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 Bartender's Tale Ivan Doig 2012 American English
17122 Five Carat Soul James McBride 2017 American English
17122 Audience Of One James Poniewozik 2019 American English
17122 Dracula Jon J. Muth Unknown Unknown
16810 No Surrender Hiroo Onoda 1974 Japanese Japanese
17122 Rabbit Cake Annie Hartnett 2017 American English
17122 My Father, The Pornographer Andrew J. Offutt 2016 American English
17122 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie 2017 American English
17122 Christmas Days Jeanette Winterson 2016 British English
17122 Entered From The Sun George Garrett 1990 American English
17122 Tales Of The Unexpected Roald Dahl 1979 British English
17122 The Collected Stories Lorrie Moore 2008 American English
17122 Breaking And Entering Joy Williams 1988 American English
17122 Servants Of The Map Andrea Barrett 2023 American English
17122 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17122 Restore Me Tahereh Mafi 2018 American English
17122 Delilah Green Doesn't Care Ashley Herring Blake 2022 American English
16871 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin 1973 American English
17122 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17122 The Drowned Moniro Ravanipour 1989 Unknown Persian
17122 The Woman Who Read Too Much Bahiyyih Nakhjavani 2015 Unknown English
17122 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17122 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17122 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French
17122 Rituals Of Restlessness Yaghoub Yadali 2016 Iranian Persian
17122 Space Between Us Zoya Pirzad 1997 Iranian Persian
17122 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
17122 Equal Of The Sun Anita Amirrezvani 2012 Unknown English
17122 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
17122 Fresh Water For Flowers Valerie Perrin 2018 French French
17122 Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen 2020 American English
17122 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
17122 Poems Of Sextus Propertius Propertius -29 Roman Latin
17122 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
16937 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17122 The Master And Margarita: A Critical Companion Laura Weeks 1996 Unknown English
17122 Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen 2013 American English
17122 The Fall Of Gondolin J. R. R. Tolkien 2018 British English
17122 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
17122 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17122 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17122 The Unwanteds Lisa McMann 2011 American English
17122 Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
17122 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 3 Hayao Miyazaki 1984 Japanese Japanese
17122 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 4 Hayao Miyazaki 1990 Japanese Japanese
17122 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 2 Hayao Miyazaki 1983 Japanese Japanese
17122 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17122 Once Upon A Time In The North Philip Pullman 2008 British English
17122 The Etymologicon Mark Forsyth 2011 British English
17122 Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor 2013 British English
17122 Jhereg Steven Brust 1983 American English
17122 D.Gray Man, Vol. 1 Katsura Hoshino 2004 Japanese Japanese
17122 Mother Of Learning Domagoj Kurmaić 2011 Unknown English
17122 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17122 Percy Jackson And The Olympians Boxed Set Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17122 The Necromancer Michael Scott 2010 Irish English
17122 Beyond The Grave Jude Watson 2009 American English
17122 The Sword Thief Peter Lerangis 2009 American English
17122 The Emperor Of Nihon Ja John Flanagan 2010 Australian English
17122 One False Note Gordon Korman 2024 Canadian English
17122 Dragon Prince Melanie Rawn 1988 American English
16909 Fate Is The Hunter Ernest K. Gann 1961 American English
17122 Siilo Hugh Howey 2011 American English
17122 The Reanimator H. P. Lovecraft 1985 American English
16970 The Disconnected Oğuz Atay 1972 Turkish Turkish
17122 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17122 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
16760 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
16945 Paideia Werner Wilhelm Jaeger 1934 German German
16939 Dievų Miškas Balys Sruoga 1957 Lithuanian Lithuanian
17108 Heaven Has No Favorites Erich Maria Remarque 1961 German German
17122 An Insular Possession Timothy Mo 1986 British English
17122 Where Eagles Dare Alistair MacLean 1967 British English
17122 The Third Man And Other Stories Graham Greene 2011 British English
17122 The Beastly Beatitudes Of Balthazar B J. P. Donleavy 1967 American English
17122 Whoops! John Lanchester 2009 British English
17122 Station Island Seamus Heaney 1984 Irish English
17122 Ghosts Unknown 2017 Unknown English
17122 I Will Marry When I Want Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1977 Kenyan Gikuyu
17122 The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford 2002 British English
17122 The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill 2000 American English
17122 All Played Out Pete Davies 1995 British English
17122 How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The Fa Cup JL Carr 1975 British English
17122 Damnation Spring Ash Davidson 2021 American English
17122 All The Horses Of Iceland Sarah Tolmie 2022 Unknown English
17122 Mass Effect Drew Karpyshyn 2010 Canadian English
17053 Tujec / Kuga Albert Camus 1942 French French
17122 The Unconquerable Game Callaway, Ely Unknown Unknown
17122 Lost In Time A.G. Riddle 2022 American English
17122 Worlds Of Exile And Illusion Ursula K. Le Guin 1996 American English
17122 North America's Forgotten Past Series Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 1990 American English
17122 Dance Of The Tiger Bjorn Kurten 1980 Finnish English
17122 Daughter Of The Red Dear Joan Wolf 1991 American English
17122 A God Against The Gods Allen Drury 1976 American English
17122 Return To Thebes Allen Drury 1977 American English
17122 The Twelfth Transforming Pauline Gedge 1984 Canadian English
17122 Lady Of The Reeds Pauline Gedge 1994 Canadian English
17122 King Of The Two Lands Jacquetta Hawkes 1966 British English
17122 Pharaoh Eloise J. McGraw 1958 Unknown English
17122 Pillar Of Fire Judith Tarr 1995 American English
17122 King And Goddess Judith Tarr 1996 American English
17122 Besieger Of Cities Alfred Duggan 1963 British English
17122 The Trojan Generals Talk Phillip Paroti 1986 Unknown English
17122 My Name Is Sappho Martha Rofheart 1974 Unknown English
17122 The Flowers Of Adonis Rosemary Sutcliff 1969 British English
17122 The Coin Of Carthage Bryher 1963 British English
16771 Winter Quarters Alfred Duggan 1956 British English
17122 Sword Of Pleasure Peter Green 1957 British English
17122 Hannibal Ross Leckie 1995 British English
17122 Augustus Allan Massie 1986 British English
17122 Tiberius Allan Massie 1991 British English
17122 Caesar Allan Massie 1993 British English
17122 The Young Caesar Rex Warner 1958 British English
17122 The Son Of Laughter Frederick Buechner 1993 American English
17122 Man Of Nazareth Anthony Burgess 1979 British English
17122 King Of Kings Malachi Martin 1980 American English
17122 The Right Of Cerdic Alfred Duggan 1965 British English
17122 The Wicked Day Mary Stewart 1983 British English
17122 The Prince And The Pilgrim Mary Stewart 1995 British English
17122 The Sword Of Sunset Rosemary Sutcliff 1963 British English