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
7678 The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen 2021 American English
7684 Startide Rising David Brin 1983 American English
7688 The Time It Never Rained Elmer Kelton 1973 American English
7690 Dark Gods T. E. D. Klein 1985 American English
7691 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7691 Das Superweib Hera Lind 1995 German German
7696 It Happened One Autumn Lisa Kleypas 2005 American English
7698 La Orilla Oscura José María Merino 1985 Spanish Spanish
7702 Beatlebone Kevin Barry 2015 Irish English
7704 You Can't Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe 1940 American English
7709 Mono Kuu Hitobito Yō Henmi 1994 Japanese Unknown
7716 Complete Nonsense Edward Lear 1947 British English
7723 Purity And Danger Mary Douglas 1966 British English
7721 Pig Tales Marie Darrieussecq 1996 French French
7716 The Southpaw Mark Harris 1953 American English
7725 A Worldly Country John Ashbery 2007 American English
7727 Usher's Passing Robert R. McCammon 1984 American English
7731 Ready Player One Ernest Cline 2011 American English
7732 The Story Of Harold Terry Andrews 1974 American English
7736 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel 2006 American English
7745 The Sending Geoffrey Household 1980 British English
7748 Geography Iii Elizabeth Bishop 1976 American English
7750 Critical Mass Philip Ball 2004 British English
7749 The Screwfly Solution Raccoona Sheldon 1977 American English
7753 Mr. Fox Helen Oyeyemi 2011 British English
7757 The Living Dead James Twitchell 1981 Unknown English
7760 Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 2019 Jamaican English
7761 Butterfly Swords Jeannie Lin 2010 Unknown English
7779 The Red Magician Lisa Goldstein 1982 American English
7771 The Bad Seed William March 1954 American English
7782 The Gunslinger Stephen King 1982 American English
7792 The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov 1972 American English
7798 Dreamsnake Vonda N. McIntyre 1978 American English
7798 The Windup Girl Paolo Bacigalupi 2009 American English
7798 Network Effect Martha Wells 2020 American English
7804 Havoc, In Its Third Year Ronan Bennett 2004 Irish English
7811 Cain José Saramago 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
7809 Bullet Park John Cheever 1969 American English
7819 Five Novels Ronald Firbank 1949 British English
7819 On The Track Of Unknown Animals Bernard Heuvelmans 1955 Belgian French
7831 La Larga Marcha Rafael Chirbes 1996 Spanish Spanish
7837 Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead 2009 American English
7845 Kingdom Cons Yuri Herrera 2008 Mexican Spanish
7846 The Case Against Satan Ray Russell 1962 American English
7847 The Aesthetics Of Fantasy Literature And Art Roger Schlobin 1982 American English
7847 The Darkangel Meredith Ann Pierce 1982 American English
7849 The Birth House Ami McKay 2006 Canadian English
7856 Autobiography Of Red Anne Carson 1998 Canadian English
7858 The Scorpio Races Maggie Stiefvater 2011 American English
7860 The Rehearsal Jean Anouilh 1950 French French
7860 A Rhetoric Of Motives Kenneth Burke 1950 American English
7860 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
7870 Незнайка на Луне Nikolay Nosov 1965 Russian Russian
7877 The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke 1979 British English
7877 Forever Peace Joe Haldeman 1997 American English
7882 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
7883 Archer's Goon Diana Wynne Jones 1984 British English
7885 Wifedom Anna Funder 2023 Unknown English
7887 The Vampire Queen's Servant Joey W. Hill 2007 American English
7890 Love Toni Morrison 2003 American English
7891 Shutter Island Dennis Lehane 2003 American English
7896 Dangerous Laughter Steven Millhauser 2008 American English
7902 The House in the Cerulean Sea Tj Klune 2020 American English
7907 That Deadman Dance Kim Scott 2010 Australian English
7914 The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho 2000 Brazilian Portuguese
7910 The Lesson Eugène Ionesco 1951 French French
7910 The Necessary Angel Wallace Stevens 1951 American English
7909 Bad Day In Blackrock Kevin Power 2008 Irish English
7910 The Town William Faulkner 1957 American English
7919 Red Rising Pierce Brown 2014 American English
7922 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7923 Shatuny Yuri Mamleev 1966 Russian Russian
7924 Myths Of The Near Future J. G. Ballard 1982 British English
7925 Letters From The Earth Mark Twain 1962 American English
7931 The Judas Child Carol O'Connell 1998 American English
7929 Winterwood Patrick McCabe 2006 Irish English
7935 Phantoms Dean R. Koontz 1983 American English
7942 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
7944 The Dark Tower And Other Stories C. S. Lewis 1977 British English
7947 The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory Tim Alberta 2024 Unknown English
7949 Woman On The Edge Of Time Marge Piercy 1976 American English
7952 The Door Into Summer Robert A. Heinlein 1957 American English
7956 Das Frühstücksei. Gesammelte Dramatische Geschichten Loriot 1997 German German
7959 The Country Of The Blind H. G. Wells 1904 British English
7961 Tenderwire Claire Kilroy 2006 Irish English
7965 Magical Realist Fiction David Young 1984 Unknown Unknown
7966 The Anathemata David Jones 1952 British English
7966 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7966 Mountolive Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7977 Anthem Ayn Rand 1938 American English
7978 Spinning Silver Naomi Novik 2018 American English
7981 Ruahine Ngahuia Te Awekotuku 2003 Unknown English
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
7986 Ash Wednesday Chet Williamson 1987 American English
7991 Viva O Povo Brasileiro João Ubaldo Ribeiro 1984 Brazilian Portuguese
7997 Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz 2016 British English
8004 There Are Little Kingdoms Kevin Barry 2007 Irish English
8006 The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White 1973 Australian English
8008 Victims Of Duty Eugène Ionesco 1953 French French
8008 Moles Günter Eich 1953 German German
8008 The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz Mordecai Richler 1959 Canadian English
8008 Fire And Hemlock Diana Wynne Jones 1985 British English
8030 Walk The Blue Fields Claire Keegan 2007 Irish English
8031 A View Of The World Norman Lewis 1959 British English
8045 Masques J. N. Williamson 1984 American English
8045 Autumn Roses G. Sutton Breiding 1984 American Unknown
8045 Fantasists On Fantasy Robert H. Boyer 1984 American English
8048 The 10pm Question Kate De Goldi 2008 New Zealand English
8049 Red Queen Victoria Aveyard 2015 American English
8052 Neon Gods Katee Robert 2021 American English
8053 The Urth Of The New Sun Gene Wolfe 1987 American English
8053 The Delights Of Terror Terry Heller 1987 American English
8053 The Jaguar Hunter Lucius Shepard 1987 American English
8057 Palestine Hubert Haddad 1989 French French
8058 The Dragon Republic R. F. Kuang 2019 American English
8070 Gaff Topsails Patrick Kavanagh 1996 Canadian English
8068 Minor Angels Antoine Volodine 1999 French French
8074 Coming And Going Men Paul Fleischman 1985 American English
8075 Amédée Eugène Ionesco 1954 French French
8075 The White Nile Alan Moorehead 1960 British English