Books set in Vienna, Austria

Austria — Vienna

2012
The Tobacconist
Robert Seethaler · novel · 2012
1937: a country boy works in a Vienna tobacco shop and befriends Sigmund Freud.
2010
The Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal · memoir · 2010
1870s to today: a family’s netsuke pass from Paris to a Vienna palace and the Nazis.
2005
Vienna
Eva Menasse · novel · 2005
A half-Jewish Viennese family and its stories, across the 20th century.
2005
A Death in Vienna
Frank Tallis · crime · 2005
1902: a young doctor and a detective solve a medium’s murder in Freud’s Vienna.
1984
Woodcutters
Thomas Bernhard · novel · 1984
From a wing chair at a Viennese dinner party, a writer rages at his old friends.
1983
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek · novel · 1983
A Vienna piano teacher, still living with her mother, begins an affair with a pupil.
1950
The Third Man
Graham Greene · novel · 1950
In postwar Vienna, divided in four, a writer looks for a friend who died, or didn’t.
1942
The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig · memoir · 1942
1890s–1930s: Zweig’s memoir of Vienna’s golden age, lost to two world wars.
1930
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil · novel · 1930
1913: in Vienna, a gifted man drifts as the empire plans a jubilee it will never see.
1926
Dream Story
Arthur Schnitzler · novel · 1926
A Viennese doctor’s night of temptation ends at a secret masked orgy.