I will be in Greece this summer for a couple weeks, what are some good reads for my trip? I want something set in Greece

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Sarah Cooney · Answer

Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernières): My math teacher’s wife gave me this book as a graduation present before I left for three weeks in Egypt and Jordan. She insisted I wait to read until I was cruising down the Nile and told me that the first fifty pages were boring and that I should keep going. The combination of place (the banks of the Nile with Greco-Roman ruins in the near distance), the prose, and the story were absolutely unmatched.

Babuji · Answer

Nemesis (Peter Evans): This is an oldie but goody beach read. Juicy, well written and tangentially about Greece.

Andrei Marinescu · Answer

The Magus: Though the Greek island that serves as the primary setting is fictional, I highly recommend The Magus. John Fowles’s writing is terrific.

Samantha Culp · Answer

The Names (Don Delillo): Don Delillo’s philosophical thriller The Names - which I described to somebody as “The Secret History with disillusioned grownups and more post Cold War geopolitics”

Maggie Dodson · Answer

hot milk by Deborah levy: Technically set in Spain but could be Greece!

Maggie Dodson · Answer

antiquity by hanna johansson

Maggie Dodson · Answer

A Separation by Katie Kitamura