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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3954 Η Χαμένη Άνοιξη Stratis Tsirkas 1946 Greek Greek
3954 The End Of Our Small Town Dimitris Hatzis 1963 Greek Greek
3954 Η Κερένια Κούκλα Konstantinos Christomanos 1899 Greek Greek
3954 Το Ταξίδι Μου Yiannis Psycharis 1888 Greek Greek
3954 Difficult Nights Melpo Axioti 1938 Greek Greek
4095 The Flaw Antonis Samarakis 1965 Greek Greek
4138 Το Μυθιστόρημα της Κυρίας Έρσης Nikos-Gabriel Pentzikis 1966 Greek Greek
4158 The Assemblywomen Aristophanes -391 Greek Ancient greek
4216 Andromache Euripides -425 Greek Ancient greek
4219 Heracles Euripides -416 Greek Ancient greek
4220 Ion Euripides -413 Greek Ancient greek
4221 Iphigenia At Aulis Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
4225 Orestes Euripides -408 Greek Ancient greek
4231 The Wasps Aristophanes -422 Greek Ancient greek
4228 The Light Of Day Eric Ambler 1962 British English
4234 Iskander Louis Couperus 1920 Dutch Dutch
4253 Autumn Journal Louis MacNeice 1939 British English
4404 Fortunes Of War Olivia Manning 1960 British English
4545 The Collected Poems Of Odysseus Elytis Odysseas Elytis 1971 Greek Greek
4545 Η Σαρκοφαγος Giorgos Ioannou 1971 Greek Greek
4598 The Fourth Dimension Yannis Ritsos 1972 Greek Greek
4724 Mission Box Aris Alexandrou 1974 Greek Greek
4733 The Making of Homeric Verse Milman Parry 1971 American English
4779 Odes Pindar -518 Greek Ancient greek
4810 Oktana Andreas Embiricos 1975 Greek Greek
4874 Βιοτεχνία Υαλικών Menis Koumandareas 1976 Greek Greek
4900 The Last Man Mary Shelley 1826 British English
4957 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
4988 The Campaigns Of Alexander Arrian 1976 Greek Greek
5026 Dying As A Country Dimitris Dimitriadis 1978 Greek Greek
5026 Deathfeast Takis Sinopoulos 1978 Greek Greek
5123 Creation Gore Vidal 1981 American English
5127 Maria Nephele Odysseas Elytis 1979 Greek Greek
5127 Αντιποίησις Αρχής Alexandros Kotzias 1979 Greek Greek
5127 Ο Εχθρός του Ποιητή Giorgos Heimonas 1979 Greek Greek
5190 They Went Norman Douglas 1920 British English
5269 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami 2007 Japanese Japanese
5285 από το στόμα της παλιάς Remington Giannis Panou 1981 Greek Greek
5516 Journal Of A Soul Pope John XXIII 1964 Italian Italian
5527 Not After Midnight Daphne du Maurier 1971 British English
5608 A Man Oriana Fallaci 1979 Italian Italian
5704 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5709 Woof, Woof, Dear Lord Sotiris Dimitriou 1987 Greek Unknown
5709 Διηγήματα Michail Mitsakis 1987 Greek Greek
5709 Ο Λουσίας Nikos Houliaras 1987 Greek Greek
5775 Χαιρε Ποτε Kiki Dimoula 1988 Greek Greek
5829 On The Sublime Longinus -50 Greek Greek
5824 Idylls Theocritus -260 Greek Ancient greek
5825 Moralia Plutarch -100 Greek Greek
5832 Poems Archilochos -650 Greek Ancient greek
5831 Poems Alkman -650 Greek Ancient greek
5843 The Girl From Samos Menander -342 Greek Ancient greek
5972 Data From The Decade Of The Sixties Thanassis Valtinos 1989 Greek Greek
5972 The Life Of Ismail Ferik Pasha Rea Galanaki 1989 Greek Greek
6005 A History Of Greece To The Death Of Alexander The Great John Bagnell Bury 1900 British English
6147 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 2005 American English
6158 Pawn In Frankincense Dorothy Dunnett 1969 British English
6190 The March Of Folly Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1984 American English
6202 The Elegies Of Oxopetra Odysseas Elytis 1991 Greek Greek
6343 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6352 My Brother Michael Mary Stewart 1959 British English
6382 An Essay On Universal History, The Manners, And Spirit Of Nations Voltaire 1756 French French
6422 Astradeni Eugenia Fakinou 1991 Greek Greek
6451 Orthokostá Thanassis Valtinos 1994 Greek Greek
6508 Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture Apostolos Doxiadis 1992 Greek Greek
6568 The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants Ann Brashares 2001 American English
6636 Солунският чудотворец Fani Popova-Mutafova 1981 Bulgarian Bulgarian
6647 The Builders Giorgos Heimonas 1996 Greek Greek
6873 The Late-night News Petros Markaris 1995 Greek Greek
7021 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
7176 Out Of Sheer Rage Geoff Dyer 1997 British English
7216 Selected Poems Angelos Sikelianos 1900 Greek Greek
7216 Lazarus Laughed Eugene O'Neill 1927 American English
7586 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
7812 The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 2011 American English
7999 The Great Transformation Karen Armstrong 2006 British English
8027 The Class Struggle In The Ancient Greek World G. E. M. de Ste. Croix 1981 British English
8093 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8333 The Last Days Of Socrates Plato -399 Greek Ancient greek
8511 Euthyphro Plato -399 Greek Ancient greek
8645 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8752 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
8835 The Flies Jean Paul Sartre 1943 French French
8872 Becoming Mrs. Lewis Patti Callahan Henry 2018 American English
9279 The Balkan Trilogy Olivia Manning 1960 British English
9606 Achilles Elizabeth Cook 2001 British English
9710 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9836 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
10092 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10140 What I Love Odysseas Elytis 1978 Greek Greek
10246 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
10502 The Fragility Of Goodness Martha C. Nussbaum 1986 American English
10763 Notes On A Foreign Country Suzy Hansen 2017 American English
10837 Border Kapka Kassabova 2017 Bulgarian English
10849 Homo Necans Walter Burkert 1972 German German
10849 Gardens Of Adonis Marcel Detienne 1972 Greek French
11041 The Riders Tim Winton 1994 Australian English
11166 The Destroyers Christopher Bollen 2017 American English
11168 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11273 Seiobo There Below László Krasznahorkai 2008 Hungarian Hungarian
11346 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11366 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11483 The Darkening Age Catherine Nixey 2017 British English
11520 Enchiridion Of Epictetus Epictetus 135 Greek Greek
11527 On The Crown Demosthenes -330 Greek Ancient greek
11529 Selected Speeches Demosthenes, Robin Waterfield -322 Greek Greek
11536 The Twelve Labours of Hercules Unknown -100 Multiple Ancient greek
11538 Timaeus Plato -360 Greek Ancient greek
11541 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
11605 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11631 Political And Social Writings Cornelius Castoriadis 1988 French French
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11844 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11853 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11858 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
12011 Mr. Mani A. B. Yehoshua 1990 Israeli Hebrew
12515 The Seventh Garment Eugenia Fakinou 1991 Greek Greek