# The best Milan Kundera books

From "The Joke" to "The Unbearable Lightness of Being": the Kundera novels and essays that Goodreads readers and reading guides rank highest.

- 36 votes · 14 items
- May 11, 2022 · Damien Gautier
- https://even.best/en/l/4039/the-best-milan-kundera-books

## Top 14

1. **The Unbearable Lightness of Being** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — His most-read book: Tomas, Tereza and the Prague Spring.
2. **Identity** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A couple who no longer recognise each other.
3. **Immortality** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — A woman's gesture that gives birth to a novel.
4. **The Festival of Insignificance** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — His last novel.
5. **Ignorance** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — The best of his novels written in French.
6. **The Book of Laughter and Forgetting** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Seven tales about memory and forgetting.
7. **The Joke** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — His first novel: a postcard that ruins a life.
8. **Life Is Elsewhere** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Portrait of a young poet.
9. **Laughable Loves** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Stories about the games of love.
10. **The Farewell Party** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A black comedy in a spa town.
11. **The Art of the Novel** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — His essay on the European novel.
12. **Testaments Betrayed** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Essays on Kafka, Stravinsky and Janáček.
13. **The Curtain** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Another essay on the art of the novel.
14. **Slowness** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — His first novel written in French.

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