The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Israel

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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
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
667 The Book of Job Unknown -600 Israeli Hebrew
847 Only Yesterday Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1945 Israeli Hebrew
848 Der Judenstaat Theodor Herzl 1896 Austro-Hungarian German
885 A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz 2002 Israeli Hebrew
1160 Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt 1963 German English
1329 Exodus Leon Uris 1958 American English
1587 Past Continuous Yaakov Shabtai 1977 Israeli Hebrew
1845 Drifting Cities Stratis Tsirkas 1960 Greek Greek
1864 The Jewish War Flavius Josephus 75 Jewish Greek
2032 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
2227 Operation Shylock Philip Roth 1993 American English
2318 To The End Of The Land David Grossman 2008 Israeli Hebrew
2529 Life of Christ Giovanni Papini 1921 Italian Italian
2554 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 Greek Greek
2563 Gospels Unknown 70 Multiple Greek
2854 The Counterlife Philip Roth 1986 American English
2907 Love Life Zeruya Shalev 2000 Israeli Hebrew
2934 Dolly City Orly Castel-Bloom 1992 Israeli Hebrew
3143 Poems Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
3172 A Simple Story S.Y. Agnon 1935 Israeli Hebrew
3297 The Dead Sea Scrolls Unknown -150 Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, greek
3637 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
3637 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
3954 Η Χαμένη Άνοιξη Stratis Tsirkas 1946 Greek Greek
4080 The Life Of Jesus Ernest Renan 1863 French French
4178 Shira S.Y. Agnon 1989 Israeli Hebrew
4683 A Horse Walks Into A Bar David Grossman 2014 Israeli Hebrew
4688 Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem 1929 German German
4712 My Michael Amos Oz 1968 Israeli Hebrew
4805 The Wolf Of Masada John Fredman 1978 Unknown English
5022 The King David Report Stefan Heym 1972 German German
5046 My First Two Thousand Years George Vierick 1928 American English
5148 Dawn Elie Wiesel 1961 Romanian French
5154 Quarantine Jim Crace 1997 British English
5429 Black Sunday Thomas Harris 1975 American English
5448 The Lover A. B. Yehoshua 1977 Israeli Hebrew
5595 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
5939 Jesus Menschensohn Rudolf Augstein 1982 German German
5951 Black Box Amos Oz 1987 Israeli Hebrew
6208 The Moon In The Cloud Rosemary Harris 1968 British English
6218 The Sound Of Our Steps Ronit Matalon 2008 Israeli Hebrew
6343 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6420 Collected Poems Dalia Rabikovitch 2009 Israeli Hebrew
6686 Pain Zeruya Shalev 2015 Israeli Hebrew
6851 Apeirogon Colum McCann 2020 Irish English
6926 The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine Rashid Khalidi 2020 American English
7216 Athaliah Jean Racine 1691 French French
7216 Clarel Herman Melville 1876 American English
7216 Shirot Bialik Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
7216 Twenty One Stories Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1941 Israeli Hebrew
7564 Enter Ghost Isabella Hammad 2023 British English
7842 The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré 1983 British English
7904 Arab and Jew David K. Shipler 1986 American English
7954 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
7999 The Great Transformation Karen Armstrong 2006 British English
8058 Palestine Hubert Haddad 1989 French French
8092 The Messianic Idea In Judaism, And Other Essays On Jewish Spirituality Gershom Scholem 1971 German English
8093 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8226 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
8251 The Sun Chemist Lionel Davidson 1976 British English
8568 A Day In The Life Of Abed Salama Nathan Thrall 2023 Unknown English
8588 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8608 The Palace Of Shattered Vessels David Shahar 1962 Israeli Hebrew
8753 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
8776 See Under: Love David Grossman 1986 Israeli Hebrew
9044 Against The Loveless World Susan Abulhawa 2020 Palestinian English
9193 The Undoing Project Michael M. Lewis 2016 American English
9254 Arabs And Israelis Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman, Khalil Shikaki 2013 Multiple English
9263 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 1989 American English
9511 Dita Saxova Arnost Lustig 1962 Czech Czech
9597 The Gospel According To Jesus Christ José Saramago 1991 Portuguese Portuguese
9711 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9915 Thera Zeruya Shalev 2005 Israeli Hebrew
9932 A Dress Of Fire Dalia Ravikovitch 1976 Israeli Hebrew
9932 Selected Poems Dan Pagis 1976 Israeli Hebrew
10037 Hannah Senesh Hannah Senesh 1971 Hungarian Hebrew
10292 I Was Born There, I Was Born Here Mourid Barghouti 2011 Palestinian Arabic
10390 The Remains Of Love Zeruya Shalev 2011 Israeli Hebrew
10502 The Second Oldest Profession Phillip Knightley 1986 British English
10578 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
10752 A Late Divorce A. B. Yehoshua 1982 Israeli Hebrew
10752 A Perfect Peace Amos Oz 1982 Israeli Hebrew
10832 A Weave Of Women E. M. Broner 1978 American English
10927 Fear No Evil Natan Sharansky 1988 Israeli English
11168 Travels Yehuda Amichai 1986 Israeli Hebrew
11320 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
11393 The Immortal Bartfuss Aharon Appelfeld 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11393 His Daughter Yoram Kaniuk 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11535 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11663 Years Of Upheaval Henry A. Kissinger 1982 American English
11663 Arabesques Anton Shammas 1986 Israeli Hebrew
11663 Eternal Life Dara Horn 2018 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
12050 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12212 Jesus Of Nazareth Pope Benedict XVI 2007 German German
12259 Exile In The Promised Land Marcia Freedman 1990 American English
12259 The Samaritan Treasure Marianne Luban 1990 American Unknown
12291 All Russians Love Birch Trees Olga Grjasnowa 2012 German German
12484 The Sisters Of Sinai Janet Soskice 2009 Unknown English
12657 Poems Of Nathan Zach Nathan Zach 2020 Israeli Hebrew
12723 Tomorrow Is Yesterday Hussein Agha, Robert Malley 2025 American English
12823 Being Jewish After The Destruction Of Gaza Peter Beinart 2025 American English
13144 A Historian In Gaza Jean-Pierre Filiu 2025 French Unknown
13500 Jerusalem Plays Hide And Seek Ariella Deem 2021 Unknown Unknown
13703 The Mandelbaum Gate Muriel Spark 1965 British English
13817 Morality Jonathan Sacks 2019 British English
13921 Book Of Psalms Alabaster Co. 2018 Unknown Hebrew
14061 David Bomberg Richard Cork 1987 British English
14232 People Of The Book Geraldine Brooks 2008 Australian English
14452 The Word Irving Wallace 1972 American English
14625 According To Mary Magdalene Marianne Fredriksson 1998 Swedish Swedish
14721 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
14985 Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch 2010 British English
14985 The Question Of Palestine Edward W. Said 1979 American English
15616 Qb Vii Leon Uris 1970 American English