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
11875 The Phantom Fighter Seabury Quinn 1966 American English
11888 Flow Chart John Ashbery 1991 American English
11888 Boleros Jay Wright 1991 American English
11882 Honor Thrity Umrigar 2022 American English
11882 Translating Myself And Others Jhumpa Lahiri 2022 Multiple English
11882 This All Come Back Now Mykaula Saunders 2022 Unknown English
11888 The Mac Gregor Brides Nora Roberts 1997 American English
11895 Ekkehard Joseph Victor von Scheffel 1855 German German
11899 The Good Times Are Killing Me Lynda Barry 1988 American English
11899 Twilight And Other Stories Shulamith Hareven 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11899 The Woman Who Was Not All There Paula Sharp 1988 American English
11919 Lake Of Urine Guillermo Stitch 2020 British English
11921 The Ritual Adam Nevill 2011 British English
11920 Skeleton Man Tony Hillerman 2004 American English
11924 Spirit Hunters Ellen Oh 2017 American English
11925 Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie 2015 American English
11925 Sorcerer To The Crown Zen Cho 2015 Singaporean English
11925 Nemesis Games James S. A. Corey 2015 American English
11925 Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007 American English
11930 Bad Dirt Annie Proulx 2004 American English
11932 Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 2017 American English
11936 Rule Of The Bone Russell Banks 1995 American English
11939 Vera Stacy Schiff 1999 American English
11939 God Jack Miles 1995 American English
12014 Hygiene And The Assassin Amélie Nothomb 1992 Belgian French
12019 The Fourth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1967 British English
12022 The Amulet of Samarkand Jonathan Stroud 2003 British English
12021 The Off Season Jack Cady 1995 American English
12025 Girls In Tears Jacqueline Wilson 2002 British English
12031 Secrets Jacqueline Wilson 2002 British English
12034 We Are The Ants Shaun David Hutchinson 2016 American English
12034 When The Moon Was Ours Anna-Marie McLemore 2016 American English
12040 Krieg Ohne Schlacht Heiner Müller 1992 German German
12045 Chimera John Barth 1972 American English
12047 Landing Light Don Paterson 2003 British English
12046 Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces Georges Perec 1974 French French
12048 The White Castle Orhan Pamuk 1985 Turkish Turkish
12048 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12048 Irakisk Kristus Hassan Blasim 2009 Unknown Arabic
12048 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12048 The Alphonse Courrier Affair Marta Morazzoni 1985 Italian Italian
12048 The Visit Of The Royal Physician Per Olov Enquist 1999 Swedish Swedish
12048 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12048 The Detour Gerbrand Bakker 2010 Dutch Dutch
12060 Cannonball Joseph McElroy 2013 American English
12062 Prelude To Foundation Isaac Asimov 1988 American English
12061 O Tamanho Do Mundo António Lobo Antunes 2022 Portuguese Portuguese
12065 Les Thanatonautes Bernard Werber 1994 French French
12064 Trustee From The Toolroom Nevil Shute 1982 British English
12070 Night Shift Stephen King 1978 American English
12076 Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee 2016 American English
12076 A Gathering Of Shadows V. E. Schwab 2016 American English
12076 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
12083 Blue Taxis Eileen Drew 1989 American Unknown
12083 Dancing At The Edge Of The World Ursula K. Le Guin 1989 American English
12083 The Day I Began My Studies In Philosophy Margareta Ekström 1989 Swedish Unknown
12083 Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee 1989 American English
12083 John Dollar Marianne Wiggins 1989 American English
12083 Women Of Sand And Myrrh Hanan Al-Shaykh 1989 Lebanese Arabic
12112 Hotel Lautréamont John Ashbery 1992 American English
12118 Hauntings Henry Mazzeo 1968 American English
12122 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12129 The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell 1996 American English
12131 The House Of The Mosque Kader Abdolah 2005 Dutch Dutch
12134 Buru Quartet Pramoedya Ananta Toer 1980 Indonesian Indonesian
12136 The Nightmare Factory Thomas Ligotti 1996 American English
12136 Mandragon R. M. Koster 1979 Unknown English
12140 Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts 2009 British English
12147 Gentlemen Klas Östergren 1980 Swedish Swedish
12155 The Invaders Plan L. Ron Hubbard 1985 American English
12158 My Work Olga Ravn 2023 Danish Danish
12206 Laurus Eugene Vodolazkin 2012 Russian Russian
12216 Night Monsters Fritz Leiber 1969 American English
12216 The Fifth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1969 British English
12216 Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos August Derleth 1969 American English
12224 The Tao of Physics Fritjof Capra 1975 Austrian English
12225 The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi 2017 American English
12225 Persepolis Rising James S. A. Corey 2017 American English
12225 A Conjuring Of Light V. E. Schwab 2017 American English
12225 Batwoman Greg Rucka 2009 American English
12225 Shades Of Grey Jasper Fforde 2009 British English
12231 The Karnau Tapes Marcel Beyer 1995 German German
12231 Kanak Sprak Feridun Zaimoğlu 1995 German German
12235 Original Sin Jake Tapper 2023 American English
12258 Dreams Of An Insomniac Irena Klepfisz 1990 American English
12258 A Natural History Of The Senses Diane Ackerman 1990 American English
12258 The Nocturnal Naturalist Cathy Johnson 1990 American English
12250 Election Tom Perrotta 1998 American English
12250 Rocket Boys Homer Hickam 1998 American English
12246 Cinderella Ate My Daughter Peggy Orenstein 2011 American English
12286 To Change The World James Davison Hunter 2010 American English
12298 Ape And Essence Aldous Huxley 1948 British English
12309 When I Was Five I Killed Myself Howard Buten 1981 American English
12311 The Obstacle Is The Way Ryan Holiday 2014 American English
12317 The Hero And The Crown Robin McKinley 1984 American English
12325 Preston Falls David Gates 1998 American English
12384 Eclipse Fever Walter Abish 1993 American English
12384 Time Remaining James McCourt 1993 American English
12384 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
12384 Dark Harbor Mark Strand 1993 American English
12384 Small Congregations Thylias Moss 1993 American English
12397 Peace Richard Bausch 2008 American English
12405 Shapeshifters Aimee Cox 2015 American English
12411 Daller Gut Dream Department Store Miye Lee Unknown Unknown
12420 Moonheart Charles de Lint 1984 Canadian English
12425 The Black Magic Omnibus Peter Haining 1970 British English
12425 The Taste Of Fear Hugh Lamb 1970 British English
12432 Savaging The Dark Christopher Conlon 2014 Unknown English
12441 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
12443 The Summer Is Ended And We Are Not Yet Saved Joey Comeau 2014 Canadian English
12473 The Witcher Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
12481 Seveneves Neal Stephenson 2015 American English
12480 Katanga Jonas Waern 1969 Unknown English
12487 Sea Of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel 2022 Canadian English
12501 Come As You Are Emily Nagoski 2015 American English
12504 Distributed Blackness André Brock Jr. 2020 Unknown English
12514 Mute Phone Calls And Other Stories Ruth Aleksandrovna Zernova 1991 Russian Unknown
12553 Histoire de Babar Jean de Brunhoff 1931 French French
12583 Boyz Rule Phil Kettle 2003 Australian English
12586 The Second Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1971 British English