Heinrich Boll

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1965
  • Latest Book:
    April 2011
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Books in Order: 21 titles

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  • The Train Was on Time

    Heinrich Böll’s taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the Eastern front. Trapped, he knows that Hitler has already lost the war ... ye...

  • The Mad Dog

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

    In this collection of stories, written between 1938 and 1945, Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) recalls Erich Maria Remarque in his ability to depict war and its ps...

  • Absent Without Leave

    Contains the novellas When the War Broke Out and When the War Was Over, originally published in German by Insel- Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1962 and subsequently published as Absent Without Leave by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Koln, 1964. The English tran...

  • Children Are Civilians Too

    These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany. There are tales of soldiers on leave, listlessly...

  • The Silent Angel

    Just days after the end of World War II, German soldier Hans Schnitzler returns to a bombed German city, carrying a dead comrade's coat to his widow-not knowing that the coat contains a will. Soon Hans is caught in a dangerous intrigue involving the ...

  • And Never Said a Word

  • End of a Mission

  • The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

    In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Bll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance. A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to ...

  • Women in a River Landscape



  • The Casualty

    “This evocation of the great German humanistic tradition is salutary amid so much pain and absurdity. And no writer is more qualified than Heinrich Böll to evoke that tradition.” ―Washington Post

    These stories by Nobel Prize winner Hein...

  • Stories of Heinrich Boll

  • What's to Become of the Boy

    The Nobel Prize-winning writer recounts events of four crucial years of his adolescence, 1933 to 1937, years during which he, his family, his school, and his Cologne neighborhood experienced the intensifying impact of Nazism...

  • A Soldier's Legacy

  • Group Portrait With Lady

    Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story -- past...

  • The Safety Net

    Fritz Tolm has risen to the most powerful position in Germany. With fame comes fear and vulnerability. Threats to his life are met with the all-pervasive “safety-net” of police protection and surveillance. Trapped in a house they dare not leave, ...

  • Where Were You Adam

    Paperback. Text contains underlining/marking THROUGHOUT. Corner bumps/bends. Covers show edge wear with rubbing, creases, sicker scuff and corner tear on front. Crease on spine. Heavily worn but pages still quite legible/readable....

  • The Bread of Those Early Years

  • Ansichten eines Clowns

  • The Clown

    Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life -- the loss of his sister during the war, the d...



  • Eighteen Stories

  • Billiards at Half-Past Nine

    Böll’s well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel, scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the S...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Heinrich Boll has published 21 books.

Heinrich Boll does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Train Was on Time, was published in April 2011.

The first book by Heinrich Boll, Billiards at Half-Past Nine, was published in August 1965.

No. Heinrich Boll does not write books in series.
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