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
4547 Frederica Georgette Heyer 1965 British English
4547 The Wolf And The Dove Kathleen E. Woodiwiss 1974 American English
4590 Vurt Jeff Noon 1993 British English
4603 Babel R. F. Kuang 2022 American English
4610 Complete Short Stories D. H. Lawrence 1950 British English
4618 An Angel At My Table Janet Frame 1984 New Zealand English
4625 The Chimes Charles Dickens 1844 British English
4629 De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1905 British English
4631 Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti 2001 British English
4634 The Medici George Frederick Young 1910 Unknown English
4636 Darkmans Nicola Barker 2007 British English
4641 Memoirs Of A Midget Walter de la Mare 1921 British English
4642 Micrographia Robert Hooke 1665 British English
4643 Midnight Plus One Gavin Lyall 1965 British English
4644 Alms For Oblivion Simon Raven 1964 British English
4656 Man And Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903 British English
4673 The Witness For The Prosecution Agatha Christie 1925 British English
4686 Christianity And Culture T. S. Eliot 1939 British English
4704 The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1922 British English
4714 Jumping Jenny Anthony Berkeley 1933 British English
4754 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
4755 The Second Shot Anthony Berkeley 1930 British English
4760 For Kicks Dick Francis 1965 British English
4764 The Abc Murders Agatha Christie 1936 British English
4765 The Soldier's Art Anthony Powell 1966 British English
4775 An Angel At My Table Unknown 1984 New Zealand English
4783 The Princess Casamassima Henry James 1886 British English
4786 The Way Of The World William Congreve 1700 British English
4789 Memento Mori Muriel Spark 1959 British English
4826 The Prestige Christopher Priest 1995 British English
4828 Blaming Elizabeth Taylor 1976 British English
4834 The Brass Bottle F. Anstey 1900 British English
4846 A Season In Sinji J. L. Carr 1967 British English
4848 The Strange Death of Liberal England George Dangerfield 1935 British English
4869 Music and Silence Rose Tremain 1999 British English
4871 Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1975 Indian English
4876 The Golden String Bede Griffiths 1954 British English
4885 The Crimson Petal And The White Michel Faber 2002 British English
4898 The Last Man Mary Shelley 1826 British English
4898 On Occult Philosophy Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1531 German Latin
4898 The Poetry Of Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet 1867 American English
4898 The Poems Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850 British English
4898 King John William Shakespeare 1700 British English
4928 Dreaming Of You Lisa Kleypas 1994 American English
4931 The Military Philosophers Anthony Powell 1968 British English
4955 Miss Hargreaves Frank Baker 1939 British English
4955 A Fallen Idol F. Anstey 1886 British English
4955 The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood 1910 British English
5012 The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride 2016 Irish English
5018 Me Before You Jojo Moyes 2012 British English
5036 Highland Velvet Jude Deveraux 1982 American English
5043 Peter Ibbetson Daphne du Maurier 1891 British Unknown
5043 Still She Wished For Company Margaret Irwin 1924 British English
5043 A Man Made Of Money Douglas Jerrold 1849 British English
5043 Tongues Of Conscience Robert Hichens 1893 British English
5043 Living Alone Stella Benson 1919 British English
5089 Past Caring Robert Goddard 1986 British English
5101 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 1905 British English
5123 Thus Was Adonis Murdered Sarah Caudwell 1981 British English
5148 Clouds Of Witness Dorothy L. Sayers 1926 British English
5156 Coleridge Richard Holmes 1989 British English
5171 The Third Omnibus Of Crime Dorothy L. Sayers 1934 British English
5171 The Omnibus Of Crime Dorothy L. Sayers 1929 British English
5171 War In Heaven Charles Williams 1930 British English
5188 Armadale Wilkie Collins 1866 British English
5188 The Ghostly Tales Of Henry James Henry James 1898 American English
5188 The Lock And Key Library Julian Hawthorne 1909 American English
5188 The Professor Challenger Stories Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 British English
5188 A Century Of Creepy Stories Hugh Walpole 1934 British English
5188 Collected Ghost Stories Mrs. Joseph H. Riddell 1882 British English
5188 A Man In The Zoo David Garnett 1924 British English
5223 Riders Jilly Cooper 1985 British English
5225 A Place Of Execution Val McDermid 1999 British English
5238 Travels With Myself And Another Martha Gellhorn 1978 American English
5241 My Father And Myself J. R. Ackerley 1968 British English
5241 Cavaliers And Roundheads Christopher Hibbert 1968 British English
5280 At Last Edward St Aubyn 2011 British English
5281 Declare Tim Powers 2000 American English
5282 The Complete Notebooks Of Henry James Henry James 1987 American English
5307 The Devil Rides Out Dennis Wheatley 1934 British English
5310 The Town House Norah Lofts 1959 British English
5322 The Remorseful Day Colin Dexter 1999 British English
5331 Through A Glass Darkly Karleen Koen 1986 American English
5335 Bones And Silence Reginald Hill 1990 British English
5340 Lassie Come Home Eric Knight 1940 British English
5348 Collected Stories Of V. S. Pritchett V. S. Pritchett 1982 British English
5388 The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 Lawrence Stone 1977 British English
5389 St. Urbain's Horseman Mordecai Richler 1971 Canadian English
5392 The Poems of Emily Bronte Emily Brontë 1846 British English
5392 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions John Donne 1624 British English
5392 Complete Plays And Poems Christopher Marlowe 1587 British English
5392 Lycidas, Comus, And The Minor Poems John Milton 1637 British English
5392 Holy Dying Jeremy Taylor 1651 British English
5392 Poems Of Alexander Pope Alexander Pope 1711 British English
5413 Nineteen Seventy Four David Peace 1999 British English
5424 Religion And The Decline Of Magic Keith Thomas 1971 British English
5428 Squire Haggard's Journal Michael Green 1975 British English
5433 The House At Old Vine Norah Lofts 1961 British English
5440 The Pendragon Legend Antal Szerb 1934 Hungarian Hungarian
5461 Giving up the Ghost Hilary Mantel 2003 British English
5473 The Unicorn Iris Murdoch 1963 British English
5482 The House At Sunset Norah Lofts 1962 British English
5494 All Creatures Great And Small James Herriot 1972 British English
5500 Over Sea, Under Stone Susan Cooper 1965 British English
5579 The Journeying Boy Michael Innes 1949 British English
5622 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
5624 Wave Sonali Deraniyagala 2013 Sri Lankan English
5637 The Alteration Kingsley Amis 1976 British English
5647 The Prize Julie Garwood 1991 American English
5650 The Last Enchantment Mary Stewart 1979 British English
5695 A Married Man Piers Paul Read 1979 British English
5696 Not A Penny More,Not A Penny Less Jeffrey Archer 1976 British English
5721 Youth J. M. Coetzee 2002 South African English
5734 Anne Of The Thousand Days Maxwell Anderson 1950 American English
5737 The Ghost Road Pat Barker 1995 British English
5743 Can You Keep A Secret? Sophie Kinsella 2003 British English
5751 Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison 1999 British English
5762 Sparkling Cyanide Agatha Christie 1945 British English
5762 Unnatural Causes P. D. James 1967 British English
5770 Whip Hand Dick Francis 1979 British English