The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Greece

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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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3953 Η Χαμένη Άνοιξη Stratis Tsirkas 1946 Greek Greek
3953 The End Of Our Small Town Dimitris Hatzis 1963 Greek Greek
3953 Η Κερένια Κούκλα Konstantinos Christomanos 1899 Greek Greek
3953 Το Ταξίδι Μου Yiannis Psycharis 1888 Greek Greek
3953 Difficult Nights Melpo Axioti 1938 Greek Greek
4094 The Flaw Antonis Samarakis 1965 Greek Greek
4137 Το Μυθιστόρημα της Κυρίας Έρσης Nikos-Gabriel Pentzikis 1966 Greek Greek
4157 The Assemblywomen Aristophanes -391 Greek Ancient greek
4215 Andromache Euripides -425 Greek Ancient greek
4218 Heracles Euripides -416 Greek Ancient greek
4219 Ion Euripides -413 Greek Ancient greek
4220 Iphigenia At Aulis Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
4224 Orestes Euripides -408 Greek Ancient greek
4230 The Wasps Aristophanes -422 Greek Ancient greek
4227 The Light Of Day Eric Ambler 1962 British English
4233 Iskander Louis Couperus 1920 Dutch Dutch
4252 Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice 1939 British English
4403 Fortunes Of War Olivia Manning 1960 British English
4543 The Collected Poems Of Odysseus Elytis Odysseas Elytis 1971 Greek Greek
4543 Η Σαρκοφαγος Giorgos Ioannou 1971 Greek Greek
4596 The Fourth Dimension Yannis Ritsos 1972 Greek Greek
4722 Mission Box Aris Alexandrou 1974 Greek Greek
4731 The Making of Homeric Verse Milman Parry 1971 American English
4779 Odes Pindar -518 Greek Ancient greek
4807 Oktana Andreas Embiricos 1975 Greek Greek
4872 Βιοτεχνία Υαλικών Menis Koumandareas 1976 Greek Greek
4898 The Last Man Mary Shelley 1826 British English
4954 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
4984 The Campaigns Of Alexander Arrian 1976 Greek Greek
5022 Dying As A Country Dimitris Dimitriadis 1978 Greek Greek
5022 Deathfeast Takis Sinopoulos 1978 Greek Greek
5120 Creation Gore Vidal 1981 American English
5124 Maria Nephele Odysseas Elytis 1979 Greek Greek
5124 Αντιποίησις Αρχής Alexandros Kotzias 1979 Greek Greek
5124 Ο Εχθρός του Ποιητή Giorgos Heimonas 1979 Greek Greek
5187 They Went Norman Douglas 1920 British English
5267 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami 2007 Japanese Japanese
5283 από το στόμα της παλιάς Remington Giannis Panou 1981 Greek Greek
5513 Journal Of A Soul Pope John XXIII 1964 Italian Italian
5525 Not After Midnight Daphne du Maurier 1971 British English
5605 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5701 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5706 Woof, Woof, Dear Lord Sotiris Dimitriou 1987 Greek Unknown
5706 Διηγήματα Michail Mitsakis 1987 Greek Greek
5706 Ο Λουσίας Nikos Houliaras 1987 Greek Greek
5772 Χαιρε Ποτε Kiki Dimoula 1988 Greek Greek
5826 On The Sublime Longinus -50 Greek Greek
5821 Idylls Theocritus -260 Greek Ancient greek
5823 Moralia Plutarch -100 Greek Greek
5830 Poems Archilochos -650 Greek Ancient greek
5829 Poems Alkman -650 Greek Ancient greek
5840 The Girl From Samos Menander -342 Greek Ancient greek
5968 Data From The Decade Of The Sixties Thanassis Valtinos 1989 Greek Greek
5968 The Life Of Ismail Ferik Pasha Rea Galanaki 1989 Greek Greek
6002 A History Of Greece To The Death Of Alexander The Great John Bagnell Bury 1900 British English
6144 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 2005 American English
6155 Pawn In Frankincense Dorothy Dunnett 1969 British English
6186 The March Of Folly Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1984 American English
6198 The Elegies Of Oxopetra Odysseas Elytis 1991 Greek Greek
6340 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6349 My Brother Michael Mary Stewart 1959 British English
6379 An Essay On Universal History, The Manners, And Spirit Of Nations Voltaire 1756 French French
6419 Astradeni Eugenia Fakinou 1991 Greek Greek
6449 Orthokostá Thanassis Valtinos 1994 Greek Greek
6506 Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture Apostolos Doxiadis 1992 Greek Greek
6566 The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants Ann Brashares 2001 American English
6634 Солунският чудотворец Fani Popova-Mutafova 1981 Bulgarian Bulgarian
6645 The Builders Giorgos Heimonas 1996 Greek Greek
6873 The Late-night News Petros Markaris 1995 Greek Greek
7022 Crito Plato -389 Greek Ancient greek
7086 A Short Border Handbook Gazmend Kapllani 2009 Greek Albanian
7160 The Poems Of Manolis Anagnostakis Manolis Anagnostakis 2001 Greek Greek
7175 Out Of Sheer Rage Geoff Dyer 1997 British English
7215 Selected Poems Angelos Sikelianos 1900 Greek Greek
7215 Lazarus Laughed Eugene O'Neill 1927 American English
7585 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
7811 The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 2011 American English
7998 The Great Transformation Karen Armstrong 2006 British English
8026 The Class Struggle In The Ancient Greek World G. E. M. de Ste. Croix 1981 British English
8092 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8332 The Last Days Of Socrates Plato -399 Greek Ancient greek
8507 Euthyphro Plato -399 Greek Ancient greek
8641 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8747 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
8831 The Flies Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8868 Becoming Mrs. Lewis Patti Callahan Henry 2018 American English
9274 The Balkan Trilogy Olivia Manning 1960 British English
9601 Achilles Elizabeth Cook 2001 British English
9705 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9832 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
10086 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10135 What I Love Odysseas Elytis 1978 Greek Greek
10239 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
10496 The Fragility Of Goodness Martha C. Nussbaum 1986 American English
10756 Notes On A Foreign Country Suzy Hansen 2017 American English
10831 Border Kapka Kassabova 2017 Bulgarian English
10843 Homo Necans Walter Burkert 1972 German German
10843 Gardens Of Adonis Marcel Detienne 1972 Greek French
11034 The Riders Tim Winton 1994 Australian English
11159 The Destroyers Christopher Bollen 2017 American English
11161 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11266 Seiobo There Below László Krasznahorkai 2008 Hungarian Hungarian
11339 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11360 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11479 The Darkening Age Catherine Nixey 2017 British English
11517 Enchiridion Of Epictetus Epictetus 135 Greek Greek
11524 On The Crown Demosthenes -330 Greek Ancient greek
11526 Selected Speeches Demosthenes, Robin Waterfield -322 Greek Greek
11533 The Twelve Labours of Hercules Unknown -100 Multiple Ancient greek
11535 Timaeus Plato -360 Greek Ancient greek
11538 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
11602 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11610 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11628 Political And Social Writings Cornelius Castoriadis 1988 French French
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11842 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11851 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11856 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
12009 Mr. Mani A. B. Yehoshua 1990 Israeli Hebrew
12513 The Seventh Garment Eugenia Fakinou 1991 Greek Greek