The best Stefan Zweig books
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Chess Story · The World of Yesterday · Decisive Moments in History. (Updated Aug 19, 2025.)
From Chess Story to The World of Yesterday: the novellas, biographies and memoirs that readers and book guides keep recommending.
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Top 16
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Chess Story
1942. His last and most famous work: a chess duel on an ocean liner.
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The World of Yesterday
1942. Memories of Europe before the world wars.
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Decisive Moments in History
1927. Historical miniatures about decisive moments.
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Beware of Pity
1939. His only completed novel: a young officer's pity and guilt.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1922. A woman's lifelong love for a man who never noticed her.
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Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles
1935. The Scottish queen and her conflict with Elizabeth I.
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Marie Antoinette
1932. Portrait of an ordinary woman, his most successful biography.
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Confusion
1927. A student and his enigmatic professor.
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Fear
1920. A wife being blackmailed.
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Burning Secret
1911. A boy sees through his mother's seduction.
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Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
1927. A day at the Monte Carlo casino that changes a life.
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Amok
1922. A doctor in the tropics and his obsession.
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Joseph Fouché
1929. Portrait of a political man.
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Magellan
1938. The first circumnavigation as an adventure story.
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The Right to Heresy
1936. A plea for tolerance against fanaticism.
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Mendel the Bibliophile
1929. A bookseller with an incredible memory.
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