CITY · UNITED KINGDOMBooks set in Oxford
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15 books · 14 authors · 1895–2025
15 books here
Most-set authors
Philip Pullman (2) · Sarah Vaughan (1) · R.F. Kuang (1) · Evelyn Waugh (1) · Mick Herron (1) · Thomas Hardy (1)
Genres
literary fiction (4) · science fiction (3) · thriller & suspense (1) · horror (1) · historical fiction (1)
Books set here
Set in Oxford (8)
Babel
R.F. Kuang
Babel tower and Oxford streets
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Christminster university city
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams
The Scriptorium at 78 Banbury Road; where Esme grows up under the lexicographers' tables as they compile the first Oxfor
The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
Will Parry home city
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
Lyra's home parallel Oxford
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm
Oxford University setting
The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Patti Callahan Henry
Oxfordshire hamlet — WWII evacuees' secret woodland world
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
Lyra and Will farewell bench
Also featuring Oxford (7)
Anatomy of a Scandal
Sarah Vaughan
Oxford University; 1990s flashback setting
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
University years setting
Clown Town
Mick Herron
Spook College archive
King Sorrow
Joe Hill
Arthur, now an Oxford professor
The Pretender
Jo Harkin
schooled as royalty
Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak
University years and seminar
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
2014 backstory; flooded in future timeline
Notable locations in Oxford
Binsey1Oxford Botanic Garden1
Nearby books
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
1 km · Oxford Botanic Garden
The Pretender
Jo Harkin
1 km · Oxfordshire
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
1 km · Oxfordshire
The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Patti Callahan Henry
3 km · Binsey
The Hounding
Xenobe Purvis
27 km · Nettlebed
Good Omens
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
30 km · Lower Tadfield
Matilda
Roald Dahl
31 km · Aylesbury
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
32 km · Buckinghamshire