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
1935 Autobiography Benvenuto Cellini 1728 Italian Italian
2328 Romola George Eliot 1863 British English
2382 Notebooks Leonardo da Vinci 1883 Italian Italian
2422 Galileo Bertolt Brecht 1938 German German
2478 Artemisia Anna Banti 1947 Italian Italian
2809 The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone 1961 American English
2872 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
4493 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
4634 The Medici George Frederick Young 1910 Unknown English
4805 Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante 2013 Italian Italian
4898 The Poems Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850 British English
4953 Lorenzaccio Alfred de Musset 1834 French French
5281 The Complete Notebooks Of Henry James Henry James 1987 American English
5605 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5780 The Sisters Materassi Aldo Palazzeschi 1934 Italian Italian
6002 Theatre Of The World Frances A. Yates 1969 British English
6409 A Rich Full Death Michael Dibdin 1986 British English
6873 Povedal Mi Veštec Tiziano Terzani 2002 Italian Italian
7215 Sonnets And Madrigals Michelangelo Buonarroti 1545 Italian Italian
7215 The Mandrake Niccolo Machiavelli 1518 Italian Italian
7585 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
9188 The Geography Of Madness Frank Bures 2016 Unknown English
11161 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11449 The Store Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932 American English
11939 Machiavelli in Hell Sebastian de Grazia 1989 American English
12212 Perspective Laurent Binet 2023 Unknown French
13337 The Rule Of Four Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason 2004 American English
13532 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13742 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13817 Allegri, Gioventù Manlio Cancogni 1959 Italian Italian
13817 The Hummingbird Sandro Veronesi 2019 Italian Italian
14983 The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie 2008 British English
14983 Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel 1999 American English
15736 Summa De Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni & Proportionalita Luca Pacioli 1494 Italian Latin
15897 Man Of Smoke Aldo Palazzeschi 1911 Italian Italian
15897 Niccolò Dei Lapi Massimo D'Azeglio 1841 Italian Italian
15897 Medieval Cities Henri Pirenne 1925 Belgian French
16665 L'italia Del Risorgimento Indro Montanelli 1972 Italian Italian
16753 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
16691 El Príncipe Nicolás Maquiavelo 1532 Italian Italian
16724 Up At The Villa W. Somerset Maugham 1941 British English
17114 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English
17114 Hannibal Thomas Harris 1999 American English
17114 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17114 The Pike Lucy Hughes-Hallett 2013 British English
17114 The Man In The Red Coat Julian Barnes 2019 British English
17114 The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell 2022 British English
17114 Dark Archives Megan Rosenbloom 2020 Unknown English
17114 In The Name Of The Family Sarah Dunant 2017 British English
17114 Niccolò Rising Dorothy Dunnett 1986 British English
17114 In The Wake Of The Plague Norman F. Cantor 2001 American English
17114 Still Life Sarah Winman 2021 British English
17114 Our Man In Rome Catherine Fletcher 2012 Unknown English
17114 Great Italian Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown Italian
17114 The Roads To Rome Catherine Fletcher 2024 Unknown English
17114 Architectural Composition And Building Typology Gianfranco Caniggia Italian Italian
17114 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17039 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17114 The Sword Thief Peter Lerangis 2009 American English
17114 One False Note Gordon Korman 2024 Canadian English
17114 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17114 Michelangelo The Florentine Sidney Alexander 1957 Unknown English
17114 The Hand Of Michelangelo Sidney Alexander 1976 Unknown English
17114 Duchess Of Milan Michael Ennis 1992 American English
17114 The Agony And The Ecstacy Irving Stone 1961 American English
17114 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
17114 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17114 The History Of Italy Francesco Guicciardini 1540 Italian Italian
17114 Women, Art, And Society Whitney Chadwick 1990 American English
16826 Portrait Of A Lady Henrey James 1881 American English
17114 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English