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
7215 An Apology For Poetry Philip Sidney 1595 British English
7215 Poems Of Lord Brooke Fulke Greville Lord Brooke Fulke Greville 1601 British English
7215 The Poetical Works Of Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser 1590 British English
7215 The Poems Of Sir Walter Raleigh Walter Ralegh 1600 British English
7215 Poems Of Michael Drayton Michael Drayton 1605 British English
7215 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
7215 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
7215 Poems, Plays, And Masques Ben Jonson 1601 British English
7215 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
7215 The Poems Of Thomas Carew Thomas Carew 1640 British English
7215 The Poems Of Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace 1649 British English
7215 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
7215 Plays Francis Beaumont 1607 British English
7215 A New Way To Pay Old Debts Philip Massinger 1633 British English
7215 Hudibras Samuel Butler (poet) 1663 British English
7215 The Man Of Mode George Etherege 1676 British English
7215 The Journals Of James Boswell James Boswell 1791 British English
7215 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
7215 An Essay On The Dramatic Character Of Sir John Falstaff Maurice Morgann 1777 British English
7215 The Beaux' Strategem George Farquhar 1707 British English
7215 The Plain Dealer William Wycherley 1676 British English
7215 Jubilate Agno Christopher Smart 1939 British English
7215 Poems Of William Cowper William Cowper 1782 British English
7215 Poems Of George Crabbe George Crabbe 1807 British English
7215 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
7215 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
7215 A Defence Of Poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley 1840 British English
7215 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
7215 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
7215 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
7215 Poems Of Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold 1853 British English
7215 Poems Of Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough 1862 British English
7215 Unto This Last John Ruskin 1860 British English
7215 A Grammar Of Assent John Henry Newman 1870 British English
7215 Can You Forgive Her? Anthony Trollope 1864 British English
7215 Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope 1874 British English
7215 The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1876 British English
7215 The Duke's Children Anthony Trollope 1880 British English
7215 Complete Plays Of Gilbert And Sullivan W. S. Gilbert 1938 British English
7215 No Name Wilkie Collins 1862 British English
7215 Plays Oscar Wilde 1900 Irish English
7215 Complete Poems Ernest Dowson 1905 British English
7215 The Awkward Age Henry James 1899 British English
7215 The Well Beloved Thomas Hardy 1897 British English
7215 Puck Of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1906 British English
7215 Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys 1929 British English
7215 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
7215 Poems Of D. H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
7215 The Long View Elizabeth Jane Howard 1956 British English
7588 Enigma Robert Harris 1995 British English
7601 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein 2012 British English
7600 The Labyrinth Makers Anthony Price 1970 British English
7609 Running Blind Desmond Bagley 1970 British English
7611 The Short Stories Katherine Mansfield 1945 New Zealander English
7627 The Mysterious William Shakespeare Charlton Ogburn 1984 American English
7640 The Literature Of Terror David Punter 1980 British English
7647 Hitch 22 Christopher Hitchens 2010 British English
7666 The Age Of Wonder Richard Holmes 2008 British English
7667 The Wild Places Robert Macfarlane 2007 British English
7684 Among Others Jo Walton 2011 British English
7696 It Happened One Autumn Lisa Kleypas 2005 American English
7715 Shroud For A Nightingale P. D. James 1971 British English
7730 Fraternity John Galsworthy 1909 British English
7742 Flesh David Szalay 2025 British English
7803 Anno Dracula Kim Newman 1992 British English
7836 The Midnight Library Matt Haig 2020 British English
7841 The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré 1983 British English
7844 The Accidental Ali Smith 2005 British English
7871 Poor Cow Nell Dunn 1967 British English
7877 Blackout/All Clear Connie Willis 2010 American English
7887 The Courtesan's Daughter Claudia Dain 2007 American English
7894 The Bone Clocks David Mitchell 2014 British English
7897 The Night Watch Sarah Waters 2006 British English
7899 Capital John Lanchester 2012 British English
7930 Four Essays On Liberty Isaiah Berlin 1969 British English
7936 The Keys To The Street Ruth Rendell 1996 British English
7954 The Collected Ghost Stories Of M. R. James M. R. James 1931 British English
7979 Berta Isla Javier Marias 2017 Spanish Spanish
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
7985 The History Of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1849 British English
7997 Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz 2016 British English
8075 The Mighty Walzer Howard Jacobson 1999 British English
8075 The Map Of Love Ahdaf Soueif 1999 Egyptian English
8094 The Dictionary Of Lost Words Pip Williams 2020 Australian English
8096 The Invisible Woman Claire Tomalin 1990 British English
8106 After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie Jean Rhys 1930 British English
8106 The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907 British English
8106 One Pair Of Hands Monica Dickens 1939 British English
8143 Jerusalem Commands Michael Moorcock 1992 British English
8156 Crocodile On The Sandbank Elizabeth Peters 1975 American English
8163 Loving A Lost Lord Mary Jo Putney 2009 American English
8163 To Catch A Bride Anne Gracie 2009 Australian English
8174 A Demon In My View Ruth Rendell 1976 British English
8187 Questions Of Travel Michelle de Kretser 2012 Australian English
8219 Rumpole Of The Bailey John Mortimer 1978 British English
8239 Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace 2000 British English
8239 How The Dead Live Will Self 2000 British English
8248 Always Unreliable Clive James 2001 British English
8250 The Sun Chemist Lionel Davidson 1976 British English
8252 The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841 British English
8256 Someone Knows My Name Lawrence Hill 2007 Canadian English
8275 Tennyson Christopher Ricks 1972 British English
8306 The Native Air Sarah Woodhouse 1987 British English
8335 The Light Years Elizabeth Jane Howard 1990 British English
8345 Swing Time Zadie Smith 2016 British English
8367 They Used To Play On Grass Terry Venables, Gordon Williams 1972 British English
8370 According To Queeney Beryl Bainbridge 2001 British English
8376 Never A Gentleman Eileen Dreyer 2011 Unknown English
8380 Towards Another Summer Janet Frame 2007 New Zealander English
8384 A Seditious Affair KJ Charles 2015 British English
8388 Becket Jean Anouilh 1959 French French
8410 Her Royal Spyness Rhys Bowen 2007 British English
8421 The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester 2008 British English
8428 To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis 1997 American English
8432 The Gentleman In Black James Dalton 2009 Unknown Unknown
8472 The Patrick Melrose Novels Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
8495 Margaret The First Danielle Dutton 2016 American English
8531 The Ministry Of Time Kaliane Bradley 2024 Unknown English
8541 Any Human Heart William Boyd 2002 British English
8541 Life Studies Robert Lowell 1967 American English