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
10229 Raw Material Jörg Fauser 1984 German German
10246 A History of Philosophy Frederick Charles Copleston 1946 British English
10286 A Bag Of Marbles Joseph Joffo 1973 French French
10303 Judgment At Tokyo Gary J. Bass 2023 Unknown English
10309 Walls Hiltgunt Zassenhaus 1974 German English
10309 Mimesis Erich Auerbach 1946 German German
10309 Brecht On Theatre Bertolt Brecht 1964 German German
10309 The Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch 1953 German German
10309 The Social History Of Art Arnold Hauser 1951 German German
10309 What Is Called Thinking? Martin Heidegger 1954 German German
10309 The Gnostic Religion Hans Jonas 1958 German English
10309 Reform Or Revolution? Rosa Luxemburg 1900 German German
10309 Eros And Civilization Herbert Marcuse 1955 German English
10309 Perspective As Symbolic Form Erwin Panofsky 1927 German German
10309 The Philosophy Of Money Georg Simmel 1900 German German
10309 The Social Teachings Of The Christian Churches Ernst Troeltsch 1912 German German
10400 Essays On Music Theodor Adorno 2002 German English
10417 H Hh H Laurent Binet 2010 French French
10412 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10443 Women In The Resistance And In The Holocaust Vera Laska 1975 Czech English
10454 Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed 2009 American 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
10774 Not One Inch M. E. Sarotte 2021 American English
10826 Salt To The Sea Ruta Sepetys 2016 American 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
10924 Pope Joan Donna Cross 1996 American English
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 Marriage In Philippsburg Martin Walser 1957 German German
11093 The Eyewitness Ernst Weiß 1930 German German
11093 Der Weg Nach Oobliadooh Fritz Rudolf Fries 1966 German German
11093 Die Palette Hubert Fichte 1968 German German
11093 Franziska Linkerhand Brigitte Reimann 1974 German German
11113 The Economic Emergence Of Women Barbara Bergmann 2005 American English
11141 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Carl E. Schorske 1980 American English
11168 A World Lit Only By Fire William Manchester 1992 American English
11168 Scattered All Over The Earth Yoko Tawada 2018 Japanese Japanese
11168 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11188 Die Puppenspieler Tanja Kinkel 1995 German German
11221 German Autumn Stig Dagerman 1947 Swedish Swedish
11228 Guten Morgen, Du Schöne Maxie Wander 1977 German German
11278 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
11311 Mysteries Of The Middle Ages Thomas Cahill 2006 American English
11315 No Place On Earth Christa Wolf 1979 German German
11339 Kleinstadtnovelle Ronald M. Schernikau 1980 German German
11339 The Father Of A Murderer Alfred Andersch 1980 German German
11346 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11366 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11392 Marbot Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1981 German German
11439 A History Of Bombing Sven Lindqvist 1999 Swedish Swedish
11482 Overstaying Ariane Koch 2021 Unknown English
11493 Day In Day Out Terézia Mora 2004 German German
11535 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11542 The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1919 British English
11546 Hildegard Of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen 1152 German Latin
11564 Hinze Kunze Roman Volker Braun 1985 German German
11578 The Last Days of Hitler Hugh Trevor-Roper 1947 British English
11582 Hitchhiking Gabriele Eckart 1986 German Unknown
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11632 Death By Video Game Simon Parkin 2015 British English
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11649 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
11663 The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark 2012 British English
11663 The Bourgeois Experience Peter Gay 1984 American English
11663 The Abandonment Of The Jews David S. Wyman 1984 American English
11663 How War Came Donald Cameron Watt 1989 British English
11663 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11663 She Has Her Mother's Laugh Carl Zimmer 2018 American English
11803 The Attention Merchants Tim Wu 2016 American English
11842 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11844 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11853 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
11858 Dominion Tom Holland 2019 British English
11864 Evening In The Palace Of Reason James R. Gaines 2005 Unknown English
11897 Ekkehard Joseph Victor von Scheffel 1855 German German
11934 Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 2017 American English
11941 Days of Sorrow and Pain Leonard Baker 1978 American English
12011 Mr. Mani A. B. Yehoshua 1990 Israeli Hebrew
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
12050 The Visit Of The Royal Physician Per Olov Enquist 1999 Swedish Swedish
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
12259 Floating In My Mother's Palm Ursula Hegi 1990 German English
12291 All Russians Love Birch Trees Olga Grjasnowa 2012 German German
12300 The Intermediaries Brandy Schillace 2025 American English
12326 Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer 1991 American English
12326 Kissinger Walter Isaacson 1992 American English
12326 The First World War John Keegan 1998 British English
12326 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12409 The Scrapbook Heather Clark 2025 Unknown English
12484 The Sisters Of Sinai Janet Soskice 2009 Unknown English
12765 Father's On The Phone With The Flies Herta Müller 2012 German German
12945 Jesus Christ Kinski Benjamin Myers 2025 British English
12966 Good Girl Aria Aber 2025 American English
13034 Fortune's Wheel Rebecca Gablé 2014 German German
13037 The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland 2025 British English
13279 Marzahn, Mon Amour Katja Oskamp 2019 German German
13289 Seltsame Sterne Starren Zur Erde Emine Sevgi Özdamar 2003 German German
13296 The Taste Of Ashes Marci Shore 2013 Unknown English
13317 Schubert’s Winter Journey Ian Bostridge 2015 British English
13331 Landnahme Christoph Hein 2004 German German
13331 Wir Schlafen Nicht Kathrin Röggla 2004 Austrian German
13354 In My Brother's Shadow Uwe Timm 2005 German German
13362 The Prose Writings Of Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine 1834 German German
13362 Lichtenstein Wilhelm Hauff 1826 German German
13362 The Descent Of Man Charles Darwin 1871 British English
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