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 The Case Of The Abominable Snowman Nicholas Blake 1941 British English
15901 The Iron King Unknown 1955 Unknown French
15901 Islandia Austin Tappan Wright 1942 American English
15901 Journal Of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield 1927 New Zealand English
15901 The King Of The Golden River John Ruskin 1851 British English
15901 The Man In The Net Patrick Quentin 1956 American English
15901 An Oxford Tragedy J. C. Masterman 1933 British English
15901 A Pin To See The Peepshow F. Tennyson Jesse 1934 British English
15901 Suicide Excepted Cyril Hare 1939 British English
15901 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
16501 H.M. Pulham, Esq. John P. Marquand 1941 American English
15901 The Letter For The King Tonke Dragt 1962 Dutch Dutch
15898 The Complete Stories Edgar Allan Poe 1832 American English
16491 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16525 The Forest Alexander Ostrovsky 1871 Russian Russian
16532 A Walk Out Of The World Ruth Nichols 1969 Canadian English
16516 Children's Stories And Pictures Vladimir Suteev 1950 Russian Russian
16569 Anne Of Avonlea L. M. Montgomery 1909 Canadian English
16584 Profiles Of The Future Arthur C. Clarke 1962 British English
16587 3 By Flannery O'connor Flannery O'Connor 1964 American English
16582 The Halloween Tree Ray Bradbury 1972 American English
16526 The Black Stallion Walter Farley 1941 American English
16576 Martians, Go Home Fredric Brown 1955 American English
16530 The Power Of The Dog Thomas Savage 1967 American English
16568 Rikki Tikki Tavi Rudyard Kipling 1893 British English
16524 The Steadfast Tin Soldier Hans Christian Andersen 1966 Danish Danish
16558 The World Of Winnie The Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
16566 Tous Les Hommes Sont Mortels Simone de Beauvoir 1946 French French
16581 Demian / Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
16520 Cows, Pigs, Wars And Witches: The Riddels Of Culture Marvin Harris 1974 American English
16532 Mga Ibong Mandaragit Amado V. Hernandez 1969 Filipino Filipino
16532 The Triumphs Of Eugene Valmont Robert Barr 1906 British English
16577 Schopenhauer As Educator Friedrich Nietzsche 1874 German German
16580 Storia Dei Greci Indro Montanelli 1959 Italian Italian
16595 Casa De Campo José Donoso 1978 Chilean Spanish
16560 Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose 1954 American English
16511 The Book Of Dede Korkut Unknown 1400 Multiple Oghuz turkic
16590 Post Captain Patrick O'Brian 1972 British English
16532 Roman Wall Bryher 1954 British English
16532 Spider King Lawrence Schoonover 1954 American English
16532 Lord Grizzly Frederick Manfred 1954 American English
16585 The Last Leaf O. Henry 1907 American English
16521 The Red Laugh Leonid Andreyev 1904 Russian English
16616 Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1950 Armenian Russian
16612 Pebble In The Sky Isaac Asimov 1950 American English
16684 The Stars, Like Dust Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
16745 The Ship Who Sang Anne McCaffrey 1969 American English
16597 Badjelly The Witch Spike Milligan 1973 New Zealander English
16648 The Seven Who Were Hanged Leonid Andreyev 1908 Russian Russian
16664 Hunter's Green Phyllis A. Whitney 1968 American English
16705 The Skin Of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder 1942 American English
16718 The Verge Susan Glaspell 1921 American English
16720 So Long And Thanks For All The Fish (Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, No. 4) Douglas Adams 1984 British English
16681 Orphans Of The Sky Robert A. Heinlein 1941 American English
16608 Sounder William H. Armstrong 1969 American English
16739 Alice In Wonderland Jane Carruth 1865 British English
16713 Faust, Part Two Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1832 German German
16761 Caligula Albert Camus 1944 French French
16717 Balladyna Juliusz Słowacki 1839 Polish Polish
16607 The Water Method Man John Irving 1972 American English
16740 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16667 The Image Daniel J. Boorstin 1962 American English
16737 Being There Jerzy Kosinski 1970 American English
16609 The Collected Tales Nikolai Gogol 1836 Russian Russian
16753 Angel In The Forest Marguerite Young 1966 American English
16747 The Singing Sands Josephine Tey 1952 British English
16730 To Love And Be Wise Josephine Tey 1950 British English
16663 De Witte Ernest Claes 1920 Belgian Dutch
16661 To A God Unknown John Steinbeck 1933 American English
16678 The Dam Busters P Brickhill 1951 British English
16659 Lady Susan Jane Austen 1871 British English
16614 We Can Build You Philip K. Dick 1972 American English
16606 Flowers For Algernon Short Story Daniel Keyes 1959 American English
16732 The Count Of Monte Cristo Mitsu Yamamoto 1844 Unknown French
16616 Les Rois Maudits; Tome 2 Maurice Druon 1955 French French
16724 The Earthsea Trilogy Ursula K. Le Guin 1968 American English
16646 Setting Free The Bears John Irving 1968 American English
16610 Le Journal D'une Femme De Chambre Octave Mirbeau 1900 French French
16616 The Red Thumb Mark R Austin Freeman 1907 British English
16616 Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Cambrioleur Maurice Leblanc 1907 French French
16656 The Sea And Poison Shūsaku Endō 1958 Japanese Japanese
16694 The Colour Out Of Space H. P. Lovecraft 1927 American English
16674 Psychology And Alchemy C.G. Jung 1944 Swiss German
16690 The Complete Tales And Poems Of Winnie The Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
16736 The Collected Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
16637 Khosrow And Shirin Nezami Ganjavi 1180 Persian Persian
16748 Kādambarī Bānabhaṭṭa 650 Indian Sanskrit
16688 Botchan Natsume Sōseki 1906 Japanese Japanese
16638 Curtain Agatha Christie 1975 British English
16754 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
16743 Dyyni Frank Herbert 1965 American English
16616 The Prophet Shalom Asch 1955 Unknown English
16650 The Pilgrim's Regress C. S. Lewis 1933 British English
16710 Sanshirō Natsume Sōseki 1908 Japanese Japanese
16744 De Dødes Tjern André Bjerke 1942 Norwegian Norwegian
16616 The Time Traders Andre Norton 1958 American English
16728 Travel Light Naomi Mitchison 1952 British English
16600 Bunnicula Deborah Howe 1979 American English
16651 The Iliad Of Homer Richmond Lattimore -762 Greek Ancient greek
16611 The Iliad/The Odyssey/The Aeneid Homer -800 Greek Ancient greek
16603 The Brothers Karamazov Fedor Dostoyevsky 1880 Russian Russian
17122 The Nature of Life C. H. Waddington 1961 British English
17122 Intelligent Life in the Universe Carl Sagan 1966 American English
17122 Wolf Brother Michelle Paver 2004 British English
17122 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
17122 District and Circle Seamus Heaney 2006 Irish English
17122 The Carhullan Army Sarah Hall 2007 British English
17122 The Children of Dynmouth William Trevor 1976 British English
17122 Outside Over There Maurice Sendak 1981 American English
17122 The Ticket That Exploded William S. Burroughs 1962 American English
17122 The Stain Rikki Ducornet 1984 American English
17122 The Jade Cabinet Rikki Ducornet 1993 American English
17122 The Fountains of Neptune Rikki Ducornet 1992 American English
17122 Mona Lisa Overdrive William Gibson 1988 American English
17122 Always Coming Home Ursula K. Le Guin 1985 American English
17122 Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses William Eastlake 1963 American English
17122 The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus 1995 American English
17122 Tlooth Harry Mathews 1966 American English
17122 The Citadel of the Autarch Gene Wolfe 1983 American English
17122 Up Ronald Sukenick 1968 American English