Reading order
Danzig Trilogy reading order
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3- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1959–1963
- Published
- about 25 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
Publication order
3 volumes1959–1963Completed
- Günter Grass’s three books set in his native Danzig, now Gdańsk, from the rise of Nazism through the war and its aftermath.
- The Tin Drum is narrated from a mental hospital by Oskar Matzerath, who decided at three to stop growing, drums his way through history and can shatter glass with his voice; grotesque, comic and accusing, it was filmed in 1979.
- Cat and Mouse is a short novella about a schoolboy outsider, and Dog Years a sprawling story of two friends.
- Grass won the Nobel Prize in 1999; in 2006 he revealed he had served in the Waffen-SS at seventeen.
- No book has enough ratings yet.
- Any order.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 1,327 pages, about 25 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 4, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 114 h18 daysby November 16, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 211 h14 daysby December 4, 2026
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 28, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Danzig Trilogy book is the longest?
“The Tin Drum” is the longest at 591 pages; the shortest is “Cat and Mouse” with 158 pages.