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
17125 New X Men, Vol. 1 Grant Morrison 2001 British English
17125 The Sandman, Vol. 10 Neil Gaiman 1997 British English
17125 The Sandman, Vol. 9 Neil Gaiman 1996 British English
17125 The 33 Strategies Of War New Edition By Robert Greene Paperback Robert Greene 2006 American English
17125 Miracle At St. Anna James McBride 2002 American English
17125 Le Grand Cahier Agota Kristof 1986 French French
17125 Dear Lupin Roger Mortimer, Charlie Mortimer 2011 British English
17125 Cuckold Kiran Nagarkar 1999 Indian English
17125 The Country Without A Post Office Agha Shahid Ali 1997 Indian English
17125 Poems Of Love And War A.K. Ramanujan 1985 Indian Tamil
17125 The Remembered Village M. N. Srinivas 1978 Indian English
17125 Five Point Someone Chetan Bhagat 2004 Indian English
17125 Jayadeva's Gitagovinda Barbara Stoler Miller 1977 Unknown Sanskrit
17125 The Republic Of Thieves Scott Lynch 2013 American English
17125 419 Will Ferguson 2012 Canadian English
17125 Annabel Kathleen Winter 2010 Canadian English
17125 Cereus Blooms At Night Shani Mootoo 1996 Canadian English
17125 Certainty Madeleine Thien 2006 Canadian English
17125 Creation Katherine Govier 2002 Canadian English
17125 Elizabeth And After Matt Cohen 1999 Canadian English
17125 Forty Words For Sorrow Giles Blunt 2000 Canadian English
17125 Galore Michael Crummey 2009 Canadian English
17125 Green Grass, Running Water Thomas King 1993 Canadian English
16774 Kamouraska Anne Hébert 1970 Canadian French
17125 Kiss Of The Fur Queen Tomson Highway 1998 Canadian English
17125 Lives Of The Saints Nino Ricci 1990 Canadian English
17125 Lost Girls Andrew Pyper 2000 Canadian English
17125 Sweetness In The Belly Camilla Gibb 2005 Canadian English
17125 The Book Of Secrets M.G. Vassanji 1994 Canadian English
17125 The Cure For Death By Lightning Gail Anderson-Dargatz 1996 Canadian English
17125 The Hero's Walk Anita Rau Badami 2000 Canadian English
17125 The Lesser Blessed Richard Van Camp 1996 Canadian English
17125 The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches Gaétan Soucy 1998 Canadian French
17125 The Orenda Joseph Boyden 2013 Canadian English
17125 The Polished Hoe Austin Clarke 2002 Barbadian English
17125 The Wives Of Bath Susan Swan 1993 Canadian English
17125 Whale Music Paul Quarrington 1989 Canadian English
17125 What The Body Remembers Shauna Singh Baldwin 1999 Canadian English
17125 Cinnamon Gardens Shyam Selvadurai 1998 Sri Lankan English
17125 The Beautiful Ones Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2017 Mexican English
17125 Thornhedge T. Kingfisher 2023 Unknown English
17125 Theft Of Fire Devon Eriksen 2023 American English
17125 Myst Rand Miller, Robyn Miller, David Wingrove 1996 American English
17125 Latro In The Mist Gene Wolfe 2003 American English
17125 Kalpa Imperial Angélica Gorodischer 1983 Argentinian Spanish
17125 What Should Be Wild Julia Fine 2018 American English
17125 The Unfinished World Amber Sparks 2016 American English
17125 The Sorcerer Of The Wildeeps Kai Ashante Wilson 2015 American English
17125 The Other City Michal Ajvaz 1993 Czech Czech
17125 Ring Shout P. Djèlí Clark 2020 American English
17125 Slow Horses Mick Herron 2010 British English
17125 Notes On An Execution Danya Kukafka 2024 American English
17125 The Nutmeg's Curse Amitav Ghosh 2021 Indian English
17125 Serotonin Michel Houellebecq 2019 French French
17125 Bestiario Julio Cortazar 1994 Argentinian Spanish
17125 Relatos Edgar Allan Poe 1996 American English
17125 Kroz Carstvo Nauka Milutin Milanković 2004 Serbian Serbian
17125 Kroz Vasionu I Vekove Milutin Milanković 2002 Serbian Serbian
17125 Here Be Dragons Sharon Kay Penman 1985 American English
17125 Never Enough Judith Grisel 2019 Unknown English
17125 Lost Connections Johann Hari 2018 British English
17125 Ostatnie Historie Olga Tokarczuk 2004 Polish Polish
17125 Anna In W Grobowcach świata Olga Tokarczuk 2006 Polish Polish
17125 The Tales Of Beedle The Bard J. K. Rowling 2008 British English
17001 Adventures In Contentment David Grayson 1907 American English
17125 The Singularity Is Near Ray Kurzweil 2005 American English
17125 The Ties That Bound Barbara A. Hanawalt 1986 American English
17125 The Fall Of The Roman Empire Peter Heather 2005 British English
17125 From Airline Reservations To Sonic The Hedgehog Martin Campbell-Kelly 2003 British English
17125 Only The Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove 1996 American English
17125 The Ultimate History Of Video Games Steven L. Kent 2001 American English
17125 Georges Perec David Bellos 1993 Unknown English
17125 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17125 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17125 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17125 The Wolf Border Sarah Hall 2015 British English
17125 Change Of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008 American English
17125 The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See 2017 American English
16774 Imperial Woman Pearl S. Buck 1956 American English
17125 Why Orwell Matters Christopher Hitchens 2002 British English
17046 Die Foundation Trilogie Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
17125 Von Hier Bis Zum Anfang Chris Whitaker 2021 British English
17125 Sag Den Wölfen, Ich Bin Zu Hause Carol Rifka Brunt 2012 American English
17125 Gerta Tučková, Kateřina 2020 Czech Czech
17125 Sounds Like Titanic Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 2019 American English
17125 The It Girl Ruth Ware 2022 British English
17125 The Family Chao Lan Samantha Chang 2022 American English
17125 The Turnout Megan Abbott 2021 American English
17125 Harrow Joy Williams 2021 American English
17125 Silverview John le Carré 2021 British English
17125 Franz Kafka's The Castle David Fishelson 1999 Unknown English
17125 Provinces Of Night William Gay 2000 American English
17125 The Chain Adrian McKinty 2019 Irish English
17125 The Parade Dave Eggers 2019 American English
17125 Waiting For Eden Elliot Ackerman 2018 American English
17125 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster 2017 American English
17125 The Cartel Don Winslow 2015 American English
17125 Harry Potter Series Box Set J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
17125 White Tears Hari Kunzru 2017 British English
17125 The Postmortal Drew Magary 2011 American English
17125 Await Your Reply Dan Chaon 2009 American English
17025 The Double And The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 Russian Russian
17125 Gathering Blue Lois Lowry 2000 American English
17125 The Essential Calvin And Hobbes Bill Watterson 1988 American English
16889 Taran Wanderer Lloyd Alexander 1967 American English
17125 Kringe In 'N Bos Dalene Matthee 1984 South African Afrikaans
17125 Children Of Memory Adrian Tchaikovsky 2022 British English
17125 Nona The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2022 New Zealand English
17125 System Collapse Martha Wells 2023 American English
17125 Fugitive Telemetry Martha Wells 2021 American English
17125 Rogue Protocol Martha Wells 2018 American English
17125 House Of Suns Alastair Reynolds 2008 British English
17125 The Driftless Area Tom Drury 2006 American English
17125 Daemon Daniel Suarez 2006 American English
17125 Homesickness Murray Bail 1980 Australian English
17125 Lucinda Brayford Martin Boyd 1946 Australian English
17125 The Naked Island Russell Braddon 1951 Australian English
17125 All The Green Year D E Charlwood 1965 Australian English
17125 Man Shy Frank Dalby Davison 2002 Australian English
17125 The Fring Dwellers Nene Gare 1961 Australian English