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
10223 Raw Material Jörg Fauser 1984 German German
10240 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
10281 A Bag Of Marbles Joseph Joffo 1973 French French
10298 Judgment At Tokyo Gary J. Bass 2023 Unknown English
10304 Walls Hiltgunt Zassenhaus 1974 German English
10304 Mimesis Erich Auerbach 1946 German German
10304 Brecht On Theatre Bertolt Brecht 1964 German German
10304 The Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch 1953 German German
10304 The Social History Of Art Arnold Hauser 1951 German German
10304 What Is Called Thinking? Martin Heidegger 1954 German German
10304 The Gnostic Religion Hans Jonas 1958 German English
10304 Reform Or Revolution? Rosa Luxemburg 1900 German German
10304 Eros And Civilization Herbert Marcuse 1955 German English
10304 Perspective As Symbolic Form Erwin Panofsky 1927 German German
10304 The Philosophy Of Money Georg Simmel 1900 German German
10304 The Social Teachings Of The Christian Churches Ernst Troeltsch 1912 German German
10395 Essays On Music Theodor Adorno 2002 German English
10412 H Hh H Laurent Binet 2010 French French
10407 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10438 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10449 Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed 2009 American 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
10769 Not One Inch M. E. Sarotte 2021 American English
10820 Salt To The Sea Ruta Sepetys 2016 American 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
10919 Pope Joan Donna Cross 1996 American English
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 Marriage In Philippsburg Martin Walser 1957 German German
11088 The Eyewitness Ernst Weiß 1930 German German
11088 Der Weg Nach Oobliadooh Fritz Rudolf Fries 1966 German German
11088 Die Palette Hubert Fichte 1968 German German
11088 Franziska Linkerhand Brigitte Reimann 1974 German German
11108 The Economic Emergence Of Women Barbara Bergmann 2005 American English
11136 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Carl E. Schorske 1980 American English
11163 A World Lit Only By Fire William Manchester 1992 American English
11163 Scattered All Over The Earth Yoko Tawada 2018 Japanese Japanese
11163 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11183 Die Puppenspieler Tanja Kinkel 1995 German German
11216 German Autumn Stig Dagerman 1947 Swedish Swedish
11223 Guten Morgen, Du Schöne Maxie Wander 1977 German German
11273 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
11306 Mysteries Of The Middle Ages Thomas Cahill 2006 American English
11310 No Place On Earth Christa Wolf 1979 German German
11334 Kleinstadtnovelle Ronald M. Schernikau 1980 German German
11334 The Father Of A Murderer Alfred Andersch 1980 German German
11341 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11362 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11388 Marbot Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1981 German German
11435 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11479 Overstaying Ariane Koch 2021 Unknown English
11490 Day In Day Out Terézia Mora 2004 German German
11532 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11539 The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1919 British English
11543 Hildegard Of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen 1152 German Latin
11562 Hinze Kunze Roman Volker Braun 1985 German German
11575 The Last Days of Hitler Hugh Trevor-Roper 1947 British English
11579 Hitchhiking Gabriele Eckart 1986 German Unknown
11610 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11629 Death By Video Game Simon Parkin 2015 British English
11634 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11646 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
11660 The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark 2012 British English
11660 The Bourgeois Experience Peter Gay 1984 American English
11660 The Abandonment Of The Jews David S. Wyman 1984 American English
11660 How War Came Donald Cameron Watt 1989 British English
11660 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11660 She Has Her Mother's Laugh Carl Zimmer 2018 American English
11801 The Attention Merchants Tim Wu 2016 American English
11840 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11842 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11851 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11856 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
11862 Evening In The Palace Of Reason James R. Gaines 2005 Unknown English
11895 Ekkehard Joseph Victor von Scheffel 1855 German German
11932 Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 2017 American English
11939 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
12009 Mr. Mani A. B. Yehoshua 1990 Israeli Hebrew
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
12048 The Visit Of The Royal Physician Per Olov Enquist 1999 Swedish Swedish
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
12258 Floating In My Mother's Palm Ursula Hegi 1990 German English
12290 All Russians Love Birch Trees Olga Grjasnowa 2012 German German
12299 The Intermediaries Brandy Schillace 2025 American English
12324 Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer 1991 American English
12324 Kissinger Walter Isaacson 1992 American English
12324 The First World War John Keegan 1998 British English
12324 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12407 The Scrapbook Heather Clark 2025 Unknown English
12482 The Sisters Of Sinai Janet Soskice 2009 Unknown English
12763 Father's On The Phone With The Flies Herta Müller 2012 German German
12942 Jesus Christ Kinski Benjamin Myers 2025 British English
12963 Good Girl Aria Aber 2025 American English
13031 Fortune's Wheel Rebecca Gablé 2014 German German
13034 The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland 2025 British English
13276 Marzahn, Mon Amour Katja Oskamp 2019 German German
13286 Seltsame Sterne Starren Zur Erde Emine Sevgi Özdamar 2003 German German
13293 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
13314 Schubert’s Winter Journey Ian Bostridge 2015 British English
13328 Landnahme Christoph Hein 2004 German German
13328 Wir Schlafen Nicht Kathrin Röggla 2004 Austrian German
13351 In My Brother's Shadow Uwe Timm 2005 German German
13359 The Prose Writings Of Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine 1834 German German
13359 Lichtenstein Wilhelm Hauff 1826 German German
13359 The Descent Of Man Charles Darwin 1871 British English
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