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
8587 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8645 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
9148 Physics In My Generation Max Born 1968 German English
9192 How We Got To Now Steven Johnson 2014 American English
9192 What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner 2013 American English
9192 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9218 Game, Set & Match Len Deighton 1983 British English
9326 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9369 Maybe Esther Katja Petrowskaja 2014 Ukrainian German
9527 In Line Behind A Billion People Damien Ma, William Adams 2013 Unknown English
9574 Jenny Treibel Theodor Fontane 1892 German German
9601 Perfection Vincenzo Latronico 2022 Italian Italian
9660 Brehm's Life Of Animals Alfred Edmund Brehm 2015 German German
9824 The Collini Case Ferdinand Von Schirach 2011 German German
9851 Entre Les Deux Il N’y A Rien Mathieu Riboulet 2006 French French
9887 Man And The Natural World Keith Thomas 1983 British English
9891 A Woman In Berlin Marta Hillers 1954 German German
10022 Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo 2017 Chinese English
10071 The Silences Of Hammerstein Hans Magnus Enzensberger 2008 German German
10221 Her Majesty's Secret Service Christopher Andrew 1985 Unknown English
10229 Raw Material Jörg Fauser 1984 German German
10286 A Bag Of Marbles Joseph Joffo 1973 French French
10309 Brecht On Theatre Bertolt Brecht 1964 German German
10417 H Hh H Laurent Binet 2010 French French
10412 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10440 Daughter Of The Dragon Yunte Huang 2023 Unknown English
10454 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10454 The Tangled Tree David Quammen 2018 American English
10502 The Second Oldest Profession Phillip Knightley 1986 British English
10843 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
10856 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10904 The Hooligan's Return Norman Manea 2003 Romanian Romanian
10941 The Art Of Cruelty Maggie Nelson 2011 American English
10973 This Machine Kills Secrets Andy Greenberg 2012 Unknown English
11093 The Pious Dance Klaus Mann 1926 German German
11093 Heeresbericht Edlef Köppen 1930 German German
11093 Berlin Childhood Around 1900 Walter Benjamin 1950 German German
11093 Effingers Gabriele Tergit 1951 German German
11093 The Eyewitness Ernst Weiß 1930 German German
11093 Der Weg Nach Oobliadooh Fritz Rudolf Fries 1966 German German
11221 German Autumn Stig Dagerman 1947 Swedish Swedish
11228 Guten Morgen, Du Schöne Maxie Wander 1977 German German
11315 No Place On Earth Christa Wolf 1979 German German
11392 Marbot Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1981 German German
11439 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11493 Day In Day Out Terézia Mora 2004 German German
11564 Hinze Kunze Roman Volker Braun 1985 German German
11578 The Last Days of Hitler Hugh Trevor-Roper 1947 British English
11632 Death By Video Game Simon Parkin 2015 British English
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11803 The Attention Merchants Tim Wu 2016 American English
11842 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11853 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11941 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
12042 Still Alive Ruth Klüger 1992 German German
12042 Krieg Ohne Schlacht Heiner Müller 1992 German German
12050 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English
12232 The Karnau Tapes Marcel Beyer 1995 German German
12232 Kanak Sprak Feridun Zaimoğlu 1995 German German
12966 Good Girl Aria Aber 2025 American English
13289 Seltsame Sterne Starren Zur Erde Emine Sevgi Özdamar 2003 German German
13296 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
13331 Wir Schlafen Nicht Kathrin Röggla 2004 Austrian German
13354 In My Brother's Shadow Uwe Timm 2005 German German
13362 Child Of All Nations Irmgard Keun 1938 German German
13533 Gardner's Art Through The Ages Helen Gardner 1926 American English
13556 Part Of The Solution Ulrich Peltzer 2007 German German
13597 Before The Deluge Otto Friedrich 1972 American English
13736 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13743 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13787 Dschinns Fatma Aydemir 2022 German German
13818 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
14371 Allegro Pastell Leif Randt 2020 German German
14405 Blaue Frau Antje Rávik Strubel 2021 German German
14518 Brev Från Nollpunkten Peter Englund 1996 Swedish Swedish
14589 Confident Women Tori Telfer 2021 Unknown English
14624 The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1916 Spanish Spanish
14680 Teenage Jon Savage 2007 British English
14788 Legion Of The Damned Sven Hassel 1953 Danish Danish
14828 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
14925 Johann Holtrop Rainald Goetz 2012 German German
14985 Elon Musk Walter Isaacson 2023 American English
14985 Stalingrad Antony Beevor 1998 British English
14985 The End Of Loneliness Benedict Wells 2016 German German
14985 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14985 Hitler Ian Kershaw 1998 British English
14985 Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks 2005 American English
14985 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
14985 Other People's Clothes Calla Henkel 2022 Unknown English
15739 Dot And Anton Erich Kästner 1931 German German
15757 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15755 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
15834 Laughter In The Dark Vladimir Nabokov 1932 Russian Russian
15820 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
15843 Bodyguard Of Lies Anthony Cave Brown 1975 British English
15916 Berlin Diary William L. Shirer 1941 British English
15916 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
15916 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15916 My Heart Else Lasker-Schüler 1911 German German
15916 Blood Brothers Ernst Haffner 1932 German German
15916 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
16521 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
16723 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16706 A Woman In Berlin Unknown 1954 German German
16697 Madonna In A Fur Coat Sabahattin Ali 1943 Turkish Turkish
17163 Bent Martin Sherman 1979 British English
17163 Mrs. Adams In Winter Michael O'Brien 2010 Unknown English
17163 The Dada Painters and Poets Robert Motherwell 1978 American English
16880 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17163 His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 1917 British English
17163 Edge Of Eternity Ken Follett 2014 British English