Books Set in Germany

1
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,360 members
2,240 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
dara85, KimarieBee, sturlington
2
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
8,405 members
105 reviews
4
3 Members
thorold, roby72, Dilara86
3
The rider on the white horse
by Theodor Storm
1,028 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
inge87, thorold, chwiggy
4
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
by Thomas Mann
6,487 members
113 reviews
4.2
3 Members
thorold, aulsmith, roby72
5
Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum
3,319 members
170 reviews
4
2 Members
dara85, Bronwyn1214
6
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,194 members
777 reviews
4.1
3 Members
sturlington, Dilara86, chwiggy,cpg
Explanations
sturlington: Dresden
7
The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
2,416 members
42 reviews
4
3 Members
thorold, aulsmith, roby72
8
Eifelheim
by Michael Flynn
1,209 members
74 reviews
3.8
2 Members
aulsmith, sturlington
9
The Invention of Curried Sausage
by Uwe Timm
683 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
thorold, chwiggy
10
Emil and the Detectives
by Erich Kästner
2,036 members
43 reviews
4
2 Members
thorold, roby72
11
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
3,137 members
43 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thorold, roby72
12
Iron Kingdom : The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
by Christopher Clark
1,506 members
31 reviews
4
2 Members
cpg, chwiggy
13
Doctor Faustus
by Thomas Mann
4,747 members
50 reviews
4.2
2 Members
thorold, roby72
14
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9,240 members
151 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
roby72, chwiggy
15
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll
2,789 members
54 reviews
3.8
2 Members
roby72, chwiggy
16
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
15,220 members
215 reviews
4
2 Members
roby72, chwiggy
17
Christopher and His Kind
by Christopher Isherwood
895 members
14 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thorold, aulsmith
18
Simplicissimus
by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
1,388 members
20 reviews
3.8
2 Members
roby72, chwiggy
19
Faust I & II
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6,120 members
44 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
20
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
by Antony Beevor
3,486 members
62 reviews
4.1
Member
cpg
21
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder
2,175 members
62 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
22
Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
2,498 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, roby72
23
Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi
4,937 members
69 reviews
4
Member
dara85
24
Nibelungenlied
by Anonymous
3,337 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
25
The Third Reich in Power
by Richard J. Evans
1,849 members
23 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
cpg
26
Crabwalk
by Günter Grass
1,298 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
inge87
28
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
by Kate Evans
435 members
11 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
29
The Wild Girl
by Kate Forsyth
308 members
22 reviews
4
Member
KimarieBee
30
Midsummer Night
by Uwe Timm
107 members
4
Member
chwiggy
31
Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada
4,118 members
171 reviews
4.2
Member
Dilara86
32
Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
by Leon Uris
1,122 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
KimarieBee
33
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Jacob Grimm
898 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
roby72
34
After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets
by Eavan Boland
35 members
4
Member
hipdeep
35
Sauwaldprosa
by Uwe Dick
9 members
1 review
3
Member
chwiggy
36
A Most Wanted Man
by John le Carré
3,324 members
97 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
sturlington
37
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
by Edith Hahn Beer
2,276 members
67 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
38
The Third Reich at War
by Richard J. Evans
1,627 members
27 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
cpg
39
Zoo Station
by David Downing
862 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
40
The Golden Pot : A Modern Fairy tale
by E. T. A. Hoffmann
386 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
chwiggy
41
The Autumn Castle
by Kim Wilkins
333 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
KimarieBee
42
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas Sermons
by Edwin H. Robertson
111 members
1 review
3.8
Member
hipdeep
43
Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
2,613 members
17 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
44
Armageddon : The Battle for Germany 1944-45
by Max Hastings
1,506 members
27 reviews
4.1
Member
cpg
45
The German Lesson
by Siegfried Lenz
1,253 members
17 reviews
4.2
Member
thorold
46
1913: The Year Before the Storm
by Florian Illies
862 members
33 reviews
3.8
Member
chwiggy
47
The Things We Cherished
by Pam Jenoff
306 members
39 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
dara85
48
The Beast's Garden
by Kate Forsyth
99 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
KimarieBee
49
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
14,360 members
618 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
dara85
50
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
773 members
15 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
51
Youth Without God
by Ödön von Horváth
640 members
13 reviews
4
Member
chwiggy
52
Heinrich Himmler
by Peter Longerich
376 members
3 reviews
4
Member
cpg
53
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
975 members
9 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
54
The Ark
by Margot Benary-Isbert
487 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
55
The Emigrants
by W. G. Sebald
2,795 members
54 reviews
4.1
Member
thorold
57
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,938 members
268 reviews
4
Member
chwiggy
58
Mr Norris Changes Trains
by Christopher Isherwood
1,197 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
59
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll
2,731 members
48 reviews
4
Member
roby72
60
Billiards at half-past nine
by Heinrich Böll
1,493 members
24 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
61
Group Portrait With Lady
by Heinrich Böll
1,443 members
19 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
62
And Where Were You, Adam?
by Heinrich Böll
452 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
63
Peeling the Onion
by Günter Grass
1,006 members
18 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
64
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
6,666 members
102 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
roby72
65
The Heritage
by Siegfried Lenz
188 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
thorold
66
The Marquise of O and Other Stories
by Heinrich von Kleist
926 members
10 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Not all these stories are set in Germany, but it deserves inclusion in this list for the ones that are (e.g. Michael Kohlhaas)
67
Elective Affinities
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2,301 members
28 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
68
Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher Isherwood
2,467 members
52 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
roby72
69
Flight to Afar
by Alfred Andersch
544 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
70
The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
13,874 members
251 reviews
4.1
Member
roby72
71
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
2,780 members
36 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
72
Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
7,808 members
128 reviews
4.2
Member
roby72
73
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
20,301 members
496 reviews
3.9
Explanations
thorold : set in France
sturlington : German author
74
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
14,390 members
175 reviews
3.9
Explanations
thorold : Mostly Switzerland (but there's a scene or two in Frankfurt)