Hans Fallada

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2009
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • The Drinker

    One of the great German writers of the 20th century draws from his own life to present a “brave, fearless, and honest” tale of one man’s dark descent into depression and alcoholism (The Sunday Times, London)  This astonishing, autobiograph...

  • Little Man, What Now?

    This is the book that led to Hans Fallada’s downfall with the Nazis. The story of a young couple struggling to survive the German economic collapse was a worldwide sensation and was made into an acclaimed Hollywood movie produced by Jews, leading H...

  • Alone in Berlin

    Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the origi...

  • Wolf Among Wolves

    Hailed as “Fallada’s best book” (The New Yorker), this sprawling post-WWI is a portrait of Berlin in a time of great upheaval -- and of the common man’s struggle to survive it all Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany’s catastrophic...

  • Every Man Dies Alone

    This never-before-translated masterpiece -- by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn’t join the Nazi Party -- is based on a true story.It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells...

  • A Small Circus. Hans Fallada

    It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar...

  • Once A Jailbird

    For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco, and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, findin...

  • Tales from the Underworld

    Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin

    In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in mark...

  • Iron Gustav

    A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin 'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. Y...



  • A Small Circus

    A small German town edges into fascism in a novel by the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin It is the summer of 1929, and in Altholm, Germany, a storm is brewing -- a local political resistance that could be valuable to Max Tredup. Max, a shab...

  • Nightmare in Berlin

    Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler’s war.Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and ‘mo...

  • Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

  • Lilly and Her Slave

    Almost 100 years after Hans Fallada committed himself to prison, previously unpublished and rewritten stories by the bestselling mid-century German author have been discovered.It was the turning point before he became a bestselling author: Hans Falla...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hans Fallada has published 13 books.

Hans Fallada does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lilly and Her Slave, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Hans Fallada, Little Man, What Now?, was published in March 2009.

No. Hans Fallada does not write books in series.
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