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
6382 History Of Germany In The Nineteenth Century Heinrich von Treitschke 1879 German German
6434 A Very Normal Man Vincenzo Cerami 1976 Italian Italian
6451 Rome And A Villa Eleanor Clark 1952 American English
6621 Zone Mathias Enard 2008 French French
6632 Confessions Jaume Cabré 2011 Spanish Catalan
6748 Infanta Bodo Kirchhoff 1990 German German
6761 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
7169 Julio Jurenito Ilya Ehrenburg 1921 Russian Russian
7216 Mark Antony Robert Garnier 1578 French French
7216 Cinna Pierre Corneille 1641 French French
7216 Britannicus Jean Racine 1669 French French
7216 Roman Sonnets Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1830 Italian Italian
7216 Emperor And Galilean Henrik Ibsen 1873 Norwegian Norwegian
7216 The Road To The City Natalia Ginzburg 1942 Italian Italian
7572 The Conformist Alberto Moravia 1951 Italian Italian
7586 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
7589 Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen 1995 British English
8093 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8188 Questions Of Travel Michelle de Kretser 2012 Australian English
8347 The Art Of Joy Goliarda Sapienza 1998 Italian Italian
8445 Trilogie Des Mittelalters Dieter Kühn 2000 German German
8528 The Secret History Procopius 550 Multiple Greek
8542 Life Studies Robert Lowell 1967 American English
8644 Catiline Orations Marcus Tullius Cicero -63 Roman Latin
8645 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8648 Treatises On Friendship And Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Latin Latin
8752 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
9044 A Simple Path Mother Teresa 1995 Unknown English
9074 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9106 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
9228 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9377 The Italian Ann Radcliffe 1797 British English
9660 De Architectura Vitruvius 2016 Roman Latin
9710 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9887 Man And The Natural World Keith Thomas 1983 British English
10225 Quiet Chaos Sandro Veronesi 2005 Italian Italian
10221 Her Majesty's Secret Service Christopher Andrew 1985 Unknown English
10246 The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone Tennessee Williams 1950 American English
10454 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10628 Lives Of The Wives Carmela Ciuraru 2023 Unknown English
10637 Collected Stories Constance Fenimore Woolson American English
10655 Forbidden Notebook Alba de Céspedes 2023 Italian Italian
10896 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
10904 The Hooligan's Return Norman Manea 2003 Romanian Romanian
10924 Pope Joan Donna Cross 1996 American English
10967 The Roman Empire Paul Veyne 1975 French French
11168 A World Lit Only By Fire William Manchester 1992 American English
11168 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11278 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
11311 Mysteries Of The Middle Ages Thomas Cahill 2006 American English
11439 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11483 The Darkening Age Catherine Nixey 2017 British English
11547 Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague de Camp 1939 American English
11605 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11663 The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr 2005 American English
11663 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11844 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11853 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11858 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
11884 Translating Myself And Others Jhumpa Lahiri 2022 Multiple English
12185 The Short Cut Ennio Flaiano 1947 Italian Unknown
12199 I Racconti Alberto Moravia 1952 Italian Italian
12201 The Solitude Of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano 2008 Italian Italian
12567 Shattered Hanif Kureishi 2024 British English
12756 Maidenhair Mikhail Shishkin 2005 Russian Russian
13227 Through The Eye Of A Needle Peter Brown 2012 Unknown English
13340 The Rule Of Four Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason 2004 American English
13362 Valerius John Gibson Lockhart 1821 British English
13362 Anastasius Thomas Hope 1819 British English
13533 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13591 Papyrus Irene Vallejo 2019 Spanish Spanish
13600 God Was Born In Exile Vintilă Horia 1960 Unknown Spanish
13600 Alabama Song Gilles Leroy 2007 French French
13712 The Greek Way Edith Hamilton 1930 American English
13716 When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale 2007 British English
13736 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13743 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13818 Villa Tarantola Vincenzo Cardarelli 1948 Italian Unknown
13818 The Faithful Lover Massimo Bontempelli 1953 Italian Italian
13818 A Caso Tommaso Landolfi 1975 Italian Italian
13818 La Strada Per Roma Paolo Volponi 1992 Italian Italian
13818 La Casa Del Padre Giorgio Montefoschi 1994 Italian Italian
13818 I Bei Momenti Enzo Siciliano 1997 Italian Italian
13818 Don't Move Margaret Mazzantini 2001 Italian Italian
13818 Vita Melania Mazzucco 2003 Italian Italian
13818 The Mussolini Canal Antonio Pennacchi 2010 Italian Italian
13818 Inseparabili Alessandro Piperno 2012 Italian Italian
13818 Resistere Non Serve A Niente Walter Siti 2012 Italian Italian
13818 Il Desiderio Di Essere Come Tutti Francesco Piccolo 2013 Italian Italian
13818 The Catholic School Edoardo Albinati 2016 Italian Italian
13818 M Antonio Scurati 2018 Italian Italian
13818 The Hummingbird Sandro Veronesi 2019 Italian Italian
13818 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
14332 Europa Tim Parks 1997 British English
14431 The Greatness And Decline Of Rome Guglielmo Ferrero 1907 Italian Italian
14452 The Word Irving Wallace 1972 American English
14520 Why America Is Not A New Rome Vaclav Smil 2010 Canadian English
14589 Fuzz Mary Roach 2021 American English
14599 How We Live Rust Hills 1973 American English
14698 The Apostolic Fathers William Wake, Edward Burton 1888 British English
14721 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
14725 Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories Sallust -40 Roman Latin
14730 Musonius Rufus Musonius Rufus, Cynthia King -30 Mixed Greek
14752 On The Ends Of Good And Evil Marcus Tullius Cicero 45 Roman Latin
14731 On Behalf Of Caelius Cicero -56 Roman Latin
14762 The Histories Polybius -150 Greek Greek
14788 The Making Of The Middle Ages R. W. Southern 1953 British English
14985 Imperial Caesar Rex Warner 1960 British English
14985 Rubicon Tom Holland 2003 British English