The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Syria

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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
1864 The Jewish War Flavius Josephus 75 Jewish Greek
2032 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
3186 Eothen Alexander William Kinglake 1844 British English
3379 Zadig Voltaire 1747 French French
3638 Gods, Graves, And Scholars C. W. Ceram 1949 German German
3638 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
4988 The Campaigns Of Alexander Arrian 1976 Greek Greek
5827 Satires Lucian -160 Greek Ancient greek
6343 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6444 Mystical Dimensions Of Islam Annemarie Schimmel 1975 Unknown English
7216 To Damascus August Strindberg 1898 Swedish Swedish
7739 No Turning Back Rania Abouzeid 2018 Unknown English
8093 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
9317 The Dark Side Of Love Rafik Schami 2004 German German
9660 The Silk Road Sven Hedin 2012 Swedish Swedish
9710 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
11141 Black Flags Joby Warrick 2015 American English
11412 The Egyptian, Syrian, And Iraqi Revolutions Hanna Batatu 1984 American Unknown
11439 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11541 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
11605 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
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
11644 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11663 Brothers Of The Gun Marwan Hisham, Molly Crabapple 2018 Unknown English
11844 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11857 Mahmoud Ou La Montée Des Eaux Antoine Wauters 2021 Belgian French
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12657 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
14132 A History of the Crusades Stephen Runciman 1951 British English
14721 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
15736 Maqamat Al Hariri Al-Hariri of Basra 1101 Arabic Arabic
16514 King James Version Of The Bible various 1611 English English
16531 The Sail And The Storm Hanna Mina 1966 Syrian Arabic
17163 A Line In The Sand James Barr 2011 British English
17163 The Desolate Time Haidar Haidar 1973 Syrian Arabic
17163 The Epidemic Hani al-Raheb 1981 Syrian Unknown
17163 تشريفة آل المر Abdul-Karim Nassif 1998 Syrian Arabic
17163 دار المتعة Dar El Mit3a Walid Ikhlassi 1997 Syrian Arabic
17163 Jisr Banat Yacoub Hassan Hamid 2017 Syrian Arabic
17163 The Poetry Of Arab Women Nathalie Handal 2001 Multiple English
17163 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17163 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17163 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
17163 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17163 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
17163 On The Front Line Marie Colvin 2012 British English
17163 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17163 Refugee Alan Gratz 2017 American English
17163 The Cleopatras Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17163 The Closing Of The Western Mind Charles Freeman 2002 British English
17163 Out Of Mesopotamia Salar Abdoh 2020 Iranian English
17139 O Livro Das 1001 Noites; Volume 2 Of 7 Unknown -800 Multiple Arabic
17163 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17163 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17163 Augustus Allan Massie 1986 British English
17163 Caesar Allan Massie 1993 British English
17163 True Believer Jack Carr 2019 American English
17163 The Genius Of Their Age S. Frederick Starr 2023 Unknown English
17163 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17163 No One Prayed Over Their Graves Khaled Khalifa 2019 Syrian Arabic
17163 The Crusades Through Arab Eyes Amin Maalouf 1983 French French
17163 Islam In History Bernard Lewis 1973 British English
17163 The Ornament Of The World María Rosa Menocal 2002 American English
17163 Pagans And Christians Robin Lane Fox 1986 British English
17163 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
16898 1001 Arabian Nights Anonymous -800 Multiple Arabic
17163 As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow Zoulfa Katouh 2022 Unknown English
17163 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
16930 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Iii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
17163 A Hand Full Of Stars Rafik Schami 1985 German German