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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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
12798 The Island Victoria Hislop 2005 British English
13362 A Book of Mediterranean Food Elizabeth David 1950 British English
13362 History Of Greece George Grote 1846 British English
13362 Anastasius Thomas Hope 1819 British English
13533 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13543 Three Junes Julia Glass 2002 American English
13591 Papyrus Irene Vallejo 2019 Spanish Spanish
13600 Captain Conan Roger Vercel 1934 French English
13712 The Greek Way Edith Hamilton 1930 American English
13716 Age Of Bronze Eric Shanower 2007 American English
13743 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13772 Logicomix Apostolos Doxiadis 2008 Greek English
14021 Phoenix David Stuttard 2021 Unknown English
14070 Erste Erde Epos Raoul Schrott 2016 Austrian German
14110 Enneads Plotinus -270 Greek Greek
14113 Sexual Personae Camille Paglia 1990 American English
14122 The Mask Of Apollo Mary Renault 1966 British English
14212 Plato And Platonism Walter Pater 1893 British English
14231 The King Must Die Mary Renault 1958 British English
14363 Theocritus, Bion And Moschus Andrew Lang 1889 Scottish English
14411 Greek Tragedies 1 David Grene 1955 Unknown English
14499 The Trial Of Henry Kissinger Christopher Hitchens 2001 British English
14599 How We Live Rust Hills 1973 American English
14630 The Gutenberg Galaxy Marshall McLuhan 1962 Canadian English
14698 The Apostolic Fathers William Wake, Edward Burton 1888 British English
14721 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
14726 De Anima Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
14754 Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus -180 Greek Greek
14755 Physics Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
14759 The Dyskolos Menander -316 Greek Ancient greek
14762 The Histories Polybius -150 Greek Greek
14773 The Works of Archimedes Archimedes -287 Greek Ancient greek
14770 The Symposium Xenophon 361 Greek Ancient greek
14985 Adults in the Room Yanis Varoufakis 2017 Greek English
14985 Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch 2010 British English
14985 The Golden Mean Annabel Lyon 2009 Canadian English
14985 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
15686 Medea Christa Wolf 1996 German German
15738 Gorgias Plato -380 Greek Ancient greek
15749 The Three Theban Plays Sophocles -441 Greek Ancient greek
15743 The Iliad / The Odyssey Homer -762 Greek Ancient greek
15771 The Complete Writings Of Thucydides The Peloponnesian War Thucydides -431 Greek Ancient greek
15775 The Oedipus Plays Of Sophocles Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
15880 John Berger And Me Nikos Papastergiadis 1975 Unknown English
15877 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
15916 Officers And Gentlemen Evelyn Waugh 1955 British English
15916 Milinda Panha Unknown -100 Mulitple Pali
15916 Ill Met By Moonlight W. Stanley Moss 1950 British English
15916 The Origins Of European Thought R. B. Onians 1951 British English
15916 The Greeks And The Irrational E. R. Dodds 1951 British English
15916 The Greek Myths Robert Graves 1955 British English
15916 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15916 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
15886 Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell 1972 American English
15916 The Colossus Of Maroussi Henry Miller 1941 American English
15916 Paradise Lost And Other Poems John Milton 1667 British English
16507 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16512 King James Version Of The Bible various 1611 English English
16586 Meno Plato -385 Greek Ancient greek
16589 The Halloween Tree Ray Bradbury 1972 American English
16605 The Complete Works Of Shakespeare William Shakespeare 1623 British English
16611 Storia Dei Greci Indro Montanelli 1959 Italian Italian
16592 Iliad & Odyssey Homer -749 Greek Ancient greek (homeric greek)
16609 The Oxford Complete Shakespeare, 2nd Edition Oxford University Press 1623 British English
16733 Protagoras Plato -390 Greek Ancient greek
16774 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16759 The Art Of Rhetoric Aristotle 1926 Greek Ancient greek
16775 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
16685 The Iliad Of Homer Richmond Lattimore -762 Greek Ancient greek
16681 The Iliad/The Odyssey/The Aeneid Homer -800 Greek Ancient greek
16671 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
16747 Αναφορά στον Γκρέκο Nikos Kazantzakis 1961 Greek Greek
16888 War Music Christopher Logue 1959 British English
17163 Theophrastus William Wall Fortenbaugh, Dimitri Gutas 1992 Greek English
17163 The Silence of the Girls Pat Barker 2018 British English
17163 The Particle At The End Of The Universe Sean Carroll 2012 American English
17163 Gorgias/Gorgias Coleen P. Zoller, Jurgen R. Gatt, S. Montgomery Ewegen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17163 A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall Will Chancellor 2014 American English
17163 Greek Lyrics Richmond Lattimore 1960 Greek English
17163 The Oldest Dead White European Males Bernard Knox 1993 American English
17163 Persian Fire Tom Holland 2005 British English
17163 Mythos Stephen Fry 2017 British English
16889 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17163 The Blue Zones Dan Buettner 2008 American English
17163 Troya Stephen Fry 2020 British English
17023 Parmenides Plato -369 Greek Ancient greek
17163 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 Mircea Eliade 1976 Romanian French
17163 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17163 The Discoverers Daniel J. Boorstin 1983 American English
17163 Heroes Stephen Fry 2018 British English
17163 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17163 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17163 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17163 The History Of White People Nell Irvin Painter 2010 American English
17163 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17163 The Voyage Home Pat Barker 2024 British English
17163 Zaytinya José Andrés 2024 Unknown Unknown
17163 Odyssey Stephen Fry 2024 Unknown English
16808 The Last Of The Wine Mary Renault 1956 British English
17163 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17163 Border Kassa Kappabova 2017 Unknown English
17163 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17163 Helen Of Troy Margaret George 2006 American English
17163 Becoming Bulletproof Evy Poumpouras 2020 Unknown English
17163 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
17163 Going Solo Roald Dahl 1986 British English
17163 Gates Of Fire Steven Pressfield 1998 American English
17163 Myself & Other Animals Gerald Durrell 2024 British English
17163 The Last Odyssey James Rollins 2020 American English
17163 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17163 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17163 The Fall Of The Roman Empire Peter Heather 2005 British English
17163 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17163 Refugee Alan Gratz 2017 American English
17163 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17163 The Cleopatras Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Storm Before The Storm Mike Duncan 2017 American English
16946 Agamemnon Aeschylus -458 Greek Ancient greek
17163 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17163 Yoga Emmanuel Carrère 2020 French French