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
6745 Life With Billy Brian Vallee 1986 Canadian English
6737 The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup Susan Orlean 2001 American English
6746 The Seven Solitudes Of Lorsa Lopez Sony Labou Tansi 1985 Congolese French
6748 Psalm At Journey's End Erik Fosnes Hansen 1990 Norwegian Norwegian
6748 Infanta Bodo Kirchhoff 1990 German German
6748 Sturmzeit Charlotte Link 1990 German German
6759 The Light Fantastic Terry Pratchett 1986 British English
6758 La Bâtarde Violette Leduc 1964 French French
6761 Difficult Loves Italo Calvino 1958 Italian Italian
6767 Peter Parley's Universal History Samuel Goodrich 1837 American English
6790 The Eleven Pierre Michon 2009 French French
6791 The True Deceiver Tove Jansson 1982 Finnish Swedish
6794 Elegant Nightmares Jack Sullivan 1978 American English
6798 The Blue Hawk Peter Dickinson 1976 British English
6799 We Others Steven Millhauser 2011 American English
6800 Getting Into Death Thomas M. Disch 1973 American English
6802 Random Passage Bernice Morgan 1992 Canadian English
6803 On Photography Susan Sontag 1977 American English
6805 O Tempo E O Vento Erico Verissimo 1949 Brazilian Portuguese
6809 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2012 French French
6810 Down A Dark Hall Lois Duncan 1974 American English
6821 Donald Duck Carl Barks, Walt Disney 1942 American English
6838 Frontier Can Xue 2008 Chinese Chinese
6841 Rapture Carol Ann Duffy 2005 British English
6846 Three Georges Perec 1991 French French
6857 Hell Has No Limits José Donoso 1965 Chilean Spanish
6866 In The Red Geremie R. Barmé 1999 Unknown English
6867 Collected Poems Philip Larkin 1988 British English
6868 The Cruel Prince Holly Black 2018 American English
6873 The End of the Story Lydia Davis 1995 American English
6877 The Green Knight Vera Chapman 1975 British English
6885 The Ice Is Coming Patricia Wrightson 1977 Australian English
6890 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 2001 Irish English
6897 The Winter Sea Susanna Kearsley 2008 Canadian English
6899 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
6900 오월의 사회과학 최정운 1997 Korean Korean
6902 Autobiography Thomas Bernhard 1975 Austrian German
6910 The Wounded Land Stephen R. Donaldson 1980 American English
6912 Herrumbrosas Lanzas Juan Benet 1983 Spanish Spanish
6917 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin, Janet Song 2009 Chinese English
6916 The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories Ken Liu 2016 American English
6921 São Bernardo Graciliano Ramos 1934 Brazilian Portuguese
6929 Jayber Crow Wendell Berry 2000 American English
6928 The Repairer Of Reputations Robert W. Chambers 1895 American English
6931 Duck, Death And The Tulip Wolf Erlbruch 2007 German German
6933 The Tell Tale Heart And Other Writings Edgar Allan Poe 1843 American English
6935 The Insect Societies E. O. Wilson 1971 American English
6936 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates 1966 American English
6944 Elizabeth Ken Greenhall 1976 American English
6948 The Fantastic In Literature Eric S. Rabkin 1976 American English
6948 The King's Damosel Vera Chapman 1976 British English
6951 Mamy Wata and the Monster Veronique Tadjo 1988 French French
6954 We All Love Glenda So Much And Other Tales Julio Cortazar 1980 Argentinian Spanish
6956 Some Summer Lands Jane Gaskell 1977 British English
6960 The Year's Best Fantasy Stories Lin Carter 1975 American English
6963 Sheeper Irving Rosenthal 1967 American English
6966 Sagarana Joao Guimaraes Rosa 1946 Brazilian Portuguese
6968 The Duchess Bertrice Small 2001 American English
6969 Collected Shorter Poems W. H. Auden 1966 British English
6972 The Exquisite Corpse Alfred Chester 1967 American English
6974 The Ice House Minette Walters 1992 British English
6979 Reuben, Reuben Peter De Vries 1964 American English
6983 Project Hail Mary Andy Weir 2021 American English
6986 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
6987 Just Listen Sarah Dessen 2006 American English
6991 The Employees Olga Ravn 2018 Danish Danish
6996 Panegyric Guy Debord 1989 French French
6996 Dina's Book Herbjørg Wassmo 1989 Norwegian Norwegian
7000 The Gray Man Mark Greaney 2009 American English
7002 Fantasy Rosemary Jackson 1981 British English
7006 Leaving Cheyenne Larry McMurtry 1963 American English
7011 The Free Sea Hugo Grotius 2004 Dutch Latin
7025 The Fabric Of The Cosmos Brian Greene 2004 American English
7029 Il Resto Di Niente Enzo Striano 1986 Italian Italian
7038 The Afterlife Of George Cartwright John Steffler 1992 Canadian English
7039 The Americans Are Coming Herb Curtis 1989 Canadian English
7042 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Simon Armitage 2007 British Middle english
7043 The Cosmic Connection Carl Sagan 1973 American English
7044 The Beothuk Way John Kitchen 1991 Canadian English
7045 Invention Norbert Wiener 1948 American English
7048 Personality Andrew O'Hagan 2003 Scottish English
7052 A Summer To Remember Mary Balogh 2002 British English
7054 Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023 American English
7056 Just The End Of The World Jean-Luc Lagarce 1990 French French
7064 Creep To Death Joseph Payne Brennan 1981 American English
7066 Double Star Robert A. Heinlein 1956 American English
7067 Adventures Of A Breath Hayam Abbas Al-Homi 1989 Egyptian Unknown
7071 E=Mc2 David Bodanis 2000 British English
7079 A Court Of Mist And Fury Sarah J. Maas 2016 American English
7086 La Verità Sul Caso D. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini 1993 Italian Italian
7086 The Virtuoso Margriet de Moor 1993 Dutch Dutch
7086 Lajja Taslima Nasrin 1993 Bangladeshi Bengali
7086 The Crocodile Bird Ruth Rendell 1993 British English
7093 Small Gods Terry Pratchett 1992 British English
7096 Guide Dennis Cooper 1994 American English
7100 Les Guerilleres Monique Wittig 1969 French French
7103 Get In Trouble Kelly Link 2015 American English
7111 The Fantastic Imagination Robert H. Boyer 1977 Unknown English
7112 Index To Science Fiction Anthologies And Collections And Supplement William G. Contento 1978 American English
7112 Blind Voices Tom Reamy 1978 American English
7120 A Louis Zukofsky 1991 American English
7120 The Color Of Summer Reinaldo Arenas 1991 Cuban Spanish
7122 Margot en de engelen Kristien Hemmerechts 1997 Belgian Dutch
7122 Why We Love Helen Fisher 2004 American English
7126 Babel-17 Samuel R. Delany 1966 American English
7131 Tales Of Neveryon Samuel R. Delany 1979 American English
7131 Fantastic Worlds Eric S. Rabkin 1979 American English
7133 Desolation Angels Jack Kerouac 1965 American English
7141 Jade City Fonda Lee 2017 Chinese English
7143 Black Hole Charles Burns 1995 American English
7144 Báječná Léta Pod Psa Michal Viewegh 1992 Czech Czech
7147 Captains And The Kings Taylor Caldwell 1972 American English
7148 Atomic Habits James Clear 2018 American English
7149 Magic In The Wind Christine Feehan 2003 American English
7149 Tempting The Beast Lora Leigh 2003 American English
7152 Gateway Frederik Pohl 1977 American English
7156 The One Tree Stephen R. Donaldson 1982 American English
7157 La Horde Du Contrevent Alain Damasio 2004 French French
7158 The Wager David Grann 2023 American English
7159 Midnight Sun Ramsey Campbell 1990 British English