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
14985 Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch 2010 British English
14985 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14985 Hitler Ian Kershaw 1998 British English
14985 Beneath A Scarlet Sky Mark T. Sullivan 2017 American English
14985 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
14985 The Man Who Ate Everything Jeffrey Steingarten 1997 American English
15756 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
15823 The Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
15843 Bodyguard Of Lies Anthony Cave Brown 1975 British English
15877 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
15916 Rienzi Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1835 British English
15916 The House Of Life Mario Praz 1958 Italian Italian
15916 October 16, 1943 Giacomo Debenedetti 1944 Italian Italian
15916 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15916 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15916 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
15916 Biographies Of Good Women Charlotte M Yonge 1866 British English
15886 Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell 1972 American English
15916 Doctor Faustus And Other Plays Christopher Marlowe 1604 English English
15916 Paradise Lost And Other Poems John Milton 1667 British English
15916 Josephus Lion Feuchtwanger 1932 German German
15916 The Jew Of Rome Lion Feuchtwanger 1932 German German
15916 Blood Of The Martyrs Naomi Mitchison 1948 British English
15916 Conscience Of The King Alfred Duggan 1951 British English
15916 The Scarlet City Hella S. Haases 1952 Dutch Dutch
15916 Daily Life In Ancient Rome Jérôme Carcopino 1936 French French
15916 Medieval Cities Henri Pirenne 1925 Belgian French
16507 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
15911 Letters On Ethics Seneca 62 Roman Latin
16512 King James Version Of The Bible various 1611 English English
16605 The Complete Works Of Shakespeare William Shakespeare 1623 British English
16611 Storia Dei Greci Indro Montanelli 1959 Italian Italian
16628 El Príncipe Nicolás Maquiavelo 1532 Italian Italian
16609 The Oxford Complete Shakespeare, 2nd Edition Oxford University Press 1623 British English
16729 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16698 The Image Daniel J. Boorstin 1962 American English
16769 The Count Of Monte Cristo Mitsu Yamamoto 1844 Unknown French
16707 L'italia Del Risorgimento Indro Montanelli 1972 Italian Italian
16775 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
16671 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
16747 Αναφορά στον Γκρέκο Nikos Kazantzakis 1961 Greek Greek
16686 Philosophical Dictionary Voltaire 1770 French French
17163 The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson 2000 British English
17163 The Devil's Advocate Morris West 1959 Australian English
17163 Spqr Mary Beard 2015 British English
17163 Caravaggio Andrew Graham Dixon 2010 British English
17163 The Fall Of Rome Bryan Ward-Perkins 2005 British English
16852 Revolt Against The Modern World Julius Evola 1934 Italian Italian
17163 The Book Of Longings Sue Monk Kidd 2020 American English
16952 Dear And Glorious Physician Taylor Caldwell 1959 American English
17163 The First Man In Rome Colleen McCullough 1990 Australian English
16889 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17163 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 Mircea Eliade 1976 Romanian French
17163 Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney 2021 Irish English
17163 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17163 The Mark Of Athena Rick Riordan 2012 American English
17163 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English
17163 Romanzo Criminale Giancarlo De Cataldo 2002 Italian Italian
17163 The Discoverers Daniel J. Boorstin 1983 American English
17163 A Love Affair In Rome Ercole Patti 1956 Italian Italian
17163 Aracoeli Elsa Morante 1982 Italian Italian
17163 Gli Sfiorati Sandro Veronesi 1990 Italian Italian
16895 The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Volume 2 William Shakespeare 1623 British English
17163 A Soldier Of The Great War Mark Helprin 1991 American English
17163 Beach Music Pat Conroy 1995 American English
17163 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17163 The Pike Lucy Hughes-Hallett 2013 British English
17163 Pushkin T. J. Binyon 2002 British English
17163 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17163 Berlioz: Volume Two David Cairns 1999 British English
17163 Anderkant Pontenilo Irma Joubert 2007 South African Afrikaans
17163 The Stranger In The Woods Michael Finkel 2017 American English
17163 Churchill Roy Jenkins 2001 British English
17163 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17163 Bonk Mary Roach 2008 American English
17163 The Last Days Of Jack Sparks Jason Arnopp 2016 British English
17163 In The Name Of The Family Sarah Dunant 2017 British English
17163 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17163 The Three Musketeers, The Count Of Monte Cristo, And The Man In The Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas 2006 French French
17163 Conclave Robert Harris 2016 British English
17163 Dreadnought Robert K. Massie 1991 American English
17163 The Cardinal Sins Andrew M. Greeley 1981 American English
17163 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17163 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English
17163 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17163 The Autobiography Of Henry Viii Margaret George 1986 American English
17163 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17163 Goethe, His Faustian Life AN Wilson 2024 British English
17163 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
17163 Lessons Ian McEwan 2022 British English
17163 Roman Year André Aciman 2024 Unknown Unknown
16932 Set This House On Fire William Styron 1960 American English
17163 The Last Odyssey James Rollins 2020 American English
17163 The Demon Crown James Rollins 2017 American English
17163 The Doomsday Key James Rollins 2009 American English
17163 The Judas Strain James Rollins 2007 American English
17163 Map Of Bones James Rollins 2005 American English
17163 Life On The Run Bill Bradley 1976 American English
17163 My Fourth Time, We Drowned Sally Hayden 2022 Irish English
17163 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17163 The 33 Strategies Of War New Edition By Robert Greene Paperback Robert Greene 2006 American English
17163 Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray 1983 Indian English
17163 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17163 Our Man In Rome Catherine Fletcher 2012 Unknown English
17163 Benevolence And Betrayal Alexander Stille 1991 American English
17163 The Fall Of The Roman Empire Peter Heather 2005 British English
17163 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17163 John Inglesant Joseph Henry Shorthouse 1881 British English
17163 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17163 The Cleopatras Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Storm Before The Storm Mike Duncan 2017 American English
17163 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17163 Strongmen Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2020 American English
17163 A Modern Family Helga Flatland 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17163 Great Italian Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown Italian
17163 The Closing Of The Western Mind Charles Freeman 2002 British English
17020 Discourses And Selected Writings Epictetus 108 Greek Greek
17163 Dan Brown Omnibus Dan Brown 2004 American English
17163 Heavier Than Heaven Charles R. Cross 2001 American English
17163 The Roads To Rome Catherine Fletcher 2024 Unknown English