Stefan Zweig Books in Order

51 books are credited to Stefan Zweig, published between 1913 and 2025; 20 of them appeared after Stefan Zweig's death in 1942. The first book is Burning Secret (1913) and the newest is The Stefan Zweig Collection - Volume 1: A New Translation (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
51
Published
1913–2025
Confirmed
1 of 51 titles
Pages on record
9,209 in 39 of 51 books
Reading time
153–230 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,209 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 39 of 51 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Stefan Zweig, author of the Three Masters series

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer who lived from 28 November 1881 to 22 February 1942. In the 1920s and 1930s, Zweig ranked among the most translated and widely read writers in the world. Zweig was born into a Jewish family and grew up in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Three Masters (Drei Meister, 1920) studies Balzac, Dickens and Dostoevsky, and Decisive Moments in History (1927) examines historical events. The catalogue lists 51 books, including Burning Secret (1913), Amok (1922), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1922) and Fear (1925), with subjects such as short stories, biography, Austria and jealousy.

How many Stefan Zweig books are there?

Stefan Zweig has 51 books, released between 1913 and 2025. 20 of them were published after Stefan Zweig's death in 1942. 3 of them belong to the Three Masters series.

Stefan Zweig Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 51 Stefan Zweig books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Burning Secret1913 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1913160
  2. 2
    Balzac, Dickens, DostoeffskyThree Masters #11919 · confirmed 1/4
    1919
  3. 31921
  4. 4
    Fantastic Night1922 · 374 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1922374
  5. 5
    Amok1922 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1922160
  6. 8
    Letter from an Unknown Woman1922 · 92 pages · confirmed 1/4
    192292
  7. 9
    Holderlin, Kleist, and NietzscheThree Masters #21925 · 340 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1925340
  8. 10
    Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman1925 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    192596
  9. 11
    Fear1925 · confirmed 1/4
    1925
  10. 12
    Decisive Moments in History1927 · 253 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1927253
  11. 13
    Shooting Stars1927 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1927256
  12. 14
    Confusion1927 · confirmed 1/4
    1927
  13. 15
    Casanova, Stendhal, TolstoyThree Masters #31928 · confirmed 1/4
    1928
  14. 16
    Casanova: a Study in Self Portraiture1928 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1928156
  15. 17
    The Invisible CollectionERIS Gems #51929 · 376 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1929376
  16. 18
    Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman1932 · 476 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1932476
  17. 19
    Erasmus of Rotterdam1934 · confirmed 1/4
    1934
  18. 20
    Mary Queen of Scots1935 · 446 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1935446
  19. 21
    Mary Stuart1935 · confirmed 1/4
    1935
  20. 221938
  21. 23
    Beware of Pity aka Impatience of the Heart1939 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1939352
  22. 26
    The World of Yesterday1941 · 472 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1941472
  23. 27
    Brazil, Land of the Future1941 · 259 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1941259
  24. 28
    Chess Story1942 · 104 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1942104
  25. 29
    Chess1942 · 50 pages · confirmed 1/4
    194250
  26. 30
    Montaigne1942 · 153 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1942153

Stefan Zweig books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Three Masters in order

3 books
  1. 1. Balzac, Dickens, Dostoeffsky
  2. 2. Holderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche
  3. 3. Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy

ERIS Gems in order

1 book
  1. 5. The Invisible Collection

Standalone books

47 books

47 Stefan Zweig titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Stefan Zweig books in order?

You only need to read Stefan Zweig books in order within the Three Masters series, which holds 3 of the 51 Stefan Zweig books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Stefan Zweig

Start with Burning Secret (1913), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Stefan Zweig book?

The Stefan Zweig Collection - Volume 1: A New Translation (2025) is the newest Stefan Zweig book released so far.

Is there a new Stefan Zweig book coming?

No next Stefan Zweig book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Stefan Zweig at a glance

Died
Stefan Zweig died in 1942, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Stefan Zweig are still being published after Stefan Zweig's death in 1942; the newest appeared in 2025.
Release pace
Stefan Zweig books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
9,209 pages across the 39 of 51 books with a recorded length, a median of 211 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Stefan Zweig books, 15 of 51, were published in the 1920s.

What the Stefan Zweig books are about

42 of the 51 Stefan Zweig books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 10 of 42. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Short stories 10 of 42 books
  • History 7 of 42 books
  • Biography 6 of 42 books
  • Psychological fiction 5 of 42 books
  • Zweig, stefan, 1881-1942 5 of 42 books
  • Austria 4 of 42 books
  • Criticism and interpretation 4 of 42 books
  • Travel 3 of 42 books
  • German Short stories 3 of 42 books
  • Austrian Authors 2 of 42 books
  • Austrian literature 2 of 42 books
  • Authors, biography 2 of 42 books