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
7215 Poems And Verse Plays Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7215 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7215 Poems Of Georg Trakl Georg Trakl 1913 Austrian German
7215 Plays And Stories Arthur Schnitzler 1929 Austrian German
7215 Orient Express Graham Greene 1932 British English
7562 Compass Mathias Enard 2015 French French
7635 The Drawing Of The Dark Tim Powers 1979 American English
7687 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
7691 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7819 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal And His Time Hermann Broch 1949 Austrian German
8096 The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving 1981 American English
8671 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8763 Man Meets Dog Konrad Lorenz 1949 German German
8888 Midnight In Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
9520 The Order Of The Day Eric Vuillard 2017 French French
9656 Brehm's Life Of Animals Alfred Edmund Brehm 2015 German German
9751 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
9985 Ravel Jean Echenoz 2006 French French
10060 Persepolis 1 & 2 — The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
10086 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10303 The Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch 1953 German German
10303 Ornament And Crime Adolf Loos 1908 German German
10303 Character Analysis Wilhelm Reich 1945 German German
10400 Dunkelblum Eva Menasse 2021 Austrian German
10738 Why Is There Salt In The Sea? Brigitte Schwaiger 1977 Austrian German
10837 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
11086 Der Herr Karl Carl Merz, Helmut Qualtinger 1961 Austrian German
11086 The Eyewitness Ernst Weiß 1930 German German
11086 Yellow Street Veza Canetti 1934 Unknown German
11125 The Templar Legacy Steve Berry 2006 American English
11134 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Carl E. Schorske 1980 American English
11532 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11610 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11660 Red Comet Heather L. Clark 2020 American English
11660 Haydn H. C. Robbins Landon 1976 British English
11862 Evening In The Palace Of Reason James R. Gaines 2005 Unknown English
11932 Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 2017 American English
12040 Still Alive Ruth Klüger 1992 German German
12574 The Diaries Alma Mahler 1997 Austrian German
13314 Schubert’s Winter Journey Ian Bostridge 2015 British English
13359 Child Of All Nations Irmgard Keun 1938 German German
13599 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
14404 Die Inkommensurablen Raphaela Edelbauer 2021 Austrian German
14787 The Unconscious Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
14860 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Sigmund Freud 1921 Austrian German
14883 The Theory of Economic Development Joseph A. Schumpeter 1911 Austrian German
14983 The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
14983 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
14983 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14983 Hitler Ian Kershaw 1998 British English
14983 Salt Mark Kurlansky 2002 American English
14983 Old Masters Thomas Bernhard 1985 Austrian German
15725 Altneuland Theodor Herzl 1902 German German
15748 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
15802 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
15866 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
15897 Thoughts for the Times on War and Death Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
15897 Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety Sigmund Freud 1926 Austrian German
15897 Repression Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
15897 Instincts and Their Vicissitudes Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
15897 On Narcissism Sigmund Freud 1914 Austrian German
15897 Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15897 The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15897 Selected Papers on Hysteria Sigmund Freud 1895 Austrian German
15897 The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15897 The Life And Work Of Sigmund Freud Ernest Jones 1953 British English
15897 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15897 The Vienna Melody Ernst Lothar 1944 Austrian German
15897 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15889 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
15897 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
16490 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16553 Letter From An Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
16651 Professor Bernhardi Arthur Schnitzler 1912 Austrian German
16748 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16612 The Water Method Man John Irving 1972 American English
16693 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16735 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16639 Setting Free The Bears John Irving 1968 American English
16763 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
16641 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17117 The Rape of Europa Lynn Nicholas 1994 American English
17117 Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 1989 American English
17117 Amadeus Peter Shaffer 1979 British English
17117 The Freud Reader Sigmund Freud 1989 German English
17117 The World As I Found It Bruce Duffy 1987 American English
17117 Explaining Hitler Ron Rosenbaum 1998 American English
17117 Franz Series Christine Nöstlinger 1979 Austrian German
17117 War And Peace And War Peter Turchin 2005 American English
16848 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
16909 Fouché Stefan Zweig 1929 Austrian German
17117 Band Of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 American English
17117 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17117 Berlioz: Volume Two David Cairns 1999 British English
17117 Memoirs Of An Anti Semite Gregor von Rezzori 1979 Multiple German
17117 Atlas Of An Anxious Man Christoph Ransmayr 2016 Austrian German
17117 A Whole Life Robert Seethaler 2014 Austrian German
17117 The Paris Wife Paula McLain 2011 American English
17117 When Nietzsche Wept Irvin D. Yalom 1992 American English
17117 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17117 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17117 Of Walking In Ice Werner Herzog 1978 German German
17117 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17117 El Viento Conoce Mi Nombre / The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende 2023 Chilean Spanish
17117 Animals Eva Menasse 2017 Austrian German
17117 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17117 Mountains Of The Mind Robert Macfarlane 2003 British English
17117 Ludwig Wittgenstein Ray Monk 1990 British English
17117 The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer 2010 American English
17117 Schoenberg Harvey Sachs 2023 Unknown English
17117 Refugee Alan Gratz 2017 American English