The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Florence

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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
122 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 1353 Italian Italian
152 The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli 1532 Italian Italian
289 A Room With a View E. M. Forster 1908 British English
515 Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari 1550 Italian Italian
863 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo 1632 Italian Italian
1564 G. John Berger 1972 British English
1936 Autobiography Benvenuto Cellini 1728 Italian Italian
2330 Romola George Eliot 1863 British English
2384 Notebooks Leonardo da Vinci 1883 Italian Italian
2424 Galileo Bertolt Brecht 1938 German German
2480 Artemisia Anna Banti 1947 Italian Italian
2812 The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone 1961 American English
2875 The Moral Essays Giacomo Leopardi 1832 Italian Italian
3637 The Four Books On Architecture Andrea Palladio 1570 Italian Italian
3637 An Outline Of European Architecture Nikolaus Pevsner 1943 British English
3637 The Seven Lamps Of Architecture John Ruskin 1849 British English
3637 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
3637 Franz Sternbald's Wanderings Ludwig Tieck 1798 German German
4072 Private Renaissance Maria Bellonci 1985 Italian Italian
4105 Renaissance And Renascences In Western Art Erwin Panofsky 1960 Unknown English
4383 A Tale Of Poor Lovers Vasco Pratolini 1947 Italian Italian
4386 Fratelli D'italia Alberto Arbasino 1963 Italian Italian
4494 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
4635 The Medici George Frederick Young 1910 Unknown English
4806 Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante 2013 Italian Italian
4899 The Poems Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850 British English
4955 Lorenzaccio Alfred de Musset 1834 French French
5283 The Complete Notebooks Of Henry James Henry James 1987 American English
5608 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5783 The Sisters Materassi Aldo Palazzeschi 1934 Italian Italian
6005 Theatre Of The World Frances A. Yates 1969 British English
6412 A Rich Full Death Michael Dibdin 1986 British English
6873 Povedal Mi Veštec Tiziano Terzani 2002 Italian Italian
7216 Sonnets And Madrigals Michelangelo Buonarroti 1545 Italian Italian
7216 The Mandrake Niccolo Machiavelli 1518 Italian Italian
7586 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
9192 The Geography Of Madness Frank Bures 2016 Unknown English
11167 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11454 The Store Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932 American English
11940 Machiavelli in Hell Sebastian de Grazia 1989 American English
12213 Perspective Laurent Binet 2023 Unknown French
13340 The Rule Of Four Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason 2004 American English
13533 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13743 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13818 Allegri, Gioventù Manlio Cancogni 1959 Italian Italian
13818 The Hummingbird Sandro Veronesi 2019 Italian Italian
14985 The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie 2008 British English
14985 Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel 1999 American English
15744 Summa De Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni & Proportionalita Luca Pacioli 1494 Italian Latin
15914 Man Of Smoke Aldo Palazzeschi 1911 Italian Italian
15914 Niccolò Dei Lapi Massimo D'Azeglio 1841 Italian Italian
15914 Medieval Cities Henri Pirenne 1925 Belgian French
16628 El Príncipe Nicolás Maquiavelo 1532 Italian Italian
16576 Up At The Villa W. Somerset Maugham 1941 British English
16704 L'italia Del Risorgimento Indro Montanelli 1972 Italian Italian
16784 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
17159 Origin Dan Brown 2017 American English
17159 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English
17159 Hannibal Thomas Harris 1999 American English
17159 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17159 The Pike Lucy Hughes-Hallett 2013 British English
17159 The Man In The Red Coat Julian Barnes 2019 British English
17159 The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell 2022 British English
17159 Dark Archives Megan Rosenbloom 2020 Unknown English
17159 In The Name Of The Family Sarah Dunant 2017 British English
17159 Niccolò Rising Dorothy Dunnett 1986 British English
17159 In The Wake Of The Plague Norman F. Cantor 2001 American English
17159 Still Life Sarah Winman 2021 British English
17159 Our Man In Rome Catherine Fletcher 2012 Unknown English
17159 Great Italian Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown Italian
17159 The Roads To Rome Catherine Fletcher 2024 Unknown English
17159 Architectural Composition And Building Typology Gianfranco Caniggia Italian Italian
17159 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17057 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17159 The Sword Thief Peter Lerangis 2009 American English
17159 One False Note Gordon Korman 2024 Canadian English
17159 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17159 Michelangelo The Florentine Sidney Alexander 1957 Unknown English
17159 The Hand Of Michelangelo Sidney Alexander 1976 Unknown English
17159 Duchess Of Milan Michael Ennis 1992 American English
17159 The Agony And The Ecstacy Irving Stone 1961 American English
17159 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
17159 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17159 The History Of Italy Francesco Guicciardini 1540 Italian Italian
17159 Women, Art, And Society Whitney Chadwick 1990 American English
16887 Portrait Of A Lady Henrey James 1881 American English
17159 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English