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
3419 In The Country Of Last Things Paul Auster 1987 American English
3427 Short Letter, Long Farewell Peter Handke 1972 Austrian German
3429 Get A Life, Chloe Brown Talia Hibbert 2019 British English
3430 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury 1980 American English
3432 The Meeting At Telgte Günter Grass 1979 German German
3434 A Predicament Edgar Allan Poe 1838 American English
3435 On Wings Of Song Thomas M. Disch 1979 American English
3436 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
3438 The Needle's Eye Fanny Howe 1970 American English
3439 The House Next Door Anne Rivers Siddons 1978 American English
3442 The Summer Tree Guy Gavriel Kay 1984 Canadian English
3450 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
3451 The Elegant Universe Brian Greene 1999 American English
3453 Magic for Beginners Kelly Link 2005 American English
3454 Ян Бибиян Elin Pelin 1923 Bulgarian Bulgarian
3456 Glory Road Robert A. Heinlein 1963 American English
3460 The Complete Fiction Of Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz 1989 Polish Polish
3459 Captain Pantoja And The Special Service Mario Vargas Llosa 1973 Peruvian Spanish
3462 To The Is Land Janet Frame 1957 New Zealand English
3463 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe 1845 American English
3464 The Emperor's New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen 1837 Danish Danish
3465 Murgunstrumm And Others Hugh B. Cave 1977 American English
3474 Патиланско царство Ran Bosilek 1923 Bulgarian Bulgarian
3480 The King Of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany 1924 British English
3482 The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. Robert Coover 1968 American English
3483 Consider Phlebas Iain Banks 1987 Scottish English
3486 Descent Into Hell Charles Williams 1937 British English
3491 The Claw Of The Conciliator Gene Wolfe 1981 American English
3505 Speak Laurie Halse Anderson 1999 American English
3506 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
3510 Alone With The Horrors Ramsey Campbell 1993 British English
3511 Scrutiny F. R. Leavis 1932 British English
3512 Mary Chesnut's Civil War Mary Boykin Chesnut 1981 American English
3514 Rhinoceros and Other Plays Eugène Ionesco 1959 Romanian French
3516 The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life Erving Goffman 1959 American English
3533 The Birthday Party Harold Pinter 1958 British English
3538 Fire And Sleet And Candlelight August Derleth 1961 American English
3540 May Herman Gorter 1889 Dutch Dutch
3541 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3542 The Dragon And The George Gordon R. Dickson 1976 American English
3549 Gloriana Michael Moorcock 1978 British English
3550 The Improvement of Human Reason Ibn Tufayl 1170 Arabic Arabic
3551 The Cloven Viscount Italo Calvino 1952 Italian Italian
3552 Log Of The S.S. The Mrs Unguentine Stanley Crawford 1972 American English
3557 Magician Raymond E. Feist 1982 American English
3560 Insight Bernard Lonergan 1957 Canadian English
3565 Sultana's Dream Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain 1905 Bangladeshi Bengali
3571 The Day After Judgement James Blish 1971 American English
3574 Horcynus Orca Stefano D'Arrigo 1975 Italian Italian
3582 Two Sought Adventure Fritz Leiber 1957 American English
3592 The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson 1999 British English
3593 The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years Chinghiz Aitmatov 1980 Kyrgyz Russian
3605 The Temple George Herbert 1633 British English
3606 A Throw Of The Dice Will Never Abolish Chance Stéphane Mallarmé 1897 French French
3607 Virgin River Robyn Carr 2007 American English
3614 The Eyes Of The Overworld Jack Vance 1966 American English
3616 The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 American English
3619 Day Of The Minotaur Thomas Burnett Swann 1966 American English
3622 The Atrocity Exhibition J. G. Ballard 1970 British English
3625 Bear Marian Engel 1976 Canadian English
3630 Life Of Quintus Fixlein Jean-Paul Richter 1796 German German
3637 The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1901 Belgian French
3637 Van Loon's Lives Hendrik Willem van Loon 1942 Dutch English
3637 The Endless Adventure F. S. Oliver 1930 British English
3637 Mr. Fortune's Maggot Sylvia Townsend Warner 1927 British English
3637 Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886 British English
3637 Maigret And The Old Lady Georges Simenon 1950 Belgian French
3637 A Child of Our Time Ödön von Horváth 1938 Austrian German
3637 The Rider on the White Horse Theodor Storm 1888 German German
3637 Des Knaben Wunderhorn Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim 1808 German German
3637 The Invisible Flag Peter Bamm 1952 German German
3637 Der Großtyrann Und Das Gericht Werner Bergengruen 1935 German German
3637 Maya The Bee And Her Adventures Waldemar Bonsels 1912 German German
3637 Till Eulenspiegel Hermann Bote 1510 German German
3637 The Ship Of Fools Sebastian Brant 1494 German English
3637 Theodor Chindler Bernard von Brentano 1936 German German
3637 Cause, Principle, And Unity Giordano Bruno 1584 Italian Italian
3637 The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen Gottfried Burger 1785 German German
3637 Gods, Graves, And Scholars C. W. Ceram 1949 German German
3637 The Leatherstocking Tales James Fenimore Cooper 1823 American English
3637 Krambambuli Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1901 Austrian German
3637 The Thaw Ilya Ehrenburg 1954 Russian Russian
3637 Jew Süss Lion Feuchtwanger 1925 German German
3637 The River Pirates Of The Mississippi Friedrich Gerstäcker 1848 German German
3637 Theory Of Colours Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1810 German German
3637 Uli The Farmhand Jeremias Gotthelf 1841 Swiss German
3637 Bolwieser Oskar Maria Graf 1931 German German
3637 Der Gaulschreck Im Rosennetz Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando 1928 Austrian German
3637 The Crusaders Stefan Heym 1948 German English
3637 The Golden Pot E. T. A. Hoffmann 1814 German German
3637 Fluss Ohne Ufer Hans Henny Jahnn 1949 German German
3637 On The Marble Cliffs Ernst Jünger 1939 German German
3637 The Future Has Already Begun Robert Jungk 1952 Austrian German
3637 The City Beyond The River Hermann Kasack 1947 German German
3637 The People Of Seldwyla Gottfried Keller 1872 Swiss German
3637 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
3637 The Marquise Of O Heinrich von Kleist 1808 German German
3637 From Caligari To Hitler Siegfried Kracauer 1947 German German
3637 Das Unauslöschliche Siegel Elisabeth Langgässer 1946 German German
3637 So Tender Was Suleyken Siegfried Lenz 1955 German German
3637 The Second Wife E. Marlitt 1899 German German
3637 The Prophecies Nostradamus 1555 French French
3637 Stopfkuchen Wilhelm Karl Raabe 1891 German German
3637 Visite D'un Poète Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 1927 Swiss French
3637 Kuttel Daddeldu Joachim Ringelnatz 1920 German German
3637 The Questionnaire Ernst von Salomon 1951 German German
3637 The Story Of My Life George Sand 1855 French French
3637 The Roads To Freedom Jean Paul Sartre 1945 French French
3637 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
3637 The Criminal Of Lost Honor Friedrich Schiller 1786 German German
3637 Report On The Excavations At Troy Heinrich Schliemann 1875 German German
3637 Die Insel Felsenburg Johann Gottfried Schnabel 1731 German German
3637 Die Feuerzangenbowle Heinrich Spoerl 1933 German German
3637 Lausbubengeschichten Ludwig Thoma 1905 German German
3637 Franz Sternbald's Wanderings Ludwig Tieck 1798 German German
3637 Cavalleria Rusticana Giovanni Verga 1896 Italian Italian
3637 Rinaldo Rinaldini, The Robber Captain Christian August Vulpius 1799 German German
3637 The Ringer Edgar Wallace 1925 British English
3637 The Assistant Robert Walser 1908 Swiss German
3637 Caspar Hauser Or The Inertia Of The Heart Jakob Wassermann 1908 German German