Books with richly detailed settings or worlds that provide a sense of total escapism.
by Arthur Golden
by Bram Stoker
by Gabriel García Márquez
by George R.R. Martin
by Yann Martel
by Sara Gruen
by Frank Herbert
by Ken Follett
by Stephen King
by Diana Gabaldon
by Daphne du Maurier
by Cormac McCarthy
by Anne Rice
by Herman Melville
by Patrick Rothfuss
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
by Neil Gaiman
by Alexandre Dumas
by Larry McMurtry
by William Shakespeare
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
by Jean M. Auel
by George R.R. Martin
by James Clavell
by Michael Crichton
by J.R.R. Tolkien
by Homer
by Tracy Chevalier
by Gaston Leroux
by George R.R. Martin
by Isabel Allende
by Anne Rice
by Elizabeth Kostova
by Haruki Murakami
by Patrick Rothfuss
by Charlaine Harris
by Stephen King
by Brandon Sanderson
by Charles Frazier
by Robert Jordan
by Michael Chabon
by Salman Rushdie
by Ray Bradbury
by Laura Esquivel
by Diana Gabaldon
by Stephen King
by Lisa See
by George R.R. Martin
by Susanna Clarke
by Anthony Doerr
by Ki Longfellow
by Gregory David Roberts
by George R.R. Martin
by Diana Gabaldon
by Terry Goodkind
by Anne Rice
by Jeaniene Frost
by Wilkie Collins
by Deborah Harkness
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
by J.R.R. Tolkien
by Charlaine Harris
by Paullina Simons
by Diana Gabaldon
by Ken Follett
by Dan Simmons
by Donna Tartt
by Leif Enger
by J.R.R. Tolkien
by Anne Rice
by Jasper Fforde
by Stephen King
by Karen Marie Moning
by Karen Marie Moning
by Brandon Sanderson
by Diana Gabaldon
by Scott Lynch
by Barbara Kingsolver
by Diana Gabaldon
by Alexander McCall Smith
by Jules Verne
by Charlaine Harris
by Walter Scott
by Kristin Hannah
by Charlaine Harris
by Haruki Murakami
by Terry Pratchett
by Brandon Sanderson
by Andrew Davidson
by Mary Doria Russell
by Karen Marie Moning
by Jules Verne
by John Irving
by Kate Morton
by Stephen King
by Laurell K. Hamilton
by David Wroblewski
by Ernest Hemingway
by Karen Marie Moning
by Sherrilyn Kenyon