Books set in Prague, Czechia

Czechia — Prague

2017
Spaceman of Bohemia
Jaroslav Kalfař · novel · 2017
The first Czech astronaut drifts through space, remembering Prague and his past.
2017
Prague Nights
Benjamin Black · crime · 2017
1599: a young doctor finds a murdered woman in the snow of Emperor Rudolf’s Prague.
2010
HHhH
Laurent Binet · novel · 2010
1942: two parachutists try to kill Heydrich, the Nazi ruler of Prague.
2008
Prague in Danger
Peter Demetz · history · 2008
1939–45: daily life in Prague under Nazi occupation, remembered and researched.
2006
Three Plastic Rooms
Petra Hůlová · novel · 2006
A Prague sex worker’s furious, funny monologue on the city after communism.
1984
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · novel · 1984
1968: love and exile in Prague, before and after the Prague Spring.
1976
Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal · novel · 1976
For 35 years, a Prague cellar worker has crushed banned books, saving the best.
1923
The Good Soldier Švejk
Jaroslav Hašek · novel · 1923
A Prague dog-seller goes cheerfully to war for Austria-Hungary.
1915
The Golem
Gustav Meyrink · novel · 1915
A dreamlike tale of Prague’s old Jewish ghetto and its legendary clay giant.