Hungarian historical accounts include this worthy but rather dull tome.
If your passion is politics, try this dry but definitive treatise on Hungarian foreign policy from 1944-86.
A thoroughly readable account of the events leading to the 1956 uprising.
Traces the author's 1933 walk through Hungary, including central Europe, en route to Constantinople.
A classic travelogue, detailing Hall's tempered love affair with the still-Communist Budapest of the 1980s.
Recently translated and complex tale of obsession.
This British-based writer has created an immensely readable black comedy about basketball and the 1956 revolution.