The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Berlin

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
8584 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8642 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
9144 Physics In My Generation Max Born 1968 German English
9189 How We Got To Now Steven Johnson 2014 American English
9189 What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner 2013 American English
9189 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9215 Game, Set & Match Len Deighton 1983 British English
9322 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9365 Maybe Esther Katja Petrowskaja 2014 Ukrainian German
9523 In Line Behind A Billion People Damien Ma, William Adams 2013 Unknown English
9570 Jenny Treibel Theodor Fontane 1892 German German
9597 Perfection Vincenzo Latronico 2022 Italian Italian
9656 Brehm's Life Of Animals Alfred Edmund Brehm 2015 German German
9820 The Collini Case Ferdinand Von Schirach 2011 German German
9847 Entre Les Deux Il N’y A Rien Mathieu Riboulet 2006 French French
9883 Man And The Natural World Keith Thomas 1983 British English
9887 A Woman In Berlin Marta Hillers 1954 German German
10017 Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo 2017 Chinese English
10065 The Silences Of Hammerstein Hans Magnus Enzensberger 2008 German German
10215 Her Majesty's Secret Service Christopher Andrew 1985 Unknown English
10223 Raw Material Jörg Fauser 1984 German German
10281 A Bag Of Marbles Joseph Joffo 1973 French French
10304 Brecht On Theatre Bertolt Brecht 1964 German German
10412 H Hh H Laurent Binet 2010 French French
10407 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10435 Daughter Of The Dragon Yunte Huang 2023 Unknown English
10449 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10449 The Tangled Tree David Quammen 2018 American English
10497 The Second Oldest Profession Phillip Knightley 1986 British English
10839 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
10851 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10899 The Hooligan's Return Norman Manea 2003 Romanian Romanian
10936 The Art Of Cruelty Maggie Nelson 2011 American English
10968 This Machine Kills Secrets Andy Greenberg 2012 Unknown English
11088 The Pious Dance Klaus Mann 1926 German German
11088 Heeresbericht Edlef Köppen 1930 German German
11088 Berlin Childhood Around 1900 Walter Benjamin 1950 German German
11088 Effingers Gabriele Tergit 1951 German German
11088 The Eyewitness Ernst Weiß 1930 German German
11088 Der Weg Nach Oobliadooh Fritz Rudolf Fries 1966 German German
11216 German Autumn Stig Dagerman 1947 Swedish Swedish
11223 Guten Morgen, Du Schöne Maxie Wander 1977 German German
11310 No Place On Earth Christa Wolf 1979 German German
11388 Marbot Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1981 German German
11435 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11490 Day In Day Out Terézia Mora 2004 German German
11562 Hinze Kunze Roman Volker Braun 1985 German German
11575 The Last Days of Hitler Hugh Trevor-Roper 1947 British English
11629 Death By Video Game Simon Parkin 2015 British English
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11801 The Attention Merchants Tim Wu 2016 American English
11840 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11851 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11939 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
12040 Still Alive Ruth Klüger 1992 German German
12040 Krieg Ohne Schlacht Heiner Müller 1992 German German
12048 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12122 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12231 The Karnau Tapes Marcel Beyer 1995 German German
12231 Kanak Sprak Feridun Zaimoğlu 1995 German German
12963 Good Girl Aria Aber 2025 American English
13286 Seltsame Sterne Starren Zur Erde Emine Sevgi Özdamar 2003 German German
13293 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
13328 Wir Schlafen Nicht Kathrin Röggla 2004 Austrian German
13351 In My Brother's Shadow Uwe Timm 2005 German German
13359 Child Of All Nations Irmgard Keun 1938 German German
13532 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13555 Part Of The Solution Ulrich Peltzer 2007 German German
13596 Before The Deluge Otto Friedrich 1972 American English
13735 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13742 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13786 Dschinns Fatma Aydemir 2022 German German
13817 The Girl With The Leica Helena Janeczek 2017 Italian Italian
13964 Arbeit Und Struktur Wolfgang Herrndorf 2013 German German
13964 Das Verschwinden Des Philip S. Ulrike Edschmid 2013 German German
14043 Chronik Meiner Straße Barbara Honigmann 2015 German German
14063 Silent Close No. 6 Monika Maron 1991 German German
14098 Why We Took The Car Wolfgang Herrndorf 2010 German German
14113 The Man Who Saw Everything Deborah Levy 2019 British English
14232 Berlin Antony Beevor 2002 British English
14232 Memoirs Of A Polar Bear Yoko Tawada 2011 German German
14370 Allegro Pastell Leif Randt 2020 German German
14404 Blaue Frau Antje Rávik Strubel 2021 German German
14517 Brev Från Nollpunkten Peter Englund 1996 Swedish Swedish
14588 Confident Women Tori Telfer 2021 Unknown English
14623 The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1916 Spanish Spanish
14679 Teenage Jon Savage 2007 British English
14787 Legion Of The Damned Sven Hassel 1953 Danish Danish
14826 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
14922 Johann Holtrop Rainald Goetz 2012 German German
14983 Elon Musk Walter Isaacson 2023 American English
14983 Stalingrad Antony Beevor 1998 British English
14983 The End Of Loneliness Benedict Wells 2016 German German
14983 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14983 Hitler Ian Kershaw 1998 British English
14983 Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks 2005 American English
14983 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
14983 Other People's Clothes Calla Henkel 2022 Unknown English
15729 Dot And Anton Erich Kästner 1931 German German
15749 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15748 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
15825 Laughter In The Dark Vladimir Nabokov 1932 Russian Russian
15802 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
15833 Bodyguard Of Lies Anthony Cave Brown 1975 British English
15897 Berlin Diary William L. Shirer 1941 British English
15897 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
15897 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15897 My Heart Else Lasker-Schüler 1911 German German
15897 Blood Brothers Ernst Haffner 1932 German German
15897 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
16500 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
16685 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16676 A Woman In Berlin Unknown 1954 German German
16658 Madonna In A Fur Coat Sabahattin Ali 1943 Turkish Turkish
17119 Bent Martin Sherman 1979 British English
17119 Mrs. Adams In Winter Michael O'Brien 2010 Unknown English
17119 The Dada Painters and Poets Robert Motherwell 1978 American English
16845 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17119 His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 1917 British English
17119 Edge Of Eternity Ken Follett 2014 British English