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Harenberg Buch der 1000 Bücher, 1065 Books

The Book of 1000 Books is a reading canon of literary works, edited by Joachim Kaiser and compiled with the assistance of a team of authors. The book was published by the Dortmund-based Harenberg-Verlag . It contains summaries and further information on works from the entire history of literature. These include novels , plays , novellas , non-fiction books , travelogues , and children's books . It is arranged alphabetically by author and, due to various editions, contains up to 1070 books.

The publisher never printed a full roster of everyone who worked on Das Buch der 1000 Bücher, but contemporary blurbs for the 3rd (2005) and earlier editions all give the same headline figure: roughly 150 contributors (“Mitarbeiter”) supplied the individual write-ups that editor Joachim Kaiser curated into the final canon.

This list was originally published in 2005 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.