The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Austria

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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
6962 The Stress of Her Regard Tim Powers 1989 American English
6969 Collected Shorter Poems W. H. Auden 1966 British English
7015 Trieste Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7216 Poems And Verse Plays Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7216 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7216 Poems Of Georg Trakl Georg Trakl 1913 Austrian German
7216 Plays And Stories Arthur Schnitzler 1929 Austrian German
7216 Orient Express Graham Greene 1932 British English
7563 Compass Mathias Enard 2015 French French
7636 The Drawing Of The Dark Tim Powers 1979 American English
7688 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
7692 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7820 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal And His Time Hermann Broch 1949 Austrian German
8098 The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving 1981 American English
8675 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8768 Man Meets Dog Konrad Lorenz 1949 German German
8892 Midnight In Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
9525 The Order Of The Day Eric Vuillard 2017 French French
9660 Brehm's Life Of Animals Alfred Edmund Brehm 2015 German German
9755 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
9990 Ravel Jean Echenoz 2006 French French
10066 Persepolis 1 & 2 — The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
10092 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10309 The Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch 1953 German German
10309 Ornament And Crime Adolf Loos 1908 German German
10309 Character Analysis Wilhelm Reich 1945 German German
10406 Dunkelblum Eva Menasse 2021 Austrian German
10745 Why Is There Salt In The Sea? Brigitte Schwaiger 1977 Austrian German
10843 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
11093 Der Herr Karl Carl Merz, Helmut Qualtinger 1961 Austrian German
11093 The Eyewitness Ernst Weiß 1930 German German
11093 Yellow Street Veza Canetti 1934 Unknown German
11132 The Templar Legacy Steve Berry 2006 American English
11141 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Carl E. Schorske 1980 American English
11535 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11663 Red Comet Heather L. Clark 2020 American English
11663 Haydn H. C. Robbins Landon 1976 British English
11864 Evening In The Palace Of Reason James R. Gaines 2005 Unknown English
11934 Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 2017 American English
12042 Still Alive Ruth Klüger 1992 German German
12576 The Diaries Alma Mahler 1997 Austrian German
13317 Schubert’s Winter Journey Ian Bostridge 2015 British English
13362 Child Of All Nations Irmgard Keun 1938 German German
13600 The Battle Patrick Rambaud 1997 French French
14070 Erste Erde Epos Raoul Schrott 2016 Austrian German
14088 La Part De L'autre Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2001 French French
14164 Am Weltenrand Sitzen Die Menschen Und Lachen Philipp Weiss 2018 Austrian German
14232 People Of The Book Geraldine Brooks 2008 Australian English
14405 Die Inkommensurablen Raphaela Edelbauer 2021 Austrian German
14788 The Unconscious Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
14861 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Sigmund Freud 1921 Austrian German
14886 The Theory of Economic Development Joseph A. Schumpeter 1911 Austrian German
14985 The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
14985 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
14985 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14985 Hitler Ian Kershaw 1998 British English
14985 Salt Mark Kurlansky 2002 American English
14985 Old Masters Thomas Bernhard 1985 Austrian German
15733 Altneuland Theodor Herzl 1902 German German
15755 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
15820 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
15878 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
15916 Thoughts for the Times on War and Death Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
15916 Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety Sigmund Freud 1926 Austrian German
15916 Repression Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
15916 Instincts and Their Vicissitudes Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
15916 On Narcissism Sigmund Freud 1914 Austrian German
15916 Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15916 The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15916 Selected Papers on Hysteria Sigmund Freud 1895 Austrian German
15916 The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15916 The Life And Work Of Sigmund Freud Ernest Jones 1953 British English
15916 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15916 The Vienna Melody Ernst Lothar 1944 Austrian German
15916 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15903 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
15916 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
16504 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16575 Letter From An Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
16609 The Oxford Complete Shakespeare, 2nd Edition Oxford University Press 1623 British English
16689 Professor Bernhardi Arthur Schnitzler 1912 Austrian German
16791 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16642 The Water Method Man John Irving 1972 American English
16723 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16777 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16675 Setting Free The Bears John Irving 1968 American English
16807 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
16674 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17163 The Rape of Europa Lynn Nicholas 1994 American English
17163 Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 1989 American English
17163 Amadeus Peter Shaffer 1979 British English
17163 The Freud Reader Sigmund Freud 1989 German English
17163 The World As I Found It Bruce Duffy 1987 American English
17163 Explaining Hitler Ron Rosenbaum 1998 American English
17163 Franz Series Christine Nöstlinger 1979 Austrian German
17163 War And Peace And War Peter Turchin 2005 American English
16880 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
16950 Fouché Stefan Zweig 1929 Austrian German
17163 Band Of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 American English
17163 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17163 Berlioz: Volume Two David Cairns 1999 British English
17163 Memoirs Of An Anti Semite Gregor von Rezzori 1979 Multiple German
17163 Atlas Of An Anxious Man Christoph Ransmayr 2016 Austrian German
17163 A Whole Life Robert Seethaler 2014 Austrian German
17163 The Paris Wife Paula McLain 2011 American English
17163 When Nietzsche Wept Irvin D. Yalom 1992 American English
17163 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17163 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17163 Of Walking In Ice Werner Herzog 1978 German German
17163 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17163 El Viento Conoce Mi Nombre / The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende 2023 Chilean Spanish
17163 Animals Eva Menasse 2017 Austrian German
17163 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17163 Mountains Of The Mind Robert Macfarlane 2003 British English
17163 Ludwig Wittgenstein Ray Monk 1990 British English
17163 The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer 2010 American English
17163 Schoenberg Harvey Sachs 2023 Unknown English