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
3324 Thomas of Reading, Or, The Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West Thomas Deloney 1599 British English
3324 The Female Quixote Charlotte Lennox 1752 British English
3324 Life and Death of Harriett Frean May Sinclair 1922 British English
3324 The Green Hat Michael Arlen 1924 British English
3324 The Apes of God Wyndham Lewis 1930 British English
3324 To the North Elizabeth Bowen 1932 British English
3324 A Day Off Storm Jameson 1933 British English
3324 Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley 1936 British English
3324 Back Henry Green 1946 British English
3390 La Realidad Y El Deseo Luis Cernuda 1936 Spanish Spanish
3399 Portrait Of A Marriage Nigel Nicolson 1973 British English
3403 Wobble To Death Peter Lovesey 1970 British English
3404 The Unfortunates B. S. Johnson 1969 British English
3427 The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi 1944 Canadian English
3443 Transit Rachel Cusk 2016 British English
3447 Look At Me Anita Brookner 1983 British English
3457 Hamlet, Revenge! Michael Innes 1937 British English
3465 Sweetheart, Sweetheart Bernard Taylor 1977 British English
3468 The Story Of English Robert McCrum 1986 British English
3471 The Armada Garrett Mattingly 1959 American English
3496 Devil's Cub Georgette Heyer 1932 British English
3502 The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1902 British English
3532 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
3537 Amelia Henry Fielding 1751 British English
3539 C Tom McCarthy 2010 British English
3547 Samuel Johnson Walter Jackson Bate 1977 American English
3546 Five Children And It Edith Nesbit 1902 British English
3555 Tragedy At Law Cyril Hare 1942 British English
3577 Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson 1995 British English
3581 Selected Poems Andrew Marvell 1681 British English
3611 Redgauntlet Sir Walter Scott 1824 Scottish English
3618 Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe 1974 British English
3628 Green For Danger Christianna Brand 1944 British English
3629 Party Going Henry Green 1939 British English
3635 Odes John Keats 1820 British English
3637 Areopagitica John Milton 1644 British English
3637 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas de Quincey 1821 British English
3637 Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial Sir Thomas Browne 1658 British English
3637 Why I Am Not a Christian Bertrand Russell 1927 British English
3637 Religio Medici Sir Thomas Browne 1643 British English
3637 The Works Of John Dryden John Dryden 1808 British English
3637 The Rivals Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1775 Irish English
3637 Pack My Bag Henry Green 1940 British English
3637 Blasting And Bombardiering Wyndham Lewis 1937 British English
3637 Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886 British English
3637 The Prophecies Nostradamus 1555 French French
3637 The Seven Lamps Of Architecture John Ruskin 1849 British English
3637 Der Moderne Kapitalismus Werner Sombart 1902 German German
3802 Inside Mr. Enderby Anthony Burgess 1963 British English
3813 Henry IV, Part II William Shakespeare 1600 British English
3829 This Above All Eric Knight 1941 British English
3839 Gog Andrew Sinclair 1967 British English
3845 Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson 1992 British English
3858 Enduring Love Ian McEwan 1997 British English
3878 The Hollow Hills Mary Stewart 1973 British English
3884 Mother London Michael Moorcock 1988 British English
3889 There But For The Ali Smith 2011 British English
3890 The Concept Of Law H. L. A. Hart 1961 British English
3912 The Tiger In The Smoke Margery Allingham 1952 British English
3932 Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1922 British English
3933 The Tailor Of Gloucester Beatrix Potter 1903 British English
3948 Top Girls Caryl Churchill 1982 British English
4076 Birthday Letters Ted Hughes 1998 British English
4082 No Laughing Matter Angus Wilson 1967 British English
4096 Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall 2020 British English
4104 Summerhill Alexander Sutherland Neill 1960 British English
4110 Brat Farrar Josephine Tey 1949 British English
4113 Brick Lane Monica Ali 2003 British English
4163 The Naked Civil Servant Quentin Crisp 1968 British English
4167 Letters On England Voltaire 1734 French French
4213 The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald 1988 British English
4251 The Whitsun Weddings Philip Larkin 1964 British English
4251 Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice 1939 British English
4295 The Emperor's Babe Bernardine Evaristo 2001 British English
4308 Augustus Carp, Esq. By Himself Henry Howarth Bashford 1924 British English
4308 No Bed For Bacon Caryl Brahms, S. J. Simon 1941 British English
4308 The Case Of The Gilded Fly Edmund Crispin 1944 British English
4308 The Polyglots William Gerhardie 1925 British English
4308 Charade John Mortimer 1947 British English
4308 The Westminster Alice Saki 1902 British English
4308 The Unbearable Bassington Saki 1912 British English
4308 The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom Tobias Smollett 1753 British English
4308 Piccadilly Jim P. G. Wodehouse 1917 British English
4308 The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie 1922 British English
4308 A Gun For Sale Graham Greene 1936 British English
4308 The Strange Borders Of Palace Crescent E. Phillips Oppenheim 1934 British English
4308 The Shrimp And The Anemone L. P. Hartley 1944 British English
4308 Invitation To The Waltz Rosamond Lehmann 1932 British English
4308 The Three Sisters May Sinclair 1914 British English
4308 Love For Lydia H. E. Bates 1952 British English
4308 The Parasites Daphne du Maurier 1949 British English
4308 Regency Buck Georgette Heyer 1935 British English
4308 The Weather In The Streets Rosamond Lehmann 1936 British English
4308 The Victorian Chaise Longue Marghanita Laski 1953 British English
4308 The Odd Women George Gissing 1893 British English
4308 Love On The Dole Walter Greenwood 1933 British English
4308 A Girl In Winter Philip Larkin 1947 British English
4308 Of Love & Hunger Julian Maclaren-Ross 1947 British English
4308 Afternoon Men Anthony Powell 1931 British English
4308 Darkness Falls From The Air Nigel Balchin 1942 British English
4308 Fair Stood The Wind For France H. E. Bates 1944 British English
4308 The History Of Pompey The Little Francis Coventry 1751 British English
4308 The Children Of The New Forest Frederick Marryat 1847 British English
4391 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4402 The L Shaped Room Lynne Reid Banks 1960 British English
4402 A Kind Of Loving Stan Barstow 1960 British English
4402 This Sporting Life David Storey 1960 British English
4419 Selections From The Tatler And The Spectator Joseph Addison, Richard Steele 1804 British English
4419 Poems Of George Herbert George Herbert 1633 British English
4419 Memoirs Of The Author Of A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman William Godwin 1798 British English
4419 The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler 1890 American English
4419 The Voysey Inheritance Harley Granville Barker 1905 British English
4419 The Madras House Harley Granville Barker 1910 British English
4456 Death Of Jezebel Christianna Brand 1948 British English
4481 The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1871 British English
4489 Voyage In The Dark Jean Rhys 1934 British English
4493 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
4518 Sour Sweet Timothy Mo 1982 British English
4542 Ingenious Pain Andrew Miller 1997 British English
4547 Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor 1944 American English