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
10448 The Testament Of Mary Colm Toibin 2012 Irish English
10450 Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt 2012 American English
10486 Until The Lions Karthika Nair 2015 French English
10450 The Tangled Tree David Quammen 2018 American English
10495 Battlefield Earth L. Ron Hubbard 1982 American English
10499 The Fragility Of Goodness Martha C. Nussbaum 1986 American English
10499 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10505 A Voyage To India Gonçalo M. Tavares 2010 Portuguese Portuguese
10506 Shadows Of The Mind Roger Penrose 1994 British English
10507 Skin Kathe Koja 1993 American English
10507 Trinity Leon Uris 1976 American English
10516 The Bird Man And The Lap Dancer Eric Hansen 2004 American English
10521 The Suitcase Kid Jacqueline Wilson 1992 British English
10528 Roads Seabury Quinn 1948 American English
10528 Genius Loci, And Other Tales Clark Ashton Smith 1948 American English
10528 The Checklist Of Science Fiction And Supernatural Fiction Everett F. Bleiler 1948 American English
10535 Colonize This! Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman 2002 Multiple English
10540 My Struggle: Book 6 Karl Ove Knausgård 2011 Norwegian Norwegian
10544 The Yield Tara June Winch 2019 Australian English
10556 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
10556 Peniel And Other Poems Kevin Hart 1981 Australian English
10556 The Early Motion James Dickey 1981 American Unknown
10556 The Revisionist Douglas Crase 1981 American English
10561 Thief Of Time Terry Pratchett 2001 British English
10570 Caliban's War James S. A. Corey 2012 American English
10577 The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison 2014 American English
10583 Heartfire Orson Scott Card 1998 American English
10587 Goodbye, Mr. Chips James Hilton 1934 British English
10592 Varieties of Disturbance Lydia Davis 2007 American English
10593 Shocks Algernon Blackwood 1949 British English
10593 Unseen Wings Stanton A. Coblentz 1949 American English
10602 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
10608 The Alchemist Ben Jonson 1610 British English
10629 Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense Edward Lear 1846 British English
10632 Collected Stories Constance Fenimore Woolson American English
10637 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom 2003 American English
10642 The Abstract Wild Jack Turner 1996 Unknown English
10651 Chinese Postman Brian Castro 2024 Unknown English
10660 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10666 Our Migrant Souls Héctor Tobar 2023 American English
10697 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
10699 Commitment Mona Simpson 2023 American English
10730 Big Swiss Jen Beagin 2023 American English
10736 Truth And Truthfulness Bernard Williams 2002 British English
10737 The Vor Game Lois McMaster Bujold 1990 American English
10747 Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968 British English
10748 Spanking The Maid Robert Coover 1982 American English
10748 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
10748 The Changing Light At Sandover James Merrill 1982 American English
10748 The Collected Poems 1931 1987 Czesław Miłosz 1988 Polish Polish
10748 The Moor's Account Laila Lalami 2014 American English
10762 The Banished Immortal Ha Jin 2019 American English
10764 A Darker Shade Of Magic V. E. Schwab 2015 American English
10765 Close Quarters William Golding 1987 British English
10773 The Invisible Child Tove Jansson 1962 Finnish Swedish
10774 Reservation Blues Sherman Alexie 1995 American English
10776 Tales From The Nightside Charles L. Grant 1981 American English
10779 An Island Princess Starts A Scandal Adriana Herrera 2023 Unknown English
10782 Cassandra Speaks Elizabeth Lesser 2020 American English
10794 Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin 2005 American English
10799 Kin Miljenko Jergović 2013 Croatian Croatian
10800 Shades Of Darkness Robert Westall 1999 British English
10800 The Angel Of Pain Brian Stableford 2009 British English
10800 Off With Their Heads! Maria Tatar 2013 American English
10800 Circe's Island Eden Phillpotts 2012 British English
10804 Hangsaman Shirley Jackson 1951 American English
10804 The Cloak That I Left Lilias Rider Haggard 1951 British English
10808 Laurinda Alice Pung 2014 Australian English
10811 Tomorrow, When The War Began John Marsden 1993 Australian English
10813 ‘Gapô Lualhati Bautista 1988 Filipino Filipino
10816 Mardie Astrid Lindgren 1960 Swedish Swedish
10820 Pym Mat Johnson 2011 American English
10821 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
10823 Touching Feeling Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 2003 American English
10826 Double Act Jacqueline Wilson 1995 British English
10827 The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun 1985 Moroccan French
10836 Target Land Svoboda Bachvarova 2010 Bulgarian Unknown
10842 Who Controls The Internet? Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith 2006 American English
10840 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
10838 The Story Of The Night Colm Toibin 1996 Irish English
10843 The World Of Economics John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman 1991 British English
10844 The Wrath & The Dawn Renée Ahdieh 2015 American English
10849 The Second Ghost Book Cynthia Asquith 1952 British English
10849 Out Of The Storm Sam Moskowitz 1952 American English
10849 The Supernatural In Fiction Peter Penzoldt 1952 Swiss English
10852 The Central Motion James Dickey 1983 American English
10852 Modern Baptists James Wilcox 1983 American English
10852 The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge 2015 British English
10852 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10852 American Appetites Joyce Carol Oates 1989 American English
10864 Ancillary Sword Ann Leckie 2014 American English
10864 City Of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett 2014 American English
10881 Kampung Boy Lat 1979 Malaysian Malay
10884 Things We Never Got Over Lucy Score 2022 American English
10892 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
10895 The Man With The Compound Eyes Wu Ming-yi 2011 Taiwanese Chinese
10898 Hotel Splendid Marie Redonnet 1986 French French
10908 Samedi The Deafness Jesse Ball 2007 American English
10908 The Last Novel David Markson 2007 American English
10906 Singing Softly Carmen De Monteflores 1979 American English
10912 Роман Vladimir Sorokin 1998 Russian Russian
10923 The Lost Father Marina Warner 1988 British English
10923 Robert Grosseteste R. W. Southern 1988 British English
10923 Whale Nation Heathcote Williams 1988 British English
10934 The Bone Key Sarah Monette 2024 American English
10945 Collected Stories John O'Hara 1984 American English
10939 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
10945 Five Spice Street Can Xue 1988 Chinese Chinese
10955 The City Of Brass S. A. Chakraborty 2017 Egyptian English
10955 The Magicians Lev Grossman 2009 American English
10958 The Bird's Nest Shirley Jackson 1954 American English
10959 Radiant Terminus Antoine Volodine 2014 French French
10960 Gideon The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2019 New Zealand English
10961 Heartsnatcher Boris Vian 1953 French French
10962 Rotters Daniel Kraus 2011 American English
10968 The Wall Of Storms Ken Liu 2016 American English
10971 Jacob’s Ladder Ludmila Ulitskaya 2015 Russian Russian
10972 The Two Mile Time Machine Richard Alley 2000 American English
10975 They Know Not What They Do Jussi Valtonen 2014 Finnish Finnish
10978 The Maid Of The North Ethel Johnston Phelps 1980 American English