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
14138 They'd Rather Be Right Mark Clifton 1954 American English
14138 The Big Time Fritz Leiber 1958 American English
14138 ...And Call Me Conrad Roger Zelazny 1965 American English
14138 Hominids Robert J. Sawyer 2002 Canadian English
14138 Beyond This Horizon Robert A. Heinlein 1942 American English
14138 The Mule Isaac Asimov 1945 American English
14138 Farmer in the Sky Robert A. Heinlein 1950 American English
14138 The Wisdom Of Crowds Joe Abercrombie 2021 British English
14138 The Echo Wife Sarah Gailey 2021 American English
14132 Death Of My Aunt C. H. B. Kitchin 1929 British English
14138 Some Desperate Glory Emily Tesh 2023 Unknown English
14156 The Poems of Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen 1920 British English
14157 Someplace To Be Flying Charles de Lint 1998 Canadian English
14164 Am Weltenrand Sitzen Die Menschen Und Lachen Philipp Weiss 2018 Austrian German
14163 D'aulaires' Book Of Greek Myths Ingri d'Aulaire 1962 American English
14166 Going Postal Terry Pratchett 2004 British English
14167 The Secret Of The Old Clock Carolyn Keene 1930 American English
14169 Encyclopedia Brown Donald J. Sobol 1963 American English
14171 A Child's Garden Of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson 1885 American English
14180 The Rhetoric of Fiction Wayne C. Booth 1961 American English
14180 Chanur's Venture C. J. Cherryh 1984 American English
14180 Dragons Of Autumn Twilight Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman 1984 American English
14180 Facial Justice L. P. Hartley 1960 British English
14180 Charles Auchester Elizabeth Sara Sheppard 1853 British English
14180 My Novel Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1853 British English
14176 To Be A Machine Mark O'Connell 2017 Irish English
14193 The Bride Wore Black Cornell Woolrich 1940 American English
14202 Tau Zero Poul Anderson 1970 American English
14198 Nova Samuel R. Delany 1968 American English
14197 What The Butler Saw Joe Orton 1969 British English
14196 The Mabinogion Unknown 1400 Multiple Middle welsh
14204 High-Rise J. G. Ballard 1975 British English
14205 The Women Clare Booth Luce 1936 American English
14206 Dragonquest Anne McCaffrey 1971 American English
14208 Have Space Suit—Will Travel Robert A. Heinlein 1958 American English
14210 The Word For World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 American English
14207 Planet Of The Apes Pierre Boulle 1963 French French
14212 Ender's War Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
14212 Dragons Of Winter Night Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman 1985 American English
14212 Dragons Of Spring Dawning Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman 1985 American English
14212 Jim Grant Peter Adamson 2001 British Unknown
14212 Frank Stewart's Bridge Club Frank Stewart 2001 American English
14232 The Joy of Sex Alex Comfort 1972 British English
14232 Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman 1992 American English
14232 The Clash of Civilizations Samuel P. Huntington 1996 American English
14232 The Postman David Brin 1985 American English
14232 Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman, Lenny Henry, Mónica Faerna 2005 British English
14232 Permutation City Greg Egan 1994 Australian English
14232 The Separation Christopher Priest 2002 British English
14232 Excession Iain Banks 1996 British English
14232 How Music Works David Byrne 2012 American English
14232 The Lies Of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch 2006 American English
14232 Noises Off Michael Frayn 1982 British English
14232 The White Dragon Anne McCaffrey 1978 American English
14232 Foundryside Robert Jackson Bennett 2018 American English
14232 The Carpet Makers Andreas Eschbach 1995 German German
14232 Bag Of Bones Stephen King 1998 American English
14232 The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern 2019 American English
14228 Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh Robert C. O'Brien 1971 American English
14232 One Dark Window Rachel Gillig 2022 Unknown English
14232 Dead In The Water Nancy Holder 1994 American English
14232 When The Moon Hatched Sarah A. Parker Unknown Unknown
14232 Memoirs Of A Polar Bear Yoko Tawada 2011 German German
14232 Jumanji Chris Van Allsburg 1981 American English
14232 Men Without Women Haruki Murakami 2014 Japanese Japanese
14323 How To Randall Munroe 2019 American English
14323 Range David Epstein 2019 American English
14323 All The Devils Are Here Louise Penny 2020 Canadian English
14327 Where You Come From Saša Stanišić 2019 German German
14327 Shapes Of Native Nonfiction Elissa Washuta, Theresa Warburton 2019 Unknown English
14329 The Admirable Crichton J. M. Barrie 1902 British English
14331 Changing Planes Ursula K. Le Guin 2003 American English
14333 Come With Me Ronald Malfi 2021 American English
14334 Выстрел с монитора Vladislav Krapivin 1986 Russian Russian
14342 The Circle Dave Eggers 2013 American English
14347 The Waters of Kronos Conrad Richter 1960 American English
14347 Lord of Misrule Rachel Caine 2008 American English
14358 The Crystal Shard R. A. Salvatore 1988 American English
14362 The Bachelor Of The Albany M. W. Savage 1856 Unknown English
14370 Vom Aufstehen Helga Schubert 2020 German German
14376 Gertrude And Claudius John Updike 2000 American English
14382 Simple Marie-Aude Murail 2004 French French
14384 Numbers Don't Lie Vaclav Smil 2021 Czech English
14389 Rivers and Mountains John Ashbery 1966 American English
14389 The Collected Stories Richard Yates 2001 American English
14400 Los Estratos Juan Cárdenas 2013 Colombian Spanish
14404 Die Inkommensurablen Raphaela Edelbauer 2021 Austrian German
14410 Kaspar and Other Plays Peter Handke 1967 Austrian German
14410 Love Me Little, Love Me Long Charles Reade 1859 British English
14410 The Minister's Wooing Harriet Beecher Stowe 1859 American English
14410 Greek Tragedies 1 David Grene 1955 Unknown English
14426 How To Sell A Haunted House Grady Hendrix 2023 American English
14434 Collected Short Fiction Of Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley 1991 American English
14434 The Time Patrol Poul Anderson 1991 American English
14434 Lost In The Funhouse John Barth 1968 American English
14449 Rymdväktaren Peter Nilson 1995 Swedish Swedish
14452 Making Money Terry Pratchett 2007 British English
14452 Behave Robert Sapolsky 2023 American English
14451 The Word Irving Wallace 1972 American English
14457 Brain Rules John Medina 2008 American English
14457 Tom Brown At Oxford Thomas Hughes 1861 British English
14457 The White Man’s Burden William Russell Easterly 2006 Unknown English
14477 The Sword Of Truth Terry Goodkind 1994 American English
14479 Adventures In Friendship David Grayson 1910 American English
14478 Lifsens Rot Sara Lidman 1996 Swedish Swedish
14481 Glanz Und Gloria Henning Ahrens 2003 German German
14498 Fiction and the Figures of Life William H. Gass 1970 American English
14498 Бездна голодных глаз H. L. Oldie 1993 Ukrainian Russian
14498 The Iron Dragon's Daughter Michael Swanwick 1993 American English
14498 The Hair Of The Dog Karl Sabbagh 2009 British English
14496 Blue Blood Being Ni Kuang 1985 Chinese Chinese
14498 Super Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt 2009 American English
14519 Where Good Ideas Come From Steven Johnson 2010 American English
14519 Awakening Joy James Baraz 2010 American English
14519 Xkcd Randall Munroe 2010 American English
14519 Memoir From Antproof Case Mark Helprin 1995 American English
14519 The Coast Of Utopia Tom Stoppard 2002 British English
14519 A Spot Of Bother Mark Haddon 2006 British English
14541 The Children Carolina Sanin 2016 Colombian Spanish
14541 The Unusual Suspect Ben Machell 2020 British English