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
15764 J.R.R. Tolkien 4 Book Boxed Set J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
15779 Marcovaldo Italo Calvino 1963 Italian Italian
15785 Perrault's Fairy Tales Charles Perrault 1697 French French
15783 Writings And Drawings James Thurber 1973 American English
15763 The Oedipus Plays Of Sophocles Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
15768 King's Row Henry Bellamann 1940 American English
15801 The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
15826 The Fable Of The Bees Bernard Mandeville 1714 British English
15829 Laughter In The Dark Vladimir Nabokov 1932 Russian Russian
15811 The Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
15817 Rabbit Angstrom John Updike 1960 American English
15798 Collected Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956 American English
15831 The Issa Valley Czesław Miłosz 1955 Polish Polish
15808 A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket On The Hearth Charles Dickens 1843 British English
15813 Half Magic Edward Eager 1954 American English
15815 The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
15872 The Richest Man In Babylon GEORGE S. CLASON 1926 American English
15839 Cities In Flight James Blish 1950 American English
15836 The Fellowship Of The Ring J. R. R. Tolkien 1981 British English
15838 Horton Hatches The Egg Dr. Seuss 1940 American English
15860 The Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
15843 The Journey To The East N109 Hermann Hesse 1932 German German
15859 Welcome To The Monkey Kurt Vonnegut 1968 Unknown English
15862 Thumbelina Hans Christian Andersen 1835 Danish Danish
15863 The Collected Poems Of W.B. Yeats W.B. Yeats 1933 Irish English
15844 Swanns Värld Marcel Proust 1913 French French
15851 Japanese Tales Of Mystery & Imagination Edogawa Ranpo 1956 Japanese Japanese
15834 The Time Quartet Box Set Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
15841 A Confederate General From Big Sur Richard Brautigan 1900 American English
15837 A Happy Death Albert Camus 1971 French French
15847 Who Has Seen The Wind W. O. Mitchell 1947 Canadian English
15846 Bang The Drum Slowly Mark Harris 1956 American English
15870 A Sibila Agustina Bessa-Luís 1954 Portuguese Portuguese
15873 Tomb For 500,000 Soldiers Pierre Guyotat 1967 French French
15857 Days With Frog And Toad Arnold Lobel 1979 American English
15865 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1876 American English
15879 Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
15854 The Ill Made Knight T.H. White 1940 British English
15901 The Chronicles of Barsetshire Anthony Trollope 1855 British English
15901 Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation Alfred Adler 1907 Austrian German
15901 The Expanding Universe Arthur Eddington 1933 British English
15901 An Introduction to Mathematics Alfred North Whitehead 1911 British English
15901 Function of the Orgasm Wilhelm Reich 1927 Austrian German
15901 Atlas Gerardus Mercator 1595 Belgian Latin
15901 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Unknown 1903 Multiple Russian
15901 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
15901 The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll 1876 British English
15901 The Hasheesh Eater Fitz Hugh Ludlow 1857 American English
15901 Best Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells H. G. Wells 1933 British English
15901 The Enchanted Wood Enid Blyton 1939 British English
15901 Success Lion Feuchtwanger 1930 German German
15901 The Animals' Conference Erich Kästner 1949 German German
15875 Summer Lightning (Csa Word Classic) P. G. Wodehouse 1929 British English
16503 The Machine Stops E. M. Forster 1909 British English
15901 Funnyhouse Of A Negro Adrienne Kennedy 1964 American English
15901 The House Of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton 1968 American English
15901 A Murder Is Announced Agatha Christie 1950 British English
15901 The Flint Anchor Sylvia Townsend Warner 1954 British English
15901 A Heritage And Its History Ivy Compton-Burnett 1959 British English
15901 Gobbolino The Witch's Cat Ursula Williams 1942 British English
16487 The Iron Giant Ted Hughes 1968 British English
15901 Old Times Harold Pinter 1971 British English
15901 The Dispute Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1744 French French
15901 Happy Days Samuel Beckett 1961 French English
15899 The Dumb Waiter Harold Pinter 1957 British English
15889 The Great Brain John Dennis Fitzgerald 1967 American English
15901 The Pathfinder James Fenimore Cooper 1840 American English
15901 The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1830 British English
15901 Diving Into The Wreck Adrienne Rich 1973 American English
15901 Year Of The Unicorn Andre Norton 1965 American English
15901 The Last Flight Of Dr. Ain James Tiptree Jr. 1969 American English
15901 A Boy And His Dog Harlan Ellison 1969 American English
15901 Enterprise Stardust K. H. Scheer 1961 German German
15901 Simulacron 3 Daniel F. Galouye 1964 American English
15901 The Stars H. A. Rey 1952 German English
15901 The Birth And Death Of The Sun George Gamow 1940 American English
15901 A Hole Is To Dig Ruth Krauss 1952 American English
15901 Pigs Have Wings P. G. Wodehouse 1952 British English
15901 Little Fur Family Margaret Wise Brown 1946 American English
15901 Cronopios And Famas Julio Cortazar 1962 Cuban Spanish
15901 The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody Will Cuppy 1950 American English
15901 Study Is Hard Work William H. Armstrong 1956 American English
15901 Navigator Of The Flood Mario Brelich 1967 Italian Italian
15901 Bequest Of Wings Annis Duff 1940 American English
15901 A Mass For The Dead William Gibson 1968 American English
15901 The Perfect Stranger P. J. Kavanagh 1966 British English
15901 Judgment Night C. L. Moore 1952 American English
15901 Merry Hall Beverley Nichols 1951 British English
15901 Village School Miss Read 1955 British English
15901 Sparkle And Spin Ann Rand 1957 American English
15901 The Morgesons Elizabeth Stoddard 1862 American English
15901 The Red Right Hand Joel Townsley Rogers 1945 American English
15901 Seven Types Of Ambiguity William Empson 1930 British English
15901 Themis Jane E. Harrison 1912 British English
15897 The Retreat To Commitment William Warren Bartley 1962 American English
15901 Are You My Mother? P. D. Eastman 1960 American English
15901 And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street Dr. Seuss 1937 American English
15901 The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper 1930 American English
15901 My Father's Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett 1948 American English
15901 The Thing On The Doorstep H. P. Lovecraft 1937 American English
15887 God Emperor Of Dune Frank Herbert 1981 American English
15901 The Dreams In The Witch House And Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1933 American English
15901 Cecilia Fanny Burney 1782 British English
15901 Friday's Child Georgette Heyer 1944 British English
15901 Il Marchese Di Roccaverdina Luiga Capuna 1901 Italian Italian
15901 Forse Che Sì Forse Che No Gabriele D'Annunzio 1910 Italian Italian
15901 Man Of Smoke Aldo Palazzeschi 1911 Italian Italian
15901 My Carso Scipio Slataper 1912 Italian Italian
15901 Con Me E Con Gli Alpini Piero Jahier 1920 Italian Italian
15901 Rubè Giuseppe Antonio Borgese 1921 Italian Italian
15901 Childhood Of Nivasio Dolcemare Alberto Savinio 1938 Italian Italian
15901 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
16496 Fanny By Gaslight Michael Sadleir 1940 British English
15901 The Collected Stories Dylan Thomas 1934 Welsh English
15892 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1965 American English
15901 My Heart Else Lasker-Schüler 1911 German German
15901 The Searchers Alan LeMay 1953 American English
15901 Discourse On Colonialism Aimé Césaire 1950 French French
16497 The Unvanquished William Faulkner 1938 American English
15901 Shiloh Shelby Foote 1952 American English