Volker Kutscher Books in Order

Volker Kutscher has written 5 books, published between 2016 and 2020. The first book is Babylon Berlin (2016) and the newest is The March Fallen (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
2016–2020
Total pages
2,435 across 5 books
Reading time
41–61 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,435 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute.

Photo of Volker Kutscher, author of the Gereon Rath series

Volker Kutscher is a German novelist, born in 1962, and the Gereon Rath crime novels are the work the name carries. Babylon Berlin (2016) opens 5 catalogued titles and gave the Sky series of the same name its source; The Silent Death (2017), Goldstein (2018), The Fatherland Files (2019) and The March Fallen (2020) follow. Berlin, police work, organized crime and murder investigation supply the material.

How many Volker Kutscher books are there?

Volker Kutscher has 5 books, released between 2016 and 2020.

Volker Kutscher Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Volker Kutscher 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.

  1. 1
    Babylon BerlinGereon Rath #12016 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016432
  2. 2
    The Silent DeathGereon Rath #22017 · 438 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017438
  3. 3
    GoldsteinGereon Rath #32018 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018496
  4. 4
    The Fatherland FilesGereon Rath #42019 · 544 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019544
  5. 5
    The March FallenGereon Rath #52020 · 525 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020525

Volker Kutscher 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 Volker Kutscher books in order?

You only need to read Volker Kutscher books in order within the Gereon Rath series, which holds 5 of the 5 Volker Kutscher books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Volker Kutscher

Start with Babylon Berlin (2016), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Volker Kutscher book?

The March Fallen (2020) is the newest Volker Kutscher book released so far.

Is there a new Volker Kutscher book coming?

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

Volker Kutscher at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Volker Kutscher title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Volker Kutscher books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,435 pages across all 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 496 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Volker Kutscher books, 4 of 5, were published in the 2010s.

What the Volker Kutscher books are about

4 of the 5 Volker Kutscher books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: berlin (germany) is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.