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Novels set on islands

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Gulliver's Travels

1726 novel by Jonathan Swift

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis

incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon

Two Years' Vacation

1888 novel by Jules Verne

2004 novel by David Mitchell

The Island of the Day Before

1994 novel by Umberto Eco

Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children

2011 novel by Ransom Riggs

The Lighthouse at the End of the World

1905 novel by Jules Verne

1882 novel by Jules Verne

1962 novel by Aldous Huxley

The Naked and the Dead

novel by Norman Mailer

The Castaways of the Flag

novel by Jules Verne

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is American writer Herman Melville's first book, published in 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is based on Melville's experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and research from other books. The title comes from the valley of Taipivai, once known as Taipi.

novel by John Fowles

Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in the Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis, set on the planet of Perelandra, or Venus. It was first published in 1943.

novel by Kurt Vonnegut

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

children's novel by Charles Kingsley

novel by Kingsley Amis

The Survivors of the "Jonathan"

novel by Jules Verne

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1992 novel by Peter Høeg

Moominpappa at Sea

book by Tove Jansson

The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber

wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha)

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

novel by Louis de Bernières

Eye of the Needle

novel by Ken Follett

The Thin Red Line

novel by James Jones

2008 novel by Terry Pratchett

Friday, or, The Other Island

1967 novel by Michel Tournier

The Wasp Factory

1984 novel by Iain Banks

Island of the Blue Dolphins

1960 children's novel by Scott O'Dell

The Beasts of Tarzan

1914 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Blue Lagoon

1908 novel by Henry de Vere Stacpoole

2008 novel by Eoin Colfer

Five on a Treasure Island

1942 children's book by Enid Blyton

Aline and Valcour

1793 novel by Marquis de Sade

1822 novel by Walter Scott

1986 novel by J. M. Coetzee

Five on Kirrin Island Again

novel by Enid Blyton

Arturo's Island

1957 novel by Elsa Morante

The Fourth Book

novel by François Rabelais

Five Run Away Together

1944 novel by Enid Blyton

The Tale of Despereaux

story book by Kate DiCamillo

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

novel by Hugh Lofting

Swallows and Amazons

book by Arthur Ransome

Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific

novel by Frederick Marryat

2014 book by E. Lockhart

England, England

1998 novel by Julian Barnes

The Island of Eternal Love

2006 novel by Daína Chaviano

The Summer Book

1972 novel by Tove Jansson

Rinkitink in Oz

1916 novel by L. Frank Baum

The Well-Beloved

1897 novel by Thomas Hardy

The Memory Police

1994 novel by Yōko Ogawa

A Tale for the Time Being

novel by Ruth Ozeki

The Ambler Warning

2005 novel by Robert Ludlum

2006 novel by Lloyd Jones

Five Have Plenty of Fun

novel by Enid Blyton

1996 novel by Alex Garland