Books Set in Germany

1
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
44,805 members
2,124 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
dara85, KimarieBee, sturlington
2
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
7,588 members
93 reviews
4
3 Members
thorold, roby72, Dilara86
3
The rider on the white horse
by Theodor Storm
937 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
inge87, thorold, chwiggy
4
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
by Thomas Mann
5,674 members
109 reviews
4.2
3 Members
thorold, aulsmith, roby72
5
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
43,990 members
704 reviews
4.1
3 Members
sturlington, Dilara86, chwiggy,cpg
Explanations
sturlington: Dresden
6
The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
2,176 members
41 reviews
3.9
3 Members
thorold, aulsmith, roby72
7
Eifelheim
by Michael Flynn
1,108 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
aulsmith, sturlington
8
The Invention of Curried Sausage
by Uwe Timm
618 members
25 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, chwiggy
9
Emil and the Detectives
by Erich Kästner
1,816 members
35 reviews
4
2 Members
thorold, roby72
10
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
2,714 members
40 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thorold, roby72
11
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
by Christopher Clark
1,280 members
29 reviews
4
2 Members
cpg, chwiggy
12
Doctor Faustus
by Thomas Mann
4,096 members
47 reviews
4.1
2 Members
thorold, roby72
13
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8,061 members
127 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
roby72, chwiggy
14
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll
2,497 members
47 reviews
3.8
2 Members
roby72, chwiggy
15
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
13,496 members
192 reviews
4
2 Members
roby72, chwiggy
16
Christopher and His Kind
by Christopher Isherwood
795 members
11 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thorold, aulsmith
17
Simplicissimus
by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
1,206 members
17 reviews
3.8
2 Members
roby72, chwiggy
18
Faust I & II
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5,427 members
40 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
19
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
by Antony Beevor
3,077 members
57 reviews
4.1
Member
cpg
20
Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum
3,070 members
166 reviews
4
Member
dara85
21
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder
1,884 members
59 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
22
Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
2,211 members
32 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, roby72
23
Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi
4,682 members
68 reviews
4
Member
dara85
24
Nibelungenlied
by Anonymous
2,921 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
roby72
25
The Third Reich in Power
by Richard J. Evans
1,514 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
cpg
26
Crabwalk
by Günter Grass
1,188 members
24 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
inge87
28
Red Rosa
by Kate Evans
349 members
9 reviews
4.1
Member
hipdeep
29
The Wild Girl
by Kate Forsyth
269 members
20 reviews
4.1
Member
KimarieBee
30
Midsummer Night
by Uwe Timm
88 members
4
Member
chwiggy
31
Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada
3,602 members
158 reviews
4.2
Member
Dilara86
32
Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
by Leon Uris
1,033 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
KimarieBee
33
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm
875 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
roby72
34
After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets
by Eavan Boland
32 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
2,955 members
89 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
sturlington
37
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
by Edith Hahn Beer
1,951 members
59 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
38
The Third Reich at War
by Richard J. Evans
1,314 members
28 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
cpg
39
Zoo Station
by David Downing
807 members
33 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
40
The Golden Pot : A Modern Fairy tale
by E. T. A. Hoffmann
350 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
chwiggy
41
The Autumn Castle
by Kim Wilkins
320 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
KimarieBee
42
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas Sermons
by Edwin H. Robertson
97 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
43
Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
2,376 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
44
Armageddon : The Battle for Germany 1944-45
by Max Hastings
1,336 members
27 reviews
4.1
Member
cpg
45
The German Lesson
by Siegfried Lenz
1,144 members
16 reviews
4.2
Member
thorold
46
1913. Un año hace cien años
by Florian Illies
733 members
31 reviews
3.8
Member
chwiggy
47
The Things We Cherished
by Pam Jenoff
293 members
38 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
48
The Beast's Garden
by Kate Forsyth
86 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
KimarieBee
49
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
12,207 members
594 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
dara85
50
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
705 members
15 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
51
Youth Without God
by Ödön von Horváth
566 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
chwiggy
52
Heinrich Himmler
by Peter Longerich
308 members
4 reviews
4
Member
cpg
53
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
852 members
8 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
54
The Ark
by Margot Benary-Isbert
394 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
55
The Emigrants
by W. G. Sebald
2,469 members
47 reviews
4.1
Member
thorold
57
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
19,871 members
237 reviews
4
Member
chwiggy
58
Mr Norris Changes Trains
by Christopher Isherwood
1,056 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
59
The Clown
by Heinrich Böll
2,475 members
40 reviews
4
Member
roby72
60
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
by Heinrich Böll
1,357 members
20 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
61
Group Portrait With Lady
by Heinrich Böll
1,321 members
18 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
62
And Where Were You, Adam?
by Heinrich Böll
410 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
63
Peeling the Onion
by Günter Grass
916 members
15 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
64
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
6,068 members
98 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
roby72
65
The Heritage
by Siegfried Lenz
171 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
thorold
66
The Marquise of O and Other Stories
by Heinrich von Kleist
839 members
11 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
2,021 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
roby72
68
Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher Isherwood
2,103 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
roby72
69
Flight to Afar
by Alfred Andersch
504 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
70
The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
12,073 members
226 reviews
4.1
Member
roby72
71
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
2,486 members
26 reviews
3.9
Member
roby72
72
Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
6,509 members
92 reviews
4.2
Member
roby72
73
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
18,109 members
448 reviews
3.9
Explanations
thorold : set in France
sturlington : German author
74
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
10,288 members
148 reviews
3.8
Explanations
thorold : Mostly Switzerland (but there's a scene or two in Frankfurt)