All Things Germany

Description
The purpose of this list is to compile the best books (non-fiction or fiction) about German history, culture, politics, society, etc.
1
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
22,127 members
441 reviews
4.1
2 Members
elkiedee, Bretzky1
2
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
3,644 members
57 reviews
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
4
Night
by Elie Wiesel
12,951 members
240 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Bretzky1
5
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics
by Claudia Koonz
185 members
½ 3.7
Member
elkiedee
7
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
by Ilse Koehn
247 members
3 reviews
4
Member
elkiedee
9
Black Roses
by Jane Thynne
125 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
elkiedee
10
Can Germany Be Saved? The Malaise of the World's First Welfare State
by Hans-Werner Sinn
27 members
1 review
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
11
Bismarck: The White Revolutionary : 1815-1871
by Lothar Gall
10 members
3
Member
Blythewood
12
The Thirty Years War
by Cicely V. Wedgwood
1,504 members
17 reviews
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
13
Zoo Station
by David Downing
865 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
elkiedee
14
Bismarck: 1871-98 v. 2: The White Revolutionary
by Lothar Gall
7 members
Member
Blythewood
16
Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death
by Richard Marius
422 members
3 reviews
3.1
Member
Bretzky1
17
The Third Reich at War
by Richard J. Evans
1,630 members
27 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
Bretzky1
18
November 1918: The German Revolution
by Robert Gerwarth
94 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
Blythewood
19
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
by Peter H. Wilson
1,041 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
20
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
by Harald Jähner
230 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
Blythewood
21
Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin
by Alexandra Richie
299 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
22
The Nazi Conscience
by Claudia Koonz
298 members
5 reviews
4
Member
Blythewood
23
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
by Telford Taylor
318 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
Blythewood
25
Munich: The Price of Peace
by Telford Taylor
116 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
Blythewood
26
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,488 members
2,243 reviews
½ 4.4
27
Doctor Faustus
by Thomas Mann
4,762 members
50 reviews
4.2
28
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
3,145 members
43 reviews
3.8
29
Munich
by Robert Harris
1,419 members
60 reviews
½ 3.7
30
Simplicissimus
by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
1,391 members
20 reviews
3.8
31
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War
by Martin Gilbert
1,111 members
12 reviews
½ 4.3
32
Martin Luther: The Great Reformer
by Dan Harmon
717 members
4 reviews
4.1
33
Germany: Memories of a Nation
by Neil MacGregor
697 members
22 reviews
½ 4.6
34
Hitler: A Biography {complete}
by Ian Kershaw
696 members
11 reviews
4.2
35
Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45
by Alan Clark
672 members
9 reviews
3.8
36
A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
by Steven Ozment
577 members
10 reviews
½ 3.3
37
The Shortest History of Germany
by James Hawes
546 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
38
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
by Walter Benjamin
512 members
1 review
3.9
39
Germania
by P. Cornelius Tacitus
495 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
40
Bismarck: The Man and Statesman
by A. J. P. Taylor
417 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
41
Frederick the Great
by Nancy Mitford
414 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
42
Germany, 1866-1945
by Gordon A. Craig
401 members
3 reviews
4
43
The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870-1871
by Michael Howard
345 members
4 reviews
3.8
44
German Boy: A Child in War
by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
335 members
8 reviews
4.2
45
Modern Theological German: A Reader and Dictionary
by Helmut W. Ziefle
330 members
1 review
½ 3.5
46
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art
by Rüdiger Safranski
310 members
5 reviews
4
47
Bismarck and the German Empire
by Erich Eyck
276 members
1 review
½ 3.3
48
The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections, 1938-2001
by Gitta Sereny
275 members
7 reviews
4
50
The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich
by George L. Mosse
258 members
2 reviews
4.2
51
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country
by John Kampfner
242 members
3 reviews
4
52
My German question: growing up in Nazi Berlin
by Peter Gay
232 members
7 reviews
3.9
53
Red Love: The Story of an East German Family
by Maxim Leo
218 members
7 reviews
4
54
Frauen. German Women Recall the Third Reich
by Alison Owings
214 members
1 review
½ 4.3
55
After the Holocaust
by Howard Greenfeld
211 members
5 reviews
4
56
The Politics of the Prussian Army 1640-1945
by Gordon A. Craig
203 members
3 reviews
4
57
The German Empire: A Short History
by Michael Stürmer
186 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
58
Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany
by Steven Ozment
184 members
1 review
4
59
The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village
by Thomas Robisheaux
174 members
16 reviews
4
61
A genius for war: The German army and general staff, 1807-1945
by Trevor Nevitt Dupuy
168 members
1 review
3.8
62
The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte
by Frederick C. Beiser
150 members
4 reviews
4.2
63
The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History
by Katrin Himmler
145 members
5 reviews
3.9
64
History of Prussia
by H. W. Koch
124 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
65
Why the Germans Lose at War : The Myth of German Military Superiority
by Kenneth Macksey
122 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
66
Five Years, Four Fronts: A German Officer's World War II Combat Memoir
by Georg Grossjohann
121 members
1 review
½ 3.6
67
German Secret Weapons of the Second World War
by Ian V. Hogg
113 members
2 reviews
3.8
70
German Expressionist Woodcuts
by Shane Weller
94 members
4.2
71
The History of the Thirty Years' War
by Friedrich Schiller
94 members
1 review
½ 3.5
72
Nietzsche
by Martin Heidegger
92 members
2 reviews
4.2
73
Three Behaim Boys: Growing Up in Early Modern Germany
by Steven Ozment
88 members
2 reviews
4.1
74
The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform
by James S. Corum
84 members
1 review
½ 4.3
75
The Harvest of Mysticism in Medieval Germany
by Bernard McGinn
83 members
4
78
Tor!: The Story of German Football
by Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger
74 members
2 reviews
4.2
79
After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995
by Konrad H. Jarausch
72 members
½ 3.3
80
The German Reformation
by Robert W. Scribner
66 members
1 review
½ 3.5
81
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century
by Konrad H. Jarausch
64 members
½ 4.5
82
Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945
by David F. Crew
61 members
3
83
The German People and the Reformation
by R. Po-chia Hsia
59 members
1 review
½ 3.3
84
Erinnerungen, 1945-1953
by Konrad Adenauer
59 members
2 reviews
2.8
85
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
by May Ayim
57 members
1 review
½ 4.5
86
Medieval Germany 1056-1273
by Alfred Haverkamp
55 members
½ 4.3
87
German Home Towns: Community, State, and General Estate 1648-1871
by Mack Walker
54 members
1 review
4
88
Arming the Luftwaffe: The German Aviation Industry in World War II
by Daniel Uziel
52 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
89
A Short Life of Martin Luther
by Thomas Kaufmann
51 members
3
90
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident
by Peter Stanford
50 members
1 review
½ 4.3
91
Music While Drowning: German Expressionist Poems
by David Miller
49 members
3.2
92
The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture
by Eva Kolinsky
47 members
½ 3.3
93
The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900
by Shawn C. Jarvis
46 members
1 review
5
94
Germany; a modern history
by Marshall Dill
44 members
4
95
The German Navy 1939-1945
by Cajus Bekker
43 members
1 review
3.1
96
The Franco-German War of 1870-71
by Helmuth von Moltke
41 members
1 review
½ 3.5
97
Der Seekrieg: The German Navy's Story 1939-1945
by Friedrich Ruge
38 members
1 review
½ 2.5
99
Medieval Germany, 500-1300: A Political Interpretation
by Benjamin Arnold
37 members
2.8
100
Changing enemies : the defeat and regeneration of Germany
by Noel Gilroy Annan
36 members
½ 2.5