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
551 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678 British English
552 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1895 American English
553 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 American English
556 The Code of the Woosters P. G. Wodehouse 1938 British English
562 Aesop's Fables Aesop -560 Greek Ancient greek
563 Panchatantra Unknown -300 Multiple Sanskrit
575 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948 British English
579 The Outsider And Others H. P. Lovecraft 1939 American English
588 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1989 British English
607 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 American English
609 The Opposing Shore Julien Gracq 1951 French French
617 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov 1957 Russian English
629 Titus Groan Mervyn Peake 1946 British English
636 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 1947 American English
643 Silas Marner George Eliot 1861 British English
645 A Study of History Arnold J. Toynbee 1934 British English
662 The House On The Borderland And Other Novels William Hope Hodgson 1908 British English
665 The Family Moskat Isaac Bashevis Singer 1950 Polish Yiddish
669 Beowulf Unknown 1000 Unknown Old english
671 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 1839 American English
673 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 French French
676 The Princess Bride William Goldman 1973 American English
677 Lud-in-the-Mist Hope Mirrlees 1926 British English
678 Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1857 British English
681 Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 1963 American English
684 The Adventures Of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1883 Italian Italian
696 King Solomon's Mines H. Rider Haggard 1885 British English
698 The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett 1931 American English
699 The Nibelungenlied Unknown 1200 German Middle high german
702 Vathek William Beckford 1786 British French
710 At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
712 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1889 American English
727 The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Schulz 1934 Polish Polish
728 Erewhon Samuel Butler 1872 British English
732 A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979 Trinidadian English
733 Arrow of God Chinua Achebe 1964 Nigerian English
739 The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy 1878 British English
758 Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury 1957 American English
765 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977 Australian English
769 A Voyage To Arcturus David Lindsay 1920 Scottish English
773 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Allan Poe 1838 American English
776 War with the Newts Karel Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
778 The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss 1957 American English
793 The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 American English
807 The Book of the City of Ladies Christine De Pizan 1405 French French
810 Amadis of Gaul Garci R. de Montalvo 1508 Spanish Spanish
822 I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
823 The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats 1962 American English
828 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 British English
839 Winnetou Karl May 1893 German German
847 Only Yesterday Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1945 Israeli Hebrew
858 The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abé 1962 Japanese Japanese
861 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 1962 American English
864 Reynard the Fox Unknown 1479 Multiple Middle dutch
881 Utopia Thomas More 1516 British Latin
887 Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1915 American English
889 The 120 Days of Sodom Marquis de Sade 1904 French French
893 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
896 She H. Rider Haggard 1887 British English
904 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut 1973 American English
916 Malice Aforethought Francis Iles 1931 British English
926 Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 1864 French French
936 A Void Georges Perec 1969 French French
947 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2001 American English
951 A Princess Of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912 American English
968 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
972 The Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1516 Italian Italian
980 News from Nowhere William Morris 1890 British English
994 Blindness José Saramago 1995 Portuguese Portuguese
999 Chevengur Andrey Platonov 1928 Russian Russian
1004 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1968 British English
1012 Invitation To A Beheading Vladimir Nabokov 1935 American Russian
1014 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter 1902 British English
1017 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban J. K. Rowling 1999 British English
1021 If Not Now, When? Primo Levi 1982 Italian Italian
1032 The Epistle To The Romans Karl Barth 1919 Swiss German
1043 Danny The Champion Of The World Roald Dahl 1975 British English
1051 The Phenomenon Of Man Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1955 French French
1071 The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham 1957 British English
1073 The Lottery and Other Stories Shirley Jackson 1948 American English
1079 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
1080 Mount Analogue René Daumal 1952 French French
1082 The Abolition of Man C. S. Lewis 1943 British English
1084 Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht 1941 German German
1086 Misery Stephen King 1987 American English
1088 The Dwarf Par Lagerkvist 1944 Swedish Swedish
1103 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë 1848 British English
1117 The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
1122 A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking 1988 British English
1125 Philoctetes Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
1134 The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979 German German
1139 The Unquiet Grave Cyril Connolly 1944 British English
1141 The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1890 British English
1154 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey 2000 Australian English
1166 Lanark Alasdair Gray 1981 Scottish English
1169 The History of Mr. Polly H. G. Wells 1910 British English
1173 Little, Big John Crowley 1981 American English
1181 The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski 1965 Polish English
1186 Tristan Gottfried von Strassburg 1210 German Middle high german
1188 The Quest for Community Robert Nisbet 1953 American English
1196 Conjure Wife Fritz Leiber 1943 American English
1201 Kafka On The Shore Haruki Murakami 2002 Japanese Japanese
1207 How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 1936 American English
1210 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks 1984 British English
1221 Thank You, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1934 British English
1223 Jurgen James Branch Cabell 1919 American English
1238 The Age of Anxiety W. H. Auden 1947 British English
1252 Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 2011 Israeli Hebrew
1255 Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 American English
1256 Prometheus Bound Aeschylus -455 Greek Ancient greek
1265 On Writing Stephen King 2000 American English
1267 Billy Budd Herman Melville 1924 American English
1279 Psycho Robert Bloch 1959 American English
1284 The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser 1590 British English
1285 Selected Stories of Alice Munro Alice Munro 1996 Canadian English
1286 The Invention Of Morel Adolfo Bioy Casares 1940 Argentinian Spanish
1288 The 13 Clocks James Thurber 1950 American English
1289 A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin 1996 American English
1290 Lilith George MacDonald 1895 Scottish English
1291 Parzival Wolfram Eschenbach 1200 German Middle high german