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Books set in Switzerland:
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Homo Faber by Max Frisch
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
The Bells by Richard Harvell
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Smiley's People by John le Carré
Dreams of Significant Girls by Cristina Garcia
The Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum
Seven Years by Peter Stamm
The Tanners by Robert Walser
Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
The Assistant by Robert Walser
Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene
Selected Stories by Robert Walser
Beyond Chocolate: Understanding Swiss Culture by Margaret Oertig-Davidson
The Robber by Robert Walser
The Frozen Waterfall by Gaye Hicyilmaz
The Microscripts by Robert Walser
La Place De La Concorde Suisse by John McPhee
Swiss Watching by Diccon Bewes
Inside Outlandish by Susan Tuttle
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
A Jew Must Die by Jacques Chessex
On a Day Like This by Peter Stamm
Rules of Deception by Christopher Reich
The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer
Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming
The Vampire of Ropraz by Jacques Chessex
Julie or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor
The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 by Paul Klee
A Perfect Waiter by Alain Claude Sulzer
In Matto's Realm: A Sergeant Studer Mystery by Friedrich Glauser
Jewish Refugees in Switzerland During the Holocaust: A Memoir 
Memories and Impressions of Switzerland: Ten Short Stories 
La Bise: A Novel in Lucerne by Lisa R. Hurley
Scrambles Amongst the Alps by Edward Whymper
The Swiss Account by Paul Emil Erdman
Alpine for You by Maddy Hunter
Not Even for Love by Sandra Brown
Small g: A Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith
Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski
Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz
The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion 
Green Henry by Gottfried Keller
Her Lover (Belle Du Seigneur) by Albert Cohen
...And Presumed Dead by Lucille Fletcher
Scrambles Amongst the Alps by Edward Whymper
The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father by John Harlin
The Black Brothers: A Novel in Pictures by Lisa TetznerMy father is Swiss and we used to read this book when I was young. It is set in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland - Ticino.
During WWII the works of Lisa Tetzner used to be censored in Switzerland, thank God, those days are over now. She's a great storyteller!
More books set in Switzerland:
Adultery by Paulo Coelho
Agnes by Peter Stamm
Aline by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
All Days Are Night by Peter Stamm
Altdorf by J.K. Swift (1st book in The Forest Knights series)
Altered States by Anita Brookner
And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle
And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like To Meet The Milkman: 21 Short Stories
Anna Goeldin - The Last Witch by Eveline Hasler
Anne of Geierstein by Walter Scott
Ascent by Ludwig Hohl
Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
Beauty on Earth by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
Behind Closed Doors by J.J. Marsh
Behind the Station by Arno Camenisch
Bloomability by Sharon Creech
Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story by Frederik Peeters
Bluebeard: A Tale by Max Frisch
Calligraphy Lesson: The Collected Stories by Mikhail Shishkin
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Charlotte Aimes: The Great Alpine Adventure by Libby O'Loghlin
Children of the Alps by Johanna Spyri
Christmas in the Snow by Karen Swan
The Classic Works of Johanna Spyri by Johanna Spyri
Complete Poems by Blaise Cendrars
Confessions of a Chalet Girl by Lorraine Wilson (1st book in Ski Season series)
A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
A Deal with the Devil by Martin Suter
An Ear for Uncle Emil by Eva Roe Gaggin
A Happy Man by Hansjörg Schertenleib
A Heart Bent Out of Shape by Emylia Hall
A Late Recognition of the Signs by Erika Burkart
A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski by Blake Eskin
A Palm for Mrs Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
A Pocketful of Rye by A.J. Cronin
A Price to Pay by Alex Capus
A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories by Robert Walser
An Unexpected Song by Iris Johansen
A Village Romeo and Juliet by Gottfried Keller
More books set in Switzerland:
Constance, or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell
Control by Petra Ivanov
Cornelli by Johanna Spyri
Count Karlstein by Philip Pullman
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse
Daughter of God by Lewis Perdue
Death on the Agenda by Patricia Moyes
Delete by Petra Ivanov
Der Hund/Der Tunnel/Die Panne by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Drina Dances in Switzerland by Jean Estoril (9th book in Drina series)
Efina by Noëlle Revaz
Einstein in Berlin by Thomas Levenson
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Emile or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Escape by Petra Ivanov
Extreme Eiger: The Race to Climb the Eiger Direct by Peter Gillman
Eyes of the Tiger by Nick Carter (9th book in Killmaster series)
Fairy Tales From Switzerland by Roger Duvoisin
Faserland by Christian Kracht
Fever by Friedrich Glauser
Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
Fly Away, Pigeon by Melinda Nadj Abonji
Flying with Wings of Wax: The Story of Emily Kempin-Spyri by Eveline Hasler
Forever and A Lifetime by Jennifer Horsman
Frankenstein Unbound by Brian W. Aldiss
Fräulein Stark by Thomas Hürlimann
Gantenbein: A Novel by Max Frisch
Geneva by George Bernard Shaw
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse
Gustav Adolfs Page by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque
Her Mother's Hope by Francine Rivers (1st book in Her Mother's Hope series)
Homage to Switzerland by Ernest Hemingway
In Spite of Thunder by John Dickson Carr (Dr. Gideon Fell, #20)
In the Congo by Urs Widmer
Isle of the Dead by Alex Connor
Klingsor's Last Summer by Hermann Hesse
More books set in Switzerland:
Love In Exile by Bahaa Taher
Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin
Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
Mazli (Illustrated Edition) by Johanna Spyri
Melnitz by Charles Lewinsky
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
Mountains Are Free by Julia Davis Adams
Mr Adamson by Urs Widmer
My Daughter, Nicola by Ruth M. Arthur
My Father's Book by Urs Widmer
My Mother's Lover by Urs Widmer
My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs by Hans Küng
Naw Much of a Talker by Pedro Lenz
News From Berlin by Otto de Kat
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: A Novel by Katharine Weber
On Love by Alain de Botton
On the Edge by Markus Werner
One Hundred Days by Lukas Bärfuss
Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser
Outsider by Friedrich Glauser
Passport to Romance by Betty Cavanna
More books set in Switzerland:
The Adventurer by Barbara Cartland
The Alp by Arno Camenisch
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary Buff
The Arrangement by Ashley Warlick
The Ascent Of The Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
The Assignment by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Banner of the Upright Seven by Gottfried Keller
The Beekeeper's Pupil by Sara George
The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf
The Blue Soda Siphon by Urs Widmer
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Canvas by Benjamin Stein
The Chef by Martin Suter
The Child Goddess by Louise Marley
The Chinaman by Friedrich Glauser
Perpetual Motion by Bruce Hesselbach
Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
Portrait of a Girl by Dörthe Binkert
Precipice by Colin Forbes (14th book of Tweed & Co. series)
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke
Russian Switzerland by Mikhail Shishkin
Season of Snows and Sins by Patricia Moyes
Sebastian: or Ruling Passions by Lawrence Durrell
Serendipity by Glyn Soitiño
Sinister Tide by Colin Forbes
Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart
Small World by Martin Suter
SS Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy
Steppe by Ilma Rakusa
Stories for Children by Peter Bichsel
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
Swiss Alpine Folk Tales by Fritz Muller-Guggenbuhl
Swiss Life: 30 Things I Wish I'd Known by Chantal Panozzo
Swiss: Little Snow in Zürich by Alvi Syahrin
Switzerland: Village History by David Birmingham
Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War II
Terminal by Colin Forbes
Terror on the Mountain by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
More books set in Switzerland:
The Country Road by Regina Ullmann
The Couple by Thomas Hürlimann
The Cow by Beat Sterchi
The Curly-Horned Cow: Anthology of Swiss-Romansh literature by Reto R. Bezzola
The Decision by Britta Böhler
The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon
The Duel by Heinrich von Kleist
The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian (1st book in Jonathan Hemlock series)
The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons by Monica Cantieni
The End of All Men by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
The Fear Index by Robert Harris
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The God Particle by Richard Cox
The Gustav Sonata: A Novel by Rose Tremain
The Headsman by Jane Hammond
More books set in Switzerland:
The Interpreter by Diego Marani
The Jewish Messiah by Arnon Grunberg
The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Kings Are Already Here by Garret Freymann-Weyr
The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr (10th book in Bernard Gunther series)
The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
Living Death by Nick Carter
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
The Meteor by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Miernik Dossier by Charles McCarry (1st book in Paul Christopher series)
The Monk's Marriage by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
The Night Manager by John le Carré
The Night of the First Billion by Ghada Samman
The Only Son by Stéphane Audeguy
The Perfect Place by Sheila Kohler
The Pieces from Berlin by Michael Pye
The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics by Gideon Defoe
The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Raven and the Rose by Susan Wiggs
The Reign of the Evil One by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer
The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents by Lukas Bärfuss
More books set in Switzerland:
A Heart Bent Out of Shape by Emylia Hall
The Ski Bum by Romain Gary
The Soul and Money by Jeremias Gotthelf
The Spoke: A Sergeant Studer Mystery by Friedrich Glauser
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
The Stronghold by Albrecht Behmel
The Swiss Courier by Tricia Goyer
The Tempting of Pescara by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
The Tyrant by Jacques Chessex
The Unconfined by R.L. Fanthorpe
The Unfinished Angel
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Watchers by Jon Steele
The Whole of Life by Jürg Laederach
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
The Woman of the Flask by Salim Matar
The Woman with the Bouquet by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
More books set in Switzerland:
The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (1st book in The Chalet School)
The Swiss Affair by Emylia Hall
Thirty Poems by Robert Walser
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel (1st book in The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein)
This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee
Thumbprint by Friedrich Glauser
Toni: The Little Woodcarver by Johanna Spyri
Top Dogs by Urs Widmer
Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Via Mala by John Knittel
Vinzi: A Story of the Swiss Alps by Johanna Spyri
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
Walaschek's Dream by Giovanni Orelli
Wandering by Hermann Hesse
We're Flying by Peter Stamm
When The Mountain Fell by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller
With the Animals by Noëlle Revaz
The World Is Made of Glass by Morris L. West
The Young Man from Savoy by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
Zbinden's Progress by Christoph Simon
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
Zundel's Exit by Markus Werner
More books set in Switzerland:
The Accident by Chris Pavone
After the Crash by Michel Bussi
The Age of Magic by Ben Okri
And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair
Back from Africa by Corinne Hofmann
The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
The Bells of Basel by Louis Aragon
Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
The Case Of The Pinioned Bosoms (2nd Inspector Cullot Mystery)
The Climb Up to Hell by Jack Olsen
Clothes Make The Man by Gottfried Keller
Cold Shoulder by Craig Werner
Collected Works of Johanna Spyri by Johanna Spyri
Count Kostia by Victor Cherbuliez
Deception by Angelo Mifsud
Delete by Petra Ivanov
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party by Graham Greene
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