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
15901 He Who Whispers John Dickson Carr 1946 American English
15901 The Chinese Orange Mystery Ellery Queen 1934 American English
15901 Mrs Beeton's Book Of Household Management Isabella Beeton 1861 British English
15901 Final Curtain Ngaio Marsh 1947 New Zealander English
15901 The Bounty Trilogy Charles Nordhoff 1936 American English
15901 Who Goes There? John Campbell 1938 American English
15901 The Story Of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1920 British English
15901 The Tower Treasure Franklin W. Dixon 1927 American English
15901 Stig Of The Dump Clive King 1963 British English
16488 The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry 1966 American English
15895 Angle Of Repose, The Spectator Bird, Crossing To Safety Wallace Stegner 1971 American English
15901 The Eagle Of The Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff 1954 British English
15901 Light On Yoga B. K. S. Iyengar 1966 Indian English
15901 A Season In The Life Of Emmanuel Marie-Claire Blais, Derek Coltman 1965 Canadian French
15901 Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town Stephen Leacock 1912 Canadian English
15901 Swamp Angel Ethel Wilson 1954 Canadian English
15901 The Double Hook Sheila Watson 1959 Canadian English
15901 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15901 Age Of Nandas And Mauryas K.A. Nilakanta Sastri 1952 Unknown English
15901 Seven Little Australians Ethel Turner 1894 Australian English
15901 By Reef And Palm Louis Becke 1900 Australian English
15901 Little Bush Maid Mary Grant Bruce 1910 Australian English
15901 Spinifex And Sand David Carnegie 1898 Australian English
15901 Such Is Life Joseph Furphy 1903 Australian English
15901 The Adventures Of Snugglepot And Cuddlepie May Gibbs 1918 Australian English
15901 We Of The Never Never Mrs Aeneas Gunn 1908 Australian English
15901 The Escape Of The Notorious Sir William Heans William Gosse Hay 1919 Australian English
15901 Flynn Of The Inland Ion L Idriess 1932 Australian English
15901 Joe Wilson And His Mates Henry Lawson 1901 Australian English
15901 Dot And The Kangaroo Ethel Pedley 1899 Australian English
15901 Coonardoo Katharine Sussanah Pritchard 1929 Australian English
15901 An Egyptian Princess Georg Ebers 1864 German German
15901 Callista John Henry Newman 1855 British English
15901 Harold, The Last Of The Saxon Kings Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1848 British English
15901 Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1821 British English
15901 A Chronicle Of The Reign Of Charles Ix Prosper Mérimée 1829 French French
15901 Cinq Mars Alfred de Vigny 1826 French French
15901 The Vicomte Of Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas 1847 French French
15901 The Conscript Erckmann-Chatrian 1864 French French
15901 Mafeking Road And Other Stories Herman Charles Bosman 1947 South African English
15901 Breaking The Ties Nhat Linh 1936 Vietnamese Vietnamese
15901 Cwmardy Lewis Jones 1939 Welsh English
15901 The Dark Philosophers Gwyn Thomas, Simeon 1946 Welsh English
15901 Stories Alun Lewis 1946 Welsh English
15901 The Battle To The Weak Hilda Vaughan 1925 British English
15901 Stories Geraint Goodwin 1936 British English
15901 Neo Colonialism, The Last Stage Of Imperialism Kwame Nkrumah 1965 Ghanaian English
15901 The Woman Who Had Two Navels Nick Joaquin 1961 Filipino English
15901 Banaag At Sikat Lope K. Santos 1906 Filipino Tagalog
15901 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
15901 Biographies Of Good Women Charlotte M Yonge 1866 British English
15901 In A German Pension Katherine Mansfield 1911 British English
15901 Pastors And Masters Ivy Compton-Burnett 1925 British English
15901 The Colossus And Other Poems Sylvia Plath 1960 American English
15901 Recollections Of A Detective Police Officer William Russell Waters 1856 British English
15901 The Widow Lerouge Émile Gaboriau 1866 French French
15901 The Dead Letter Seeley Regester 1866 American English
15901 File No 13 Émile Gaboriau 1867 French French
15901 The Mystery Of Orcival Émile Gaboriau 1866 French English
15901 Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1894 British English
15901 Prince Zaleski M. P. Shiel 1895 British English
15893 Dracul Bram Stoker 1897 Unknown English
15901 Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Betty MacDonald 1947 American English
15901 10,000 Light Years From Home James Tiptree Jr. 1973 American English
15888 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
15878 Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell 1972 American English
15901 The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life Emile Durkheim 1912 French French
15901 The Sands Of Windee Arthur William Upfield 1931 Australian English
15901 The Wheel Spins Ethel Lina White 1936 British English
15901 Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens J. M. Barrie 1906 British English
15901 Amiel's Journal Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1883 Swiss French
15901 Pierre Maurice Sendak 1962 American English
15901 Swimmy Leo Lionni 1963 American English
15901 Commando Deneys Reitz 1930 South African English
15901 La Femme De Gilles Madeleine Bourdouxhe 1937 Belgian French
15901 Doctor Faustus And Other Plays Christopher Marlowe 1604 English English
15901 Paradise Lost And Other Poems John Milton 1667 British English
15901 A House And Its Head Ivy Compton-Burnett 1935 British English
15901 On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ian Fleming 1963 British English
15901 Montage Of A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes 1951 American English
15901 How The Whale Became Ted Hughes 1963 British English
15890 Space Trilogy C. S. Lewis 1938 British English
15901 The Corn King And The Spring Queen Naomi Mitchison 1931 British English
15901 The Jew Of Rome Lion Feuchtwanger 1932 German German
15901 Mary Shalom Asch 1949 Unknown Yiddish
15901 Moses Shalom Asch 1951 Unknown Yiddish
15901 David The King Gladys Schmitt 1946 American English
15901 Conscience Of The King Alfred Duggan 1951 British English
15901 Golden Warrior Hope Muntz 1949 British English
15901 The Cornerstone Zoe Oldenbourg 1953 French French
15901 Son Of Dust Hilda Prescott 1952 British English
15901 The Scarlet City Hella S. Haases 1952 Dutch Dutch
15901 The Fifth Queen Ford Madox Ford 1908 British English
15901 Man On A Donkey Hilda Prescott 1952 British English
15901 The Forest And The Fort Hervey Allen 1943 American English
15901 Bedford Village Hervey Allen 1944 American English
15901 In The Hands Of The Senecas Walter D. Edmonds 1950 American English
15901 Roanoke Hundred Inglis Fletcher 1948 American English
15901 Northwest Passage Kenneth Roberts 1937 American English
15901 Drums James Boyd 1928 American English
15901 Richard Caqrvel Winston Churchill 1899 American English
15901 The Crossing Winston Churchill 1904 American English
15901 Drums Along The Mohawk Walter D. Edmonds 1936 American English
15901 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
15901 Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker S. Weir Mitchell 1896 American English
15901 Tree Of Liberty Elizabeth Page 1939 Unknown English
15901 Arundel Kenneth Roberts 1930 American English
15901 Lively Lady Kenneth Roberts 1931 American English
15901 Captain Caution Kenneth Roberts 1934 American English
15901 Lydia Bailey Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
15901 The Unconquered Ben Ames Williams 1953 American English
15901 Marching On James Boyd 1927 American English
15901 Roll, Shenandoah Bruce Lancaster 1949 American English
15901 House Divided Ben Ames Williams 1947 American English
15901 So Red The Rose Stark Young 1934 American English
15901 Cimarron Edna Ferber 1929 American English
15901 Nightrunners Of Bengal John Masters 1951 British English
15901 The Twilight Of The Presidency George E. Reedy 1971 American English
16505 The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton 1975 American English
15901 Brain Wave Poul Anderson 1954 American English