The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Germany

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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
3324 Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Daniel Paul Schreber 1903 German German
3372 The Nazi And The Barber Edgar Hilsenrath 1971 German German
3381 Der Laden Erwin Strittmatter 1983 German German
3388 Bomber Len Deighton 1970 British English
3433 The Meeting At Telgte Günter Grass 1979 German German
3477 The Black Obelisk Erich Maria Remarque 1956 German German
3514 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
3519 Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin Friedrich Holderlin 1800 German German
3525 Strange Defeat Marc Bloch 1946 French French
3531 Behemoth Franz Neumann 1942 German English
3565 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
3638 And where Were You, Adam? Heinrich Böll 1951 German German
3638 War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon 1919 British English
3638 And Never Said A Word Heinrich Böll 1953 German German
3638 Little Man, What Now? Hans Fallada 1932 German German
3638 A Child of Our Time Ödön von Horváth 1938 Austrian German
3638 The Rider on the White Horse Theodor Storm 1888 German German
3638 Des Knaben Wunderhorn Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim 1808 German German
3638 The Invisible Flag Peter Bamm 1952 German German
3638 The Jazz Book Joachim-Ernst Berendt 1953 German German
3638 Till Eulenspiegel Hermann Bote 1510 German German
3638 The Ship Of Fools Sebastian Brant 1494 German English
3638 Theodor Chindler Bernard von Brentano 1936 German German
3638 New Testament And Mythology Rudolf Bultmann 1941 German German
3638 Gods, Graves, And Scholars C. W. Ceram 1949 German German
3638 Sämtliche Werke Des Wandsbecker Boten Matthias Claudius 1775 German German
3638 Who Once Eats Out Of The Tin Bowl Hans Fallada 1934 German German
3638 Jew Süss Lion Feuchtwanger 1925 German German
3638 Exile Lion Feuchtwanger 1940 German German
3638 Schach Von Wuthenow Theodor Fontane 1883 German German
3638 Theory Of Colours Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1810 German German
3638 Bolwieser Oskar Maria Graf 1931 German German
3638 The Poor Musician Franz Grillparzer 1848 Austrian German
3638 Deutsches Wörterbuch Brothers Grimm 1854 German German
3638 Architecture Walter Gropius 1935 German German
3638 The Crusaders Stefan Heym 1948 German English
3638 Die Homosexualität Des Mannes Und Des Weibes Magnus Hirschfeld 1920 German German
3638 The Golden Pot E. T. A. Hoffmann 1814 German German
3638 The Art Of Prolonging Life Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland 1842 German German
3638 Fluss Ohne Ufer Hans Henny Jahnn 1949 German German
3638 On The Marble Cliffs Ernst Jünger 1939 German German
3638 The Future Has Already Begun Robert Jungk 1952 Austrian German
3638 New Astronomy Johannes Kepler 1609 German Latin
3638 The Seeress Of Prevorst Justinus Kerner 1829 German German
3638 The Century Of The Child Ellen Key 1900 Swedish Swedish
3638 The Raging Reporter Egon Erwin Kisch 1924 Czech German
3638 The Marquise Of O Heinrich von Kleist 1808 German German
3638 The Language Of The Third Reich Victor Klemperer 1947 German German
3638 From Caligari To Hitler Siegfried Kracauer 1947 German German
3638 Das Unauslöschliche Siegel Elisabeth Langgässer 1946 German German
3638 So Tender Was Suleyken Siegfried Lenz 1955 German German
3638 Child Of The Revolution Wolfgang Leonhard 1955 German German
3638 The Second Wife E. Marlitt 1899 German German
3638 Doctors Of Infamy Unknown 1947 Unknown English
3638 The Prophecies Nostradamus 1555 French French
3638 An Outline Of European Architecture Nikolaus Pevsner 1943 British English
3638 Stalingrad Theodor Plievier 1948 German German
3638 Stopfkuchen Wilhelm Karl Raabe 1891 German German
3638 The Sexual Revolution Wilhelm Reich 1936 German German
3638 Kuttel Daddeldu Joachim Ringelnatz 1920 German German
3638 The Questionnaire Ernst von Salomon 1951 German German
3638 Nuremberg Chronicle Hartmann Schedel 1493 German Latin
3638 The Papalagi Erich Scheurmann 1920 German German
3638 The Criminal Of Lost Honor Friedrich Schiller 1786 German German
3638 Out Of My Life And Thought Albert Schweitzer 1931 German German
3638 Art In Crisis Hans Sedlmayr 1948 Austrian German
3638 A Stroll To Syracuse In The Year 1802 Johann Gottfried Seume 1803 German German
3638 Der Moderne Kapitalismus Werner Sombart 1902 German German
3638 Die Feuerzangenbowle Heinrich Spoerl 1933 German German
3638 Lausbubengeschichten Ludwig Thoma 1905 German German
3638 Franz Sternbald's Wanderings Ludwig Tieck 1798 German German
3638 Caspar Hauser Or The Inertia Of The Heart Jakob Wassermann 1908 German German
3638 Ich Suchte Adam Herbert Wendt 1954 German German
3638 History Of The Art Of Antiquity Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1762 German German
3638 Duden. Die Deutsche Rechtschreibung Unknown 1880 German German
3638 The Man Outside Wolfgang Borchert 1947 German German
3638 The Captain Of Köpenick Carl Zuckmayer 1931 German German
3807 Critique Of Cynical Reason Peter Sloterdijk 1983 German German
3833 Stories Of Three Decades Thomas Mann 1936 German German
3834 The Doctor Of Stalingrad Heinz G. Konsalik 1956 German German
3870 Sansibar Or The Last Reason Alfred Andersch 1957 German German
3870 Die Skeptische Generation Helmut Schelsky 1957 German German
3897 The Meaning of Hitler Sebastian Haffner 1978 German German
3897 Runaway Horse Martin Walser 1978 German German
3897 Zoo Station Christiane V. Felscherinow 1978 German German
4061 Serengeti Shall Not Die Bernhard Grzimek 1959 German German
4061 Mit Dem Fahrstuhl In Die Römerzeit Rudolf Pörtner 1959 German German
4102 Purge Sofi Oksanen 2008 Finnish Finnish
4105 Die Schaukel Annette Kolb 1960 German German
4105 Renaissance And Renascences In Western Art Erwin Panofsky 1960 Unknown English
4105 Leavetaking Peter Weiss 1960 German German
4153 Ankunft Im Alltag Brigitte Reimann 1961 German German
4153 Like A Tear In The Ocean Manès Sperber 1961 Unknown German
4195 The Oppermanns Lion Feuchtwanger 1933 German German
4309 The Adventures Of Ferdinand Count Fathom Tobias Smollett 1753 British English
4309 Pointed Roofs Dorothy Richardson 1915 British English
4371 Nobodaddy's Children Arno Schmidt 1963 German German
4371 The Long Voyage Jorge Semprún 1963 French French
4391 Crabwalk Günter Grass 2002 German German
4392 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4415 Diary Witold Gombrowicz 1986 Polish Polish
4444 Chronicles of Wasted Time Malcolm Muggeridge 1972 British English
4502 Parallel Stories Péter Nádas 2005 Hungarian Hungarian
4510 The Aula Hermann Kant 1965 German German
4530 Minneliederen Hendrik van Veldeke 1170 German Middle dutch
4554 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr 1971 German English
4634 The Inability To Mourn Alexander Mitscherlich, Margarete Mitscherlich 1967 German German
4635 The Medici George Frederick Young 1910 Unknown English
4675 The Time of Our Singing Richard Powers 2003 American English
4687 The Cost Of Discipleship Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1937 German German
4687 Letters And Papers From Prison Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1951 German German
4687 Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem 1929 German German
4707 Faserland Christian Kracht 1995 German German
4762 Vertigo W. G. Sebald 1990 German German
4767 The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon 2007 American English
4777 The Life Of Katherine Mansfield Anthony Alpers 1980 New Zealand English
4829 Patterns of Childhood Christa Wolf 1976 German German
4856 Zettels Traum Arno Schmidt 1970 German German
4856 The Gift Horse Hildegard Knef 1970 German German
4864 The Foundations Of Arithmetic Gottlob Frege 1884 German German