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
13567 Johnny Cash Reinhard Kleist 2006 German German
13586 The Adventures Of Harry Richmond George Meredith 1871 British English
13590 Taxi Karen Duve 2008 German German
13597 Before The Deluge Otto Friedrich 1972 American English
13600 The Long Holiday Francis Ambrière 1946 French English
13735 Atlas Der Abgelegenen Inseln Judith Schalansky 2009 German German
13736 Christianity In The Twentieth Century Brian Stanley 2018 British English
13743 Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art James Hall 1974 British English
13749 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
13772 Logicomix Apostolos Doxiadis 2008 Greek English
13787 Dschinns Fatma Aydemir 2022 German German
13806 Hyperion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839 American English
13818 The Girl With The Leica Helena Janeczek 2017 Italian Italian
13818 Spatriati Mario Desiati 2021 Italian Italian
13886 The Vanishing Of Katharina Linden Helen Grant 2009 British English
13886 Anne Frank Francine Prose 2009 American English
13886 Googled Ken Auletta 2009 American English
13886 Louisa May Alcott Harriet Reisen 2009 Unknown English
13933 Chronicles Of The Schönberg Cotta Family Elizabeth Rundle Charles 1863 British English
13961 Belonging Nora Krug 2018 German English
13964 Arbeit Und Struktur Wolfgang Herrndorf 2013 German German
13964 Das Verschwinden Des Philip S. Ulrike Edschmid 2013 German German
14043 Chronik Meiner Straße Barbara Honigmann 2015 German German
14063 Silent Close No. 6 Monika Maron 1991 German German
14070 Erste Erde Epos Raoul Schrott 2016 Austrian German
14088 La Part De L'autre Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2001 French French
14098 Why We Took The Car Wolfgang Herrndorf 2010 German German
14113 The Man Who Saw Everything Deborah Levy 2019 British English
14212 Enriching The Earth Vaclav Smil 2001 Canadian English
14212 The Fox In The Attic Richard Hughes 1961 British English
14232 Berlin Antony Beevor 2002 British English
14232 Quicksilver Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
14232 Ordinary Men Christopher R. Browning 1992 American English
14232 Memoirs Of A Polar Bear Yoko Tawada 2011 German German
14324 Upheaval Jared Diamond 2019 American English
14328 Where You Come From Saša Stanišić 2019 German German
14348 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
14371 Allegro Pastell Leif Randt 2020 German German
14371 Vom Aufstehen Helga Schubert 2020 German German
14405 Blaue Frau Antje Rávik Strubel 2021 German German
14433 Fault Lines Nancy Huston 2006 French French
14435 Einstein Walter Isaacson 2007 American English
14482 Glanz Und Gloria Henning Ahrens 2003 German German
14518 Brev Från Nollpunkten Peter Englund 1996 Swedish Swedish
14520 Prime Movers Of Globalization Vaclav Smil 2010 Canadian English
14520 The Coast Of Utopia Tom Stoppard 2002 British English
14586 Die Projektoren Clemens Meyer 2024 German German
14589 Confident Women Tori Telfer 2021 Unknown English
14599 On The Heights Berthold Auerbach 1865 German German
14624 The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1916 Spanish Spanish
14630 The Gutenberg Galaxy Marshall McLuhan 1962 Canadian English
14649 Wetlands Charlotte Roche 2008 German German
14677 Men Of The Old Stone Age Henry Fairfield Osborn 1915 American English
14680 Teenage Jon Savage 2007 British English
14698 The Song Of Songs Hermann Sudermann 1908 German German
14698 The Looking Glass War John le Carré 1965 British English
14710 History Of The World War Frank H. Simonds 1917 American English
14721 The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume Ii Edward Gibbon 1781 British English
14788 The Harmony of the Worlds Johannes Kepler 1619 German Latin
14788 Two Planets Kurd Laßwitz 1897 German German
14788 The Origin Of Continents And Oceans Alfred Wegener 1915 German German
14788 Legion Of The Damned Sven Hassel 1953 Danish Danish
14788 The Making Of The Middle Ages R. W. Southern 1953 British English
14822 The Face Of War Martha Gellhorn 1959 American English
14850 The True Believer Eric Hoffer 1951 American English
14828 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
14890 What Is Metaphysics? Martin Heidegger 1929 German German
14899 We Die Alone David Howarth 1955 British English
14877 Scivias Hildegard of Bingen 1151 German Latin
14925 Johann Holtrop Rainald Goetz 2012 German German
14963 The Origins of the Second World War A. J. P. Taylor 1961 British English
14985 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 Irish English
14985 The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson 2003 American English
14985 The Hidden Life Of Trees Peter Wohlleben 2015 German German
14985 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
14985 Elon Musk Walter Isaacson 2023 American English
14985 The Invention Of Prehistory Stefanos Geroulanos 2024 Unknown English
14985 Hitler And Stalin Alan Bullock 1991 British English
14985 Stalingrad Antony Beevor 1998 British English
14985 Mussel Feast Birgit Vanderbeke 1990 German German
14985 The Collector Of Worlds Iliya Troyanov 2006 German German
14985 The End Of Loneliness Benedict Wells 2016 German German
14985 Europe Norman Davies 1996 British English
14985 Hitler Ian Kershaw 1998 British English
14985 The Battle For Spain Antony Beevor 2006 British English
14985 Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks 2005 American English
14985 Salt Mark Kurlansky 2002 American English
14985 Purity Jonathan Franzen 2015 American English
14985 Beneath A Scarlet Sky Mark T. Sullivan 2017 American English
14985 The Happiest Man On Earth Eddie Jaku 2020 Unknown English
14985 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
14985 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
14985 Other People's Clothes Calla Henkel 2022 Unknown English
14985 Evening Edged In Gold Arno Schmidt 1975 German German
15637 A History Of The Great War John Buchan 1921 British English
15642 The Game Of The Foxes Ladislas Farago 1971 American English
15667 The Nick Adams Stories Ernest Hemingway 1972 American English
15728 Slaughterhouse Five, Or The Children's Crusade Ryan North 1969 Unknown English
15739 Dot And Anton Erich Kästner 1931 German German
15757 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15755 The Passions Of The Mind Irving Stone 1971 American English
15765 Three Men In A Boat And Three Men On The Bummel Jerome K. Jerome 1889 British English
15801 Critique Of Religion And Philosophy Walter A. Kaufmann 1958 American English
15837 The Cunning Of History Richard L. Rubenstein 1975 American English
15813 The Harz Journey And Selected Prose Heinrich Heine 1826 German German
15836 Laughter In The Dark Vladimir Nabokov 1932 Russian Russian
15823 The Complete Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1911 British English
15820 Into That Darkness Gitta Sereny 1974 British English
15843 Bodyguard Of Lies Anthony Cave Brown 1975 British English
15862 On Revolution Hannah Arendt 1963 American English
15878 The Masks Of God, Volume 4 Joseph Campbell 1968 American English
15916 Philosophy of Modern Music Theodor Adorno 1949 German German
15916 The Prussian Officer D. H. Lawrence 1914 British English
15916 The Word of God and the Word of Man Karl Barth 1928 Swiss German
15916 Uncertainty Principle Werner Heisenberg 1927 German Unknown
15916 Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1700 German Latin
15916 Epitome of Copernican Astronomy Johannes Kepler 1618 German Latin
15916 Grundrisse Karl Marx 1857 German German
15916 The Maurizius Case Jakob Wassermann 1928 German German
15916 Purgatory In Ingolstadt Marieluise Fleißer 1924 German German