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Books set in Vienna

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17 books · 14 authors · 1925–2023

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17 books here

Most-set authors

John Irving (3) · Robert Seethaler (2) · Deborah Levy (1) · Elias Canetti (1) · Adolf Hitler (1) · Joseph Roth (1)

Genres

literary fiction (8) · historical fiction (1) · fantasy (1) · romance (1) · thriller & suspense (1) · mystery & crime (1)

Books set here

Set in Vienna (10)

August Blue

Deborah Levy

Vienna, where pianist Elsa M. Anderson walks off the stage during a performance, triggering a journey across Europe in p

Auto-da-Fé

Elias Canetti

reclusive scholar apartment

Radetzky March

Joseph Roth

Habsburg imperial capital

The Café with No Name

Robert Seethaler

Leopoldstadt district, postwar Vienna

The Drawing of the Dark

Tim Powers

1529 Siege of Vienna

The Man Without Qualities

Pre-WWII Vienna where Franz apprentices at a tobacco shop and meets Sigmund Freud

Primary setting where Erika Kohut teaches

Also featuring Vienna (7)

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler

formative years setting

The End of Days

Jenny Erpenbeck

Vienna between the wars; teenage hunger and rebellion in interwar Austrian capital

The Hotel New Hampshire

John Irving

second Hotel New Hampshire

The Water Method Man

John Irving

courtship and early marriage

The World According to Garp

John Irving

Garp writes first novella

Time Shelter

Georgi Gospodinov

Opening setting of the novel

Vertigo

W.G. Sebald

Vienna; one of the four European cities visited in Sebald's dizzying meditation on memory and history

Notable locations in Vienna

Carmelite Market, Vienna1Vienna Conservatory1

Nearby books

1 km · Vienna Conservatory

The Café with No Name

Robert Seethaler

2 km · Carmelite Market, Vienna

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

2 km · Austrian Empire