About this book
Pompeii (2003) follows a Roman engineer racing to understand Vesuvius before it erupts, one of the two novels -- alongside Fatherland -- most commonly recommended as an entry point to Harris's work. It runs 368 pages.
Key facts about Pompeii
Robert Harris wrote Pompeii, a book on our list. It has been out since 2003. The book has 368 pages.
We list 1 edition of this book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780345475671 to find the main one.
Robert Harris has 17 books on our list. 3 of them belong to a series, while 14 stand alone. All 17 are out now. Other books by Robert Harris on file include Precipice (2024), Act of Oblivion (2022), V2 (2020) and The Second Sleep (2019).
Earlier, Archangel came out in 1998. After it came Imperium in 2006. Since then, our list has added 13 more books by Robert Harris.
Robert Harris has 1 series on file, Cicero Trilogy. That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, Agrippa is the latest published Robert Harris book on file, from 27 August 2026.
About Robert Harris
Robert Harris is a British author and former journalist and BBC television reporter who turned to fiction with Fatherland (1992), an alternate-history thriller imagining a world in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War, which became an international bestseller and established the meticulously researched, politically literate style that has defined his career since. See every Robert Harris book in order.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345475671