The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Vienna

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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
82 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1930 Austrian German
159 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
177 The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 1899 Austrian German
493 Auto Da Fé Elias Canetti 1935 Bulgarian German
586 The Third Man Graham Greene 1949 British English
592 The Sleepwalkers Hermann Broch 1932 Austrian German
789 The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek 1983 Austrian German
806 The Story of Art Ernest H. Gombrich 1950 British English
827 Fear of Flying Erica Jong 1973 American English
844 Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud 1930 Austrian German
848 Der Judenstaat Theodor Herzl 1896 Austro-Hungarian German
869 Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard 1984 Austrian German
915 Malina Ingeborg Bachmann 1971 Austrian German
923 The World Of Yesterday Stefan Zweig 1942 Austrian German
1175 The Demons Heimito von Doderer 1956 Austrian German
1212 A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1920 Austrian German
1271 Extinction Thomas Bernhard 1986 Austrian German
1411 Concrete Thomas Bernhard 1982 Austrian German
1436 Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 Austrian German
1446 The Tongue Set Free Elias Canetti 1977 Austrian German
1601 The Ego and the Id Sigmund Freud 1923 Austrian German
1778 The Strudlhof Steps Heimito von Doderer 1951 German German
1807 Beware Of Pity Stefan Zweig 1939 Austrian German
2015 The Greater Hope Ilse Aichinger 1948 Austrian German
2031 Gedanken Und Erinnerungen Otto von Bismarck 1898 German German
2264 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sigmund Freud 1905 Austrian German
2388 It Can't Always Be Caviar Johannes Mario Simmel 1960 Austrian German
2524 Beyond the Pleasure Principle Sigmund Freud 1920 Austrian German
2750 Decisive Moments in History Stefan Zweig 1927 Austrian German
2775 Gedichte Walther von der Vogelweide 1200 German Middle high german
2779 Lay Down Your Arms! Bertha von Suttner 1889 Austrian German
2787 A Cultural History Of The Modern Age Egon Friedell 1927 Austrian English
3140 Als Wär’s Ein Stück Von Mir Carl Zuckmayer 1966 German German
3160 Weights And Measures Joseph Roth 1937 Austrian German
3174 The Thirtieth Year Ingeborg Bachmann 1961 Austrian German
3323 Confusion Stefan Zweig 1927 Austrian German
3324 None but the Brave Arthur Schnitzler 1895 Austrian German
3584 Married Life David Vogel 1986 Jewish English
3638 Lieutenant Gustl Arthur Schnitzler 1900 Austrian German
3638 The Poor Musician Franz Grillparzer 1848 Austrian German
3638 The Future Has Already Begun Robert Jungk 1952 Austrian German
3638 The Raging Reporter Egon Erwin Kisch 1924 Czech German
3638 An Outline Of European Architecture Nikolaus Pevsner 1943 British English
3638 The Sexual Revolution Wilhelm Reich 1936 German German
3638 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
3638 The Road Into The Open Arthur Schnitzler 1908 Austrian German
3638 Art In Crisis Hans Sedlmayr 1948 Austrian German
3638 A Stroll To Syracuse In The Year 1802 Johann Gottfried Seume 1803 German German
3638 The Embezzled Heaven Franz Werfel 1940 Austrian German
3810 Wittgenstein's Nephew Thomas Bernhard 1982 Austrian German
3908 Med Ana Schwoazzn Dintn Hans Carl Artmann 1958 Austrian German
3940 Three Case Histories Sigmund Freud 1963 Austrian German
4080 The White Hotel D. M. Thomas 1981 British English
4153 Like A Tear In The Ocean Manès Sperber 1961 Unknown German
4430 Das Große Protokoll Gegen Zwetschkenbaum Albert Drach 1964 Austrian German
4587 The Loser Thomas Bernhard 1983 Austrian German
4641 The Psychopathology Of Everyday Life Sigmund Freud 1901 German German
4669 Beethoven's Letters Ludwig van Beethoven 1866 German German
4979 The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal 2010 British English
5292 Tante Jolesch Or The Decline Of The West In Anecdotes Friedrich Torberg 1975 Austrian German
5521 The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper 1934 Austrian German
5860 The Last Days of Mankind Karl Kraus 1919 Austrian German
5915 The Tale Of The 1002nd Night Joseph Roth 1938 Austrian German
5999 The Classical Style Charles Rosen 1971 American English
6002 Men In Dark Times Hannah Arendt 1968 German English
6002 The Story Of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
6002 The Lord Chandos Letter And Other Writings Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1902 Austrian German
6002 Marginalia On Casanova Miklós Szentkuthy 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
6002 Three Women Robert Musil 1924 Austrian German
6215 The Origin Thomas Bernhard 1975 Austrian German
6293 Dream Story Arthur Schnitzler 1926 Austrian German
6334 The Worldly Philosophers Robert Heilbroner 1953 American English
6353 Yes Thomas Bernhard 1978 Austrian German
6379 History Of Germany In The Nineteenth Century Heinrich von Treitschke 1879 German German
6379 Friedrich Hebbels Tagebücher Friedrich Hebbel 1885 German German
6546 Heldenplatz Thomas Bernhard 1988 Austrian German
6667 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish
6902 Autobiography Thomas Bernhard 1975 Austrian German
6969 Collected Shorter Poems W. H. Auden 1966 British English
7215 Poems And Verse Plays Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7215 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 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
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
8673 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
9657 Brehm's Life Of Animals Alfred Edmund Brehm 2015 German German
9986 Ravel Jean Echenoz 2006 French French
10061 Persepolis 1 & 2 — The Complete Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
10305 Ornament And Crime Adolf Loos 1908 German German
10305 Character Analysis Wilhelm Reich 1945 German German
10839 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
11088 Der Herr Karl Carl Merz, Helmut Qualtinger 1961 Austrian German
11088 The Eyewitness Ernst Weiß 1930 German German
11088 Yellow Street Veza Canetti 1934 Unknown German
11127 The Templar Legacy Steve Berry 2006 American English
11136 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Carl E. Schorske 1980 American English
11532 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 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
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
14788 The Unconscious Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
14862 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Sigmund Freud 1921 Austrian German
14984 The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
14984 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
14984 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14984 Hitler Ian Kershaw 1998 British English