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
2937 Visible And Invisible E. F. Benson 1923 British English
2948 Redwall Brian Jacques 1986 British English
2951 Exit, Voice, And Loyalty Albert Hirschman 1970 American English
2953 The Dark Country Dennis Etchison 1981 American English
2954 Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass Bruno Schulz 1937 Polish Polish
2962 The History Man Malcolm Bradbury 1975 British English
2967 A Dream Play August Strindberg 1902 Swedish Swedish
2968 The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman 2000 British English
2970 Collected Ghost Stories G. Oliver Onions 1935 British English
2973 The Female Man Joanna Russ 1975 American English
2984 Friday Michel Tournier 1967 French French
2986 Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan 1945 Canadian English
2987 Eragon Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
2988 The Robber Hotzenplotz Otfried Preußler 1962 German German
2993 The Doors Of Perception Aldous Huxley 1954 British English
3009 Wittgenstein's Mistress David Markson 1988 American English
3014 The House With A Clock In Its Walls John Bellairs 1973 American English
3016 Dark Of The Moon August Derleth 1947 American English
3017 Before Lunch Angela Thirkell 1939 British English
3019 The Tortoise And The Hare Elizabeth Jenkins 1936 British English
3019 The Murder At The Vicarage Agatha Christie 1930 British English
3019 Queen Lucia E. F. Benson 1920 British English
3019 Pictures From An Institution Randall Jarrell 1954 American English
3032 The Crab With The Golden Claws Hergé 1941 Belgian French
3035 Heavy Weather P. G. Wodehouse 1933 British English
3039 South Riding Winifred Holtby 1936 British English
3045 Three Hearts And Three Lions Poul Anderson 1953 American English
3049 Our Town Thornton Wilder 1938 American English
3053 The Sinful Ones Fritz Leiber 1953 American English
3069 Fearful Pleasures A. E. Coppard 1946 British English
3069 Kecksies And Other Twilight Tales Marjorie Bowen 1946 British English
3075 Once Were Warriors Alan Duff 1990 New Zealand English
3084 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey 1968 American English
3088 Factory Girls Leslie T. Chang 2008 American English
3090 On Death and Dying Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 1969 Swiss English
3092 The Travelling Grave L. P. Hartley 1948 British English
3094 We're Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen 1989 British English
3106 The Adventures Of Cipollino Gianni Rodari 1951 Italian Italian
3110 Anagrams Lorrie Moore 1986 American English
3115 Principia Ethica George Edward Moore 1903 British English
3120 The Possibility Of An Island Michel Houellebecq 2005 French French
3124 Undine Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 1811 German German
3126 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis 1942 British English
3128 Mr. Weston's Good Wine T. F. Powys 1927 British English
3129 Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
3133 Daddy Long Legs Jean Webster 1912 American English
3136 The Keep F. Paul Wilson 1981 American English
3140 Als Wär’s Ein Stück Von Mir Carl Zuckmayer 1966 German German
3141 The Shrinking Man Richard Matheson 1956 American English
3143 Poems Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
3144 Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany 1975 American English
3149 Malevil Robert Merle 1972 French French
3150 A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Lemony Snicket 1999 American English
3152 Dark Forces Kirby McCauley 1980 American English
3153 We Are For The Dark Robert Aickman 1951 British English
3155 The Castafiore Emerald Hergé 1963 Belgian French
3158 Nine Princes In Amber Roger Zelazny 1970 American English
3159 Who Made Stevie Crye? Michael Bishop 1984 American English
3165 Red Moon and Black Mountain Joy Chant 1970 British English
3172 A Simple Story S.Y. Agnon 1935 Israeli Hebrew
3173 Oblivion David Foster Wallace 2004 American English
3178 The Quick And The Dead Joy Williams 2000 American English
3181 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard 1966 British English
3189 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
3194 The Lives of a Cell Lewis Thomas 1974 American English
3195 The Crock Of Gold James Stephens 1912 Irish English
3196 The Gospel Of Thomas Marvin W. Meyer 100 Unknown English
3201 The Pillar And Ground Of The Truth Pavel Florensky 1914 Russian Russian
3204 When We Cease To Understand The World Adrian Nathan West, Benjamin Labatut 2020 Chilean Spanish
3209 The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton 1943 British English
3208 Briefing For A Descent Into Hell Doris May Lessing 1971 British English
3210 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
3212 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman 1996 British English
3214 The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld Patricia A. McKillip 1974 American English
3228 Phantastes George McDonald 1858 British English
3239 The Changelings Jo Sinclair 1955 American English
3240 Sweet Dreams Michael Frayn 1973 British English
3246 A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder James De Mille 1888 Canadian English
3250 Lost in the Cosmos Walker Percy 1983 American English
3251 Endless Love Scott Spencer 1979 American English
3252 Dwellers In The Mirage A. Merritt 1932 American English
3254 The Book Of Three Lloyd Alexander 1964 American English
3256 Goosebumps R. L. Stine 1992 American English
3258 A Fine And Private Place Peter S. Beagle 1960 American English
3263 Die Reise Bernward Vesper 1977 German German
3266 Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
3268 The Girl, The Gold Watch And Everything John D. MacDonald 1962 American English
3283 What Is Life? Erwin Schrödinger 1944 Austrian English
3287 Stories of Washington Irving Washington Irving 1820 American English
3291 Bérénice Jean Racine 1670 French French
3295 Cyropaedia Xenophon -370 Greek Ancient greek
3298 The Gallic War And Other Writings Gaius Julius Caesar -58 Roman Latin
3297 The Dead Sea Scrolls Unknown -150 Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, greek
3299 The Works Of Philodemus Philodemus -50 Greek Greek
3302 The Cocktail Party T. S. Eliot 1950 British English
3305 The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien 1977 British English
3308 Camp Concentration Thomas M. Disch 1968 American English
3315 The Afternoon of Monsieur Andesmas Marguerite Duras 1962 French French
3324 The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda Miguel de Cervantes 1617 Spanish Spanish
3324 Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry Eliza Haywood 1719 British English
3324 Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Scriblerus Club 1741 British English
3324 The Female Quixote Charlotte Lennox 1752 British English
3324 The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby Charles Kingsley 1863 British English
3324 Hell Henri Barbusse 1908 French French
3324 Impressions of Africa Raymond Roussel 1910 French French
3324 House in the Uplands Erskine Caldwell 1946 American English
3324 Asphodel Hilda Doolittle 1921 American English
3371 Fable Of Polyphemus And Galatea Luis de Góngora 1627 Spanish Spanish
3372 The Nazi And The Barber Edgar Hilsenrath 1971 German German
3373 The Green Child Herbert Read 1935 British English
3378 Black Easter James Blish 1968 American English
3385 Wandering On The Way Zhuangzi, Victor H. Mair -369 Chinese Classical chinese
3390 La Realidad Y El Deseo Luis Cernuda 1936 Spanish Spanish
3396 Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs 1981 American English
3398 The Name Of The Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 American English
3402 Shadow Over Mars Leigh Brackett 1944 American English
3407 In A Lonely Place Karl Edward Wagner 1977 American English
3409 The Glass Bees Ernst Jünger 1957 German German
3409 The deadbeats Ward Ruyslinck 1957 Belgian Dutch
3414 Night's Black Agents Fritz Leiber 1961 American English