The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Poland

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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
91 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 German German
126 If This Is a Man Primo Levi 1947 Italian Italian
384 Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz 1937 Polish Polish
477 Fateless or Fatelessness Imre Kertész 1975 Hungarian Hungarian
535 Red Cavalry Isaac Babel 1926 Russian Russian
582 Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl 1946 Austrian German
598 Night Elie Wiesel 1958 French French
626 Promise at Dawn Romain Gary 1960 French French
665 The Family Moskat Isaac Bashevis Singer 1950 Polish Yiddish
727 The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Schulz 1934 Polish Polish
832 The Last Of The Just André Schwarz-Bart 1959 French French
1028 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally 1982 Australian English
1104 Maus Art Spiegelman 1980 American English
1131 Ashes and Diamonds Jerzy Andrzejewski 1948 Polish Polish
1181 The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski 1965 Polish English
1194 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk 2009 Polish Polish
1199 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski 1947 Polish Polish
1237 Jacob the Liar Jurek Becker 1969 German German
1456 Flights Olga Tokarczuk 2007 Polish Polish
1501 The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer 1960 Polish Yiddish
1711 The Peasants Władysław Reymont 1904 Polish Polish
1764 Tales Of The Hasidim Martin Buber 1949 German German
1796 Collected Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1982 Polish English
1886 Poems, New And Collected, 1957 1997 Wislawa Szymborska 1998 Polish Polish
2031 On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Nicolaus Copernicus 1543 Polish Latin
2056 Satan In Goray Isaac Bashevis Singer 1935 Polish Yiddish
2203 The Kindly Ones Jonathan Littell 2006 French French
2255 Pan Tadeusz Adam Mickiewicz 1834 Polish Polish
2398 The Drowned and the Saved Primo Levi 1986 Italian Italian
2617 The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman Andrzej Szczypiorski 1986 Polish Polish
2770 Unkempt Thoughts Stanislaw Jerzy Lec 1950 Polish Polish
2866 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer 1953 Polish Yiddish
2955 Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass Bruno Schulz 1937 Polish Polish
2956 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1996 Canadian English
2967 Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer 1979 British English
3232 The Books Of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk 2014 Polish Polish
3242 Death Is My Trade Robert Merle 1952 French French
3323 Insatiability Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz 1930 Polish Polish
3371 The Nazi And The Barber Edgar Hilsenrath 1971 German German
3460 The Complete Fiction Of Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz 1989 Polish Polish
3637 And where Were You, Adam? Heinrich Böll 1951 German German
3637 Trans-Atlantyk Witold Gombrowicz 1953 Polish Polish
4084 The Manor Isaac Bashevis Singer 1967 Polish Yiddish
4154 Like A Tear In The Ocean Manès Sperber 1961 Unknown German
4393 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4416 Diary Witold Gombrowicz 1986 Polish Polish
4470 The History of Love Nicole Krauss 2005 American English
4688 Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem 1929 German German
4872 Wartime Lies Louis Begley 1991 American English
4981 The Emperor Ryszard Kapuscinski 1978 Polish Polish
4991 Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie Eve Curie 1937 French French
5086 Short Friday Isaac Bashevis Singer 1964 Polish Yiddish
5132 All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein 1957 American English
5448 Imperium Ryszard Kapuscinski 1993 Polish Polish
5493 The Lost Daniel Mendelsohn 2006 American English
5502 Warsaw Diary Kazimierz Brandys 1978 Polish Polish
5516 Journal Of A Soul Pope John XXIII 1964 Italian Italian
5531 A Prayer For Kateřina Horovitzová Arnost Lustig 1964 Czech Czech
5599 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
5968 Pornografia Witold Gombrowicz 1960 Polish Polish
6219 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
6343 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6382 History Of Germany In The Nineteenth Century Heinrich von Treitschke 1879 German German
6508 The Triple Mirror of the Self Zulfikar Ghose 1992 Pakistani English
6845 For Those I Loved Martin Gray 1971 French French
6882 The Haunted Land Tina Rosenberg 1995 American English
6964 The Seance and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1968 Polish Yiddish
6990 House Of Day, House Of Night Olga Tokarczuk 1998 Polish Polish
7016 Dukla Andrzej Stasiuk 1997 Polish Polish
7074 The Silver Sword Ian Serraillier 1956 British English
7109 Ashes Stefan Zeromski 1904 Polish Polish
7151 The Shawl Cynthia Ozick 1989 American English
7179 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
7216 The Brothers Ashkenazi Israel Joshua Singer 1936 Polish Yiddish
7216 Yoshe Kalb Israel Joshua Singer 1932 Polish Yiddish
7575 I Have Lived a Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson 1997 Hungarian English
7812 The Blind Side of the Heart Julia Franck 2007 German German
7817 In My Hands Irene Opdyke 1999 American English
7993 A World Apart Gustaw Herling 1951 Polish Polish
8160 The Devil's Arithmetic Jane Yolen 1988 American English
8208 89 Poems Zbigniew Herbert 1956 Polish Polish
8219 Bells In Winter Czesław Miłosz 1978 Polish Polish
8294 The Author Of Himself Marcel Reich-Ranicki 1999 German German
8390 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8474 Three Novels Witold Gombrowicz 1960 Polish Polish
8572 Main Currents Of Marxism Leszek Kolakowski 1976 Polish English
8589 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8925 In My Father's Court Isaac Bashevis Singer 1966 Polish Yiddish
9075 Stone Upon Stone Wiesław Myśliwski 1984 Polish Polish
9118 Selected Poems Zbigniew Herbert 1968 Polish Polish
9150 Physics In My Generation Max Born 1968 German English
9370 Maybe Esther Katja Petrowskaja 2014 Ukrainian German
9649 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish
10092 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10443 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10709 The Extinction Of Irena Rey Jennifer Croft 2024 Unknown English
10752 The Collected Poems 1931 1987 Czesław Miłosz 1988 Polish Polish
10843 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
10877 Lost In Translation Eva Hoffman 1989 Canadian English
11029 Tremor Adam Zagajewski 1985 Polish Polish
11534 Modernity On Endless Trial Leszek Kolakowski 1990 Polish English
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11617 Utvald Att Leva Jerzy Einhorn 1996 Swedish Swedish
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11901 Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman 1988 Polish English
12011 Mr. Mani A. B. Yehoshua 1990 Israeli Hebrew
12042 Still Alive Ruth Klüger 1992 German German
12176 The Cia Book Club Charlie English 2025 British English
12326 Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer 1991 American English
12326 The Island Gustaw Herling 1958 Polish Polish
12326 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12892 Zbig Edward Luce 2025 British English
13245 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
13296 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
13362 The Slave Isaac Bashevis Singer 1962 Polish Yiddish
13920 The Cyberiad Stanislaw Lem 1965 Polish Polish
14232 Ordinary Men Christopher R. Browning 1992 American English
14232 View With A Grain Of Sand Wislawa Szymborska 1995 Polish Polish
14518 Brev Från Nollpunkten Peter Englund 1996 Swedish Swedish
14828 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian