The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Lebanon

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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
462 The Prophet Kahlil Gibran 1923 Lebanese English
966 The Ipcress File Len Deighton 1962 British English
3199 Mao II Don DeLillo 1991 American English
3532 An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine 2013 Lebanese English
3638 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
3839 De Niro's Game Rawi Hage 2006 Canadian English
4541 The Stone Of Laughter Hoda Barakat 1990 Lebanese Arabic
5428 Black Sunday Thomas Harris 1975 American English
5606 Die Fälschung Nicolas Born 1979 German German
5702 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5728 I, The Divine Rabih Alameddine 2001 Lebanese English
6620 Zone Mathias Enard 2008 French French
6812 Scorched Wajdi Mouawad 2003 French French
7738 No Turning Back Rania Abouzeid 2018 Unknown English
7841 The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré 1983 British English
8092 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
9261 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 1989 American English
9741 June Rain Jabbour Douaihy 2006 Lebanese Arabic
11001 Shifting The Silence Etel Adnan 2020 Unknown English
11539 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
11611 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11635 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11642 Arsonists City Hala Alyan 2021 American English
11661 The Vanished Imam Fouad Ajami 1986 Lebanese English
12122 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12258 Beirut Fragments Jean Said Makdisi 1990 Lebanese English
12655 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
13225 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan 1991 British English
13599 The Rock Of Tanios Amin Maalouf 1993 French French
14894 The Collected Works Kahlil Gibran 1920 Lebanese Arabic
14984 The Question Of Palestine Edward W. Said 1979 American English
15752 I Live Leila Baalbaki 1958 Lebanese Arabic
16517 Latin Quarter Suhail Idriss 1953 Lebanese Arabic
17120 My Silent War Kim Philby 1968 British English
17120 Beirut Nightmares Ghada Samman 1977 Syrian Arabic
17120 Death In Beirut Tawfiq Yousef Awad 1973 Lebanese Arabic
17120 Gate Of The Sun Elias Khoury 1998 Lebanese Arabic
17120 The Crane Halim Barakat 1988 Syrian Arabic
17120 The Shadow And The Echo Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar Lebanese Unknown
17120 Ras Beirut Yasin Rifa’ieh 1987 Unknown Unknown
17120 Birds Of September Emily Nasrallah 1962 Lebanese Arabic
17120 The Conspiracy Faraj Al-Huwar Unknown Unknown
17120 The Poetry Of Arab Women Nathalie Handal 2001 Multiple English
17120 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17120 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17120 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
17120 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17120 Zaytinya José Andrés 2024 Unknown Unknown
17120 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
17120 Mornings In Jenin Susan Abulhawa 2010 American English
17120 On The Front Line Marie Colvin 2012 British English
17120 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17120 The Cleopatras Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17120 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17120 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17120 Writers And Missionaries Adam Shatz 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Amin Maalouf 1983 French French
17120 Islam In History Bernard Lewis 1973 British English
17120 Pagans And Christians Robin Lane Fox 1986 British English
17120 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17120 Journal Of An Ordinary Grief Mahmoud Darwish 1973 Palestinian Arabic