CITY · CZECHIABooks set in Prague
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18 books · 12 authors · 1878–2025
18 books here
Most-set authors
Milan Kundera (4) · Bohumil Hrabal (2) · Gustav Meyrink (2) · Franz Kafka (2) · W.G. Sebald (1) · Laini Taylor (1)
Genres
literary fiction (7) · mystery & crime (2) · historical fiction (1) · thriller & suspense (1) · horror (1)
Books set here
Set in Prague (16)
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald
Austerlitz's origin: left Prague as a child on the Kindertransport; returns to uncover his Jewish identity
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor
Karou art student home
HHhH
Laurent Binet
wartime occupied city
I Served the King of England
Bohumil Hrabal
hotel waiter WWII era
Life Is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera
Jaromil poetic Prague
Prague Fatale
Philip Kerr
occupied wartime Prague
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Communist-era Czechoslovakia
The Golem
Gustav Meyrink
city setting
The Joke
Milan Kundera
student expulsion setting
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Samsa apartment city
The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown
Primary thriller setting
The Trial
Franz Kafka
bureaucratic nightmare city
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
primary setting; 1968 Prague Spring and Soviet invasion
Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal
Communist-era basement press
Golem
Gustav Meyrink
Prague Jewish Quarter
Prague Tales
Jan Neruda
Malá Strana street life
Notable locations in Prague
Josefov2Malá Strana1