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
8580 John Wesley's Sermons Albert C. Outler 1991 American English
8644 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8650 Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito 2025 Unknown English
8665 Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas 1845 French French
8660 The Heiress Effect Courtney Milan 2013 American English
8660 Lord Of Wicked Intentions Lorraine Heath 2013 American English
8668 The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope 1712 British English
8674 Collected Poems Wilfred Owen 1963 British English
8684 Miss Peabody’s Inheritance Elizabeth Jolley 1983 Australian English
8700 Millennium People J. G. Ballard 2003 British English
8706 What We Can Know Ian McEwan 2025 Unknown English
8718 Innocent Blood P. D. James 1980 British English
8749 The Leper Of Saint Giles Ellis Peters 1981 British English
8754 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine 2014 British English
8755 The Foundations Of Modern Political Thought Quentin Skinner 1978 British English
8799 The Trail Of Fu Manchu Sax Rohmer 1934 British English
8819 Victorian Fantasy Literature Karen Michaelson 1990 American Unknown
8871 Becoming Mrs. Lewis Patti Callahan Henry 2018 American English
8881 I'll Go To Bed At Noon Gerard Woodward 2004 British English
8900 Midshipman Easy Frederick Marryat 1836 British English
8957 Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999 British English
8984 Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil V. E. Schwab 2025 Unknown English
9006 Little Face Sophie Hannah 2006 British English
9049 How I Live Now Meg Rosoff 2004 British English
9067 Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz 2000 British English
9073 Autumn Ali Smith 2016 British English
9115 Poems Of Basil Bunting Basil Bunting 1968 British English
9124 Beyond Black Hilary Mantel 2005 British English
9129 Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley 1855 British English
9147 Physics In My Generation Max Born 1968 German English
9165 84, Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff 1970 American English
9184 Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch 1969 British English
9220 The Danger Dick Francis 1983 British English
9221 The Rachel Papers Martin Amis 1973 British English
9249 Deadheads Reginald Hill 1983 British English
9251 White Is For Witching Helen Oyeyemi 2009 British English
9278 The Alternatives Caoilinn Hughes 2024 Irish English
9298 The Imaginary Lives Of James Poneke Tina Makereti 2018 New Zealand English
9301 Bleeding Heart Square Andrew Taylor 2008 British English
9325 The Road Home Rose Tremain 2007 British English
9353 Penny Black Susan Moody 1984 British English
9375 The Libertine Charlotte Dacre 1807 British English
9375 The Passions Charlotte Dacre 1811 British English
9375 Horrid Mysteries Carl Grosse 1796 German German
9375 The Mysterious Warning Eliza Parsons 1796 British English
9375 The Children Of The Abbey Regina Maria Roche 1796 Irish English
9375 Emmeline Charlotte Smith 1788 British English
9375 The Old Manor House Charlotte Smith 1793 British English
9375 Netley Abbey Richard Warner 1846 British English
9375 After Dark Wilkie Collins 1856 British English
9375 The Notting Hill Mystery Charles Felix 1862 British English
9375 John Silence, Physician Extraordinary Algernon Blackwood 1908 British English
9375 Strange Stories Algernon Blackwood 1929 British English
9375 The Lesson Of The Master And Other Stories Henry James 1892 American English
9375 The Sense Of The Past Henry James 1917 American English
9375 Terminations And Other Stories Henry James 1895 American English
9375 A Warning To The Curious And Other Ghost Stories M. R. James 1925 British English
9375 The Stolen Bacillus And Other Incidents H. G. Wells 1895 British English
9375 Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, And Others Stewart Marsh Ellis 1931 Unknown English
9516 After You’d Gone Maggie O'Farrell 2000 British English
9546 The Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo 1869 French French
9559 Travelling In A Strange Land David Park 2018 Irish English
9569 Cold Hearted Rake Lisa Kleypas 2015 American English
9575 The Queer Principles Of Kit Webb Cat Sebastian 2021 American English
9575 The Hellion's Waltz Olivia Waite 2021 Unknown English
9587 The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1855 British English
9670 Heartstone C. J. Sansom 2010 British English
9681 The Shortest Way To Hades Sarah Caudwell 1985 British English
9687 The Code Book Simon Singh 1999 British English
9691 Nightshade Derek Marlowe 1968 British English
9709 Katherine Of Aragon Alison Weir 2016 British English
9833 The Fool Edward Bond 1975 British English
9857 An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope 1883 British English
9857 Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817 British English
9857 An Essay on Man Alexander Pope 1734 British English
9857 Mary Queen Of Scots Antonia Fraser 1969 British English
9857 Critical And Historical Essays Thomas Babington Macaulay 1843 British English
9857 Peveril Of The Peak Sir Walter Scott 1823 British English
9882 The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice And Virtue Mackenzi Lee 2017 American English
9884 Man And The Natural World Keith Thomas 1983 British English
9919 Hail And Farewell George Moore 1911 British English
9927 The Complete Plays Joe Orton 1976 British English
9957 Asylum Patrick McGrath 1996 British English
9959 The Strange Last Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall 1970 British English
9980 The Atrocity Archives Charles Stross 2004 British English
9998 Bertie And The Tin Man Peter Lovesey 1987 British English
10021 The Nine Lives Of Charlotte Taylor Sally Armstrong 2007 Canadian English
10048 A Shropshire Lad A. E. Housman 1896 British English
10046 Would I Lie To The Duke Eva Leigh 2020 Unknown English
10055 Stars And Bars William Boyd 1984 British English
10065 What Bloody Man Is That? Simon Brett 1987 British English
10068 The Mirror & The Light Hilary Mantel 2020 British English
10072 Prufrock and Other Observations T. S. Eliot 1917 British English
10087 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10089 Confessions Of A Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella 2000 British English
10115 The Taming of Chance Ian Hacking 1990 Canadian English
10119 The Cuckoo’s Calling J. K. Rowling 2013 British English
10136 Sir Thomas Wyatt Thomas Wyatt 1978 British English
10158 Banishing Verona Margot Livesey 2004 British English
10176 The Kill Artist Daniel Silva 2000 American English
10190 Katabasis R. F. Kuang 2025 Unknown English
10200 From Hell Alan Moore 1991 British English
10215 Underworld Reginald Hill 1988 British English
10216 Her Majesty's Secret Service Christopher Andrew 1985 Unknown English
10216 V. Tony Harrison 1985 British English
10216 What's Bred In The Bone Robertson Davies 1985 Canadian English
10219 Great Granny Webster Caroline Blackwood 1977 English English
10241 Moonfleet J. Meade Faulkner 1898 British English
10241 Oliver Cromwell L. du Garde Peach 1963 British English
10241 The Young Visiters Daisy Ashford 1919 British English
10241 We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Arthur Ransome 1937 British English
10270 The Spinster And The Rake Eva Devon 2021 Unknown English
10272 The Wicked Boy Kate Summerscale 2016 British English
10305 A Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson 1755 British English
10305 Shakespeare Our Contemporary Jan Kott 1961 Polish Polish
10355 Wylding Hall Elizabeth Hand 2015 American English
10432 Finishing Touches Thomas Tessier 1978 American English
10450 Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed 2009 American English
10450 The Cost of Living Deborah Levy 2018 British English
10450 The World Is What It Is Patrick French 2008 Trinidadian English