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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5531 Povídání O Pejskovi A Kočičce Josef Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
5531 Marketa Lazarová Vladislav Vančura 1931 Czech Czech
5531 Nikola The Outlaw Ivan Olbracht 1933 Czech Czech
5531 The White Disease Karel Čapek 1937 Czech Czech
5531 Cirkus Humberto Eduard Bass 1941 Czech Czech
5531 Saturnin Zdeněk Jirotka 1942 Czech Czech
5531 Petrolejové Lampy Jaroslav Havlíček 1944 Czech Czech
5531 We Were A Handful Karel Poláček 1946 Czech Czech
5531 Dědeček Automobil Adolf Branald 1955 Czech Czech
5531 The Cowards Josef Škvorecký 1958 Czech Czech
5531 Fimfárum Jan Werich 1963 Czech Czech
5531 Romance For Bugle František Hrubín 1957 Czech Czech
5531 The Axe Louis Vaculík 1966 Czech Czech
5531 Divadlo Járy Cimrmana Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak, Jára Cimrman 1967 Czech Czech
5570 A Whale For The Killing Farley Mowat 1972 Canadian English
5571 Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1887 British English
5573 Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link 2001 American English
5572 The Golden Stranger Henry Treece 1956 British English
5577 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 American English
5581 The Opener Of The Way Robert Bloch 1945 American English
5582 This Is How You Lose The Time War Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone 2019 Multiple English
5587 Brother Of Sleep Robert Schneider 1992 Austrian German
5591 How It Is Samuel Beckett 1961 Irish French
5592 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5592 Love Among The Chickens P. G. Wodehouse 1906 British English
5596 Poetry And Truth From My Own Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2004 German English
5605 Tree And Leaf J. R. R. Tolkien 1964 British English
5608 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5616 Vuk István Fekete 1965 Hungarian Hungarian
5618 The Westing Game Ellen Raskin 1978 American English
5620 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 2007 American English
5622 The Thing About December Donal Ryan 2013 Irish English
5627 Olivia Dorothy Bussy 1949 British English
5638 The Alteration Kingsley Amis 1976 British English
5641 Was Geoff Ryman 1992 British English
5642 The Kites Romain Gary 1980 French French
5645 Naked In Death J.D. Robb 1995 American English
5646 Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson 1964 American English
5647 Before I Was Born And After My Death Ivailo Petrov 1968 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5649 The Prize Julie Garwood 1991 American English
5648 The Bear William Faulkner 1942 American English
5654 Reasons to Live Amy Hempel 1985 American English
5656 The Mezentian Gate E. R. Eddison 1958 British English
5657 Soul Eater K. W. Jeter 1983 American English
5663 The Evolution Man Or How I Ate My Father Roy Lewis 1960 British English
5661 Oracles And Miracles Stevan Eldred-Grigg 1988 New Zealand English
5664 Invisible Green John Sladek 1977 American English
5666 New Terrors Ramsey Campbell 1980 British English
5668 Baiyun Oder Die Freundschaftsgesellschaft Adolf Muschg 1980 Swiss German
5681 The Tendrils of the Vine Colette 1908 French Unknown
5682 The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury 1951 American English
5683 Frights Kirby McCauley 1980 American English
5688 The Saint Of Bright Doors Vajra Chandrasekera 2023 Unknown English
5695 How I Came To Know Fish Ota Pavel 1971 Czech Czech
5698 A Madness Of The Heart Richard Neely 1976 American English
5702 Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie 2013 American English
5704 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5714 The Gallery John Horne Burns 1947 American English
5718 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
5721 Warlight Michael Ondaatje 2018 Canadian English
5723 Blake and Mortimer Edgar P. Jacobs 1946 Belgian French
5733 At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill 2001 Irish English
5735 Anne Of The Thousand Days Maxwell Anderson 1950 American English
5739 Only Forward Michael Marshall Smith 1994 British English
5744 Can You Keep A Secret? Sophie Kinsella 2003 British English
5747 Největší Z Pierotů František Kožík 1972 Czech Czech
5753 Die Tessinerin Thomas Hürlimann 1981 Swiss German
5757 Concerning The Eccentricities Of Cardinal Pirelli Ronald Firbank 1926 British English
5762 The Scar China Miéville 2002 British English
5763 With A Bare Bodkin Cyril Hare 1946 British English
5773 The Digging Leviathan James P. Blaylock 1984 American English
5777 The Serpent Jane Gaskell 1963 British English
5777 The Stealer Of Souls Michael Moorcock 1963 British English
5780 Special Friendships Roger Peyrefitte 1943 French French
5781 Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake 2020 British English
5782 Among Professors W.F. Hermans 1975 Dutch Dutch
5783 Confessions Of An Italian Ippolito Nievo 1867 Italian Italian
5783 Malombra Antonio Fogazzaro 1881 Italian Italian
5783 The Maidens Of The Rocks Gabriele D'Annunzio 1895 Italian Italian
5783 The Old And The Young Luigi Pirandello 1913 Italian Italian
5783 Notturno Gabriele D'Annunzio 1916 Italian Italian
5783 Stories For A Year Luigi Pirandello 1959 Italian Italian
5783 Men And Not Men Elio Vittorini 1945 Italian Italian
5783 Dialogues With Leucò Cesare Pavese 1947 Italian Italian
5783 L'agnese Va A Morire Renata Viganò 1949 Italian Italian
5783 The Sergeant In The Snow Mario Rigoni Stern 1953 Italian Italian
5806 The Child Manuela Christa Winsloe 1933 German German
5811 The Insistence Of Horror Patricia Meyer Spacks 1962 American English
5812 John Dies At The End David Wong 2007 American English
5813 The City Of The Sun Tommaso Campanella 1623 Italian Latin
5815 The Malcontent John Marston 1604 British English
5834 Pseudolus Plautus -191 Roman Latin
5838 The Braggart Soldier Plautus -204 Roman Latin
5830 The Easter Parade Richard Yates 1976 American English
5842 The Girl From Andros Terence -166 Roman Latin
5841 The Eunuch Terence -161 Multiple Latin
5839 Paradise Regained John Milton 1671 British English
5849 The Rope Plautus -204 Roman Latin
5845 The Mother In Law Terence -160 Roman Latin
5858 The New Life Dante Alighieri 1295 Italian Italian
5863 The School for Wives Molière 1662 French French
5863 The Changeling Thomas, William Rowley Middleton 1622 British English
5863 The Well At The World's End William Morris 1896 British English
5863 At The Back Of The North Wind George MacDonald 1871 Scottish English
5863 The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1856 American English
5863 Elders And Betters Ivy Compton-Burnett 1944 British English
5889 House With The Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1901 Scottish English
5899 The Ghost Sonata August Strindberg 1907 Swedish Swedish
5911 The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1914 American English
5906 The First Men In The Moon H. G. Wells 1901 British English
5907 The Ring Of The Nibelung Richard Wagner 1876 German German
5909 Thomas The Obscure Maurice Blanchot 1941 French French
5918 The Tale Of The 1002nd Night Joseph Roth 1938 Austrian German
5927 Sylvester And The Magic Pebble William Steig 1969 American English
5931 Light M. John Harrison 2002 British English
5935 A Promise Of Fire Amanda Bouchet 2016 American English
5938 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1973 British English
5936 Look At Me Now And Here I Am Gertrude Stein 1967 American Unknown
5939 Jesus Menschensohn Rudolf Augstein 1982 German German
5939 The Spiral Of Silence Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann 1982 German German