German books

German books

Browse by title, story setting, or Wikipedia coverage. Ordered by how often each title is looked up on German Wikipedia.

All titles3,900 books and other written works ordered by German Wikipedia lookups, drawn from 33,106 catalogue records.Where they are set575 titles say where their story is set, across Germany's sixteen Länder and one list for the 384 set outside the country.Only in German2,864 titles found only on German Wikipedia — 9% of the 33,106 catalogue records.

About this catalogue. We hold no text of any book on this list. A title is here because it has an article on German Wikipedia, drawn from Wikidata (CC0) and ranked by how often that article is looked up — never sales, never a bestseller list, never a difficulty figure. The most looked-up titles in this ranking include Im Westen nichts Neues, Erlkönig, Der Zauberlehrling, Struwwelpeter, Faust. Eine Tragödie. A book in any variety of German counts — Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and German-speaking Belgium are all on this list, not only books from Germany.

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