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
4865 Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers Max Planck 1922 German German
4900 On Occult Philosophy Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1531 German Latin
4900 Once An Eagle Anton Myrer 1968 American English
4957 The Fiery Angel Valeri Briussof 1908 Russian Russian
4984 New Poems Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 German German
5022 The King David Report Stefan Heym 1972 German German
5042 Life is a Carawanserai Has Two Doors I Went in One I Came out the Other Emine Sevgi Özdamar 1992 Turkish German
5046 The Sandman E. T. A. Hoffmann 1816 German German
5132 All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein 1957 American English
5133 Hitler Joachim Fest 1973 German German
5133 Das Boot Lothar-Günther Buchheim 1973 German German
5133 Die Vollidioten Eckhard Henscheid 1973 German German
5162 Die Söhne Der Großen Bärin Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich 1951 German German
5173 Best Tales E. T. A. Hoffmann 1814 German German
5190 German Romance Thomas Carlyle 1827 British English
5242 The Life And Adventures Of Trobadora Beatrice Irmtraud Morgner 1974 German German
5272 Die Günderode Bettina von Arnim 1840 German German
5282 Declare Tim Powers 2000 American English
5293 Der Mädchenkrieg Manfred Bieler 1975 German German
5293 Tadellöser & Wolff Walter Kempowski 1975 German German
5293 Der Kleine Unterschied Und Seine Großen Folgen Alice Schwarzer 1975 German German
5293 Tante Jolesch Or The Decline Of The West In Anecdotes Friedrich Torberg 1975 Austrian German
5302 The Swarm Frank Schatzing 2004 German German
5353 Stasiland Anna Funder 2002 Australian English
5362 Hölderlin Peter Härtling 1976 German German
5362 Foundations Of Christian Faith Karl Rahner 1976 German German
5405 Our Sister Killjoy Ama Ata Aidoo 1977 Ghanaian English
5446 The Red Lion Mária Szepes 1946 Hungarian Hungarian
5448 Vor Den Vätern Sterben Die Söhne Thomas Brasch 1977 German German
5459 Forgotten Ally Rana Mitter 2013 British English
5471 And There Was Light Jacques Lusseyran 1963 French French
5502 Schlachtbeschreibung Alexander Kluge 1978 German German
5502 The Trip To Panama Janosch 1978 German German
5531 A Prayer For Kateřina Horovitzová Arnost Lustig 1964 Czech Czech
5574 Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser 2001 American English
5583 Professor Martens' Departure Jaan Kross 1984 Estonian Estonian
5583 The Young Man Botho Strauß 1984 German German
5596 Poetry And Truth From My Own Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2004 German English
5599 Bloodlands Timothy Snyder 2010 American English
5608 Die Fälschung Nicolas Born 1979 German German
5654 The Parable of the Blind Gert Hofmann 1985 German German
5660 March Violets Philip Kerr 1989 British English
5706 Mondscheintarif Ildikò von Kürthy 1999 German German
5753 Flight Of Ashes Monika Maron 1981 German German
5803 Kruso Lutz Seiler 2014 German German
5804 Illuminations Walter Benjamin 1968 German German
5806 The Child Manuela Christa Winsloe 1933 German German
5810 An Ordinary Youth Walter Kempowski 1971 German Unknown
5863 Italian Journey Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1816 German German
5863 Selected Poetry Rainer Maria Rilke 1902 German German
5863 After Midnight Irmgard Keun 1937 German German
5892 Sartor Resartus Thomas Carlyle 1836 British English
5929 Go Went Gone Jenny Erpenbeck 2015 German German
5939 Jesus Menschensohn Rudolf Augstein 1982 German German
5939 The Turning Point Fritjof Capra 1982 American English
5939 The Spiral Of Silence Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann 1982 German German
5939 Der Bedrohte Friede Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 1982 German German
5939 Die Bertinis Ralph Giordano 1982 German German
5993 The Children's Book A. S. Byatt 2009 British English
6005 Men In Dark Times Hannah Arendt 1968 German English
6005 Nietzsche And Philosophy Gilles Deleuze 1962 French French
6005 The Story Of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
6005 Collected Stories Franz Kafka 1931 Austrian German
6005 An Anecdoted Topography Of Chance Daniel Spoerri 1962 Multiple French
6005 Marginalia On Casanova Miklós Szentkuthy 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
6005 Night Edgar Hilsenrath 1964 German German
6005 Theatre Of The World Frances A. Yates 1969 British English
6005 Three Women Robert Musil 1924 Austrian German
6089 An Ice Cream War William Boyd 1982 British English
6124 Monster Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
6132 The Fool In Christ Gerhart Hauptmann 1910 German German
6169 The Tower Uwe Tellkamp 2008 German German
6190 The March Of Folly Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1984 American English
6190 Kein Schöner Land Silvio Blatter 1984 Swiss German
6219 Holocaust Charles Reznikoff 1975 American English
6221 Chronicle of Feelings Alexander Kluge 2000 German German
6266 Der Baader Meinhof Komplex Stefan Aust 1985 German German
6266 Lowest Of The Low Günter Wallraff 1985 German German
6289 Visitation Jenny Erpenbeck 2008 German German
6314 Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada 1947 German German
6328 Systematic Theology Wolfhart Pannenberg 1988 German German
6337 The Worldly Philosophers Robert Heilbroner 1953 American English
6343 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6343 In Hitler's Germany Bernt Engelmann 1986 German English
6343 Repetition Peter Handke 1986 Austrian German
6354 The Perennial Scope Of Philosophy Karl Jaspers 1949 German German
6382 An Essay On Universal History, The Manners, And Spirit Of Nations Voltaire 1756 French French
6382 History Of Germany In The Nineteenth Century Heinrich von Treitschke 1879 German German
6382 über Den Zwischenkiefer Der Menschen Und Der Tiere Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1820 German German
6382 The Life Of Jesus Critically Examined David Friedrich Strauss 1835 German German
6382 Friedrich Hebbels Tagebücher Friedrich Hebbel 1885 German German
6432 Ideas and Opinions Albert Einstein 1954 German English
6448 Kapo Aleksandar Tišma 1987 Serbian Serbo-croatian
6478 Second World War John Keegan 1989 British English
6508 The Triple Mirror of the Self Zulfikar Ghose 1992 Pakistani English
6508 Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture Apostolos Doxiadis 1992 Greek Greek
6548 Kindheit In Ostpreußen Marion Gräfin Dönhoff 1988 German German
6576 Ingrid Caven Jean-Jacques Schuhl 2000 French French
6577 Crashed Adam Tooze 2018 British English
6589 The Works Of Johannes Bobrowski Johannes Bobrowski 1969 German German
6596 The Invention Of Nature Andrea Wulf 2015 German English
6601 A Guide For The Perplexed E. F. Schumacher 1977 British English
6623 The Invention of Curried Sausage Uwe Timm 1993 German German
6632 Confessions Jaume Cabré 2011 Spanish Catalan
6657 Organon Of The Rational Art Of Healing Samuel Hahnemann 1989 German German
6713 The Land Of Green Plums Herta Müller 1994 German German
6717 Human, All Too Human Friedrich Nietzsche 1878 German German
6717 Anti Goeze Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1778 German German
6717 On The Aesthetic Education Of Man Friedrich Schiller 1794 German German
6748 Infanta Bodo Kirchhoff 1990 German German
6748 Sturmzeit Charlotte Link 1990 German German
6762 The World's Illusion Jakob Wassermann 1920 German German
6819 Killing Stella Marlen Haushofer 1958 Austrian German
6845 For Those I Loved Martin Gray 1971 French French
6852 The Quiller Memorandum Adam Hall 1965 British English
6853 Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck 2023 German German
6858 Young Man Luther Erik H. Erikson 1958 German English
6882 The Haunted Land Tina Rosenberg 1995 American English
6888 The Boxer Rebellion Diana Preston 1999 Unknown English
6892 The Company Robert Littell 2002 American English