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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15916 Pioneers In Ingolstadt Marieluise Fleißer 1928 German German
16506 The Prince Of Homburg Heinrich von Kleist 1821 German German
15916 The Origin And Development Of The Quantum Theory Max Planck 1922 German German
15916 Idealism And The Endgame Of Theory F. W. J. Schelling 1800 German German
15916 The Apriori Foundations Of The Civil Law Adolf Reinach 1913 German German
15916 Slightly Out Of Focus Robert Capa 1947 American English
15916 The Walls Came Tumbling Down Henriette Roosenburg 1957 Dutch English
15916 Berlin Diary William L. Shirer 1941 British English
15916 Elizabeth And Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1898 German English
15916 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
15916 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15916 My Heart Else Lasker-Schüler 1911 German German
15916 Rheinsberg Kurt Tucholsky 1912 German German
15916 Blood Brothers Ernst Haffner 1932 German German
15916 An Egyptian Princess Georg Ebers 1864 German German
15916 Waterloo Erckmann-Chatrian 1865 French French
15916 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
15916 Biographies Of Good Women Charlotte M Yonge 1866 British English
15916 In A German Pension Katherine Mansfield 1911 British English
15901 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
16521 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
15916 Doctor Faustus And Other Plays Christopher Marlowe 1604 English English
15916 Childhood, Youth And Exile Alexander Herzen 1852 Russian Russian
15916 Journal Of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield 1927 New Zealand English
15916 Medieval Cities Henri Pirenne 1925 Belgian French
15916 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
16529 The Odessa File Frederick Forsyth 1972 British English
16619 Demian / Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
16608 Schopenhauer As Educator Friedrich Nietzsche 1874 German German
16539 A Noite Elie Wiesel 1956 French Yiddish
16603 Flotsam Erich Maria Remarque 1939 German German
16637 The Flying Classroom Erich Kästner 1933 German German
16729 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16774 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16705 The Dam Busters P Brickhill 1951 British English
16711 A Woman In Berlin Unknown 1954 German German
16725 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
16688 Madonna In A Fur Coat Sabahattin Ali 1943 Turkish Turkish
16782 Twilight Of The Idols, Or How To Philosophize With A Hammer Friedrich Nietzsche 1889 German German
16788 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
16671 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17163 Munich Telford Taylor 1979 American English
17163 Walter Lippmann and the American Century Ronald Steel 1980 American English
17163 The Rape of Europa Lynn Nicholas 1994 American English
17163 The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 2003 British English
17163 Essays in Sociology Max Weber 1946 German German
17163 Physics and Philosophy Werner Heisenberg 1958 German German
17163 Peeling the Onion Günter Grass 2006 German German
17163 Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley 1990 British English
17163 The Coming of the War, 1914 Bernadotte E. Schmitt 1930 American English
17163 My Experiences in the World War John J. Pershing 1931 American English
17163 Between War and Peace Herbert Feis 1960 American English
17163 Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 1989 American English
17163 Die andere Bildung. Was man von den Naturwissenschaften wissen sollte Ernst Peter Fischer 2001 German German
17163 German History 1800–1918 Thomas Nipperdey 1983 German German
17163 Briar Rose Jane Yolen 1992 American English
17163 The Wish Child Catherine Chidgey 2016 New Zealander English
17163 Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai 1988 Indian English
17163 Doctor Copernicus John Banville 1976 Irish English
17163 The Nature Of Blood Caryl Phillips 1997 British English
17163 Rogue Heroes Ben Macintyre 2016 British English
17163 Thomas Mann Heinrich Mann Helmut Koopmann 2005 German German
17163 Bent Martin Sherman 1979 British English
17163 The Fate Of Reason Frederick C. Beiser 1987 American English
17163 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
17163 Breaking The Chains Of Gravity Amy Shira Teitel 2015 American English
17163 Mrs. Adams In Winter Michael O'Brien 2010 Unknown English
17163 Heisenberg's War Thomas Powers 1993 American English
17163 Explaining Hitler Ron Rosenbaum 1998 American English
17163 The Crime And Punishment Of I. G. Farben Joseph Borkin 1978 American English
17163 The Thirty Years’ War Andrew Kopkind 1996 American Unknown
17163 The Dada Painters and Poets Robert Motherwell 1978 American English
17163 A Short History Of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton 1982 British English
17163 Eternal Treblinka Charles Patterson 2002 American English
17163 Stones From The River Ursula Hegi 1994 German English
17163 War And Peace And War Peter Turchin 2005 American English
16889 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17163 How Music Got Free Stephen Richard Witt 2015 American English
17163 Humanly Possible Sarah Bakewell 2023 British English
17163 Red Storm Rising Tom Clancy 1986 American English
17119 Comedy In A Minor Key Hans Keilson 1947 Dutch Dutch
17163 His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 1917 British English
17163 Edge Of Eternity Ken Follett 2014 British English
17163 Winter Of The World Ken Follett 2012 British English
17163 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett 2010 British English
17163 Leaving Berlin Joseph Kanon 2015 American English
17163 The Wolf's Hour Robert R. McCammon 1989 American English
17163 Mock Marek Krajewski 2013 Polish Polish
17163 Woman At 1000 Degrees Hallgrímur Helgason 2011 Icelandic Icelandic
17163 The Victorian Internet Tom Standage 1998 British English
17163 The Neptune File Tom Standage 2000 British English
17163 All The Broken Places John Boyne 2022 Irish English
17163 Engineers Of Victory Paul Kennedy 2013 British English
17163 Walk In My Combat Boots James Patterson 2021 American English
17163 Elvis And Me Priscilla Beaulieu Presley 1985 American English
17163 The Illuminatus! Trilogy Robert Shea 1975 American English
17003 Singular Travels, Campaigns And Adventures Of Baron Munchausen R. E. Raspe 1785 German German
17163 Theodore Rex Edmund Morris 2001 American English
17163 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17163 Partners In Command Mark Perry 2007 Unknown English
17163 Band Of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 American English
17163 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17163 Agent Running In The Field John le Carré 2019 British English
17163 One Two Three Four Craig Brown 2020 British English
17163 Pushkin T. J. Binyon 2002 British English
17163 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17163 Berlioz: Volume Two David Cairns 1999 British English
17163 The Benn Diaries, 1940 90 Tony Benn 1987 British English
17163 Atrocities Matthew White 2011 Unknown English
17163 Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand 2009 American English
17163 The 4 Hour Work Week Timothy Ferriss 2007 American English
17163 Memoirs Of An Anti Semite Gregor von Rezzori 1979 Multiple German
17163 The Wall Jumper Peter Schneider 1982 German German
17163 'I' Wolfgang Hilbig 1993 German German
17163 Animal Triste Monika Maron 1996 German German
17163 Lost Hans-Ulrich Treichel 1998 German German
17163 The Shadow Boxing Woman Inka Parei 1999 German German
17163 Mrs Sartoris Elke Schmitter 2001 German German
17163 The Architects Stefan Heym 2000 German German
17163 Berlin Blues Sven Regener 2001 German German