The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Zurich

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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
171 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 1927 German German
445 I'm Not Stiller Max Frisch 1954 Swiss German
955 Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 1926 Swiss French
1058 Memories, Dreams, Reflections Carl Jung 1963 Swiss German
1446 The Tongue Set Free Elias Canetti 1977 Austrian German
1500 The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum 1980 American English
2032 History Of The Reformation In Germany Leopold von Ranke 1834 German German
2032 Gedanken Und Erinnerungen Otto von Bismarck 1898 German German
2789 A Cultural History Of The Modern Age Egon Friedell 1927 Austrian English
2884 Physics And Beyond Werner Heisenberg 1971 German German
3638 An Outline Of European Architecture Nikolaus Pevsner 1943 British English
3638 The Assistant Robert Walser 1908 Swiss German
4579 Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov 2020 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4708 Faserland Christian Kracht 1995 German German
4868 Grid Systems In Graphic Design Josef Müller-Brockmann 1981 Swiss German
6382 History Of Germany In The Nineteenth Century Heinrich von Treitschke 1879 German German
6415 The Portable Jung Carl Jung 1971 Swiss English
6927 Travesties Tom Stoppard 1974 British English
7000 The Gray Man Mark Greaney 2009 American English
7216 Seven Dada Manifestoes Tristan Tzara 1924 French French
8144 Vor Uns Die Sintflut Urs Widmer 1998 Swiss German
8445 Die Dunkle Seite Des Mondes Martin Suter 2000 Swiss German
9660 Brehm's Life Of Animals Alfred Edmund Brehm 2015 German German
10136 Nora Nuala O’Connor 2021 Irish English
11663 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
12756 Maidenhair Mikhail Shishkin 2005 Russian Russian
13362 Two Essays on Analytical Psychology Carl Jung 1921 Swiss German
13964 Barbarian Spring Jonas Lüscher 2013 Swiss German
14074 Pilgrim Timothy Findley 1999 Canadian English
14985 The End Of Loneliness Benedict Wells 2016 German German
15878 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
15916 Psychology of the Unconscious Carl Jung 1912 Swiss German
16723 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16712 Psychology And Alchemy C.G. Jung 1944 Swiss German
16674 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17163 The Dada Painters and Poets Robert Motherwell 1978 American English
17163 The Illuminatus! Trilogy Robert Shea 1975 American English
17163 Agnes Peter Stamm 1998 Swiss German
17163 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17163 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17163 Goethe, His Faustian Life AN Wilson 2024 British English
17163 The Winter Queen Boris Akunin 1998 Russian Russian
17163 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17163 Scale Geoffrey B. West 2017 American English
17163 The Day After Tomorrow Allan Folsom 2004 American English
17163 The Bitcoin Standard Saifedean Ammous 2018 Unknown English
17163 Letters Of Thomas Mann Thomas Mann 1975 German German