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 The Lotus Palace Jeannie Lin 2013 American English
17122 The Luckiest Lady In London Sherry Thomas 2013 American English
17122 All In Simona Ahrnstedt 2014 Swedish Swedish
17122 Forget Me Not Brenda Jackson 2019 American English
17122 Dating Dr. Dil Nisha Sharma 2022 American English
17122 Triomf Marlene van Niekerk 1994 South African Afrikaans
17122 A Rainbow On The Paper Sky Mandla Langa 1989 South African English
17122 Dickens Peter Ackroyd 1990 British English
17122 The Imperfect Life Of T. S. Eliot Lyndall Gordon 1998 British English
17122 Woman At 1000 Degrees Hallgrímur Helgason 2011 Icelandic Icelandic
17122 The House At San Silvano Giuseppe Dessì 1977 Italian Italian
17122 Le Mie Stagioni Giovanni Comisso 1963 Italian Italian
17122 Le Avventure Di Guizzardi Gianni Celati 1973 Italian Italian
17122 Aracoeli Elsa Morante 1982 Italian Italian
17122 Indian Nocturne Antonio Tabucchi 1984 Italian Italian
17122 Marco E Mattio Sebastiano Vassalli 1992 Italian Italian
17122 At Dusk Hwang Sok-yong 2018 Korean Korean
17122 Hear The Wind Sing And Pinball 1973 村上春樹 1979 Japanese Japanese
17122 Fortunately, The Milk Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
17122 Why Fish Don’t Exist Lulu Miller 2020 American English
17122 The First Law Trilogy Joe Abercrombie 2006 British English
17122 Skulduggery Pleasant Derek Landy 2007 Irish English
17122 Vita Nostra Marina Dyachenko 2007 Ukrainian Russian
17122 Heroes Stephen Fry 2018 British English
17122 The Sandman, Vol. 5 Neil Gaiman 1993 British English
17122 The Sandman, Vol. 4 Neil Gaiman 1992 British English
17122 Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman 1989 British English
17066 San Manuel Bueno, Mártir Miguel de Unamuno 1931 Spanish Spanish
17122 Batman, The Killing Joke Alan Moore 1988 Unknown English
17122 Akira, Vol. 6 Katsuhiro Otomo 1993 Japanese Japanese
17122 Akira, Vol. 5 Katsuhiro Otomo 1990 Japanese Japanese
17122 Akira, Vol. 4 Katsuhiro Otomo 1990 Japanese Japanese
17122 Akira, Vol. 3 Katsuhiro Otomo 1985 Japanese Japanese
17122 Akira, Vol. 2 Katsuhiro Otomo 1984 Japanese Japanese
17122 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind Hayao Miyazaki 1982 Japanese Japanese
17122 Berserk, Vol. 1 Kentaro Miura 1990 Japanese Japanese
16950 Morphine Mikhail Bulgakov 1927 Russian Russian
17122 Akira, Vol. 1 Katsuhiro Otomo 1984 Japanese Japanese
17122 The Neptune File Tom Standage 2000 British English
17122 The Cogwheel Brain Doron Swade 2001 British English
17122 The Knife Of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness 2008 British English
17122 The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova 2010 American English
17122 Engineers Of Victory Paul Kennedy 2013 British English
17122 Utopia Avenue David Mitchell 2020 British English
17122 Walk In My Combat Boots James Patterson 2021 American English
17122 Desolation Island Patrick O'Brian 1978 British English
16944 The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever 1964 American English
17122 The Simoqin Prophecies Samit Basu 2003 Indian English
17122 The Manticore's Secret Samit Basu 2005 Indian English
17122 The Unwaba Revelations Samit Basu 2007 Indian English
17122 Red Earth And Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra 1995 Indian English
17122 Collected Poems, 1970 2005 Keki N. Daruwalla 2006 Indian English
17122 Solo Rana Dasgupta 2009 British English
17122 Collected Plays Mahesh Dattani 2000 Indian English
17122 The Point Of Return Siddhartha Deb 2003 Indian English
17122 Collected Stories Shashi Deshpande 2003 Indian English
17122 The Circle Of Reason Amitav Ghosh 1986 Indian English
17122 Looking Through Glass Mukul Kesavan 1995 Indian English
17122 Collected Poems, 1954–2004 Dom Moraes 2004 Indian English
17122 An Atlas Of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008 Indian English
17122 The Alchemy Of Desire Tarun J. Tejpal 2005 Indian English
17122 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17122 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17122 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17122 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
17122 The Imam And The Indian Amitav Ghosh 1992 Indian English
17122 The Global Soul Pico Iyer 2000 British English
17122 My Own Country Abraham Verghese 1994 American English
17086 The Trumpet Major Thomas Hardy 1880 British English
17122 The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul Douglas Adams 1988 British English
17122 The Illuminatus! Trilogy Robert Shea 1975 American English
16873 The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Volume 2 William Shakespeare 1623 British English
17122 Naoko Keigo Higashino 1998 Japanese Japanese
16954 Singular Travels, Campaigns And Adventures Of Baron Munchausen R. E. Raspe 1785 German German
17122 The Plains Of Passage Jean M. Auel 1990 American English
17122 The Great And Secret Show Clive Barker 1989 British English
17122 The Barefoot Brigade By Douglas C. Jones Douglas C. Jones 1979 American English
17122 Kalki Gore Vidal 1978 American English
17122 Thirteen Moons Charles Frazier 2006 American English
17122 Choke Chuck Palahniuk 2001 American English
17122 A Soldier Of The Great War Mark Helprin 1991 American English
17122 The Count And The Confession John Taylor 2002 Unknown English
17122 The Casual Vacancy J. K. Rowling 2012 British English
17122 Dear Committee Members Julie Schumacher 2014 American English
17122 Lost In Shangri La Mitchell Zuckoff 2011 American English
17122 Unnatural Exposure Patricia Daniels Cornwell 1997 American English
17122 Beach Music Pat Conroy 1995 American English
17122 The Witching Hour Anne Rice 1990 American English
17122 Streets Of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993 American English
17122 Timequake Kurt Vonnegut 1997 American English
17122 Still Life With Woodpecker Tom Robbins 1980 American English
17122 The Lost World Michael Crichton 1995 American English
17122 Alaska James A. Michener 1988 American English
17122 Death Of A Ghost Margery Allingham 1934 British English
17122 Caribbean James A. Michener 1989 American English
17122 Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins 1984 American English
17122 Diary Chuck Palahniuk 2003 American English
17122 Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk 2002 American English
17026 Of Mice And Men / Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1937 American English
17122 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
16979 Quiet Days In Clichy And The World Of Sex Henry Miller 1956 American English
17122 Abraham Lincoln Seth Grahame-Smith 2010 American English
17122 The Antidote Oliver Burkeman 2012 British English
17122 Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher 2000 British English
17122 Free To Learn Peter O. Gray 2013 American English
17122 The E Myth Revisited Michael E. Gerber 1995 American English
17122 Shakespeare Harold Bloom 1998 American English
17122 Tripwire Lee Child 1999 British English
17122 Die Trying Lee Child 1998 British English
17122 Pandora's Star Peter F. Hamilton 2004 British English
17122 Agent Running In The Field John le Carré 2019 British English
17122 The Alchemaster's Apprentice Walter Moers 2007 German German
17122 Rumo Walter Moers 2003 German German
17122 The City Of Dreaming Books Walter Moers 2004 German German
17122 The Whale Philip Hoare 2008 British English
17122 1599 James Shapiro 2005 American English
17122 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
16757 Mac Flecknoe, Or, A Satyr Upon The True Blew Protestant Poet, T. S. John Dryden 1682 British English
17122 Jamela's Dress Niki Daly 1999 South African English
17122 The Madonna Of Excelsior Zakes Mda 2002 South African English