fisher 2002 British English
17150 Rangatira Paula Morris 2011 New Zealander English
17150 The War That Saved My Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley 2015 American English
17150 The Suffragette Scandal Courtney Milan 2014 American English