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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15897 Pioneers In Ingolstadt Marieluise Fleißer 1928 German German
16487 The Prince Of Homburg Heinrich von Kleist 1821 German German
15897 The Origin And Development Of The Quantum Theory Max Planck 1922 German German
15897 Idealism And The Endgame Of Theory F. W. J. Schelling 1800 German German
15897 The Apriori Foundations Of The Civil Law Adolf Reinach 1913 German German
15897 Slightly Out Of Focus Robert Capa 1947 American English
15897 The Walls Came Tumbling Down Henriette Roosenburg 1957 Dutch English
15897 Berlin Diary William L. Shirer 1941 British English
15897 Elizabeth And Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1898 German English
15897 A Child Of The Century Ben Hecht 1954 American English
15897 The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill 1948 British English
15897 My Heart Else Lasker-Schüler 1911 German German
15897 Rheinsberg Kurt Tucholsky 1912 German German
15897 Blood Brothers Ernst Haffner 1932 German German
15897 An Egyptian Princess Georg Ebers 1864 German German
15897 Waterloo Erckmann-Chatrian 1865 French French
15897 Female Biography Mary Hays 1803 British English
15897 Biographies Of Good Women Charlotte M Yonge 1866 British English
15897 In A German Pension Katherine Mansfield 1911 British English
15886 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
16500 Science Of Logic G. W. F. Hegel 1812 German German
15897 Doctor Faustus And Other Plays Christopher Marlowe 1604 English English
15897 Childhood, Youth And Exile Alexander Herzen 1852 Russian Russian
15897 Journal Of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield 1927 New Zealand English
15897 Medieval Cities Henri Pirenne 1925 Belgian French
15897 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
16508 The Odessa File Frederick Forsyth 1972 British English
16582 Demian / Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
16578 Schopenhauer As Educator Friedrich Nietzsche 1874 German German
16522 A Noite Elie Wiesel 1956 French Yiddish
16602 The Flying Classroom Erich Kästner 1933 German German
16685 Inside The Third Reich Speer 1969 German German
16735 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16682 The Dam Busters P Brickhill 1951 British English
16676 A Woman In Berlin Unknown 1954 German German
16694 Selected Writings Karl Marx 1973 German German
16658 Madonna In A Fur Coat Sabahattin Ali 1943 Turkish Turkish
16742 Twilight Of The Idols, Or How To Philosophize With A Hammer Friedrich Nietzsche 1889 German German
16747 The Sleepwalkers Arthur Koestler 1959 British English
16640 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17119 Munich Telford Taylor 1979 American English
17119 Walter Lippmann and the American Century Ronald Steel 1980 American English
17119 The Rape of Europa Lynn Nicholas 1994 American English
17119 The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 2003 British English
17119 Essays in Sociology Max Weber 1946 German German
17119 Physics and Philosophy Werner Heisenberg 1958 German German
17119 Peeling the Onion Günter Grass 2006 German German
17119 Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley 1990 British English
17119 The Coming of the War, 1914 Bernadotte E. Schmitt 1930 American English
17119 My Experiences in the World War John J. Pershing 1931 American English
17119 Between War and Peace Herbert Feis 1960 American English
17119 Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 1989 American English
17119 Die andere Bildung. Was man von den Naturwissenschaften wissen sollte Ernst Peter Fischer 2001 German German
17119 German History 1800–1918 Thomas Nipperdey 1983 German German
17119 Briar Rose Jane Yolen 1992 American English
17119 The Wish Child Catherine Chidgey 2016 New Zealander English
17119 Baumgartner’s Bombay Anita Desai 1988 Indian English
17119 Doctor Copernicus John Banville 1976 Irish English
17119 The Nature Of Blood Caryl Phillips 1997 British English
17119 Rogue Heroes Ben Macintyre 2016 British English
17119 Thomas Mann Heinrich Mann Helmut Koopmann 2005 German German
17119 Bent Martin Sherman 1979 British English
17119 The Fate Of Reason Frederick C. Beiser 1987 American English
17119 Evil In Modern Thought Susan Neiman 2002 American English
17119 Breaking The Chains Of Gravity Amy Shira Teitel 2015 American English
17119 Mrs. Adams In Winter Michael O'Brien 2010 Unknown English
17119 Heisenberg's War Thomas Powers 1993 American English
17119 Explaining Hitler Ron Rosenbaum 1998 American English
17119 The Crime And Punishment Of I. G. Farben Joseph Borkin 1978 American English
17119 The Thirty Years’ War Andrew Kopkind 1996 American Unknown
17119 The Dada Painters and Poets Robert Motherwell 1978 American English
17119 A Short History Of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton 1982 British English
17119 Eternal Treblinka Charles Patterson 2002 American English
17119 Stones From The River Ursula Hegi 1994 German English
17119 War And Peace And War Peter Turchin 2005 American English
16845 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17119 How Music Got Free Stephen Richard Witt 2015 American English
17119 Humanly Possible Sarah Bakewell 2023 British English
17119 Red Storm Rising Tom Clancy 1986 American English
17096 Comedy In A Minor Key Hans Keilson 1947 Dutch Dutch
17119 His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 1917 British English
17119 Edge Of Eternity Ken Follett 2014 British English
17119 Winter Of The World Ken Follett 2012 British English
17119 Fall Of Giants Ken Follett 2010 British English
17119 Leaving Berlin Joseph Kanon 2015 American English
17119 The Wolf's Hour Robert R. McCammon 1989 American English
17119 Mock Marek Krajewski 2013 Polish Polish
17119 Woman At 1000 Degrees Hallgrímur Helgason 2011 Icelandic Icelandic
17119 The Victorian Internet Tom Standage 1998 British English
17119 The Neptune File Tom Standage 2000 British English
17119 All The Broken Places John Boyne 2022 Irish English
17119 Engineers Of Victory Paul Kennedy 2013 British English
17119 Walk In My Combat Boots James Patterson 2021 American English
17119 Elvis And Me Priscilla Beaulieu Presley 1985 American English
17119 The Illuminatus! Trilogy Robert Shea 1975 American English
16924 Singular Travels, Campaigns And Adventures Of Baron Munchausen R. E. Raspe 1785 German German
17119 Theodore Rex Edmund Morris 2001 American English
17119 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17119 Partners In Command Mark Perry 2007 Unknown English
17119 Band Of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 American English
17119 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17119 Agent Running In The Field John le Carré 2019 British English
17119 One Two Three Four Craig Brown 2020 British English
17119 Pushkin T. J. Binyon 2002 British English
17119 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17119 Berlioz: Volume Two David Cairns 1999 British English
17119 The Benn Diaries, 1940 90 Tony Benn 1987 British English
17119 Atrocities Matthew White 2011 Unknown English
17119 Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand 2009 American English
17119 The 4 Hour Work Week Timothy Ferriss 2007 American English
17119 Memoirs Of An Anti Semite Gregor von Rezzori 1979 Multiple German
17119 The Wall Jumper Peter Schneider 1982 German German
17119 'I' Wolfgang Hilbig 1993 German German
17119 Animal Triste Monika Maron 1996 German German
17119 Lost Hans-Ulrich Treichel 1998 German German
17119 The Shadow Boxing Woman Inka Parei 1999 German German
17119 Mrs Sartoris Elke Schmitter 2001 German German
17119 The Architects Stefan Heym 2000 German German
17119 Berlin Blues Sven Regener 2001 German German
17119 The Swimmer Zsuzsa Bánk 2002 German German