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 Dis Ek, Anna Elbie Lötter 2004 South African Afrikaans
17122 Agaat Marlene van Niekerk 2004 South African Afrikaans
17122 Shirley, Goodness & Mercy Chris van Wyk 2004 South African English
17122 Spud John van de Ruit 2005 South African English
17122 Anderkant Pontenilo Irma Joubert 2007 South African Afrikaans
17122 Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman 2017 British English
17122 Dragonsong Anne McCaffrey 1976 American English
17122 The Golden Key Melanie Rawn 1996 American English
17122 36 Arguments For The Existence Of God Rebecca Goldstein 2010 American English
17122 Atrocities Matthew White 2011 Unknown English
17122 The 4 Hour Work Week Timothy Ferriss 2007 American English
17063 Roméo Et Juliette / Macbeth William Shakespeare 1597 British English
17122 Vengeful V. E. Schwab 2018 American English
17112 Tysiąc żurawi. śpiące Piękności Yasunari Kawabata 1952 Japanese Japanese
17122 The Stillwater Girls Minka Kent 2019 American English
17122 Artificial Condition Martha Wells 2018 American English
17122 Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out Yan Mo 2006 Chinese Chinese
17122 Delirium Lauren Oliver 2011 American English
17122 Memoirs Of An Anti Semite Gregor von Rezzori 1979 Multiple German
17122 'I' Wolfgang Hilbig 1993 German German
17122 Lost Hans-Ulrich Treichel 1998 German German
17122 Mrs Sartoris Elke Schmitter 2001 German German
17122 The Architects Stefan Heym 2000 German German
17122 The Swimmer Zsuzsa Bánk 2002 German German
17122 Young Light Ralf Rothmann 2004 German German
17122 How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone Saša Stanišić 2006 German German
17122 Babylon Berlin Volker Kutscher 2008 German German
17122 A Minute's Silence Siegfried Lenz 2008 German German
17122 The Method Juli Zeh 2009 German German
17122 Apostoloff Sibylle Lewitscharoff 2009 German German
17122 Atlas Of An Anxious Man Christoph Ransmayr 2016 Austrian German
17122 A Whole Life Robert Seethaler 2014 Austrian German
17122 This House Is Mine Dörte Hansen 2015 German German
17122 Robots And Empire Isaac Asimov 1985 American English
17122 Tales From Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 2001 American English
17122 The Monk Of Mokha Dave Eggers 2018 American English
17122 The Stranger In The Woods Michael Finkel 2017 American English
17122 To The Last Man Jeff Shaara 2004 American English
17092 O Escaravelho Do Diabo Lúcia Machado de Almeida 1972 Brazilian Portuguese
17122 The Black Tower P. D. James 1975 British English
17122 The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell 2022 British English
17122 Not Even The Dead Juan Gómez Bárcena 2023 Spanish Spanish
17122 The Lost Journals Of Sacajewea Debra Magpie Earling 2023 Unknown English
17122 In An Antique Land Amitav Ghosh 1992 Indian English
17122 Our Missing Hearts Celeste Ng 2022 American English
17122 How To Stop Time Matt Haig 2017 British English
17122 The Patron Saint Of Liars Ann Patchett 1992 American English
17122 When The Stars Go Dark Paula McLain 2021 American English
17122 The Secret Place Tana French 2014 Irish English
17122 The Wych Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
17122 The Searcher Tana French 2020 Irish English
17122 Broken Harbor Tana French 2012 Irish English
17122 Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird Christopher Sergel 1990 American English
17122 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Richard R. George 1976 Unknown English
17122 The Boy Tami Hoag 2018 American English
17122 Memory Man David Baldacci 2015 American English
16828 Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator Roald Dahl 1972 British English
17122 Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008 British English
17122 The Book Of Lost Things John Connolly 2006 Irish English
17122 About A Boy Nick Hornby 1998 British English
17122 Gone Michael Grant 2008 American English
17122 Rachel's Holiday Marian Keyes 1997 Irish English
17122 Im Wasser Sind Wir Schwerelos Tomasz Jedrowski 2020 Unknown German
16968 The Murder On The Links Agatha Christie 1923 British English
17122 Hellboy, Vol. 1 Mike Mignola 1994 American English
16876 Reinações De Narizinho Monteiro Lobato 1920 Brazilian Portuguese
17122 The Factory Hiroko Oyamada 2013 Japanese Japanese
17122 The Lords Of Discipline Pat Conroy 1980 American English
17122 Into The Forest Jean Hegland 1996 American English
17122 Alien Alan Dean Foster 1979 American English
16958 El Eternauta H. G. Oesterheld 1957 Argentinian Spanish
16818 Eternaut 1969 (The Alberto Breccia Library) H. G. Oesterheld, Alberto Breccia 1969 Argentinian Spanish
17122 The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions Larry Mitchell 1977 American English
17122 Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen 1993 American English
17122 The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer F.H. Cornish Unknown Unknown
17122 Jane Austen Jane Austen British Unknown
17122 Mountain Language Harold Pinter 1988 British English
17122 The Endtimes Of Human Rights Stephen Hopgood 2013 British English
17122 The Black Atlantic Paul Gilroy 1993 British English
17122 The History Of White People Nell Irvin Painter 2010 American English
17122 The Magician's Land Lev Grossman 2014 American English
17122 La Belle Sauvage Philip Pullman 2017 British English
17122 Bad Cree Jessica Johns 2023 Unknown English
17122 H.P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft American Unknown
16942 The Devils Of Loudun Aldous Huxley 1952 British English
17122 A Closed And Common Orbit Becky Chambers 2016 American English
17122 Kings Of The Wyld Nicholas Eames 2017 Canadian English
17122 The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix 2020 American English
17122 The Return Rachel Harrison 2020 Unknown English
17122 Vicious V. E. Schwab 2013 American English
17122 The Last Days Of Jack Sparks Jason Arnopp 2016 British English
17122 Red Seas Under Red Skies Scott Lynch 2007 American English
17122 Lexicon Max Barry 2013 Australian English
17122 The Weird And The Eerie Mark Fisher 2016 British English
17122 The Diviners Libba Bray 2012 American English
17122 Blindsight Peter Watts 2006 Canadian English
17122 The Labyrinth Of The Spirits Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2016 Spanish Spanish
17122 North American Lake Monsters Nathan Ballingrud 2013 American English
17122 This Book Is Full Of Spiders David Wong 2012 American English
17122 Johannes Cabal The Necromancer Jonathan L. Howard 2009 British English
17122 Spook Mary Roach 2005 American English
17122 Chocolat Joanne Harris 1999 British English
17122 Five Quarters Of The Orange Joanne Harris 2001 British English
17122 Summerwater Sarah Moss 2020 British English
17122 Made In America Bill Bryson 1994 American English
17122 The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ Philip Pullman 2010 British English
17122 Sacré Bleu Christopher Moore 2012 American English
17122 The Valley Of Horses Jean M. Auel 1986 American English
17122 Aurora Kim Stanley Robinson 2015 American English
17122 Ajin Gamon Sakurai, Tsuina Miura 2012 Japanese Japanese
17122 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage 村上春樹 2013 Japanese Japanese
17122 A Girl Is A Body Of Water Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi 2020 Ugandan English
17122 Willful Child Steven Erikson 2014 Canadian English
17122 Radicalized Cory Doctorow 2019 Canadian English
17122 The Actual Star Monica Byrne 2021 American English
17069 Rocannon's World Ursula K. Le Guin 1966 American English
17122 Fox 8 George Saunders 2013 American English
17122 Ishmael Daniel Quinn 1992 American English
17029 Purgatorio Dante Alighieri 1315 Italian Italian
17122 The Wandering Earth Cixin Liu 2013 Chinese Chinese