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
5097 A Hunger Like No Other Kresley Cole 2006 American English
5101 Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster 1905 British English
5107 Brother Of The More Famous Jack Barbara Trapido 1982 British English
5111 The War Of Art Steven Pressfield 2002 American English
5115 The Boat Who Wouldn't Float Farley Mowat 1969 Canadian English
5116 Swamplandia! Karen Russell 2011 American English
5129 The Influence Ramsey Campbell 1988 British English
5131 Das Boot Lothar-Günther Buchheim 1973 German German
5143 The Nine Mile Walk Harry Kemelman 1967 American English
5136 Before The Law Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
5153 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5161 The Blue Star Fletcher Pratt 1952 American English
5162 House Of Hate Percy Janes 1970 Canadian English
5164 Jirel of Joiry C. L. Moore 1934 American English
5163 Forgotten Kingdom Peter Goullart 1955 Russian English
5165 Northwest Smith C. L. Moore 1933 American English
5165 Mistress Masham's Repose T. H. White 1946 British English
5170 Omniumgathum Jonathan Bacon, Steve Troyanovich 1976 Unknown Unknown
5171 The Land Of Unreason L. Sprague de Camp 1942 American English
5171 Slaves Of Sleep L. Ron Hubbard 1939 American English
5171 Adept's Gambit Fritz Leiber 1947 American English
5171 Humour And Fantasy F. Anstey 1931 British Unknown
5171 Land Under England Joseph O'Neill 1935 British English
5188 The Wind In The Rose Bush Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 1903 American English
5188 Mistress Of Mistresses E. R. Eddison 1935 British English
5188 Gods, Men And Ghosts Lord Dunsany 1912 British English
5188 Witch Wood John Buchan 1927 British English
5188 Phantasmion Sara Coleridge 1837 British English
5188 To Walk The Night William M. Sloane 1937 American English
5188 Xelucha And Others M. P. Shiel 1896 British English
5188 The Snow Image And Uncollected Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1852 American English
5188 The Smoking Leg John Metcalfe 1925 British English
5188 Some Ghost Stories A. M. Burrage 1934 British English
5188 The Professor Challenger Stories Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 British English
5188 The Lady, Or The Tiger? Frank R. Stockton 1882 American English
5188 The Lost Traveller Ruthven Todd 1943 British English
5188 The Night Life Of The Gods Thorne Smith 1931 American English
5188 Pause To Wonder Marjorie Fischer 1944 American Unknown
5188 The Valley Of The Flame Henry Kuttner 1946 American English
5188 The Dark World Henry Kuttner 1946 American English
5188 The Eternal Moment E. M. Forster 1928 British English
5188 A Fish Dinner In Memison E. R. Eddison 1941 British English
5188 A Strange Story Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1862 British English
5224 The Children Of Green Knowe L. M. Boston 1954 British English
5227 The Ringstones And Other Curious Tales Sarban 1951 British English
5228 The Howling Man Charles Beaumont 1960 American English
5230 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
5231 Dark Feasts Ramsey Campbell 1987 British English
5236 Deep River Shūsaku Endō 1993 Japanese Japanese
5239 Sorcerer's Son Phyllis Eisenstein 1979 American English
5240 The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty James Thurber 1983 American English
5241 La Saga/ Fuga de J. B./ The Saga/ Escape of J.B. Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 1972 Spanish Spanish
5241 Concierto Barroco Alejo Carpentier 1974 Cuban Spanish
5241 The Life And Adventures Of Trobadora Beatrice Irmtraud Morgner 1974 German German
5249 The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach 2011 American English
5251 The War Hound And The World's Pain Michael Moorcock 1981 British English
5252 The Boats Of The "Glen Carrig" William Hope Hodgson 1907 British English
5252 Carnacki The Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson 1913 British English
5254 The Harpole Report J. L. Carr 1972 British English
5262 The Exploits Of Engelbrecht Maurice Richardson 1950 British English
5263 The Golden Key George MacDonald 1980 British English
5270 I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
5272 Dirty Fred The Captain Jenő Rejtő 1935 Hungarian Hungarian
5275 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5277 Heartbreak Soup Gilbert Hernandez 1985 American English
5279 Some Of Your Blood Theodore Sturgeon 1961 American English
5282 The Complete Notebooks Of Henry James Henry James 1987 American English
5290 Revenge Yōko Ogawa 1998 Japanese Japanese
5292 The Terrorists Maj Sjöwall 1975 Swedish Swedish
5292 Der Mädchenkrieg Manfred Bieler 1975 German German
5314 Abu Telfan, Return from the Mountains of the Moon Wilhelm Karl Raabe 1867 German German
5326 A Storm Of Wings M. John Harrison 1980 British English
5326 White Light Rudy Rucker 1980 American English
5332 The 14 Carat Roadster Jenő Rejtő 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
5333 Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 1959 American English
5351 The Book Of Mormon Unknown 1830 American English
5361 Schilten Hermann Burger 1976 Swiss German
5377 Bridge of Birds Barry Hughart 1984 American English
5378 A Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson 1974 American English
5385 The Tritonian Ring L. Sprague de Camp 1953 American English
5385 The Other Place And Other Stories J. B. Priestley 1953 British English
5392 New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1627 British English
5392 Personae Ezra Pound 1909 American English
5405 Murambi, The Book Of Bones Boubacar Boris Diop 2000 Senegalese French
5412 Reflections In A Golden Eye Carson McCullers 1941 American English
5416 The Brodeck Report Philippe Claudel 2007 French French
5417 A Dictionary Of Maqiao Han Shaogong 1996 Chinese Chinese
5420 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass 1968 American English
5428 Venus On The Half Shell Philip José Farmer 1975 American English
5428 Hello Summer, Goodbye Michael G. Coney 1975 British English
5436 Death On The Ice Cassie Brown 1972 Canadian English
5443 1587, A Year Of No Significance Ray Huang 1981 Chinese English
5446 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
5447 A Winter In Hakkari Ferit Edgü 1977 Turkish Turkish
5447 The Lover A. B. Yehoshua 1977 Israeli Hebrew
5459 Angels And Spaceships Fredric Brown 1954 American English
5464 Gift Of Gold Jayne Ann Krentz 1988 American English
5470 Markings Dag Hammarskjöld 1963 Swedish Swedish
5470 Meetings With Remarkable Men George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1963 Unknown Russian
5470 And There Was Light Jacques Lusseyran 1963 French French
5475 Zero Ignácio De Loyola Brandão 1974 Brazilian Portuguese
5476 Inherit The Stars James P. Hogan 1977 American English
5481 The Inferno Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
5484 The Ants E. O. Wilson, Bert Hölldobler 1990 American English
5486 Sillabari Goffredo Parise 1984 Italian Italian
5487 Body Rags Galway Kinnell 1968 American English
5493 Royally Screwed Emma Chase 2016 American English
5499 After the Flood P. C. Jersild 1982 Swedish Swedish
5501 Steps To An Ecology Of Mind Gregory Bateson 1972 American English
5501 The Trip To Panama Janosch 1978 German German
5508 Always Come Evening Robert E. Howard 1957 American English
5513 The Shadow Over Innsmouth H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
5518 The Willows Algernon Blackwood 1907 British English
5520 Lost Worlds Clark Ashton Smith 1944 American English
5520 Sleep No More August Derleth 1944 American English
5527 Tales Of The Black Widowers Isaac Asimov 1974 American English
5528 The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond 1991 American English
5530 The Essential Kafka Franz Kafka 1913 Czech German
5530 Lovci Mamutů Eduard Štorch 1918 Czech Czech
5530 Summer Of Caprice Vladislav Vančura 1926 Czech Czech