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
6902 Autobiography Thomas Bernhard 1975 Austrian German
6939 Summerhouse, Later Judith Hermann 1998 German German
6969 Six Studies In Communism Arthur Koestler, Richard Crossman 1960 Multiple English
6969 Collected Shorter Poems W. H. Auden 1966 British English
7007 Tyll Daniel Kehlmann 2017 German German
7015 Trieste Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
7016 Original Bliss A. L. Kennedy 1997 British English
7027 In The Garden Of Beasts Erik Larson 2011 American English
7034 The Politics Of Cultural Despair Fritz Stern 1961 American English
7168 Julio Jurenito Ilya Ehrenburg 1921 Russian Russian
7205 The Pharmacist Ingrid Noll 1994 German German
7215 Poems Of Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1789 German German
7215 Verse Plays Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1800 German German
7215 Hermann And Dorothea Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1797 German German
7215 West Eastern Divan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1819 German German
7215 Wallenstein Friedrich Schiller 1799 German German
7215 On The Naïve And Sentimental In Literature Friedrich Schiller 1795 German German
7215 Laocoön Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1766 German German
7215 Selected Poems Freidrich Hölderlin 1800 German German
7215 Five Plays Heinrich von Kleist 1808 German German
7215 Hymns To The Night Novalis 1800 German German
7215 Aphorisms Novalis 1798 German German
7215 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
7215 Poems Of Theodor Storm Theodor Storm 1852 German German
7215 Dialogue On Poetry And Literary Aphorisms Friedrich Schlegel 1800 German German
7215 Complete Poems Heinrich Heine 1856 German German
7215 Poems Of Stefan George Stefan George 1897 German German
7215 Coup De Grace Marguerite Yourcenar 1939 French French
7574 I Have Lived a Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson 1997 Hungarian English
7608 The Complete War Memoirs Of Charles De Gaulle Charles De Gaulle 1954 French French
7687 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
7691 Heroes Like Us Thomas Brussig 1995 German German
7691 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7691 Das Superweib Hera Lind 1995 German German
7732 Despair Vladimir Nabokov 1934 Russian Russian
7740 The Third Reich Of Dreams Charlotte Beradt 1966 German German
7761 The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll Heinrich Böll 1972 German German
7764 Pavel's Letters Monika Maron 1999 German German
7764 In Search of Klingsor Jorge Volpi Escalante 1999 Mexican Spanish
7792 The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche 1882 German German
7811 The Blind Side of the Heart Julia Franck 2007 German German
7816 In My Hands Irene Opdyke 1999 American English
7841 The Little Drummer Girl John le Carré 1983 British English
7926 Die Auflösung Der Weimarer Republik Karl Dietrich Bracher 1955 German German
7956 Das Frühstücksei. Gesammelte Dramatische Geschichten Loriot 1997 German German
8091 The Messianic Idea In Judaism, And Other Essays On Jewish Spirituality Gershom Scholem 1971 German English
8142 Simple Stories Ingo Schulze 1998 German German
8142 Vor Uns Die Sintflut Urs Widmer 1998 Swiss German
8182 Alberta empfängt einen Liebhaber Birgit Vanderbeke 2023 German German
8209 China Shakes The World James Kynge 2006 British English
8211 Landscape Of Farewell Alex Miller 2007 Australian English
8265 Berlin Game Len Deighton 1983 British English
8261 Ideas Edmund Husserl 1913 German German
8291 The Author Of Himself Marcel Reich-Ranicki 1999 German German
8360 Ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1949 German German
8360 Dogmatics In Outline Karl Barth 1946 German German
8414 War and Remembrance Herman Wouk 1978 American English
8432 Shadow Divers Robert Kurson 2004 American English
8442 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8442 The Interim Wolfgang Hilbig 2000 German German
8442 Trilogie Des Mittelalters Dieter Kühn 2000 German German
8442 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8442 Russian Disco Wladimir Kaminer 2000 German German
8442 Der Geliebte Der Mutter Urs Widmer 2000 Swiss German
8570 Fear Itself Ira Katznelson 2013 American English
8584 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8590 Sonnenschein Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
8604 Shadow Lands Johannes Bobrowski 1962 German German
8642 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8667 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 1971 Dutch English
8728 Hymns And Fragments Freidrich Hölderlin 1984 German German
8851 How German Is It Walter Abish 1980 American English
8987 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9058 The Book Of Records Madeleine Thien 2025 Canadian English
9094 Eifel Liebe Jacques Berndorf 2003 German German
9112 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
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
9279 Das verborgene Wort Ulla Hahn 1981 German German
9313 Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech Paul Celan 2020 German German
9322 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9365 Maybe Esther Katja Petrowskaja 2014 Ukrainian German
9373 Horrid Mysteries Carl Grosse 1796 German German
9373 The Mysterious Warning Eliza Parsons 1796 British English
9373 The Orphan Of The Rhine Elanor Sleath 1798 British English
9373 Wagner, The Wehr Wolf George William MacArthur Reynolds 1847 British English
9521 The Order Of The Day Eric Vuillard 2017 French French
9523 In Line Behind A Billion People Damien Ma, William Adams 2013 Unknown English
9570 Jenny Treibel Theodor Fontane 1892 German German
9570 Beneath The Wheel Hermann Hesse 1906 German German
9570 Pigeons On The Grass Wolfgang Koeppen 1951 German German
9582 The Director Daniel Kehlmann 2023 German English
9593 The Naked Eye Yoko Tawada 2004 Multiple German
9597 Perfection Vincenzo Latronico 2022 Italian Italian
9639 Time's Arrow Martin Amis 1991 British English
9656 Brehm's Life Of Animals Alfred Edmund Brehm 2015 German German
9656 The Messiah Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2012 German German
9690 Nightshade Derek Marlowe 1968 British English
9703 Address Unknown Kathrine Kressmann Taylor 1938 American English
9730 Europe Central William T. Vollmann 2005 American English
9738 Crime Ferdinand Von Schirach 2009 German German
9753 The Years of Extermination Saul Friedlander 2007 Israeli English
9792 The Past Is Myself Christabel Bielenberg 1968 German English
9820 The Collini Case Ferdinand Von Schirach 2011 German German
9847 Entre Les Deux Il N’y A Rien Mathieu Riboulet 2006 French French
9881 The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice And Virtue Mackenzi Lee 2017 American English
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
10047 Krieg Ludwig Renn 1928 German German
10058 Die Totalitäre Erfahrung Karl Dietrich Bracher 1987 German German
10065 The Silences Of Hammerstein Hans Magnus Enzensberger 2008 German German
10086 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10091 Twenty Years And A Day Jorge Semprún 2003 Spanish Spanish
10167 Dragon's Teeth Upton Sinclair 1942 American English
10206 The Pegnitz Junction Mavis Gallant 1973 Canadian English
10215 Her Majesty's Secret Service Christopher Andrew 1985 Unknown English