The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Jerusalem

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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
603 Barabbas Par Lagerkvist 1950 Swedish Swedish
847 Only Yesterday Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1945 Israeli Hebrew
885 A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz 2002 Israeli Hebrew
1159 Eichmann in Jerusalem Hannah Arendt 1963 German English
1178 Nathan the Wise Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1779 German German
1845 Drifting Cities Stratis Tsirkas 1960 Greek Greek
1864 The Jewish War Flavius Josephus 75 Jewish Greek
1998 Ben-Hur Lew Wallace 1880 American English
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
2742 Jerusalem Selma Lagerlöf 1901 Swedish Swedish
2908 Love Life Zeruya Shalev 2000 Israeli Hebrew
3638 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
3638 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
3954 Η Χαμένη Άνοιξη Stratis Tsirkas 1946 Greek Greek
4178 Shira S.Y. Agnon 1989 Israeli Hebrew
4310 Count Belisarius Robert Graves 1938 British English
4688 Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem 1929 German German
4712 My Michael Amos Oz 1968 Israeli Hebrew
5022 The King David Report Stefan Heym 1972 German German
5046 My First Two Thousand Years George Vierick 1928 American English
5393 Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1581 Italian Italian
5939 Jesus Menschensohn Rudolf Augstein 1982 German German
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
7216 Athaliah Jean Racine 1691 French French
7216 Clarel Herman Melville 1876 American English
7999 The Great Transformation Karen Armstrong 2006 British English
8058 Palestine Hubert Haddad 1989 French French
8093 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8144 Jerusalem Commands Michael Moorcock 1992 British English
8226 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
8607 The Palace Of Shattered Vessels David Shahar 1962 Israeli Hebrew
9043 Against The Loveless World Susan Abulhawa 2020 Palestinian English
9192 The Undoing Project Michael M. Lewis 2016 American English
9262 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 1989 American English
9709 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
10291 I Was Born There, I Was Born Here Mourid Barghouti 2011 Palestinian Arabic
10389 The Remains Of Love Zeruya Shalev 2011 Israeli Hebrew
10577 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
10832 A Weave Of Women E. M. Broner 1978 American English
10927 Fear No Evil Natan Sharansky 1988 Israeli English
11320 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
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
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12212 Jesus Of Nazareth Pope Benedict XVI 2007 German German
12484 The Sisters Of Sinai Janet Soskice 2009 Unknown English
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
13968 In The Matter Of Nat Turner Christopher Tomlins 2020 Unknown English
14061 David Bomberg Richard Cork 1987 British English
14132 A History of the Crusades Stephen Runciman 1951 British English
14232 Jerusalem Jez Butterworth 2009 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
14757 The Nazarene Sholem Asch 1939 Polish Yiddish
14985 The Question Of Palestine Edward W. Said 1979 American English
15914 Josephus Lion Feuchtwanger 1932 German German
15914 Mary Shalom Asch 1949 Unknown Yiddish
15914 David The King Gladys Schmitt 1946 American English
16515 King James Version Of The Bible various 1611 English English
17162 Jerusalem The Golden Margaret Drabble 1967 British English
17162 Jerusalem Simon Sebag Montefiore 2011 British English
16841 Judas Iscariot Leonid Andreyev 1907 Russian Russian
17162 Requiem Graham Joyce 1995 British English
17162 The Secret Book Of Kings Yokhi Brandes 2008 Israeli Hebrew
17162 Esv Unknown 2001 Unknown Unknown
17162 Arvet Efter Arn Jan Guillou 2001 Swedish Swedish
17162 The Poetry Of Arab Women Nathalie Handal 2001 Multiple English
17162 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17162 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17162 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17162 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
17162 Mornings In Jenin Susan Abulhawa 2010 American English
17162 Palestinian Walks Raja Shehadeh 2008 Palestinian English
17162 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
16805 Philochristus Edwin A. Abbott 1878 British English
17162 The Land Of Hope And Fear Isabel Kershner 2023 Unknown English
17162 The Cleopatras Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2024 Unknown English
17162 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17162 The Closing Of The Western Mind Charles Freeman 2002 British English
17162 Who Wrote The Bible? Richard Elliott Friedman 1987 American English
17162 Daybreak In Gaza Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller Unknown English
17162 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17162 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17162 Man Of Nazareth Anthony Burgess 1979 British English
17162 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17162 Palestine 1936 Oren Kessler 2023 Unknown English
17162 The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Amin Maalouf 1983 French French
17162 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17162 Islam In History Bernard Lewis 1973 British English
17162 Pagans And Christians Robin Lane Fox 1986 British English
17162 The Blood Gospel James Rollins 2013 American English
17162 The Cellist Daniel Silva 2021 American English
17162 The Book Of Lies Brad Meltzer 2008 American English
17162 Caballo De Troya J.J. Benítez 1984 Spanish Spanish
17162 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
16936 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Iii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
17153 The Relic Eça de Queirós 1887 Portuguese Portuguese
17091 Mémoires D'hadrien, Carnets De Notes De Mémoires D'hadrien Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
17162 The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman 2011 American English