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What books are currently the most popular and which are the all time classics? Here we present you with a mixture of those two criteria. We update this list once a month.
Uwe Johnson
This arresting novel by one of Germany's foremost modern writers dramatizes the ideological conflict between East Europe and the West at the time of the Hungarian revolt. The story, which centers around Jakob Abs, an East German railroad dispatcher, illuminates the psychological …
Sigmund Freud
Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people just from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition—revealed, most notably, in this analysis of a remarkable memoir. In 1903, Judge Daniel Schreber, a highly intelligent …
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober is a book written by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.
Philippe Besson
Son frère is a novel by Philippe Besson. It was published by Julliard in Paris in 2001. It was later published as a softcover issue. In 2003, Patrice Chéreau adapted the text for a feature film Son frère also known by its English title His Brother.
Guillermo Arriaga
Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, The Guillotine Squad takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells his famous invention, the guillotine, to Pancho Villa, …
Gad Beck
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin is a book written by Gad Beck.
Oswald Spengler
The Decline of the West, or The Downfall of the Occident, is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler, the first volume of which was published in the summer of 1918. Spengler revised this volume in 1922 and published the second volume, subtitled Perspectives of World History, in …
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, also known as Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and commonly referred to as The First Discourse, is an essay by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which argued that the arts and sciences corrupt human morality. …
Thomas Berger
Chuck Burgoyne is no ordinary houseguest. The Graveses (father Doug; wife Audrey; son Bobby; and daughter-in-law Lydia) have gotten used to his polite manners and gourmet breakfasts. But one morning at the Graveses' summer home, Chuck fails to appear. When Chuck finally does …
Elie Wiesel
The Oath is the English title of Le serment de Kolvillag, a novel by Elie Wiesel. It tells the story of Azriel, the only surviving Jewish member of the small Hungarian town of Kolvillag after a pogrom perpetrated by neighboring Christians. Azriel carries the secret of …
Anthony Quinn
The Original Sin is Anthony Quinn's first autobiography. The full title is The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait by Anthony Quinn and was first published in October 1972 by Little, Brown & Company, Boston & Toronto with ISBN 0-316-72898-5. Quinn's autobiography is a sweeping …
Andreas Maier
"An exceptionally gifted talent."—Sächsische ZeitungNobody knows exactly what happened in the small town of Klausen, or rather, everyone knows: a bomb went off on the autobahn, or at a shack near the autobahn, or someone was shooting at the town from a bridge; it all stems from …
Che Guevara
Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War also titled Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War is an autobiographical book by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara about his experiences during the Cuban Revolution to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. First published …
Joachim Fest
Plotting Hitler's Death: The German Resistance To Hitler, 1933–1945 is a 1994 book by historian Joachim Fest about the Germans, both civilian and military, who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler from 1933 onwards. It was written to mark the 50th anniversary of the July 20 plot to kill …
Hermann Simon
In Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz gibt es mehr als 1000 Weltmarktführer. Verborgen vor der Öffentlichkeit ziehen sie ihre erstaunlichen Erfolgsbahnen, lehren die weltweite Konkurrenz das Fürchten und verändern unsere Welt mit ihren Innovationen. Diese Firmen haben eine …
Bat Ye'or
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide is a book by Bat Ye'or.
