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
14984 Crossroads Jonathan Franzen 2021 American English
14984 Purity Jonathan Franzen 2015 American English
14984 Beneath A Scarlet Sky Mark T. Sullivan 2017 American English
14984 The Ask Sam Lipsyte 2010 American English
14984 The Blue Fox Sjón 2003 Icelandic Icelandic
14984 There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm 2020 Unknown English
14984 The Deluge Stephen Markley 2023 Unknown English
14967 End Zone Don DeLillo 1972 American English
14984 Rumpelstiltskin Paul O. Zelinsky 1986 American English
14984 A City On Mars Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith 2023 Unknown English
14984 Benediction Kent Haruf 2013 American English
14984 I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bill Bryson 1999 American English
14984 Sacred Games Vikram Chandra 2006 Indian English
14984 The Englishman's Boy Guy Vanderhaeghe 1996 Canadian English
14984 Brotherless Night V.V. Ganeshananthan 2023 Unknown English
14984 Mouth To Mouth Antoine Wilson 2022 American English
14984 The World At Night Alan Furst 1996 American English
14984 The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats Jan-Philipp Sendker 2002 German German
14984 The Adventures Of Amina Al Sirafi S. A. Chakraborty 2023 American English
14984 Winter's Orbit Everina Maxwell 2021 British English
14984 The Water Outlaws S. L. Huang 2023 Unknown English
14984 The Hurricane Wars Thea Guanzon 2023 Unknown English
14984 A Marvellous Light Freya Marske 2021 British English
14984 The Book Of Azrael Amber Nicole 2022 Unknown English
14984 Assistant To The Villain Hannah Nicole Maehrer 2023 Unknown English
14984 A Touch Of Darkness Scarlett St. Clair 2019 Unknown English
14984 The Fragile Threads Of Power V. E. Schwab 2023 American English
14984 This Will Be Fun E. B. Asher 2024 Unknown English
14984 Shoeless Joe W. P. Kinsella 1982 Canadian English
14984 Wolf Willow Wallace Stegner 1962 American English
14984 The Horizontal Man Helen Eustis 1945 American English
14984 An Outside Chance Thomas McGuane 1980 American English
14984 Great Japanese Stories Jay Rubin Multiple English
14984 Lady Tan’s Circle Of Women Lisa See 2023 Unknown English
14984 The Faculty of Dreams Sara Stridsberg 2006 Swedish Swedish
14984 The Happiest Man On Earth Eddie Jaku 2020 Unknown English
14984 Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli 1990 American English
14984 Olivia Ian Falconer 2000 American English
14984 The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore William Joyce 2011 American English
14984 The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch 1980 Canadian English
14984 The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt 2007 American English
14984 The History Of Bees Maja Lunde 2015 Norwegian Norwegian
14984 Starter Villain John Scalzi 2023 American English
14984 The True Story Of The 3 Little Pigs Jon Scieszka 1989 American English
14984 The Man Who Killed Himself Julian Symons 1967 British English
14984 The Blue Hammer Ross Macdonald 1976 American English
14984 The Fairy Tale Detectives Michael Buckley 2005 American English
14984 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
14984 Women Without Men Shahrnush Parsipur 1989 Iranian Persian
14984 Strega Nona Tomie dePaola 1975 American English
14984 All My Rage Sabaa Tahir 2022 American English
14984 Death In Spring Merce Rodoreda 1986 Spanish Catalan
14984 The Unit Ninni Holmqvist 2006 Swedish Swedish
14984 How Much Of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang 2020 American English
14984 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
14984 The Road To Roswell Connie Willis 2023 American English
14984 The Latecomer Jean Hanff Korelitz 2022 American English
14984 Treacle Walker Alan Garner 2023 British English
14984 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2023 Senegalese French
14984 The Wager David Grann 2023 American English
14984 The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw 2020 American English
15561 Hacking Darwin Jamie Metzl 2019 American English
15561 Airport Arthur Hailey 1968 Canadian English
15561 A Song For The Dark Times Ian Rankin 2020 British English
15561 In The Valley Ron Rash 2020 American English
15561 The Last Trial Scott Turow 2020 American English
15561 A Private Cathedral James Lee Burke 2020 American English
15561 Music For Wartime Rebecca Makkai 2015 American English
15581 The Alien Realm Bo Yang 1996 Chinese Unknown
15588 The Mandela Plot Kenneth Bonert 2018 Canadian English
15602 Miss Lulu Bett Zona Gale 1920 American English
15608 The Conquest Of Fear Basil King 1921 Canadian English
15609 The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1922 British English
15610 My Friend's Book Anatole France 1913 French French
15610 The Story Of Louie G. Oliver Onions 1913 British English
15610 A Thousand Brains Jeff Hawkins 2021 American English
15610 Qb Vii Leon Uris 1970 American English
15632 Planet Magnon Leif Randt 2015 German German
15636 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight Jimmy Breslin 1971 American English
15636 The Boatbuilder Daniel Gumbiner 2018 American English
15648 The Mercy Of Allah Hilaire Belloc 1922 British English
15650 Where The Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1922 American English
15656 In Single Strictness George Moore 1922 British English
15661 The Nick Adams Stories Ernest Hemingway 1972 American English
15678 Silent Island Su Wei-chen 2021 Chinese Unknown
15680 The Hainish Novels And Stories Ursula K. Le Guin 2017 American English
15680 Волонтёры Челкеля Andrey Valentinov 2009 Russian Russian
15680 Temnaya Zvezda Hroniki Artsii Vera Kamsha 2009 Russian Russian
15680 The Good Girl Vincent O'Sullivan 1933 New Zealand Unknown
15680 Terras Do Demo Aquilino Ribeiro 1974 Portuguese Portuguese
15680 Utz Bruce Chatwin 1988 British English
15680 Medea Christa Wolf 1996 German German
15680 River Spirit Leila Aboulela 2023 Sudanese English
15680 The Whitewashed Tombs Kwei Quartey 2023 Ghanaian English
15709 Kingdom Of The Wicked Kerri Maniscalco 2020 American English
15709 A Song Of Wraiths And Ruin Roseanne A. Brown 2020 Unknown English
15711 King Of Battle And Blood Scarlett St. Clair 2021 Unknown English
15715 Immortal Longings Chloe Gong 2023 Unknown English
15715 What The River Knows Isabel Ibañez 2023 Unknown English
15717 The Two Towers J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
15718 The Return Of The King J. R. R. Tolkien 1955 British English
15721 You Know Me Al Ring Lardner 1916 American English
15725 Passionate Journey Frans Masereel 1919 Belgian German
15728 A Christmas Memory Truman Capote 1956 American English
15743 Selected Stories Of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1903 Russian Russian
15741 The Three Theban Plays Sophocles -441 Greek Ancient greek
15736 The Iliad / The Odyssey Homer -762 Greek Ancient greek
15745 Fahrenheit 451 Tim Hamilton 1953 American English
15729 Maqamat Al Hariri Al-Hariri of Basra 1101 Arabic Arabic
15753 Travels in West Africa Mary Kingsley 1897 British English
15754 England's Treasure By Forraign Trade Thomas Mun 1664 English English
15755 Frog And Toad All Year Arnold Lobel 1976 American English
15746 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
15757 Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis 1929 American English
15768 The Illusion Pierre Corneille 1636 French French
15758 Three Men In A Boat And Three Men On The Bummel Jerome K. Jerome 1889 British English
15760 The Complete Writings Of Thucydides The Peloponnesian War Thucydides -431 Greek Ancient greek
15761 Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats T. S. Eliot 1939 American English
15788 Sweet Thursday John Steinbeck 1954 American English
15763 J.R.R. Tolkien 4 Book Boxed Set J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English