# The best Stefan Zweig books

From Chess Story to The World of Yesterday: the novellas, biographies and memoirs that readers and book guides keep recommending.

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- Aug 19, 2025 · Sabine Müller
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## Top 16

1. **Chess Story** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1942. His last and most famous work: a chess duel on an ocean liner.
2. **The World of Yesterday** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1942. Memories of Europe before the world wars.
3. **Decisive Moments in History** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1927. Historical miniatures about decisive moments.
4. **Beware of Pity** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1939. His only completed novel: a young officer's pity and guilt.
5. **Letter from an Unknown Woman** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1922. A woman's lifelong love for a man who never noticed her.
6. **Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1935. The Scottish queen and her conflict with Elizabeth I.
7. **Marie Antoinette** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1932. Portrait of an ordinary woman, his most successful biography.
8. **Confusion** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1927. A student and his enigmatic professor.
9. **Fear** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1920. A wife being blackmailed.
10. **Burning Secret** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1911. A boy sees through his mother's seduction.
11. **Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1927. A day at the Monte Carlo casino that changes a life.
12. **Amok** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1922. A doctor in the tropics and his obsession.
13. **Joseph Fouché** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1929. Portrait of a political man.
14. **Magellan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1938. The first circumnavigation as an adventure story.
15. **The Right to Heresy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1936. A plea for tolerance against fanaticism.
16. **Mendel the Bibliophile** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1929. A bookseller with an incredible memory.

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