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
7161 Saved Edward Bond 1965 British English
7165 A Fable William Faulkner 1954 American English
7168 Two Captains Veniamin Kaverin 1940 Russian Russian
7168 Julio Jurenito Ilya Ehrenburg 1921 Russian Russian
7168 The Life Of Klim Samgin Maxim Gorky 1930 Russian Russian
7176 The Asylum Seeker Arnon Grunberg 2003 Dutch Dutch
7183 The Perils Of Pleasure Julie Anne Long 2008 American English
7183 The Winter Rose Jennifer Donnelly 2008 American English
7186 Pete Pite Gábor Nógrádi 1981 Hungarian Unknown
7188 Pet Akwaeke Emezi 2019 American English
7190 The Complete Plays Of Eugene O'neill Eugene O'Neill 1959 American English
7193 Jasper Jones Craig Silvey 2009 Australian English
7199 Science Fiction And Fantasy Literature & Supplement R. Reginald 1979 American English
7199 The Language Of The Night Ursula K. Le Guin 1979 American English
7205 Animalinside László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann 2010 Hungarian Hungarian
7205 The Shape Of Water Andrea Camilleri 1994 Italian Italian
7205 The Pharmacist Ingrid Noll 1994 German German
7213 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
7215 The Little Grey Men Denys Watkins-Pitchford 1942 British English
7215 Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Edmund Dulac 1916 British English
7215 The Little Engine that Could Platt & Munk 1930 American English
7215 The Moon is Down John Steinbeck 1942 American English
7215 The Island Within Ludwig Lewisohn 1928 American English
7215 Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars Ellen Macgregor 1951 American English
7215 Orlando Innamorato Matteo Maria Boiardo 1483 Italian Italian
7215 The Countess Of Pembroke's Arcadia Philip Sidney 1590 British English
7215 Astrophel And Stella Philip Sidney 1591 British English
7215 The Garden Of Cyrus Sir Thomas Browne 1658 British English
7215 Comedies, Tragedies, Poems George Chapman 1600 British English
7215 The Revenger's Tragedy Cyril Tourneur 1607 British English
7215 Samson Agonistes John Milton 1671 British English
7215 A Song To David Christopher Smart 1763 British English
7215 The Deserted Village Oliver Goldsmith 1770 Irish English
7215 Polyeucte Pierre Corneille 1643 French French
7215 Nicomède Pierre Corneille 1651 French French
7215 Rodogune Pierre Corneille 1644 French French
7215 The Distance, The Shadows Victor Hugo 1859 French Unknown
7215 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
7215 Imaginary Conversations Walter Savage Landor 1824 British English
7215 Death's Jest Book Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1850 British English
7215 Nepenthe George Darley 1835 Irish English
7215 Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1861 British English
7215 The Queen Of The Air John Ruskin 1869 British English
7215 Appreciations Walter Pater 1889 British English
7215 Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 1858 British English
7215 Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1861 British English
7215 The Small House At Allington Anthony Trollope 1864 British English
7215 Complete Works Lewis Carroll 1939 British English
7215 Poems Of George Meredith George Meredith 1851 British English
7215 Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 1869 British English
7215 The City Of The Dreadful Night James Thomson 1880 British English
7215 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
7215 The Earthly Paradise William Morris 1868 British English
7215 Tales Adalbert Stifter 1840 Austrian German
7215 Eureka Edgar Allan Poe 1848 American English
7215 Stories And Poems Of Stephen Crane Stephen Crane 1900 American English
7215 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
7215 Anabasis Saint-John Perse 1924 French French
7215 Exile And Other Poems Saint-John Perse 1942 French French
7215 Eurydice Jean Anouilh 1941 French French
7215 The Use Of Speech Nathalie Sarraute 1933 French French
7215 Back To Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1921 Irish English
7215 Some Versions Of Pastoral William Empson 1935 British English
7215 The Wheel Of Fire George Wilson Knight 1930 British English
7215 The Burning Oracle George Wilson Knight 1939 British Unknown
7215 The Blue Octavo Notebook Franz Kafka 1935 Czech German
7215 Lulu Plays Frank Wedekind 1895 German German
7215 The King Of Time Velimir Khlebnikov 1920 Russian Russian
7215 R.U.R. Karel Čapek 1920 Czech Czech
7215 The Travels And Adventures Of Benjamin The Third Mendele Mokher Seforim 1878 Israeli Yiddish
7215 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
7215 Last Poems Elinor Wylie 1943 American English
7215 Counter Statement Kenneth Burke 1931 American English
7215 Children Of Darkness Edwin Justus Mayer 1929 American Unknown
7215 Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead Barbara Comyns 1954 British English
7215 The Years Virginia Woolf 1937 British English
7215 A Princesa De Clèves Madame de La Fayette 1678 French French
7215 Samskara U.R. Ananthamurthy 1965 Indian Kannada
7215 The Road To The City Natalia Ginzburg 1942 Italian Italian
7215 Orient Express Graham Greene 1932 British English
7215 The New York Times Manual Of Style And Usage Allan M. Siegal, William G. Connolly 1950 American English
7215 Jungle Peace William Beebe 1918 American English
7215 Death In Silver Lester Dent 1934 American English
7215 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7215 Pather Panchali Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay 1929 Indian Bengali
7215 Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio Pu Songling 1740 Chinese Classical chinese
7561 Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg 1980 American English
7579 Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 American English
7581 Feed Seanan McGuire 2010 American English
7586 A Time On Earth Vilhelm Moberg 1963 Swedish Swedish
7588 Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen 1995 British English
7588 Moo Jane Smiley 1995 American English
7594 The Reformatory Tananarive Due 2023 American English
7593 For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down David Adams Richards 1993 Canadian English
7596 Fairy Tales And The Act Of Subversion Jack Zipes 1983 American English
7596 The Guide To Supernatural Fiction Everett F. Bleiler 1983 American English
7596 Supernatural Fiction Writers Everett F. Bleiler 1983 American English
7596 White Gold Wielder Stephen R. Donaldson 1983 American English
7604 Mourir M'enrhume Eric Chevillard 1993 French French
7605 Writing Marguerite Duras 1993 French French
7615 Don't Get Too Comfortable David Rakoff 2005 Canadian English
7628 The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett 2003 British English
7631 Telephone Percival Everett 2020 American English
7636 Angels' Blood Nalini Singh 2009 New Zealander English
7636 Soulless Gail Carriger 2009 American English
7638 An Imaginary Life David Malouf 1978 Australian English
7640 Lake Of The Devil Jessica Amanda Salmonson 1980 American English
7644 Fantasy And Mimesis Kathryn Hume 1984 American English
7645 All About Love bell hooks 2000 American English
7649 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
7651 The Republic Of Nothing Lesley Choyce 1994 Canadian English
7652 Wave Suzy Lee 2008 Unknown English
7654 A Better World Than This Marie Joseph 1982 British English
7665 Victory City Salman Rushdie 2023 British English
7670 The One And Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 2012 American English
7670 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
7670 14 Peter Clines 2012 American English
7670 Cinder Marissa Meyer 2012 American English
7670 The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater 2012 American English
7677 Darwin's Black Box Michael J. Behe 1996 American English