Europe
Germany
15 authors in the ranking·21 rated books·13 books set here
This page brings together German authors from the reader ranking, among them Hermann Hesse, Michael Ende and Erich Maria Remarque, and books whose story is set in Germany, such as “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. Hesse received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. Thomas Mann was awarded it in 1929, principally for “Buddenbrooks”, his 1901 novel about a north German merchant family.
The most-read authors and their best books
Authors 15
- Hermann Hesse2 ranked booksSiddhartha8.0
- Patrick Süskind1 ranked bookPerfume8.1
- Cornelia Funke4 ranked booksInkheart8.0
- Michael Ende2 ranked booksMomo8.4
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1 ranked bookFaust7.6
- Marc-Uwe Kling1 ranked bookQualityLand7.9
- Erich Fromm1 ranked bookThe Art of Loving7.7
- Hannah Arendt2 ranked booksEichmann in Jerusalem8.2
- Eckhart Tolle1 ranked bookThe Power of Now7.9
- Walter Moers1 ranked bookThe City of Dreaming Books8.2
- Andrea Wulf1 ranked bookThe Invention of Nature8.2
- Erich Maria Remarque1 ranked bookAll Quiet on the Western Front8.2
- Karl Marx1 ranked bookThe Communist Manifesto7.7
- Otfried Preußler1 ranked bookKrabat7.9
- Markus Heitz1 ranked bookThe Dwarves7.8
The story is set here 13
Books whose story is set in this country, according to Wikidata and our own additions.
- BuddenbrooksThomas Mann
- Effi BriestTheodor Fontane
- Narcissus and GoldmundHermann Hesse
- Measuring the WorldDaniel Kehlmann
- Why We Took the CarWolfgang Herrndorf
- Berlin AlexanderplatzAlfred Döblin
- The Loyal SubjectHeinrich Mann
- The ClownHeinrich Böll
- Lottie and LisaErich Kästner
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