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
17164 The Swimmer Zsuzsa Bánk 2002 German German
17164 Young Light Ralf Rothmann 2004 German German
17164 How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone Saša Stanišić 2006 German German
17164 Babylon Berlin Volker Kutscher 2008 German German
17164 Broken Glass Park Alina Bronsky 2008 German German
17164 A Minute's Silence Siegfried Lenz 2008 German German
17164 Apostoloff Sibylle Lewitscharoff 2009 German German
17164 In Times Of Fading Light Eugen Ruge 2011 German German
17164 Atlas Of An Anxious Man Christoph Ransmayr 2016 Austrian German
17164 Bricks And Mortar Clemens Meyer 2006 German German
17164 This House Is Mine Dörte Hansen 2015 German German
17164 Hooligan Philipp Winkler 2016 German German
17164 The One Device Brian Merchant 2017 American English
17164 Colonel Roosevelt Edmund Morris 2010 American English
17164 To The Last Man Jeff Shaara 2004 American English
17164 Munich Robert Harris 2017 British English
17164 The Climate Book Greta Thunberg 2022 Swedish English
17164 Im Wasser Sind Wir Schwerelos Tomasz Jedrowski 2020 Unknown German
17164 Margaret Thatcher Charles Moore 2013 British English
17164 Churchill Roy Jenkins 2001 British English
17164 Islam And The West Bernard Lewis 1993 British English
17164 The History Of White People Nell Irvin Painter 2010 American English
17164 All Out War Tim Shipman 2016 British English
17164 Dark Archives Megan Rosenbloom 2020 Unknown English
17164 Drawdown Paul Hawken 2017 American English
17164 When Nietzsche Wept Irvin D. Yalom 1992 American English
17164 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17164 Caspar David Friedrich Markus Bertsch, Johannes Grave 2024 Unknown German
17164 Takeover Timothy W. Ryback 2024 Unknown English
17164 Twilight Of Democracy Anne Applebaum 2020 American English
17164 Maus Ii Art Spiegelman 1992 American English
17164 Dreadnought Robert K. Massie 1991 American English
17164 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17164 In The Wake Of The Plague Norman F. Cantor 2001 American English
17164 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English
17164 France On Trial Julian Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17164 Faith Hope And Carnage Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan 2022 Unknown English
17164 Ladivine Marie NDiaye 2013 French French
17164 Rombo Esther Kinsky 2022 German German
17164 Of Walking In Ice Werner Herzog 1978 German German
17164 The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August Claire North 2014 British English
17164 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17164 Goethe, His Faustian Life AN Wilson 2024 British English
17164 Lessons Ian McEwan 2022 British English
17164 The Hot Zone Richard Preston 1994 American English
17164 M Train Patti Smith 2015 American English
17164 Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Edmund Morris 1979 American English
17164 The Winter Queen Boris Akunin 1998 Russian Russian
17164 Herscht 07769 László Krasznahorkai 2024 Hungarian Hungarian
17164 Animals Eva Menasse 2017 Austrian German
17164 Map Of Bones James Rollins 2005 American English
17164 My Fourth Time, We Drowned Sally Hayden 2022 Irish English
17164 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17164 The 33 Strategies Of War New Edition By Robert Greene Paperback Robert Greene 2006 American English
17164 Mountains Of The Mind Robert Macfarlane 2003 British English
17164 Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan 2011 Canadian English
17145 Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre Walter A. Kaufmann 1956 American English
17164 Never Enough Judith Grisel 2019 Unknown English
17164 The Sports Gene David Epstein 2013 American English
17164 Lost Connections Johann Hari 2018 British English
17164 Exit Into History Eva Hoffman 1993 Unknown English
17164 Benevolence And Betrayal Alexander Stille 1991 American English
17164 The Fall Of The Roman Empire Peter Heather 2005 British English
17164 The Ultimate History Of Video Games Steven L. Kent 2001 American English
17164 Ludwig Wittgenstein Ray Monk 1990 British English
17164 Kant Manfred Kuehn 2001 Unknown English
17164 Schoenberg Harvey Sachs 2023 Unknown English
17164 Berlin Atomized Julia Kornberg 2021 Unknown English
17164 Refugee Alan Gratz 2017 American English
17164 Bellies Nicola Dinan 2023 Unknown English
17164 Soccer In Sun And Shadow Eduardo Galeano 1995 Uruguayan Spanish
17164 Viktor Frankl's Search For Meaning Timothy Pytell 2015 Unknown English
17164 813 Maurice Leblanc 1910 French French
17164 Drink To Yesterday Manning Coles 1940 British English
17164 Pray Silence Manning Coles 1940 British English
17164 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17164 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17164 The Chaos Machine Max Fisher 2022 Unknown English
17164 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
17164 Strongmen Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2020 American English
17164 Rites Of Spring Modris Eksteins 1989 Canadian English
17164 Post Growth Tim Jackson 2021 British English
17164 The Legionnaires Per Olov Enquist 1968 Swedish Swedish
17164 The Rise And Triumph Of The Modern Self Carl R. Trueman 2020 American English
17164 The Penguin Book Of First World War Poetry George Walter 1979 British English
16881 Das Kalte Herz Wilhelm Hauff 1827 German German
17164 Rizal In Saga Nick Joaquin 1996 Philippine English
17164 The Russian Window Dragan Velikić 2007 Unknown Serbian
17164 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
17164 The Closing Of The Western Mind Charles Freeman 2002 British English
17164 The Beatles Anthology The Beatles 2000 British English
17164 How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'N' Roll Elijah Wald 2009 American English
17164 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
17164 Klf John Higgs 2012 British English
17164 Tolstoy's "War And Peace" A Study R.F. Christian 1978 Unknown English
17164 On Fire Naomi Klein 2019 Canadian English
16907 Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness Of Crowds Charles Mackay 1841 British English
17164 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17164 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
17006 Twilight Of The Idols/The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 German German
17164 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17164 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
17164 Morrer Na Primavera Ralf Rothmann 2015 German German
17080 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17164 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17164 What Tech Calls Thinking Daub, Adrian 2020 Unknown English
17087 Candide And Other Stories Voltaire 1759 French French
17164 Inventario Di Alcune Cose Perdute Judith Schalansky 2018 German German
17164 Q Luther Blissett 1999 Italian Italian
17164 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17164 Europe In Autumn Dave Hutchinson 2014 British English
17164 Appeasement Tim Bouverie 2019 British English
17164 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
17164 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17164 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
17164 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English
17164 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17164 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17164 The Romanovs Simon Sebag Montefiore 2016 British English
17164 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English