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
3198 Mao II Don DeLillo 1991 American English
3531 An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine 2013 Lebanese English
3637 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
3838 De Niro's Game Rawi Hage 2006 Canadian English
4542 The Stone Of Laughter Hoda Barakat 1990 Lebanese Arabic
5429 Black Sunday Thomas Harris 1975 American English
5608 Die Fälschung Nicolas Born 1979 German German
5704 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5730 I, The Divine Rabih Alameddine 2001 Lebanese English
6621 Zone Mathias Enard 2008 French French
6812 Scorched Wajdi Mouawad 2003 French French
7739 No Turning Back Rania Abouzeid 2018 Unknown English
7842 The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré 1983 British English
8093 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
9263 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 1989 American English
9745 June Rain Jabbour Douaihy 2006 Lebanese Arabic
11005 Shifting The Silence Etel Adnan 2020 Unknown English
11541 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11644 Arsonists City Hala Alyan 2021 American English
11663 The Vanished Imam Fouad Ajami 1986 Lebanese English
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12259 Beirut Fragments Jean Said Makdisi 1990 Lebanese English
12657 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
13228 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan 1991 British English
13600 The Rock Of Tanios Amin Maalouf 1993 French French
14896 The Collected Works Kahlil Gibran 1920 Lebanese Arabic
14985 The Question Of Palestine Edward W. Said 1979 American English
15759 I Live Leila Baalbaki 1958 Lebanese Arabic
16513 King James Version Of The Bible various 1611 English English
16534 Latin Quarter Suhail Idriss 1953 Lebanese Arabic
16608 The Oxford Complete Shakespeare, 2nd Edition Oxford University Press 1623 British English
17164 My Silent War Kim Philby 1968 British English
17164 Beirut Nightmares Ghada Samman 1977 Syrian Arabic
17164 Death In Beirut Tawfiq Yousef Awad 1973 Lebanese Arabic
17164 Gate Of The Sun Elias Khoury 1998 Lebanese Arabic
17164 The Crane Halim Barakat 1988 Syrian Arabic
17164 The Shadow And The Echo Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar Lebanese Unknown
17164 Ras Beirut Yasin Rifa’ieh 1987 Unknown Unknown
17164 Birds Of September Emily Nasrallah 1962 Lebanese Arabic
17164 The Conspiracy Faraj Al-Huwar Unknown Unknown
17164 The Poetry Of Arab Women Nathalie Handal 2001 Multiple English
17164 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17164 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17164 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
17164 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17164 Zaytinya José Andrés 2024 Unknown Unknown
17164 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
17164 Mornings In Jenin Susan Abulhawa 2010 American English
17164 On The Front Line Marie Colvin 2012 British English
17164 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17164 The Cleopatras Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2024 Unknown English
17164 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17164 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17164 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17164 Writers And Missionaries Adam Shatz 2023 Unknown English
17164 The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Amin Maalouf 1983 French French
17164 Islam In History Bernard Lewis 1973 British English
17164 Pagans And Christians Robin Lane Fox 1986 British English
17164 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17164 Journal Of An Ordinary Grief Mahmoud Darwish 1973 Palestinian Arabic