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
9586 Old School Tobias Wolff 2003 American English
9588 A Choir Of Ill Children Tom Piccirilli 2004 American English
9589 Blue Lard Vladimir Sorokin 1999 Russian Russian
9592 I Am An Emotional Creature Eve Ensler 2010 American English
9595 The Naked Eye Yoko Tawada 2004 Multiple German
9596 Night Things Michael Talbot 1988 Unknown English
9598 Москва 2042 Vladimir Voinovich 1987 Russian Russian
9600 Girl Edna O'Brien 2019 Irish English
9601 The Interpreter From Java Alfred Birney 2016 Dutch Dutch
9604 Meteor In The Madhouse Leon Forrest 2001 American English
9604 Achilles Elizabeth Cook 2001 British English
9603 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
9602 Lenin's Kisses Yan Lianke 2003 Chinese Chinese
9608 Leonard And Hungry Paul Rónán Hession 2019 Irish English
9609 A Forest For Calum Frank MacDonald 2005 Canadian English
9618 The Carnival Of Destruction Brian Stableford 1994 British English
9616 Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall Neil Bartlett 1990 British English
9622 Abisul Luminat Nicolae Balotă 2018 Romanian Unknown
9623 Suddenly In The Depth Of The Forest Amos Oz 2005 Israeli Hebrew
9626 Queenpin Megan Abbott 2007 American English
9628 Largo Desolato Vaclav Havel 1985 Czech Czech
9629 Dagon, And Other Macabre Tales H. P. Lovecraft 1934 American English
9629 Terror By Night Christine Campbell Thomson 1934 British English
9625 This Hostel Life Melatu Uche Okorie 2018 Irish English
9636 The Playboy Book Of Horror And The Supernatural Ray Russell 1967 American English
9645 Forgetting Elena Edmund White 1973 American English
9645 Living Together Edgar Bowers 1973 American English
9657 The Story Of The Just Casper And Fair Annie Clemens Brentano German German
9657 De Architectura Vitruvius 2016 Roman Latin
9657 The Unlucky Murderer Håkan Nesser Swedish Swedish
9676 Eros Invincible Ricarda Huch 1931 German German
9680 Not Wanted On The Voyage Timothy Findley 1984 Canadian English
9686 Moominpappa At Sea Tove Jansson 1965 Finnish Swedish
9690 A Spell For Chameleon Piers Anthony 1977 American English
9691 Year Of The Sex Olympics Nigel Kneale 1968 British English
9701 Extra Lives Tom Bissell 2010 American English
9699 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9699 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9702 Astonishing the Gods Ben Okri 1995 Nigerian English
9709 Hell Divers Nicholas Sansbury Smith 2016 American English
9709 Katherine Of Aragon Alison Weir 2016 British English
9709 Cake J. Bengtsson 2016 Unknown English
9707 Common Security The Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues 1982 Unknown English
9715 Laxdæla Saga Unknown 1245 Icelandic Old norse
9718 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
9720 No Enemy But Time Michael Bishop 1982 American English
9724 Outlaw Culture bell hooks 1994 American English
9717 Inside Kenneth J. Harvey 2006 Canadian English
9727 Gagner La Guerre Jean-Philippe Jaworski 2009 French French
9732 The Grimoire And Other Supernatural Stories Montague Summers 1936 British English
9732 The Children Of The Pool And Other Stories Arthur Machen 1936 British English
9732 The Cosy Room Arthur Machen 1936 British English
9732 The Wind Blows Over Walter de la Mare 1936 British Unknown
9732 Grim Death Christine Campbell Thomson 1936 British English
9741 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9753 The Denial of Death Ernest Becker 1973 American English
9754 The Dragons of Eden Carl Sagan 1977 American English
9761 Show Them A Good Time Nicole Flattery 2019 Irish English
9763 Shadowplay Joseph O'Connor 2019 Irish English
9764 Call Me Ishmael Charles Olson 1947 American English
9764 The Reign Of Greed José Rizal 1891 Filipino Spanish
9769 Animal Money Michael Cisco 2015 American English
9768 Blackwater Kerstin Ekman 1993 Swedish Swedish
9774 Women Talking Miriam Toews 2018 Canadian English
9779 Autumn In Peking Boris Vian 1947 French French
9781 The Undertaking Of Hart And Mercy Megan Bannen 2022 Unknown English
9789 The Friends Of Meager Fortune David Adams Richards 2006 Canadian English
9798 I Will Fear No Evil Robert A. Heinlein 1970 American English
9799 The Shepherd's Hut Tim Winton 2018 Australian English
9805 The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemisin 2016 American English
9806 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
9807 The Childhood Of Jesus J. M. Coetzee 2013 South African English
9809 The Custodian Of Paradise Wayne Johnston 2006 Canadian English
9813 Possible Worlds Of The Fantastic Nancy H. Trail 1995 American Unknown
9813 The Supernatural Index Mike Ashley 1995 British English
9813 The Panic Hand Jonathan Carroll 1995 American English
9813 The Well Jack Cady 1995 American English
9820 Mean Boy Lynn Coady 2006 Canadian English
9826 Tristano Dies Antonio Tabucchi 2004 Italian Italian
9845 The Tales Of Algernon Blackwood Algernon Blackwood 1938 British English
9848 Entre Les Deux Il N’y A Rien Mathieu Riboulet 2006 French French
9849 Markurells In Wadköping Hjalmar Bergman 1919 Swedish Swedish
9853 The Encyclopedia Of Fantasy John Clute 1997 British English
9852 Afterlives Abdulrazak Gurnah 2020 British English
9857 The Pirate Sir Walter Scott 1822 Scottish English
9857 Saint Ronan's Well Sir Walter Scott 1824 Scottish English
9882 The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice And Virtue Mackenzi Lee 2017 American English
9893 The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro 1998 Canadian English
9893 The Whole Shebang Timothy Ferris 1997 American English
9899 Alvin Journeyman Orson Scott Card 1995 American English
9902 A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine 2019 American English
9901 Trilobite! Richard Fortey 2000 British English
9903 A Broken Mirror Merce Rodoreda 1974 Spanish Catalan
9904 Keep On The Light Christine Campbell Thomson 1939 British English
9906 Aru Shah And The End Of Time Roshani Chokshi 2018 American English
9917 The Eyes Of The Dragon Stephen King 1987 American English
9915 Crooked Plow Itamar Vieira Junior 2019 Brazilian Portuguese
9919 The Everlasting Mercy John Masefield 1911 British English
9922 Children Of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 British English
9927 Reflections On Espionage John Hollander 1976 American English
9927 Dimensions Of History Jay Wright 1976 American English
9925 The Bert Diaries Anders Jacobsson, Sören Olsson 1987 Swedish Swedish
9938 Blue Smoke Chris Bourk New Zealand Unknown
9942 Medicine Walk Richard Wagamese 2014 Canadian English
9942 Joseph Marie-Hélène Lafon 2014 French French
9944 El Testigo Juan Villoro 2004 Mexican Spanish
9947 The Great Women Superheroes Trina Robbins 1996 American English
9952 Bombi Bitt Och Jag Fritiof Nilsson Piraten 1932 Swedish Swedish
9953 Actress Anne Enright 2020 Irish English
9954 Big Girl, Small Town Michelle Gallen 2020 Irish English
9961 Mailman J. Robert Lennon 2003 American English
9959 The Strange Last Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall 1970 British English
9969 Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens Shankari Chandran 2022 Unknown English
9970 Care of the Soul Thomas Moore 1992 American English
9973 Daughter Of Smoke & Bone Laini Taylor 2011 American English
9973 Legend Marie Lu 2011 American English
9981 Shadow & Claw Gene Wolfe 1994 American English
9987 The Lost Highway David Adams Richards 2007 Canadian English
9988 Unsheltered Clare Moleta 2018 Unknown English
9991 Speaking Bones Denise Dumars 1996 American Unknown