The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Turkey

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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
423 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 British English
745 Memed, My Hawk Yashar Kemal 1955 Turkish Turkish
790 The Mask of Dimitrios Eric Ambler 1939 British English
1299 My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk 1998 Turkish Turkish
1378 The Towers Of Trebizond Rose Macauley 1956 British English
1400 The Great Railway Bazaar Paul Theroux 1975 American English
1439 Masnavi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1258 Persian Persian
1524 Greenmantle John Buchan 1916 British English
1538 Snow Orhan Pamuk 2002 Turkish Turkish
1624 The Mediterranean And The Mediterranean World In The Age Of Philip Ii Fernand Braudel 1949 French French
1740 The Forty Days Of Musa Dagh Franz Werfel 1933 Austrian German
1931 The Way Of The World Nicolas Bouvier 1963 French French
2032 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
2100 From Russia with Love Ian Fleming 1957 British English
3186 Eothen Alexander William Kinglake 1844 British English
3637 Armenian Atrocities Arnold J. Toynbee 1915 British English
3637 Gods, Graves, And Scholars C. W. Ceram 1949 German German
3637 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
3637 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
3637 Report On The Excavations At Troy Heinrich Schliemann 1875 German German
3637 History Of The Art Of Antiquity Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1762 German German
3953 A Prisoner Of War’s Story Stratis Doukas 1929 Greek Greek
3953 Farewell Anatolia Dido Sotiriou 1962 Greek Greek
3953 Toate Pânzele Sus! Radu Tudoran 1954 Romanian Romanian
4120 Life's Good, Brother Nâzim Hikmet 1962 Turkish Turkish
4125 The Black Book Orhan Pamuk 1990 Turkish Turkish
4227 The Light Of Day Eric Ambler 1962 British English
4687 In Search Of The Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky 1947 Russian English
5041 Life is a Carawanserai Has Two Doors I Went in One I Came out the Other Emine Sevgi Özdamar 1992 Turkish German
5301 The Museum Of Innocence Orhan Pamuk 2008 Turkish Turkish
5448 A Winter In Hakkari Ferit Edgü 1977 Turkish Turkish
5471 Meetings With Remarkable Men George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1963 Unknown Russian
5516 Journal Of A Soul Pope John XXIII 1964 Italian Italian
5704 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5731 Cevdet Bey And His Sons Orhan Pamuk 1982 Turkish Turkish
6092 They Burn the Thistles Yaşar Kemal 1969 Turkish Turkish
6147 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 2005 American English
6158 Pawn In Frankincense Dorothy Dunnett 1969 British English
6343 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6408 In Xanadu William Dalrymple 1989 British English
6444 Mystical Dimensions Of Islam Annemarie Schimmel 1975 Unknown English
6621 Zone Mathias Enard 2008 French French
7216 Emperor And Galilean Henrik Ibsen 1873 Norwegian Norwegian
7216 A Mind At Peace Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1949 Turkish Turkish
7563 Compass Mathias Enard 2015 French French
7650 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
7739 No Turning Back Rania Abouzeid 2018 Unknown English
7872 The Book Of Whispers Varujan Vosganian 2009 Romanian Romanian
7999 The Great Transformation Karen Armstrong 2006 British English
8032 The Lycian Shore Freya Stark 1956 British English
8093 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8528 The Secret History Procopius 550 Multiple Greek
9098 Of Strangers And Bees Hamid Ismailov 2019 Uzbek Uzbek
9303 The Bellini Card Jason Goodwin 2008 British English
9659 The Silk Road Sven Hedin 2012 Swedish Swedish
9709 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9819 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009 Turkish Turkish
9859 Count Robert Of Paris Sir Walter Scott 1832 British English
10037 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds In This Strange World Elif Shafak 2019 Turkish English
10091 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10308 Mimesis Erich Auerbach 1946 German German
10762 Notes On A Foreign Country Suzy Hansen 2017 American English
10837 Border Kapka Kassabova 2017 Bulgarian English
10889 Sabbatai Sevi Gershom Scholem 1973 German German
11345 Berji Kristin Latife Tekin 1984 Turkish Turkish
11357 Walking On The Ceiling Ayşegül Savaş 2019 Turkish English
11482 The Darkening Age Catherine Nixey 2017 British English
11540 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
11604 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11612 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11636 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11662 Brothers Of The Gun Marwan Hisham, Molly Crabapple 2018 Unknown English
11843 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11857 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
12030 Fighting Mc Kenzie Anzac Chaplain Col Stringer 2002 Australian English
12049 The White Castle Orhan Pamuk 1985 Turkish Turkish
13289 Seltsame Sterne Starren Zur Erde Emine Sevgi Özdamar 2003 German German
13362 The Adventures Of Hajji Baba Of Ispahan James Morier 1824 British English
13362 Anastasius Thomas Hope 1819 British English
13362 The Time Regulation Institute Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1954 Turkish Turkish
13567 The Woman Who Lost Her Soul Bob Shacochis 2013 American English
13712 The Greek Way Edith Hamilton 1930 American English
13716 Age Of Bronze Eric Shanower 2007 American English
13787 Dschinns Fatma Aydemir 2022 German German
13815 The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak 2006 Turkish English
13818 The Eunuch Of Constantinople Zülfü Livaneli Turkish Unknown
14070 Erste Erde Epos Raoul Schrott 2016 Austrian German
14132 A History of the Crusades Stephen Runciman 1951 British English
14194 Julian Gore Vidal 1964 American English
14721 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
14885 Poems of Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1207 Persian Persian
14985 The Dervish House Ian McDonald 2010 British English
14985 Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch 2010 British English
15915 The Story Of Anzac C E W Bean 1921 Australian English
15915 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15915 Josephus Lion Feuchtwanger 1932 German German
16503 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16513 King James Version Of The Bible various 1611 English English
16608 Storia Dei Greci Indro Montanelli 1959 Italian Italian
16525 The Book Of Dede Korkut Unknown 1400 Multiple Oghuz turkic
16593 Iliad & Odyssey Homer -749 Greek Ancient greek (homeric greek)
16771 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16690 Madonna In A Fur Coat Sabahattin Ali 1943 Turkish Turkish
17160 I Am Pilgrim Terry Hayes 2013 American English
16948 Dear And Glorious Physician Taylor Caldwell 1959 American English
17160 Ararat Christopher Golden 2017 American English
17160 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English
17160 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
16974 Singular Travels, Campaigns And Adventures Of Baron Munchausen R. E. Raspe 1785 German German
17160 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17160 Atrocities Matthew White 2011 Unknown English
17160 Das Flüstern Der Feigenbäume Elif Shafak 2023 Turkish German
17160 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17160 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
17160 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17160 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17160 Border Kassa Kappabova 2017 Unknown English
17160 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17160 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English
17160 The Last Odyssey James Rollins 2020 American English