The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Sicily

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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
1317 To Each His Own Leonardo Sciascia 1966 Italian Italian
1419 The Viceroys Federico De Roberto 1894 Italian Italian
2032 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
2155 Don Juan Molière 1665 French French
2343 Mastro Don Gesualdo Giovanni Verga 1889 Italian Italian
2465 The Silent Duchess Dacia Maraini 1990 Italian Italian
2533 Day Of The Owl Leonardo Sciascia 1961 Italian Italian
3324 Conversations in Sicily Elio Vittorini 1941 Italian Italian
3384 The Plague-Sower Gesualdo Bufalino 1981 Italian Italian
3575 Horcynus Orca Stefano D'Arrigo 1975 Italian Italian
3638 A Stroll To Syracuse In The Year 1802 Johann Gottfried Seume 1803 German German
3638 Cavalleria Rusticana Giovanni Verga 1896 Italian Italian
4939 The Smile Of The Unknown Mariner Vincenzo Consolo 1976 Italian Italian
5426 Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon 2024 Irish English
5783 Giacinta Luigi Capuana 1879 Italian Italian
5783 The Maidens Of The Rocks Gabriele D'Annunzio 1895 Italian Italian
5783 The Old And The Young Luigi Pirandello 1913 Italian Italian
5783 Stories For A Year Luigi Pirandello 1959 Italian Italian
5824 Idylls Theocritus -260 Greek Ancient greek
7206 The Shape Of Water Andrea Camilleri 1994 Italian Italian
7216 Little Novels Of Sicily Giovanni Verga 1883 Italian Italian
7216 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
7955 A Sicilian Romance Ann Radcliffe 1790 British English
8347 The Art Of Joy Goliarda Sapienza 1998 Italian Italian
9116 The Wine Dark Sea Leonardo Sciascia 1968 Italian Italian
10091 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10706 The Hypocrite Jo Hamya 2024 British English
11604 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
13600 To Forget Palermo Edmonde Charles-Roux 1966 French French
13733 Vendetta Jan Guillou 1991 Swedish Swedish
13771 Garibaldi And The Thousand, May 1860 George Macaulay Trevelyan 1907 British English
13818 Night's Lies Gesualdo Bufalino 1988 Italian Italian
13818 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
14122 The Mask Of Apollo Mary Renault 1966 British English
14232 Midnight In Sicily Peter Robb 1996 Italian English
15771 The Complete Writings Of Thucydides The Peloponnesian War Thucydides -431 Greek Ancient greek
15915 Il Marchese Di Roccaverdina Luiga Capuna 1901 Italian Italian
16507 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
15911 Letters On Ethics Seneca 62 Roman Latin
16607 Storia Dei Greci Indro Montanelli 1959 Italian Italian
16609 The Oxford Complete Shakespeare, 2nd Edition Oxford University Press 1623 British English
16705 L'italia Del Risorgimento Indro Montanelli 1972 Italian Italian
16678 The Iliad/The Odyssey/The Aeneid Homer -800 Greek Ancient greek
17161 Gorgias/Gorgias Coleen P. Zoller, Jurgen R. Gatt, S. Montgomery Ewegen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17161 Partners In Command Mark Perry 2007 Unknown English
17161 The Sicilian Mario Puzo 1984 American English
17161 Evening Class Maeve Binchy 1996 Irish English
17161 The Storm Before The Storm Mike Duncan 2017 American English
17161 Great Italian Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown Italian
17161 The Roads To Rome Catherine Fletcher 2024 Unknown English
17161 Pericles The Athenian Rex Warner 1963 British English
17161 The Coin Of Carthage Bryher 1963 British English
17161 The Ornament Of The World María Rosa Menocal 2002 American English
17161 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17161 One Way Or Another Leonardo Sciascia 1974 Italian Italian
17161 The History Of Italy Francesco Guicciardini 1540 Italian Italian
17161 Odyssee Stephen Fry British Unknown