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
2214 Closely Watched Trains Bohumil Hrabal 1965 Czech Czech
2215 Mozart On His Way To Prague Eduard Mörike 1856 German German
2512 Life With A Star Jiří Weil 1949 Czech Czech
2780 Lay Down Your Arms! Bertha von Suttner 1889 Austrian German
3188 City, Sister, Silver Jáchym Topol 1994 Czech Czech
3638 New Astronomy Johannes Kepler 1609 German Latin
3638 The Raging Reporter Egon Erwin Kisch 1924 Czech German
3638 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
4295 The Castle franz kafka 1926 German German
4527 Living In Truth Vaclav Havel 1986 Czech Czech
5132 All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein 1957 American English
5190 From Nine To Nine Leo Perutz 1918 Austrian German
5293 Tante Jolesch Or The Decline Of The West In Anecdotes Friedrich Torberg 1975 Austrian German
5531 The Essential Kafka Franz Kafka 1913 Czech German
5531 Lovci Mamutů Eduard Štorch 1918 Czech Czech
5531 Summer Of Caprice Vladislav Vančura 1926 Czech Czech
5531 Povídání O Pejskovi A Kočičce Josef Čapek 1936 Czech Czech
5531 Marketa Lazarová Vladislav Vančura 1931 Czech Czech
5531 Cirkus Humberto Eduard Bass 1941 Czech Czech
5531 Saturnin Zdeněk Jirotka 1942 Czech Czech
5531 Petrolejové Lampy Jaroslav Havlíček 1944 Czech Czech
5531 We Were A Handful Karel Poláček 1946 Czech Czech
5531 Maminka Jaroslav Seifert 1966 Czech Czech
5531 Dědeček Automobil Adolf Branald 1955 Czech Czech
5531 Fimfárum Jan Werich 1963 Czech Czech
5531 Romance For Bugle František Hrubín 1957 Czech Czech
5531 Mr. Theodore Mundstock Ladislav Fuks 1963 Czech Czech
5531 The Axe Louis Vaculík 1966 Czech Czech
5531 Divadlo Járy Cimrmana Zdeněk Svěrák, Ladislav Smoljak, Jára Cimrman 1967 Czech Czech
5695 How I Came To Know Fish Ota Pavel 1971 Czech Czech
5747 Summer In Prague Zdena Salivarová 1972 Czech English
5821 The Russian Debutante’s Handbook Gary Shteyngart 2002 American English
5901 Parables, Fragments, Aphorisms Franz Kafka 1935 Czech German
6005 The Story Of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
6005 Collected Stories Franz Kafka 1931 Austrian German
6079 The Questionnaire Jiří Gruša 1975 Czech Czech
6124 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6245 Audience Vaclav Havel 1978 Czech Czech
6337 Srpnovští Páni Vladimir Neff 1980 Czech Czech
6343 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6421 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
7985 B. Proudew Irena Dousková 1998 Czech Czech
8076 The Seven Churches Miloš Urban 1999 Czech Czech
8755 Breakfast At Midnight Louis Armand 2012 Unknown English
9092 Consuelo George Sand 1842 French French
9330 Údolí Včel Vladimír Körner 2009 Czech Czech
9977 Daughter Of Smoke & Bone Laini Taylor 2011 American English
10092 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10417 H Hh H Laurent Binet 2010 French French
11168 Selected Poetry Jaroslav Seifert 1986 Czech Czech
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11616 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
12042 Still Alive Ruth Klüger 1992 German German
12326 Judge On Trial Ivan Klima 1991 Czech Czech
13296 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
14405 Blaue Frau Antje Rávik Strubel 2021 German German
14985 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
15686 Utz Bruce Chatwin 1988 British English
15756 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
17163 The Golem's Eye Jonathan Stroud 2004 British English
17163 The Three Golden Keys Petr Sis 1994 Czech English
17163 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17163 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17163 The Other City Michal Ajvaz 1993 Czech Czech
17163 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17163 Exit Into History Eva Hoffman 1993 Unknown English
17163 Gerta Tučková, Kateřina 2020 Czech Czech
17163 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17163 The Middle Kingdoms Martyn Rady 2023 Unknown English
17163 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17163 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17163 Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
17163 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17163 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17163 Time’s Echo Jeremy Eichler 2023 Unknown English
17163 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17163 The Golem Isaac Bashevis Singer 1969 Unknown English
17163 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17163 Innocence Heda Margolius Kovály 1985 Czech Czech
17163 Migratory Birds Mariana Oliver 2014 Mexican Spanish
17163 Letters Of Thomas Mann Thomas Mann 1975 German German
17163 Hhh H Laurent binet 2010 French French
17163 Letters To Friends, Family, And Editors Franz Kafka German German