Berlin


Berlin Alexanderplatz
Goodbye to Berlin
Every Man Dies Alone
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
The Berlin Stories
Herr Lehmann (Frank Lehmann #1)
Perfection
The Artificial Silk Girl
The Innocent
Der nasse Fisch (Gereon Rath, #1)
Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
Ahab by Brad HuestisEmil and the Detectives by Erich KästnerThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Devil's Missal by Cathy Dobson
Germany
229 books — 79 voters

Blackshirts and Reds by Michael ParentiThe Magic Lantern by Timothy Garton AshRevolution 1989 by Victor SebestyenThe Collapse of the Soviet Union by International Communist Sem...Coward by Jaroslav Balek
The Velvet Revolution - 1989
34 books — 5 voters

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionAtlas of Remote Islands by Judith SchalanskyAlone in Berlin by Hans FalladaNew Selected Stories by Alice MunroOne Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
Dialogue Books Recommends in 2011
11 books — 2 voters
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréSmiley's People by John le CarréThe Looking Glass War by John le CarréGorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
The Best Cold War Novels
43 books — 45 voters

Rob Doyle
This was why I loved clubs in Berlin, why dancing had become as needful to me as reading or laughing: the ease of access to a state of unselfconsciousness. There was always someone older or younger, nakeder or weirder than you, and the fact that photography was forbidden and there were no mirrors anywhere reinforced the ethos of participation over gawking, immersion over separation. In the crowd you lost any distinction between dancing and being danced, broke clear of selfhood right at the point ...more
Rob Doyle, Threshold

Alfred Döblin
Ein Jegliches, ein Jegliches hat seine Zeit, und alles Vornehmen unter dem Himmel hat seine Stunde, ein Jegliches hat sein Jahr, geboren werden und sterben, pflanzen und ausrotten, das gepflanzt ist, ein Jegliches, Jegliches hat seine Zeit, würgen und heilen, brechen und bauen, suchen und verlieren, seine Zeit, behalten und wegwerfen seine Zeit, zerreißen und zunähen, schweigen und reden. Ein Jegliches hat seine Zeit. Darum merkt ich, daß nichts Besseres ist, als fröhlich sein. Besseres als fröh ...more
Alfred Döblin, Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz. Lektüreschlüssel

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