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
1293 Salem's Lot Stephen King 1975 American English
1294 Peyton Place Grace Metalious 1956 American English
1300 The Guide R. K. Narayan 1958 Indian English
1312 The Stories of Raymond Carver Raymond Carver 1981 American English
1323 A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller 1960 American English
1330 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
1331 Cathedral Raymond Carver 1983 American English
1338 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury 1962 American English
1340 As You Like it William Shakespeare 1600 British English
1343 The Hamlet William Faulkner 1940 American English
1346 Matilda Roald Dahl 1988 British English
1348 Sandman Neil Gaiman 1989 British English
1361 The King In Yellow Robert W. Chambers 1895 American English
1370 The House Of Souls Arthur Machen 1906 British English
1372 The Horror Horn And Other Stories E. F. Benson 1931 British English
1377 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 1964 British English
1380 The Sword in the Stone T. H. White 1938 British English
1385 The Bell Iris Murdoch 1958 British English
1386 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello 1921 Italian Italian
1387 Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter 1979 American English
1388 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 American English
1395 The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley 1983 American English
1397 The BFG Roald Dahl 1982 British English
1399 Star Maker Olaf Stapledon 1937 British English
1404 The Last Bouquet Marjorie Bowen 1933 British English
1405 The Twits Roald Dahl 1980 British English
1409 No Exit Jean Paul Sartre 1944 French French
1414 Something About Eve James Branch Cabell 1927 American English
1420 The October Country Ray Bradbury 1955 American English
1421 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1969 American English
1423 Out Of Space And Time Clark Ashton Smith 1942 American English
1424 Our Ancestors Italo Calvino 1952 Italian Italian
1425 And The Darkness Falls Boris Karloff 1943 British English
1426 Mars Fritz Zorn 1977 Swiss German
1434 R. E. Lee Douglas Southall Freeman 1934 American English
1444 James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl 1961 British English
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
1455 Antigone Jean Anouilh 1944 French French
1458 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Carson McCullers 1951 American English
1467 Everyman Unknown 1501 Unknown Middle english
1472 The Beauty Of The Husband Anne Carson 2001 Canadian English
1473 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver 1981 American English
1474 Chaos James Gleick 1987 American English
1476 Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1884 British English
1478 The Shipyard Juan Carlos Onetti 1961 Uruguayan Spanish
1479 The Wall Marlen Haushofer 1963 Austrian German
1486 Locus Solus Raymond Roussel 1914 French French
1488 Beatrijs Unknown 1374 Dutch Middle dutch
1493 Charles And Elegast Unknown 1250 Dutch Middle dutch
1496 The Sleeping And The Dead August Derleth 1947 American English
1513 The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor 1982 American English
1535 The Sound Of His Horn Sarban 1952 British English
1545 Understanding Media Marshall McLuhan 1964 Canadian English
1548 Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce 1958 British English
1554 The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro 1995 British English
1555 Troilus And Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer 1385 British Middle english
1574 Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1818 British English
1585 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 2004 British English
1598 Ronia, The Robber's Daughter Astrid Lindgren 1981 Swedish Swedish
1605 The Foundation Pit Andrey Platonov 1930 Russian Russian
1609 The Drowned World J. G. Ballard 1962 British English
1611 The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1855 American English
1611 Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1921 British English
1617 Ways Of Seeing John Berger 1972 British English
1625 The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick 1965 American English
1626 The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett 1983 British English
1628 Romance Of Walewein Penninc, Pieter Vostaert 1260 Dutch Middle dutch
1633 In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
1635 The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel García Márquez 1975 Colombian Spanish
1644 The Nature of Things Francis Ponge 1942 French French
1648 Wizard of the Crow Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2006 Kenyan English
1651 The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892 American English
1652 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
1661 A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare 1595 British English
1673 Penguin Island Anatole France 1908 French French
1680 Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson 1955 American English
1682 Asterix the Gaul Rene Goscinny 1959 French French
1686 The Lorax Dr. Seuss 1971 American English
1687 The Hearing Trumpet Leonora Carrington 1974 British English
1691 Cat Country Lao She 1932 Chinese Chinese
1692 Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis 1956 British English
1698 Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang 2002 American English
1707 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 British English
1708 The Guns Of Navarone Alistair MacLean 1957 British English
1716 Lake Wobegon Days Garrison Keillor 1985 American English
1730 The Mouse And His Child Russell Hoban 1967 American English
1732 The Government Inspector Nikolai Gogol 1836 Russian Russian
1733 Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein 1914 American English
1742 A Tale Of A Tub Jonathan Swift 1704 British English
1744 Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie 1990 British English
1745 Couples, Passersby Botho Strauß 1981 German German
1755 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
1757 Books of Blood Clive Barker 1984 British English
1762 Lady into Fox David Garnett 1922 British English
1764 Tales Of The Hasidim Martin Buber 1949 German German
1767 The Man of Feeling Henry Mackenzie 1771 British English
1769 Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas 1954 British English
1776 Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 British English
1788 Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1919 British English
1793 The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle 1968 American English
1795 Victory Joseph Conrad 1915 British English
1799 The Giver Lois Lowry 1993 American English
1802 Kallocain Karin Boye 1940 Swedish Swedish
1806 Moominland Midwinter Tove Jansson 1957 Finnish Swedish
1821 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 1969 American English
1826 The Other Thomas Tryon 1971 American English
1828 The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1916 American English
1831 The Swords Of Lankhmar Fritz Leiber 1968 American English
1833 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C. S. Lewis 1952 British English
1836 Grendel John Gardner 1971 American English
1838 Just William Richmal Crompton 1922 British English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
1846 Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss 1812 Swiss German
1848 Darker Than You Think Jack Williamson 1948 American English
1850 The Jew's Beech Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 1842 German German
1853 The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams 1922 British English
1854 The Courage to Be Paul Tillich 1952 German English
1859 Angel Elizabeth Taylor 1957 British English
1862 On Aggression Konrad Lorenz 1963 Austrian German
1879 Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt 1975 American English