The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Czech Republic

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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
99 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
159 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
262 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2001 German German
566 I Served The King Of England Bohumil Hrabal 1983 Czech Czech
891 Golem Gustav Meyrink 1915 Austrian German
1093 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera 1979 Czech Czech
1456 Flights Olga Tokarczuk 2007 Polish Polish
1485 A Perfect Spy John le Carré 1986 British English
1722 The Joke Milan Kundera 1967 Czech Czech
1824 The Engineer of Human Souls Josef Škvorecký 1977 Czech Czech
1841 Kafka's Other Trial Elias Canetti 1969 Bulgarian German
2213 Closely Watched Trains Bohumil Hrabal 1965 Czech Czech
2214 Mozart On His Way To Prague Eduard Mörike 1856 German German
2510 Life With A Star Jiří Weil 1949 Czech Czech
2778 Lay Down Your Arms! Bertha von Suttner 1889 Austrian German
3188 City, Sister, Silver Jáchym Topol 1994 Czech Czech
3637 New Astronomy Johannes Kepler 1609 German Latin
3637 The Raging Reporter Egon Erwin Kisch 1924 Czech German
3637 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
4293 The Castle franz kafka 1926 German German
4525 Living In Truth Vaclav Havel 1986 Czech Czech
5130 All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein 1957 American English
5188 From Nine To Nine Leo Perutz 1918 Austrian German
5292 Tante Jolesch Or The Decline Of The West In Anecdotes Friedrich Torberg 1975 Austrian German
5530 The Essential Kafka Franz Kafka 1913 Czech German
5530 Lovci Mamutů Eduard Štorch 1918 Czech Czech
5530 Summer Of Caprice Vladislav Vančura 1926 Czech Czech
5530 Povídání O Pejskovi A Kočičce Josef Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
5530 Marketa Lazarová Vladislav Vančura 1931 Czech Czech
5530 Cirkus Humberto Eduard Bass 1941 Czech Czech
5530 Saturnin Zdeněk Jirotka 1942 Czech Czech
5530 Petrolejové Lampy Jaroslav Havlíček 1944 Czech Czech
5530 We Were A Handful Karel Poláček 1946 Czech Czech
5530 Maminka Jaroslav Seifert 1966 Czech Czech
5530 Dědeček Automobil Adolf Branald 1955 Czech Czech
5530 Fimfárum Jan Werich 1963 Czech Czech
5530 Romance For Bugle František Hrubín 1957 Czech Czech
5530 Mr. Theodore Mundstock Ladislav Fuks 1963 Czech Czech
5530 The Axe Louis Vaculík 1966 Czech Czech
5530 Divadlo Járy Cimrmana Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak, Jára Cimrman 1967 Czech Czech
5694 How I Came To Know Fish Ota Pavel 1971 Czech Czech
5746 Summer In Prague Zdena Salivarová 1972 Czech English
5819 The Russian Debutante’s Handbook Gary Shteyngart 2002 American English
5900 Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms Franz Kafka 1935 Czech German
6004 The Story Of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
6004 Collected Stories Franz Kafka 1931 Austrian German
6078 The Questionnaire Jiří Gruša 1975 Czech Czech
6123 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6243 Audience Vaclav Havel 1978 Czech Czech
6336 Srpnovští Páni Vladimir Neff 1980 Czech Czech
6342 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6420 A Czech Dreambook Ludvík Vaculík 1981 Czech Czech
6528 Letters To Olga Vaclav Havel 1983 Czech Czech
6623 Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima 1993 Czech Czech
6882 The Haunted Land Tina Rosenberg 1995 American English
6924 Życie Jest Gdzie Indziej Milan Kundera 1989 Czech Czech
7144 Báječná Léta Pod Psa Michal Viewegh 1992 Czech Czech
7984 B. Proudew Irena Dousková 1998 Czech Czech
8075 The Seven Churches Miloš Urban 1999 Czech Czech
8753 Breakfast At Midnight Louis Armand 2012 Unknown English
9091 Consuelo George Sand 1842 French French
9328 Údolí Včel Vladimír Körner 2009 Czech Czech
9973 Daughter Of Smoke & Bone Laini Taylor 2011 American English
10087 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10413 H Hh H Laurent Binet 2010 French French
11164 Selected Poetry Jaroslav Seifert 1986 Czech Czech
11611 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11614 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
11635 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
12040 Still Alive Ruth Klüger 1992 German German
12325 Judge On Trial Ivan Klima 1991 Czech Czech
13294 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
14404 Blaue Frau Antje Rávik Strubel 2021 German German
14984 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
15682 Utz Bruce Chatwin 1988 British English
15752 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
17125 The Golem's Eye Jonathan Stroud 2004 British English
17125 The Three Golden Keys Petr Sis 1994 Czech English
17125 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17125 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17125 The Other City Michal Ajvaz 1993 Czech Czech
17125 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17125 Exit Into History Eva Hoffman 1993 Unknown English
17125 Gerta Tučková, Kateřina 2020 Czech Czech
17125 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17125 The Middle Kingdoms Martyn Rady 2023 Unknown English
17125 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17125 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17125 Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
17125 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17125 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17125 Time’s Echo Jeremy Eichler 2023 Unknown English
17125 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17125 The Golem Isaac Bashevis Singer 1969 Unknown English
17125 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17125 Innocence Heda Margolius Kovály 1985 Czech Czech
17125 Migratory Birds Mariana Oliver 2014 Mexican Spanish
17125 Letters Of Thomas Mann Thomas Mann 1975 German German
17125 Hhh H Laurent binet 2010 French French
17125 Letters To Friends, Family, And Editors Franz Kafka German German