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
11436 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11440 Teatro Grottesco Thomas Ligotti 2006 American English
11441 Readme.Txt Chelsea Manning 2022 American English
11442 Various Miracles Carol Shields 1985 Canadian English
11468 Furnace Livia Llewellyn 2016 American English
11470 Please, Momma Chesya Burke 2015 American Unknown
11471 Lonesome Places August Derleth 1962 American English
11471 The Surly Sullen Bell Russell Kirk 1962 American English
11471 Dark Mind, Dark Heart August Derleth 1962 American English
11471 Index To The Weird Fiction Magazines T. G. L. Cockcroft 1962 Unknown English
11477 Vicky Angel Jacqueline Wilson 2000 British English
11478 Jessica Bryce Courtenay 1998 Australian English
11481 The Sparsholt Affair Alan Hollinghurst 2017 British English
11481 Why Comics? Hillary L. Chute 2017 American English
11486 The Living Landscape In Sweden Sten Selander 1955 Swedish Swedish
11491 Day In Day Out Terézia Mora 2004 German German
11501 State Of Wonder Ann Patchett 2011 American English
11510 Bowlaway Elizabeth McCracken 2019 American English
11505 How To Build A Time Machine Paul Davies 2002 British English
11506 Native Tongue Suzette Haden Elgin 1984 American English
11512 On The Line Joseph Ponthus 2019 French French
11517 The Dare Game Jacqueline Wilson 2000 British English
11521 Argonautika Apollonius of Rhodes -250 Ancient greek
11519 Spelunky Derek Yu 2015 American English
11522 Dial A For Aunties Jesse Q. Sutanto 2021 Indonesian English
11526 Orpheus and Eurydice Unknown -28 Unknown Ancient greek
11529 Journals (Cook) James Cook 1768 British English
11528 Mr. George, And Other Odd Persons August Derleth 1963 American English
11535 Thyestes Seneca 62 Roman Latin
11536 Timaeus Plato -360 Greek Ancient greek
11538 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11545 Valentine Vox Henry Cockton 1839 British English
11545 Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague de Camp 1939 American English
11545 Idyls Of The King Alfred Tennyson 1859 British English
11545 Beautiful Losers Leonard Cohen 1966 Canadian English
11545 The Ten Thousand Things Maria Dermoût 1955 Dutch Dutch
11545 A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 Lu Xun 1918 Chinese Chinese
11562 Essays In Idleness Yoshida Kenko 1330 Japanese Japanese
11563 Hinze Kunze Roman Volker Braun 1985 German German
11571 Scepticism and Animal Faith George Santayana 1923 Spanish English
11579 Paradise Toni Morrison 1997 American English
11576 Inside The Whale And Other Essays George Orwell 1940 British English
11577 Dirty Snow Georges Simenon 1948 Belgian French
11574 The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham 1925 British English
11580 Copper Crown Lane Von Herzen 1986 American English
11580 Homemade Love J. California Cooper 1986 American English
11580 The Impenetrable Madam X Griselda Gambaro 1986 Argentinian Spanish
11580 The Lover Of Horses And Other Stories Tess Gallagher 1986 American English
11580 Plaintext Nancy Mairs 1986 American English
11580 The Threshing Floor Barbara Burford 1986 British English
11580 Women's Ways Of Knowing Mary Field Belenky 1986 American English
11599 World of Wonders Robertson Davies 1975 Canadian English
11599 The Dissertation R. M. Koster 1975 Unknown English
11603 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11604 Deltora Quest Series Emily Rodda 2000 Australian English
11606 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11607 Elatsoe Darcie Little Badger 2020 American English
11607 Woven In Moonlight Isabel Ibañez 2020 American English
11609 The Complete Calvin And Hobbes Bill Watterson 2005 American English
11609 A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews 2005 Canadian English
11613 Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh 2017 American English
11617 Witches' Rings Kerstin Ekman 1974 Swedish Swedish
11618 Collected Poems Gunnar Ekelöf 1960 Swedish Swedish
11619 Every Living Thing James Herriot 1992 British English
11621 Where The Wild Things Were William Stolzenburg 2008 Unknown English
11623 Dark Entries Robert Aickman 1964 British English
11623 Tales Of Science And Sorcery Clark Ashton Smith 1964 American English
11623 The Third Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1964 British English
11623 Weird Tales Leo Marguiles 1964 American English
11630 Death By Video Game Simon Parkin 2015 British English
11636 Little Star John Ajvide Lindqvist 2010 Swedish Swedish
11641 Noggin John Corey Whaley 2014 American English
11642 Arsonists City Hala Alyan 2021 American English
11642 On Animals Susan Orlean 2021 American English
11642 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11647 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
11651 The Continuous Life Mark Strand 1990 American English
11651 The Rest Of The Way J. D. McClatchy 1990 American English
11661 Macbeth Jo Nesbø 2018 Norwegian English
11661 Brown Kevin Young 2018 American English
11661 Eternal Life Dara Horn 2018 American English
11661 Everything Under Daisy Johnson 2018 British English
11661 The Female Persuasion Meg Wolitzer 2018 American English
11661 Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2018 American English
11661 Last Stories William Trevor 2018 Irish English
11661 The Parking Lot Attendant Nafkote Tamirat 2018 American English
11661 Property Lionel Shriver 2018 American English
11661 Pure Hollywood Christine Schutt 2018 American English
11661 A State Of Freedom Neel Mukherjee 2018 British English
11661 A View Of The Empire At Sunset Caryl Phillips 2018 British English
11661 The Witch Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
11661 Your Duck Is My Duck Deborah Eisenberg 2018 American English
11661 Dead Girls Alice Bolin 2018 American English
11661 She Has Her Mother's Laugh Carl Zimmer 2018 American English
11795 A Case of Conscience James Blish 1958 American English
11796 The Snow Queen Joan D. Vinge 1980 American English
11796 The Uplift War David Brin 1987 American English
11796 Cyteen C. J. Cherryh 1988 American English
11796 Leviathan Falls James S. A. Corey 2021 American English
11805 X, Y Michael Blumlein 1993 American English
11811 Lover's Choice Becky Birtha 1987 American English
11811 Memory Board Jane Rule 1987 Canadian English
11811 The Riverhouse Stories Andrea Carlisle 1987 American English
11811 On The Passage Of A Few People Through A Rather Brief Moment In Time Peter Wollen 1989 British English
11825 Lilith's Brood Octavia E. Butler 1987 American English
11828 Phantoms And Fantasies Rudyard Kipling 1965 British Unknown
11828 Worlds Of Weird Leo Marguiles 1965 American English
11832 Cibola Burn James S. A. Corey 2014 American English
11832 Wayfarers Becky Chambers 2014 American English
11836 Sleepovers Jacqueline Wilson 2001 British English
11837 The Balance Of Nature John Kricher 2009 Unknown English
11838 In Bluebeard's Castle George Steiner 1971 British English
11853 Children's Island P. C. Jersild 1976 Swedish Swedish
11855 Mahmoud Ou La Montée Des Eaux Antoine Wauters 2021 Belgian French
11856 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
11869 Throat Sprockets Tim Lucas 1994 American English
11870 Within A Budding Grove Marcel Proust 1919 French French
11871 Weapons Of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil 2016 American English
11874 Monday Begins On Saturday Arkadi Strugatski 1964 Russian Russian
11875 Powers Of Darkness Robert Aickman 1966 British English