The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Fictional Location

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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
5099 A Hunger Like No Other Kresley Cole 2006 American English
5103 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 1905 British English
5109 Brother Of The More Famous Jack Barbara Trapido 1982 British English
5113 The War Of Art Steven Pressfield 2002 American English
5117 The Boat Who Wouldn't Float Farley Mowat 1969 Canadian English
5118 Swamplandia! Karen Russell 2011 American English
5131 The Influence Ramsey Campbell 1988 British English
5133 Das Boot Lothar-Günther Buchheim 1973 German German
5145 The Nine Mile Walk Harry Kemelman 1967 American English
5138 Before The Law Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
5155 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5163 The Blue Star Fletcher Pratt 1952 American English
5164 House Of Hate Percy Janes 1970 Canadian English
5166 Jirel of Joiry C. L. Moore 1934 American English
5165 Forgotten Kingdom Peter Goullart 1955 Russian English
5167 Northwest Smith C. L. Moore 1933 American English
5167 Mistress Masham's Repose T. H. White 1946 British English
5172 Omniumgathum Jonathan Bacon, Steve Troyanovich 1976 Unknown Unknown
5173 The Land Of Unreason L. Sprague de Camp 1942 American English
5173 Slaves Of Sleep L. Ron Hubbard 1939 American English
5173 Adept's Gambit Fritz Leiber 1947 American English
5173 Humour And Fantasy F. Anstey 1931 British Unknown
5173 Land Under England Joseph O'Neill 1935 British English
5190 The Wind In The Rose Bush Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 1903 American English
5190 Mistress Of Mistresses E. R. Eddison 1935 British English
5190 Gods, Men And Ghosts Lord Dunsany 1912 British English
5190 Witch Wood John Buchan 1927 British English
5190 Phantasmion Sara Coleridge 1837 British English
5190 To Walk The Night William M. Sloane 1937 American English
5190 Xelucha And Others M. P. Shiel 1896 British English
5190 The Snow Image And Uncollected Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1852 American English
5190 The Smoking Leg John Metcalfe 1925 British English
5190 Some Ghost Stories A. M. Burrage 1934 British English
5190 The Professor Challenger Stories Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 British English
5190 The Lady, Or The Tiger? Frank R. Stockton 1882 American English
5190 The Lost Traveller Ruthven Todd 1943 British English
5190 The Night Life Of The Gods Thorne Smith 1931 American English
5190 Pause To Wonder Marjorie Fischer 1944 American Unknown
5190 The Valley Of The Flame Henry Kuttner 1946 American English
5190 The Dark World Henry Kuttner 1946 American English
5190 The Eternal Moment E. M. Forster 1928 British English
5190 A Fish Dinner In Memison E. R. Eddison 1941 British English
5190 A Strange Story Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1862 British English
5226 The Children Of Green Knowe L. M. Boston 1954 British English
5229 The Ringstones And Other Curious Tales Sarban 1951 British English
5230 The Howling Man Charles Beaumont 1960 American English
5232 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
5233 Dark Feasts Ramsey Campbell 1987 British English
5237 Deep River Shūsaku Endō 1993 Japanese Japanese
5240 Sorcerer's Son Phyllis Eisenstein 1979 American English
5241 The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty James Thurber 1983 American English
5242 La Saga/ Fuga de J. B./ The Saga/ Escape of J.B. Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 1972 Spanish Spanish
5242 Concierto Barroco Alejo Carpentier 1974 Cuban Spanish
5242 The Life And Adventures Of Trobadora Beatrice Irmtraud Morgner 1974 German German
5250 The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach 2011 American English
5252 The War Hound And The World's Pain Michael Moorcock 1981 British English
5253 The Boats Of The "Glen Carrig" William Hope Hodgson 1907 British English
5253 Carnacki The Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson 1913 British English
5255 The Harpole Report J. L. Carr 1972 British English
5263 The Exploits Of Engelbrecht Maurice Richardson 1950 British English
5264 The Golden Key George MacDonald 1980 British English
5271 I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
5273 Dirty Fred The Captain Jenő Rejtő 1935 Hungarian Hungarian
5276 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5278 Heartbreak Soup Gilbert Hernandez 1985 American English
5280 Some Of Your Blood Theodore Sturgeon 1961 American English
5283 The Complete Notebooks Of Henry James Henry James 1987 American English
5291 Revenge Yōko Ogawa 1998 Japanese Japanese
5293 The Terrorists Maj Sjöwall 1975 Swedish Swedish
5293 Der Mädchenkrieg Manfred Bieler 1975 German German
5316 Abu Telfan, Return from the Mountains of the Moon Wilhelm Karl Raabe 1867 German German
5328 A Storm Of Wings M. John Harrison 1980 British English
5328 White Light Rudy Rucker 1980 American English
5334 The 14 Carat Roadster Jenő Rejtő 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
5335 Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 1959 American English
5353 The Book Of Mormon Unknown 1830 American English
5362 Schilten Hermann Burger 1976 Swiss German
5378 Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart 1984 American English
5379 A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson 1974 American English
5386 The Tritonian Ring L. Sprague de Camp 1953 American English
5386 The Other Place And Other Stories J. B. Priestley 1953 British English
5393 New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1627 British English
5393 Personae Ezra Pound 1909 American English
5406 Murambi, The Book Of Bones Boubacar Boris Diop 2000 Senegalese French
5413 Reflections In A Golden Eye Carson McCullers 1941 American English
5417 The Brodeck Report Philippe Claudel 2007 French French
5418 A Dictionary Of Maqiao Han Shaogong 1996 Chinese Chinese
5421 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass 1968 American English
5429 Venus On The Half Shell Philip José Farmer 1975 American English
5429 Hello Summer, Goodbye Michael G. Coney 1975 British English
5437 Death On The Ice Cassie Brown 1972 Canadian English
5444 1587, A Year Of No Significance Ray Huang 1981 Chinese English
5447 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
5448 A Winter In Hakkari Ferit Edgü 1977 Turkish Turkish
5448 The Lover A. B. Yehoshua 1977 Israeli Hebrew
5460 Angels And Spaceships Fredric Brown 1954 American English
5465 Gift Of Gold Jayne Ann Krentz 1988 American English
5471 Markings Dag Hammarskjöld 1963 Swedish Swedish
5471 Meetings With Remarkable Men George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1963 Unknown Russian
5471 And There Was Light Jacques Lusseyran 1963 French French
5476 Zero Ignácio De Loyola Brandão 1974 Brazilian Portuguese
5477 Inherit The Stars James P. Hogan 1977 American English
5482 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
5485 The Ants E. O. Wilson, Bert Hölldobler 1990 American English
5487 Sillabari Goffredo Parise 1984 Italian Italian
5488 Body Rags Galway Kinnell 1968 American English
5494 Royally Screwed Emma Chase 2016 American English
5500 After the Flood P. C. Jersild 1982 Swedish Swedish
5502 Steps To An Ecology Of Mind Gregory Bateson 1972 American English
5502 The Trip To Panama Janosch 1978 German German
5509 Always Come Evening Robert E. Howard 1957 American English
5514 The Shadow Over Innsmouth H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
5519 The Willows Algernon Blackwood 1907 British English
5521 Lost Worlds Clark Ashton Smith 1944 American English
5521 Sleep No More August Derleth 1944 American English
5528 Tales Of The Black Widowers Isaac Asimov 1974 American English
5529 The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond 1991 American English
5531 The Essential Kafka Franz Kafka 1913 Czech German
5531 Lovci Mamutů Eduard Štorch 1918 Czech Czech
5531 Summer Of Caprice Vladislav Vančura 1926 Czech Czech