Günter Grass Books in Order

How many Günter Grass books are there?

Günter Grass has 35 books, released between 1959 and 2015. 3 of them belong to the Die Danziger series.

Günter Grass Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 35 Günter Grass books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

Günter Grass books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Do you have to read Günter Grass books in order?

You only need to read Günter Grass books in order within the Die Danziger series, which holds 3 of the 35 Günter Grass books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Günter Grass

Start with The Tin Drum (1959), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Günter Grass book?

Of All That Ends (2015) is the newest Günter Grass book released so far.

Is there a new Günter Grass book coming?

No next Günter Grass book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Günter Grass has won

Wikidata records 12 awards for Günter Grass. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

• Ernst-Toller-Preis2007Won
• Hans Christian Andersen Award2005Won
• Nobel Prize in Literature1999Won
• Princess of Asturias Literary Prize1999Won
• Hans Fallada Prize1996Won
• Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize1996Won
• Thomas Mann Prize1996Won
• Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts1994Won
• Grinzane Cavour Prize1992Won
• Fontane-Preis1968Won
• Georg Büchner Prize1965Won
• German Critics' Prize for Literature1960Won

Günter Grass at a glance

Died

Günter Grass died in 2015, according to Wikidata.

Last book

The newest book credited to Günter Grass on record dates from 2015.

Release pace

Günter Grass books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.

Length

6,898 pages across the 25 of 35 books with a recorded length, a median of 237 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Günter Grass books, 9 of 35, were published in the 1960s.

What the Günter Grass books are about

20 of the 35 Günter Grass books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 5 of 20. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• History 5 of 20 books
• German fiction 4 of 20 books
• Biography 2 of 20 books
• German Authors 2 of 20 books
• German language 2 of 20 books
• German literature 2 of 20 books
• German poetry 2 of 20 books
• Grass, gunter, 1927-2015 2 of 20 books
• Poetry 2 of 20 books
• World War, 1939-1945 2 of 20 books