Books That Travel 2021

Europe and America, classical learning and Silicon Valley come together in a well-crafted novel about a man facing the ruins...

Europe and America, classical learning and Silicon Valley come together in a well-crafted novel about a man facing the ruins of his life, and his world.

A tale of four generations plays out between the ruins of Nazi Germany and the rise and fall of communist...

A tale of four generations plays out between the ruins of Nazi Germany and the rise and fall of communist East Germany, the birth of the Berlin Republic, and the shadow of a new millennium.

Knotty, darkly comical, and magnificent in its weirdness, this short novel by Heinrich von Kleist is among the most influential...

Knotty, darkly comical, and magnificent in its weirdness, this short novel by Heinrich von Kleist is among the most influential tales in German literature. First published in 1810.

Zero, an anonymous activist, has given the world a warning: stop the tech giants before it’s too late. But is...

Zero, an anonymous activist, has given the world a warning: stop the tech giants before it’s too late. But is anyone listening? An unputdownable technothriller by international best-selling author Marc Elsberg.

The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for...

The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed, the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led...

From the New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed, the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin.

Best known for his postmodern play Hamletmachine, the dramatist Heiner Müller was also a gifted and prolific poet. This book...

Best known for his postmodern play Hamletmachine, the dramatist Heiner Müller was also a gifted and prolific poet. This book collects over four hundred poems, including unpublished drafts and fragments.

Whether in poetry, fiction, radio drama or sound installations, Dischereit's work represents a unique departure in recent European writing. This...

Whether in poetry, fiction, radio drama or sound installations, Dischereit's work represents a unique departure in recent European writing. This is a poetry selection across three decades.

A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world. The German sociologist Max...

A new translation of two celebrated lectures on politics, academia, and the disenchantment of the world. The German sociologist Max Weber was one of the most astute and influential theorists of the modern condition.

A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and...

A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler’s frightening rise to power.

An enthralling narrative history of Weimar Berlin in the three years before the Nazi takeover and a dramatic account of...

An enthralling narrative history of Weimar Berlin in the three years before the Nazi takeover and a dramatic account of Germany's slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship.

A literary sonata circling the eternal question of whether beauty, music, and passion are worth the sacrifices some people are...

A literary sonata circling the eternal question of whether beauty, music, and passion are worth the sacrifices some people are compelled to make for them.

The Piano Student depicts an affair between one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young...

The Piano Student depicts an affair between one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s.

Written in 1951, The Turncoat is the long-forgotten second novel of acclaimed author Siegfried Lenz. Rediscovered after Lenz’s death in...

Written in 1951, The Turncoat is the long-forgotten second novel of acclaimed author Siegfried Lenz. Rediscovered after Lenz’s death in 2014, the novel is a new mid-century classic.

The breakthrough million-copy international bestseller about how to befriend your inner child to find happiness. An essential step-by-step guide. ...

The breakthrough million-copy international bestseller about how to befriend your inner child to find happiness. An essential step-by-step guide.

Keun captures a distinct moment in Germany’s history, when its people were coming to terms with World War II and...

Keun captures a distinct moment in Germany’s history, when its people were coming to terms with World War II and searching for a way forward. In her effervescent prose, the story feels remarkably modern.

Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and synagogues destroyed. The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man...

Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and synagogues destroyed. The Passenger is an indelible portrait of a man and a society careening out of control.

In his final days, an aging botanist realizes that his life’s work of scientific classification has distracted him from the...

In his final days, an aging botanist realizes that his life’s work of scientific classification has distracted him from the hidden secrets of the natural world.

An epic family saga beginning with the Russian Revolution and swirling across a century, encompassing war, loss, love requited and...

An epic family saga beginning with the Russian Revolution and swirling across a century, encompassing war, loss, love requited and unrequited, ghosts, joy, massacres, tragedy.

Earned critical praise around the world.

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose...

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the twentieth century.