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
2031 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
2226 Operation Shylock Philip Roth 1993 American English
2317 To The End Of The Land David Grossman 2008 Israeli Hebrew
2527 Life of Christ Giovanni Papini 1921 Italian Italian
2552 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 Greek Greek
2741 Jerusalem Selma Lagerlöf 1901 Swedish Swedish
2906 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
3953 Η Χαμένη Άνοιξη Stratis Tsirkas 1946 Greek Greek
4177 Shira S.Y. Agnon 1989 Israeli Hebrew
4309 Count Belisarius Robert Graves 1938 British English
4687 Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem 1929 German German
4711 My Michael Amos Oz 1968 Israeli Hebrew
5019 The King David Report Stefan Heym 1972 German German
5043 My First Two Thousand Years George Vierick 1928 American English
5391 Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1581 Italian Italian
5936 Jesus Menschensohn Rudolf Augstein 1982 German German
6340 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6417 Collected Poems Dalia Rabikovitch 2009 Israeli Hebrew
6685 Pain Zeruya Shalev 2015 Israeli Hebrew
6851 Apeirogon Colum McCann 2020 Irish English
7215 Athaliah Jean Racine 1691 French French
7215 Clarel Herman Melville 1876 American English
7998 The Great Transformation Karen Armstrong 2006 British English
8057 Palestine Hubert Haddad 1989 French French
8092 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8142 Jerusalem Commands Michael Moorcock 1992 British English
8224 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
8605 The Palace Of Shattered Vessels David Shahar 1962 Israeli Hebrew
9041 Against The Loveless World Susan Abulhawa 2020 Palestinian English
9191 The Undoing Project Michael M. Lewis 2016 American English
9261 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 1989 American English
9707 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
10288 I Was Born There, I Was Born Here Mourid Barghouti 2011 Palestinian Arabic
10386 The Remains Of Love Zeruya Shalev 2011 Israeli Hebrew
10574 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
10828 A Weave Of Women E. M. Broner 1978 American English
10922 Fear No Evil Natan Sharansky 1988 Israeli English
11315 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
11660 Eternal Life Dara Horn 2018 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
12122 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12211 Jesus Of Nazareth Pope Benedict XVI 2007 German German
12482 The Sisters Of Sinai Janet Soskice 2009 Unknown English
13498 Jerusalem Plays Hide And Seek Ariella Deem 2021 Unknown Unknown
13702 The Mandelbaum Gate Muriel Spark 1965 British English
13816 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
14451 The Word Irving Wallace 1972 American English
14624 According To Mary Magdalene Marianne Fredriksson 1998 Swedish Swedish
14720 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
14759 The Nazarene Sholem Asch 1939 Polish Yiddish
14984 The Question Of Palestine Edward W. Said 1979 American English
15898 Josephus Lion Feuchtwanger 1932 German German
15898 Mary Shalom Asch 1949 Unknown Yiddish
15898 David The King Gladys Schmitt 1946 American English
17120 Jerusalem The Golden Margaret Drabble 1967 British English
17120 Jerusalem Simon Sebag Montefiore 2011 British English
16812 Judas Iscariot Leonid Andreyev 1907 Russian Russian
17120 Requiem Graham Joyce 1995 British English
17120 The Secret Book Of Kings Yokhi Brandes 2008 Israeli Hebrew
17120 Esv Unknown 2001 Unknown Unknown
17120 Arvet Efter Arn Jan Guillou 2001 Swedish Swedish
17120 The Poetry Of Arab Women Nathalie Handal 2001 Multiple English
17120 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17120 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17120 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17120 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
17120 Mornings In Jenin Susan Abulhawa 2010 American English
17120 Palestinian Walks Raja Shehadeh 2008 Palestinian English
17120 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
16769 Philochristus Edwin A. Abbott 1878 British English
17120 The Land Of Hope And Fear Isabel Kershner 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Cleopatras Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17120 The Closing Of The Western Mind Charles Freeman 2002 British English
17120 Who Wrote The Bible? Richard Elliott Friedman 1987 American English
17120 Daybreak In Gaza Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller Unknown English
17120 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17120 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17120 Man Of Nazareth Anthony Burgess 1979 British English
17120 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17120 Palestine 1936 Oren Kessler 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Amin Maalouf 1983 French French
17120 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17120 Islam In History Bernard Lewis 1973 British English
17120 Pagans And Christians Robin Lane Fox 1986 British English
17120 The Blood Gospel James Rollins 2013 American English
17120 The Cellist Daniel Silva 2021 American English
17120 The Book Of Lies Brad Meltzer 2008 American English
17120 Caballo De Troya J.J. Benítez 1984 Spanish Spanish
17120 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
16905 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Iii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
17088 The Relic Eça de Queirós 1887 Portuguese Portuguese
17048 Mémoires D'hadrien, Carnets De Notes De Mémoires D'hadrien Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
17120 The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman 2011 American English