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Description: Ruritania, New Switzerland etc. - countries from exotic traveller's tales. This not a list for fantasy countries like Gondor or Narnia that belong in other worlds or parallel universes (e.g. where Hitler won World War II, or magic works). These are normal, sensible everyday countries in our own mundane world; they just happen to not exist - neither now nor at any time in the past.

Rank Title Author Added

1

by James Hilton

3,989 members

101 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Cecrow, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: Cecrow: The introduction of Shangri-La

2

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss

8,845 members

90 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: -pilgrim-, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1,577 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: ManWithAnAgenda: Orsinia, Somewhere in Central Europe

4

The Mouse that Roared

by Leonard Wibberley

809 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: amanda4242
Explanations: amanda4242: The Duchy of Grand Fenwick

5

The Lost Prince

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

717 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: -pilgrim-
Explanations: -pilgrim-: Samavia

6

by Austin Tappan Wright

512 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: Cecrow
Explanations: Cecrow: Invented continent of Karain somewhere in the southern hemisphere.

7

by Charlotte Brontë

8,849 members

146 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: ManWithAnAgenda: The city of Villette is in the kingdom of Labassecour

8

The Prisoner of Zenda

by Anthony Hope

2,631 members

82 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: -pilgrim-
Explanations: -pilgrim-: Ruritania

9

by Neal Stephenson

17,123 members

296 reviews

4.2

Member: Cecrow
Explanations: Cecrow: Sultanate of Kinakuta

10

Rupert of Hentzau

by Anthony Hope

444 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: -pilgrim-
Explanations: -pilgrim-: Ruritania

11

The Mysterious Island

4,789 members

82 reviews

3.9

Member: Cecrow
Explanations: Cecrow: Uncharted island in the South Pacific

12

by Gary Shteyngart

2,425 members

79 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: -pilgrim-

13

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

by James De Mille

334 members

9 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Cecrow
Explanations: Cecrow: Semi-tropical haven in Antarctica

14

King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

5,740 members

129 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Cecrow
Explanations: Cecrow: Kukuanaland, Africa

15

Judgment on Deltchev

332 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: -pilgrim-

16

by Samuel Butler

2,106 members

40 reviews

3.2

Member: Cecrow
Explanations: Cecrow: An anagram for "nowhere"

17

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

by Angélica Gorodischer

613 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: Cecrow

18

Always Coming Home

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,150 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: Cecrow

19

419 members

10 reviews

4

Member: Cecrow

20

The Princess Diaries

5,251 members

162 reviews

½ 3.7

21

Underground Kingdom

by Edward Packard

172 members

1 review

3.2

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