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
14984 Old Masters Thomas Bernhard 1985 Austrian German
15726 Altneuland Theodor Herzl 1902 German German
15749 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
15803 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
15867 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
15898 Thoughts for the Times on War and Death Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
15898 Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety Sigmund Freud 1926 Austrian German
15898 Repression Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
15898 Instincts and Their Vicissitudes Sigmund Freud 1915 Austrian German
15898 On Narcissism Sigmund Freud 1914 Austrian German
15898 Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15898 The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15898 Selected Papers on Hysteria Sigmund Freud 1895 Austrian German
15898 The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1910 Austrian German
15898 The Life And Work Of Sigmund Freud Ernest Jones 1953 British English
15898 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15898 The Vienna Melody Ernst Lothar 1944 Austrian German
15898 Letters And Poems Mary Wortley Montagu 1800 British English
15898 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
16491 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16531 Letter From An Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
16655 Professor Bernhardi Arthur Schnitzler 1912 Austrian German
16750 Tales From The Vienna Woods Ödön von Horváth 1931 Austrian German
16632 The Water Method Man John Irving 1972 American English
16696 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16643 Setting Free The Bears John Irving 1968 American English
16642 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17120 Amadeus Peter Shaffer 1979 British English
17120 The Freud Reader Sigmund Freud 1989 German English
17120 The World As I Found It Bruce Duffy 1987 American English
17120 Explaining Hitler Ron Rosenbaum 1998 American English
17120 Franz Series Christine Nöstlinger 1979 Austrian German
16842 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
16916 Fouché Stefan Zweig 1929 Austrian German
17120 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17120 Berlioz: Volume Two David Cairns 1999 British English
17120 Memoirs Of An Anti Semite Gregor von Rezzori 1979 Multiple German
17120 Atlas Of An Anxious Man Christoph Ransmayr 2016 Austrian German
17120 When Nietzsche Wept Irvin D. Yalom 1992 American English
17120 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17120 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17120 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17120 El Viento Conoce Mi Nombre / The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende 2023 Chilean Spanish
17120 Animals Eva Menasse 2017 Austrian German
17120 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17120 Ludwig Wittgenstein Ray Monk 1990 British English
17120 Schoenberg Harvey Sachs 2023 Unknown English
17120 Viktor Frankl's Search For Meaning Timothy Pytell 2015 Unknown English
17120 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17120 Rites Of Spring Modris Eksteins 1989 Canadian English
17120 The Russian Window Dragan Velikić 2007 Unknown Serbian
17120 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17120 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Jack Weatherford 2004 American English
17120 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17120 The Middle Kingdoms Martyn Rady 2023 Unknown English
17120 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17120 Appeasement Tim Bouverie 2019 British English
17120 The World And All That It Holds Aleksandar Hemon 2023 Bosnian English
17120 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17120 One False Note Gordon Korman 2024 Canadian English
17074 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
16752 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
17120 The Third Man And Other Stories Graham Greene 2011 British English
17120 The Fourth Man Robert Baer 2022 American English
17120 The Man From The Future Ananyo Bhattacharya 2021 Unknown English
17120 Time’s Echo Jeremy Eichler 2023 Unknown English
17120 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17120 Schoenberg Harvey Sachs 2023 Unknown English
17120 Mozart In Motion Patrick Mackie 2023 Unknown English
17120 Künstlers In Paradise Cathleen Schine 2023 Unknown English
16826 Olağanüstü Bir Gece Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
17120 The Maze Of Bones Rick Riordan 2008 American English
17120 The Day After Tomorrow Allan Folsom 2004 American English
17120 God's First Love Friedrich Heer 1970 Austrian German
17120 The Holocaust Martin Gilbert 1978 British English
17120 Letters To Friends, Family, And Editors Franz Kafka German German
17120 Als Zeuge Der Zeit Arthur Koestler 1983 German Unknown