Books About or Set On Hydra
- The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller (1941)
- A Rope of Vines: Journal from a Greek Island, Brenda Chamberlain (1965)
- Rien ne va plus (The Sleepwalker), Margarita Karapanou (1994)
- Clouds over Hydra, Charles Young (1996)
- Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels (1996)
- The Riders, Tim Winton (1996)
- Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen, Roger Green (2003)
- Rhubarbs from a Rock, David Fagan (2003)
- Lighthousekeeping, Jeannette Winterson (2006)
- Hydra, Catherine Vanderpool (1980)
- Le Premier jour, Marc Levy (2009)
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