The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Rome

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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
6379 History Of Germany In The Nineteenth Century Heinrich von Treitschke 1879 German German
6431 A Very Normal Man Vincenzo Cerami 1976 Italian Italian
6449 Rome And A Villa Eleanor Clark 1952 American English
6619 Zone Mathias Enard 2008 French French
6630 Confessions Jaume Cabré 2011 Spanish Catalan
6747 Infanta Bodo Kirchhoff 1990 German German
6760 Difficult Loves Italo Calvino 1958 Italian Italian
7072 Palimpsest Gore Vidal 1995 American English
7073 Augustus John Williams 1972 American English
7086 La Verità Sul Caso D. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini 1993 Italian Italian
7122 Why We Love Helen Fisher 2004 American English
7168 Julio Jurenito Ilya Ehrenburg 1921 Russian Russian
7215 Mark Antony Robert Garnier 1578 French French
7215 Cinna Pierre Corneille 1641 French French
7215 Britannicus Jean Racine 1669 French French
7215 Roman Sonnets Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1830 Italian Italian
7215 Emperor And Galilean Henrik Ibsen 1873 Norwegian Norwegian
7215 The Road To The City Natalia Ginzburg 1942 Italian Italian
7571 The Conformist Alberto Moravia 1951 Italian Italian
7585 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
7588 Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen 1995 British English
8092 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8186 Questions Of Travel Michelle de Kretser 2012 Australian English
8345 The Art Of Joy Goliarda Sapienza 1998 Italian Italian
8442 Trilogie Des Mittelalters Dieter Kühn 2000 German German
8525 The Secret History Procopius 550 Multiple Greek
8539 Life Studies Robert Lowell 1967 American English
8641 Catiline Orations Marcus Tullius Cicero -63 Roman Latin
8642 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8645 Treatises On Friendship And Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Latin Latin
8748 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
9041 A Simple Path Mother Teresa 1995 Unknown English
9070 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9102 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
9225 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9373 The Italian Ann Radcliffe 1797 British English
9656 De Architectura Vitruvius 2016 Roman Latin
9705 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9883 Man And The Natural World Keith Thomas 1983 British English
10219 Quiet Chaos Sandro Veronesi 2005 Italian Italian
10215 Her Majesty's Secret Service Christopher Andrew 1985 Unknown English
10240 The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone Tennessee Williams 1950 American English
10449 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10623 Lives Of The Wives Carmela Ciuraru 2023 Unknown English
10631 Collected Stories Constance Fenimore Woolson American English
10650 Forbidden Notebook Alba de Céspedes 2023 Italian Italian
10891 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
10899 The Hooligan's Return Norman Manea 2003 Romanian Romanian
10919 Pope Joan Donna Cross 1996 American English
10962 The Roman Empire Paul Veyne 1975 French French
11163 A World Lit Only By Fire William Manchester 1992 American English
11163 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11273 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
11306 Mysteries Of The Middle Ages Thomas Cahill 2006 American English
11435 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11480 The Darkening Age Catherine Nixey 2017 British English
11544 Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague de Camp 1939 American English
11602 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11660 The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr 2005 American English
11660 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11842 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11851 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11856 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
11882 Translating Myself And Others Jhumpa Lahiri 2022 Multiple English
12184 The Short Cut Ennio Flaiano 1947 Italian Unknown
12198 I Racconti Alberto Moravia 1952 Italian Italian
12200 The Solitude Of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano 2008 Italian Italian
12565 Shattered Hanif Kureishi 2024 British English
12754 Maidenhair Mikhail Shishkin 2005 Russian Russian
13224 Through The Eye Of A Needle Peter Brown 2012 Unknown English
13337 The Rule Of Four Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason 2004 American English
13359 Valerius John Gibson Lockhart 1821 British English
13359 Anastasius Thomas Hope 1819 British English
13532 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13590 Papyrus Irene Vallejo 2019 Spanish Spanish
13599 God Was Born In Exile Vintilă Horia 1960 Unknown Spanish
13599 Alabama Song Gilles Leroy 2007 French French
13711 The Greek Way Edith Hamilton 1930 American English
13715 When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale 2007 British English
13735 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13742 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13817 Villa Tarantola Vincenzo Cardarelli 1948 Italian Unknown
13817 The Faithful Lover Massimo Bontempelli 1953 Italian Italian
13817 A Caso Tommaso Landolfi 1975 Italian Italian
13817 La Strada Per Roma Paolo Volponi 1992 Italian Italian
13817 La Casa Del Padre Giorgio Montefoschi 1994 Italian Italian
13817 I Bei Momenti Enzo Siciliano 1997 Italian Italian
13817 Don't Move Margaret Mazzantini 2001 Italian Italian
13817 Vita Melania Mazzucco 2003 Italian Italian
13817 The Mussolini Canal Antonio Pennacchi 2010 Italian Italian
13817 Inseparabili Alessandro Piperno 2012 Italian Italian
13817 Resistere Non Serve A Niente Walter Siti 2012 Italian Italian
13817 Il Desiderio Di Essere Come Tutti Francesco Piccolo 2013 Italian Italian
13817 The Catholic School Edoardo Albinati 2016 Italian Italian
13817 M Antonio Scurati 2018 Italian Italian
13817 The Hummingbird Sandro Veronesi 2019 Italian Italian
13817 Due Vite Emanuele Trevi 2020 Italian Italian
14110 Enneads Plotinus -270 Greek Greek
14111 Epistulae Pliny the Younger 100 Roman Latin
14113 Sexual Personae Camille Paglia 1990 American English
14113 The Woman of Rome Alberto Moravia 1947 Italian Italian
14194 Julian Gore Vidal 1964 American English
14232 The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman 2010 British English
14331 Europa Tim Parks 1997 British English
14430 The Greatness And Decline Of Rome Guglielmo Ferrero 1907 Italian Italian
14451 The Word Irving Wallace 1972 American English
14519 Why America Is Not A New Rome Vaclav Smil 2010 Canadian English
14588 Fuzz Mary Roach 2021 American English
14598 How We Live Rust Hills 1973 American English
14697 The Apostolic Fathers William Wake, Edward Burton 1888 British English
14720 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
14724 Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories Sallust -40 Roman Latin
14751 On The Ends Of Good And Evil Marcus Tullius Cicero 45 Roman Latin
14729 Musonius Rufus Musonius Rufus, Cynthia King -30 Mixed Greek
14749 On Behalf Of Caelius Cicero -56 Roman Latin
14761 The Histories Polybius -150 Greek Greek
14787 The Making Of The Middle Ages R. W. Southern 1953 British English
14983 Imperial Caesar Rex Warner 1960 British English
14983 Rubicon Tom Holland 2003 British English