The most popular books in English
from 56001 to 56200
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.

Monika Maron
Rosalind, an historian, discovers one day that her body will no longer allow her to go to work and that she no longer needs to eat or sleep

Ingo Schulze
East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Türmer, man of the theater, secret novelist, turns his back on art and signs on to work at a newly started newspaper. Freed from the compulsion to describe the world, he plunges into everyday life. Under the guidance of his Mephisto, the …

Franz Mehring
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life is a 1918 book by Franz Mehring, the classical biography of Karl Marx. It has been translated into many languages, including Russian, Danish, Hungarian, Japanese, Spanish, and English.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, or the Renunciants, is the fourth novel by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and the sequel to the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Though initially conceived during the 1790s, the first edition did not appear until …

Reinhard Kaiser
A fascinating piece of literary detective work about star-crossed lovers in Nazi Germany. Rudolf Kaufmann, a young Jewish geologist, met Ingeborg Magnusson, a young Swedish woman gifted in languages, in Italy in 1935, and the two quickly fell in love. They spent just a few days …

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe's influential text, newly illustrated with stunning color photographs.The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend “the truth about the how of the organism.” Inspired by the diversity …