The Greatest German Books of All Time on Knowledge

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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
96 Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 German German
1429 Aphorisms Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1902 German German
2424 Galileo Bertolt Brecht 1938 German German
2564 The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology Edmund Husserl 1936 German German
2737 Philosophical Writings Novalis 1798 German German
3638 Brockhaus Enzyklopädie Unknown 1796 German German
7216 Aphorisms Novalis 1798 German German
8723 The Social Construction Of Reality Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann 1966 German English
9148 Knowledge And Human Interests Jürgen Habermas 1968 German German
10309 What Is Called Thinking? Martin Heidegger 1954 German German
16523 On Truth And Lies In A Nonmoral Sense Friedrich Nietzsche 1873 German German
17163 Die andere Bildung. Was man von den Naturwissenschaften wissen sollte Ernst Peter Fischer 2001 German German
17163 Against Method Paul Feyerabend 1975 German English
17163 A Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics Immanuel Kant German Unknown
17163 Omnisophie Gunter Dueck German German
17163 Goethe Werke 6 Volumes In German Insel Verlag Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German German