Crete


Zorba the Greek
The Island
The Moon-Spinners
The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation
The Tomb of Zeus (Laetitia Talbot, #1)
Ill Met by Moonlight
The Girl Under the Olive Tree
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
In the Shadow of the Bull (Ancient Crete Mystery, #1)
Ariadne
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete
The Dark Labyrinth
Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland, #2)
Island of Secrets
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
The Foods of the Greek Islands by Aglaia KremeziThe Glorious Foods of Greece by Diane KochilasThe Country Cooking of Greece by Diane KochilasCulinaria Greece by Marianthi MilonaThe Grecian Plate by St. Barbara Greek Orthodox ...
Best Greek Cookbooks
59 books — 6 voters

The Iron Age in Northern Britain by Dennis W. HardingThe Smart Neanderthal by Clive FinlaysonThe Dancing Goddesses by Elizabeth Wayland BarberEurope Between the Oceans by Barry CunliffeThe First Signs by Genevieve von Petzinger
Prehistoric Europe
97 books — 5 voters
The Code Book by Simon SinghWomen in Mycenaean Greece by Barbara A. OlsenMysteries of the Snake Goddess by Kenneth LapatinRiddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit FoxThe Minoan world by Arthur Cotterell
Crete, Minoans - Non-fiction
37 books — 7 voters

Ariadne by June Rachuy BrindelAriadne by Jennifer SaintBull God by Roberta GellisNo Need for Heroes by Brian KeaneyThe King Must Die by Mary Renault
Crete, Minoans - Fiction
53 books — 20 voters

Commentators like the historian Cathy Gere have repeatedly pointed out that the “restored” Minoan palace came to resemble modernist works—Lenin’s Mausoleum or Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoy.
Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

Patrick Leigh Fermor
Ξάφνου μ' ένα χαμόγελο θυμόμουν τους πατέρες Διόνυσο και Γαβριήλ, τους αδερφούς Θεοφύλακτο, Χρίστο και Πολύκαρπο, τους γενάτους, μακρυμάλληδες, καλημαυχοφόρους οικοδεσπότες και προστάτες μου στην Κρήτη κατά την διάρκεια του πολέμου, που ‘βάζαν τις ρακές, έσπαγαν καρύδια, έλεγαν τραγούδια του βουνού, έλυναν κι έδεναν πιστόλια, μου έκαναν ατελείωτες ερωτήσεις για τον Τσόρτσιλ και ροχάλιζαν κάτω από τα λιόδεντρα, ενώ οι αχτίδες του ήλιου έπεφταν κάθετα στο Λιβυκό Πέλαγος. ...more
Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time to Keep Silence

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