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Book set in Austria:


The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Reluctant Heiress by Eva Ibbotson
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Novel by Thomas Bernhard
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer
Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Marrying Mozart by Stephanie Cowell
The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey
The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart
The Little Book by Selden Edwards
Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
A Death In Vienna by Daniel Silva
A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis (1st of series set in Austria)
Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene
Moonlight on the Magic Flute by Mary Pope Osborne
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
Correction: A Novel by Thomas Bernhard
When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
The Mozart Conspiracy by Scott Mariani
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap
Homestead by Rosina Lippi
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske
The Bells: A Novel by Richard Harvell
Thunder at Twilight: Vienna, 1913/1914 by Frederic Morton
Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888/1889 by Frederic Morton
Fraulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler
Women As Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy
Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand by Franz Werfel
Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell
Malina: A Novel by Ingeborg Bachmann
World of Yesterday the by Stefan Zweig
Schlepping Through the Alps by Sam Apple
Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer by John Leake
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Greed: A novel by Elfriede Jelinek
Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas
The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard
Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek
In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story by Carolyn Meyer
Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769 by Kathryn Lasky
Canone Inverso: A Novel by Paolo Maurensig
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
As the Waltz Was Ending by Emma Macalik Butterworth
The Reluctant Empress by Brigitte Hamann
The Right Hand of Sleep: A Novel by John Wray
Vienna 1814 by David King
The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport by Mona Golabek
Yes by Thomas Bernhard
Song of Seduction by Carrie Lofty
Emil and Karl by Yankev Glatshteyn
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
The Marriage Artist: A Novel by Andrew Winer
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke
Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson
Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon
Mozart: A Life in Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Pornographer of Vienna by Lewis Crofts
The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth
The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (1st in a series set in Austria)
Heldenplatz by Thomas Bernhard
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft
Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853 by Barry Denenberg
36 Yalta Boulevard by Olen Steinhauer
Arrogance by Joanna Scott
Gargoyles: A Novel by Thomas Bernhard
Siegfried by Harry Mulisch
Night Work by Thomas Glavinic
Requiem in Vienna by J. Sydney Jones
The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel
The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria by Joan Haslip
Winter Passing by Cindy McCormick Martinusen (1st book of trilogy set in Austria)
Secrets in the Cellar by John Glatt
Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter

More set in Austria:


Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll
Dietrich of Berne: Hero Tales of the Austrian Tirol by Ruth Sawyer
Tales from the Vienna Woods and Other Plays by Ödön von Horváth
Chasing After the Wind: Four Stories by Barbara Frischmuth
Stories from My Life by Oskar Kokoschka
Viennese Short Stories by Veza Canetti
February Shadows by Elisabeth Reichart
Frost by Thomas Bernhard
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
Let Me Go by Helga Schneider
The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner
Mozart's Last Aria by Matt Rees
Metternich: Councillor of Europe by Alan Warwick Palmer
Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer

More books set in Austria:


The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight, and Exile by Paul Hofmann
The Empty Mirror by J. Sydney Jones
The System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square by Gert Jonke
The Vienna Paradox by Marjorie Perloff
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
Night Falls On The City by Sarah Gainham
Setting Free the Bears by John Irving
The House of Widows by Askold Melnyczuk
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus
The Afternoon Of A Writer by Peter Handke
Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter
Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler
Amok by Stefan Zweig
Vienna Triangle by Brenda Webster
Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery by John Leake

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The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
The Nibelungenlied by Anonymous

Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd

Splithead. Julya Rabinowich by Julya Rabinowich

The Exiles Return: A Novel by Elisabeth de Waal

Freud's Mistress by Karen Mack

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder

Vienna Nocturne by Vivien Shotwell

The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki

The Vienna Melody by Ernst Lothar

The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
The Talking Cure byChristopher Hampton
Brenner and God by Wolf Haas

My Own Dear Brother by Holly Müller

The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler

Compass by Mathias Énard

A Salzburg Comedy

More books set in Austria:



3,096 Days by Natascha Kampusch
Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes
Accident of Fate: A Personal Account, 1938-1945 by Imre Rochlitz
Across by Peter Handke
Adorable Adele: A Modern Fairy Tale by Peter Stephan Jungk
Age of Wonders by Aharon Appelfeld
The All Souls' Waiting Room by Paki S. Wright
All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer
Alma Mahler: Or the Art of Being Loved by Françoise Giroud
The Anarchist by Hermann Broch
Andreas by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap
As You Were by Johann Nestroy
Austrian Folk Tales: Salzburg by Mel Corrigan
The Bachelors by Adalbert Stifter
Background to Danger by Eric Ambler
The Battle by Patrick Rambaud
Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood
Between Nine and Nine by Leo Perutz
The Bone Man by Wolf Haas
Brother of Sleep by Robert Schneider
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig

DEATH BY TRUFFLES: INSPECTOR NEUNER'S FIRST CASE

THE FINNISH SOCK: NEUNER'S SECOND CASE

thanks, there are so many good recommendations here!

Maria

All of You Every Single One by Beatrice Hitchman.

Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse.

I Don't Live Here Anymore by Gabi Kreslehner.

Last House Before the Mountain