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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5530 Povídání O Pejskovi A Kočičce Josef Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
5530 Marketa Lazarová Vladislav Vančura 1931 Czech Czech
5530 Nikola The Outlaw Ivan Olbracht 1933 Czech Czech
5530 The White Disease Karel Čapek 1937 Czech Czech
5530 Cirkus Humberto Eduard Bass 1941 Czech Czech
5530 Saturnin Zdeněk Jirotka 1942 Czech Czech
5530 Petrolejové Lampy Jaroslav Havlíček 1944 Czech Czech
5530 We Were A Handful Karel Poláček 1946 Czech Czech
5530 Dědeček Automobil Adolf Branald 1955 Czech Czech
5530 The Cowards Josef Škvorecký 1958 Czech Czech
5530 Fimfárum Jan Werich 1963 Czech Czech
5530 Romance For Bugle František Hrubín 1957 Czech Czech
5530 The Axe Louis Vaculík 1966 Czech Czech
5530 Divadlo Járy Cimrmana Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak, Jára Cimrman 1967 Czech Czech
5569 A Whale For The Killing Farley Mowat 1972 Canadian English
5570 Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1887 British English
5572 Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link 2001 American English
5571 The Golden Stranger Henry Treece 1956 British English
5576 VALIS Philip K. Dick 1981 American English
5580 The Opener Of The Way Robert Bloch 1945 American English
5581 This Is How You Lose The Time War Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone 2019 Multiple English
5586 Brother Of Sleep Robert Schneider 1992 Austrian German
5590 Felix Holt, The Radical George Eliot 1866 French English
5590 Love Among The Chickens P. G. Wodehouse 1906 British English
5594 Poetry And Truth From My Own Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2004 German English
5603 Tree And Leaf J. R. R. Tolkien 1964 British English
5606 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5614 Vuk István Fekete 1965 Hungarian Hungarian
5616 The Westing Game Ellen Raskin 1978 American English
5618 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 2007 American English
5620 The Thing About December Donal Ryan 2013 Irish English
5625 Olivia Dorothy Bussy 1949 British English
5636 The Alteration Kingsley Amis 1976 British English
5639 Was Geoff Ryman 1992 British English
5640 The Kites Romain Gary 1980 French French
5643 Naked In Death J.D. Robb 1995 American English
5644 Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson 1964 American English
5645 Before I Was Born And After My Death Ivailo Petrov 1968 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5646 The Prize Julie Garwood 1991 American English
5647 The Bear William Faulkner 1942 American English
5652 Reasons to Live Amy Hempel 1985 American English
5654 The Mezentian Gate E. R. Eddison 1958 British English
5655 Soul Eater K. W. Jeter 1983 American English
5661 The Evolution Man Or How I Ate My Father Roy Lewis 1960 British English
5659 Oracles And Miracles Stevan Eldred-Grigg 1988 New Zealand English
5662 Invisible Green John Sladek 1977 American English
5664 New Terrors Ramsey Campbell 1980 British English
5666 Baiyun Oder Die Freundschaftsgesellschaft Adolf Muschg 1980 Swiss German
5679 The Tendrils of the Vine Colette 1908 French Unknown
5680 The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury 1951 American English
5681 Frights Kirby McCauley 1980 American English
5686 The Saint Of Bright Doors Vajra Chandrasekera 2023 Unknown English
5693 How I Came To Know Fish Ota Pavel 1971 Czech Czech
5696 A Madness Of The Heart Richard Neely 1976 American English
5700 Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie 2013 American English
5702 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5712 The Gallery John Horne Burns 1947 American English
5716 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
5719 Warlight Michael Ondaatje 2018 Canadian English
5721 Blake and Mortimer Edgar P. Jacobs 1946 Belgian French
5731 At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill 2001 Irish English
5733 Anne Of The Thousand Days Maxwell Anderson 1950 American English
5737 Only Forward Michael Marshall Smith 1994 British English
5742 Can You Keep A Secret? Sophie Kinsella 2003 British English
5745 Největší Z Pierotů František Kožík 1972 Czech Czech
5751 Die Tessinerin Thomas Hürlimann 1981 Swiss German
5755 Concerning The Eccentricities Of Cardinal Pirelli Ronald Firbank 1926 British English
5760 The Scar China Miéville 2002 British English
5761 With A Bare Bodkin Cyril Hare 1946 British English
5771 The Digging Leviathan James P. Blaylock 1984 American English
5775 The Serpent Jane Gaskell 1963 British English
5775 The Stealer Of Souls Michael Moorcock 1963 British English
5778 Special Friendships Roger Peyrefitte 1943 French French
5779 Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake 2020 British English
5780 Among Professors W.F. Hermans 1975 Dutch Dutch
5781 Confessions Of An Italian Ippolito Nievo 1867 Italian Italian
5781 Malombra Antonio Fogazzaro 1881 Italian Italian
5781 The Maidens Of The Rocks Gabriele D'Annunzio 1895 Italian Italian
5781 The Old And The Young Luigi Pirandello 1913 Italian Italian
5781 Notturno Gabriele D'Annunzio 1916 Italian Italian
5781 Stories For A Year Luigi Pirandello 1959 Italian Italian
5781 Men And Not Men Elio Vittorini 1945 Italian Italian
5781 Dialogues With Leucò Cesare Pavese 1947 Italian Italian
5781 L'agnese Va A Morire Renata Viganò 1949 Italian Italian
5781 The Sergeant In The Snow Mario Rigoni Stern 1953 Italian Italian
5804 The Child Manuela Christa Winsloe 1933 German German
5809 The Insistence Of Horror Patricia Meyer Spacks 1962 American English
5810 John Dies At The End David Wong 2007 American English
5811 The City Of The Sun Tommaso Campanella 1623 Italian Latin
5813 The Malcontent John Marston 1604 British English
5832 Pseudolus Plautus -191 Roman Latin
5828 The Easter Parade Richard Yates 1976 American English
5835 The Braggart Soldier Plautus -204 Roman Latin
5840 The Girl From Andros Terence -166 Roman Latin
5839 The Eunuch Terence -161 Multiple Latin
5836 Paradise Regained John Milton 1671 British English
5847 The Rope Plautus -204 Roman Latin
5843 The Mother In Law Terence -160 Roman Latin
5856 The New Life Dante Alighieri 1295 Italian Italian
5861 The School for Wives Molière 1662 French French
5861 The Changeling Thomas, William Rowley Middleton 1622 British English
5861 The Well At The World's End William Morris 1896 British English
5861 At The Back Of The North Wind George MacDonald 1871 Scottish English
5861 The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1856 American English
5861 Elders And Betters Ivy Compton-Burnett 1944 British English
5887 House With The Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1901 Scottish English
5897 The Ghost Sonata August Strindberg 1907 Swedish Swedish
5909 The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1914 American English
5904 The First Men In The Moon H. G. Wells 1901 British English
5906 The Ring Of The Nibelung Richard Wagner 1876 German German
5908 Thomas The Obscure Maurice Blanchot 1941 French French
5916 The Tale Of The 1002nd Night Joseph Roth 1938 Austrian German
5925 Sylvester And The Magic Pebble William Steig 1969 American English
5929 Light M. John Harrison 2002 British English
5933 A Promise Of Fire Amanda Bouchet 2016 American English
5936 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1973 British English
5934 Look At Me Now And Here I Am Gertrude Stein 1967 American Unknown
5937 Jesus Menschensohn Rudolf Augstein 1982 German German
5937 The Spiral Of Silence Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann 1982 German German
5937 Die Bertinis Ralph Giordano 1982 German German