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
1880 The Complete John Silence Stories Algernon Blackwood 1908 British English
1881 The Machiavellians James Burnham 1943 American English
1883 Chariots Of The Gods Erich Von Däniken 1968 German German
1887 The Uses of Enchantment Bruno Bettelheim 1976 Austrian English
1897 The Ice People René Barjavel 1968 French French
1898 Tenth of December George Saunders 2013 American English
1902 The Physician Noah Gordon 1986 American English
1909 The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis Lydia Davis 2009 American English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
1919 The Dying Earth Jack Vance 1950 American English
1922 Tropisms Nathalie Sarraute 1939 French French
1923 The Conquest Of Gaul Gaius Julius Caesar -51 Roman Latin
1938 Geek Love Katherine Dunn 1989 American English
1945 Medusa E. H. Visiak 1929 British English
1947 Shame Salman Rushdie 1983 British English
1948 The Cadaver Of Gideon Wyck Alexander Laing 1934 American English
1948 The Second Century Of Creepy Stories Hugh Walpole 1937 British English
1953 Titus Alone Mervyn Peake 1959 British English
1955 The Mill On The Po Riccardo Bacchelli 1938 Italian Italian
1956 Lucifer Joost van den Vondel 1654 Dutch Dutch
1963 The Quest Frederik van Eeden 1887 Dutch Dutch
1971 Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler 1998 American English
1975 Peace Gene Wolfe 1975 American English
1978 Great Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural Herbert A. Wise 1944 American English
1992 Headlong Hall Thomas Love Peacock 1816 British English
1994 Fancies And Goodnights John Collier 1951 British English
2004 A School For Fools Sasha Sokolov 1976 Russian Russian
2007 King Ubu Alfred Jarry 1896 French French
2009 Job Joseph Roth 1930 Austrian German
2012 Pincher Martin William Golding 1956 British English
2018 Riddley Walker Russell Hoban 1980 British English
2019 The Death Ship B. Traven 1926 German German
2029 The Land Of Laughs Jonathan Carroll 1980 American English
2032 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
2047 The Brothers Lionheart Astrid Lindgren 1973 Swedish Swedish
2048 The Ice Palace Tarjei Vesaas 1963 Norwegian Norwegian
2052 Momo Michael Ende 1973 German German
2058 Sixty Stories Donald Barthelme 1981 American English
2057 Tales Of Horror And The Supernatural Arthur Machen 1948 British English
2062 The Last World Christoph Ransmayr 1988 Austrian German
2064 Watt Samuel Beckett 1953 Irish English
2065 The Egghead Republic Arno Schmidt 1957 German German
2067 The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter 1972 British English
2074 The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1852 American English
2077 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011 Israeli English
2078 The Lurker At The Threshold August Derleth, H. P. Lovecraft 1945 American English
2084 The Memoirs of a Survivor Doris May Lessing 1974 British English
2087 Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 British English
2096 Elias, Or The Fight With The Nightingales Maurice Gilliams 1936 Belgian Dutch
2096 Parken En Woestijnen M. Vasalis 1940 Dutch Dutch
2098 Mio, My Son Astrid Lindgren 1954 Swedish Swedish
2103 Collected Short Stories of Saki Saki 1930 British English
2104 The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories Angela Carter 1979 British English
2117 Stories of Mr. Keuner Bertolt Brecht 1926 German German
2124 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1892 British English
2127 Life In The Folds Henri Michaux 1949 French French
2133 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick 1962 American English
2137 Conan The Conqueror Robert E. Howard 1935 American English
2139 The Worm Ouroboros E. R. Eddison 1922 British English
2142 Mythago Wood Robert Holdstock 1984 British English
2145 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets J. K. Rowling 1998 British English
2147 The Night Land William Hope Hodgson 1912 British English
2148 Aniara Harry Martinson 1956 Swedish Swedish
2151 The Conference Of The Birds Attar Neyshabouri 1177 Persian Persian
2153 Fool's Gold Máro Doýka 1979 Hungarian Unknown
2159 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel 1980 American English
2161 The Immense Journey Loren Eiseley 1957 American English
2172 Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 2001 British English
2182 The Little Demon Fedor Sologub 1907 Russian Russian
2196 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein 1964 American English
2197 That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 British English
2210 Sub Rosa Robert Aickman 1968 British English
2212 Swordspoint Ellen Kushner 1987 American English
2224 Good Omens Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 1990 British English
2226 Aspects of the Novel E. M. Forster 1927 British English
2228 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Pakistani English
2233 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 2007 British English
2235 Last And First Men Olaf Stapledon 1930 British English
2236 The Futurological Congress Stanislaw Lem 1971 Polish Polish
2238 Ringworld Larry Niven 1970 American English
2243 Milkman Anna Burns 2018 Irish English
2244 The Tombs Of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
2247 The Bald Soprano Eugène Ionesco 1950 French French
2248 Roman De La Rose Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun 1237 French Old french
2250 Emil And The Detectives Erich Kästner 1929 German German
2258 A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters Julian Barnes 1989 British English
2263 The Crystal World J. G. Ballard 1966 British English
2267 Pricksongs and Descants Robert Coover 1969 American English
2269 The Jewel In The Crown Paul Scott 1966 British English
2283 Crowds And Power Elias Canetti 1960 German German
2305 Giles Goat-Boy John Barth 1966 American English
2307 The Old Forest Peter Taylor 1985 American English
2308 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 1976 British English
2309 The Dead Father Donald Barthelme 1975 American English
2314 The Left-Handed Woman Peter Handke 1976 Austrian German
2328 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 2006 Chinese Chinese
2331 Whitney, My Love Judith McNaught 1985 American English
2333 The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Charles Perrault 1697 French French
2344 Song of Songs Christian Church -500 Jewish Hebrew
2346 Goblin Market Christina Georgina Rossetti 1862 British English
2347 The Well Of The Unicorn Fletcher Pratt 1948 American English
2350 Bulfinch's Mythology Thomas Bulfinch 1855 British English
2351 The Inheritors William Golding 1955 British English
2354 Contact Carl Sagan 1985 American English
2364 Sybil Benjamin Disraeli 1845 British English
2366 One Two Three . . . Infinity George Gamow 1947 American English
2391 The Wheel of Time Series Robert Jordan 1990 American English
2400 The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 1666 British English
2415 The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 1956 American English
2421 The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai 1989 Hungarian Hungarian
2428 The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr 1968 British English
2430 The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead 1999 American English
2431 The Physicists Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1962 Swiss German
2433 The Einstein Intersection Samuel R. Delany 1967 American English
2432 The Call Of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft 1928 American English
2434 The Forever War Joe Haldeman 1974 American English
2437 Nine Horrors And A Dream Joseph Payne Brennan 1958 American English
2440 Puckoon Spike Milligan 1963 Irish English
2444 The Ascent Of Rum Doodle W. E. Bowman 1956 British English
2446 The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth 1952 American English