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
17122 Time And The Art Of Living Robert Grudin 1982 American English
17122 Forests Robert Pogue Harrison 1992 American English
17122 In The Vineyard Of The Text Ivan Illich 1993 American English
17122 Talking Like The Rain X. J. Kennedy 1992 American English
17122 The Rainbabies Laura Krauss Melmed 1992 American English
17122 The Roots Of Civilization Alexander Marshack 1972 American English
17122 The Beast In The Nursery Adam Phillips 1998 British English
17122 Forms Of Devotion Diane Schoemperlen 1998 Canadian English
17122 This One Summer Mariko Tamaki 2014 Canadian English
17122 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever James Tiptree Jr. 1990 American English
17122 The Great Good Thing Roderick Townley 2001 American English
17122 Zoom At Sea Tim Wynne-Jones 1983 Canadian English
17122 The Water Hole Graeme Base 2001 Australian English
17122 What's The Big Idea? Oscar Brenifier 2001 French English
17122 Pensa Hi Brigitte Labbé 2002 Unknown Unknown
17122 What About Anne-Sophie Chilard 2023 French Unknown
17122 Oceans Paul Rose, Anne Laking 2008 British English
17122 Life Martha Holmes, Michael Gunton 2009 British English
17122 From Being To Becoming Ilya Prigogine 1980 Belgian English
17122 Sheppard Lee Robert Montgomery Bird 1836 American English
17122 The Crater, Or Vulcan's Peak James Fenimore Cooper 1847 American English
17122 Reveries Of A Bachelor Donald Grant Mitchell 1850 American English
17122 A Bloodsmoor Romance Joyce Carol Oates 1982 American English
17122 The Cannibal Galaxy Cynthia Ozick 1983 American English
17122 The Girl Who Drank The Moon Kelly Barnhill 2016 American English
17122 New Kid Jerry Craft 2019 American English
17122 Hello, Universe Erin Entrada Kelly 2017 American English
17122 Dig A. S. King 2019 American English
17122 On Such A Full Sea Chang-rae Lee 2014 American English
17122 Bone Gap Laura Ruby 2015 British English
17122 The Social Construction Of What? Ian Hacking 1999 Canadian English
17122 War Before Civilization Lawrence H. Keeley 1996 American English
17122 The View From Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1986 American English
17122 Trillion Year Spree Brian Aldiss 1986 British English
17122 5150 One Who Flew Into The Cuckoo's Nest Kathi Stringer 2007 American Unknown
17122 Charlottes Buzzybeez PUBLICATIONS Unknown Unknown
17122 Explaining Social Behavior Jon Elster 2007 Norwegian English
17122 Theories Of Everything John D. Barrow 1991 British English
17122 1984 And After Nigel Calder 1984 British English
17122 Man After Man Dougal Dixon 1990 British English
17122 Our Final Century Martin Rees 2003 British English
17122 How To Dunk A Doughnut Len Fisher 2002 British English
17122 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler 1986 British English
17122 Eunoia Christian Bök 2001 Canadian English
17122 The Middle Stories Sheila Heti 2001 Canadian English
17122 The Slynx Tatyana Tolstaya 2000 Russian Russian
17122 Breath and Bone Carol Berg 2008 American English
17122 The Running Man Stephen King 1982 American English
17122 Orbits of the East Nabil Suleiman 1993 Syrian Unknown
17122 Crazy Paradise Ahmed Youssef Syrian Unknown
17122 The Slaver Salah al-Din Bujah Unknown Unknown
17122 Murder And Anger Muwaffaq Khidr Unknown Unknown
17122 The Whirlpool Qamar Kilani Syrian Unknown
17122 Wandering Wings Jawad Al-Sidawi Unknown Unknown
17122 Longa And The Ghoul Zahwar Wanissi Unknown Unknown
17122 Birds Of The Dawn Lily Osseiran Unknown Unknown
17122 The Fallen Knight Alights Elias al-Diri Lebanese Unknown
17122 The Berries Of Murr Mohamed Al Aroussi Al Matuie Tunisian Unknown
17122 Sound, Water And Fire Abdulla Khalifa 1995 Unknown Unknown
17122 Hondo Louis L'Amour 1953 American English
17122 Fup Jim Dodge 1983 American English
17122 United As One (Lorien Legacies Book 7) Pittacus Lore 2016 American English
16896 The Princess And The Goblin George MacDonald 1872 British English
16928 The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit 1907 British English
17122 Indignation Philip Roth 2008 American English
17122 Soloman (Torre De Papel) Ramon Garcia 2021 Spanish Unknown
17122 Wild Robot Peter Brown 2016 American English
17122 The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Suzanne Collins 2020 American English
17122 Good Girl, Bad Blood Holly Jackson 2020 British English
17122 Pete The Cat Kimberly Dean 2008 American English
17122 Ready Player Two Ernest Cline 2020 American English
17122 Tuesday David Wiesner 1991 American English
17122 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin Jr. 1967 American English
17122 Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site Sherri Duskey Rinker 2011 American English
17122 We Are In A Book! Mo Willems 2010 American English
17122 Is There A Dog In This Book? Viviane Schwarz 2014 British English
17122 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Judi Barrett 1978 American English
17122 The Napping House Audrey Wood 1984 American English
17122 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17122 The Day The Crayons Quit Drew Daywalt 2013 American English
17122 Woodworm Layla Martínez 2024 Spanish Unknown
17122 A Short Stay In Hell Steven L. Peck 2012 American English
17122 Mickey7 Edward Ashton 2022 American English
17122 Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Benjamin Stevenson 2022 Australian English
17122 Unwind Neal Shusterman 2007 American English
17122 Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk 1999 American English
17122 Lapvona Ottessa Moshfegh 2022 American English
17122 Hidden Pictures Jason Rekulak 2022 American English
17122 Metamagical Themas Douglas Hofstadter 1985 American English
17122 Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, And The Sociology Of Knowledge Gerard Radnitzky 1987 German English
17122 You Like It Darker Stephen King Unknown Unknown
17122 Butcher & Blackbird Brynne Weaver Unknown Unknown
17122 Haunting Adeline H. D. Carlton 2021 Unknown English
17122 Gone To See The River Man Kristopher Triana 2020 American English
17122 Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros 2023 American English
17122 Once Upon A Broken Heart Stephanie Garber 2021 American English
17122 Divine Rivals Rebecca Ross 2023 American English
17122 Caraval Stephanie Garber 2017 American English
17122 Matty Matheson Richard Matheson 2024 American Unknown
17122 Zero At The Bone Bryce Marshall 1994 Unknown English
17122 Contact With The Stars Reinhard Breuer 1982 German German
17122 Whiskey Tender Deborah Jackson Taffa 2024 American Unknown
17122 Our Moon Rebecca Boyle 2024 Unknown English
17122 Catalina Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 2024 American Unknown
17122 Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari Israeli Unknown
17122 Look To Windward Iain Banks 2000 British English
17122 Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality Eliezer Yudkowsky 2010 American English
17122 Matrix & Matrix Regulation Alfred Pischinger 1991 German German
16892 Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
17122 The House Of Hades Rick Riordan 2013 American English
17122 Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo 2016 American English
17122 The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse Charlie Mackesy 2019 British English
17122 Us Against You Fredrik Backman 2017 Swedish Swedish
17122 The Strangler William Landay 2007 American English
17122 Roald Dahl’s Book Of Ghost Stories Roald Dahl 1983 British English
17122 Doing Harm Kelly Parsons 2014 American English
17122 Road Of Bones Christopher Golden 2022 American English
17122 Nothing But Blackened Teeth Cassandra Khaw 2021 Malaysian English
17122 The Night Eaters Marjorie Liu 2022 Unknown English
17122 The Between Tananarive Due 1995 American English