Thomas Berger

Thomas Berger was a literary, mystery, and thriller fiction author best known for his novel “Little Big Man.” The work was later on adapted into a movie of the same name by Arthur Penn. During his life, he wrote novels in several genres that included crime fiction, utopian novels, hard-boiled detective mysteries, mythology-based works, survival adventures, and science fiction among many others. Berger had a reputation for using humor and many reviewers called him a comic novelist or satirist.

The best place to start is the Reinhart series, the earliest of Thomas Berger's multi-book series: it opens with Crazy in Berlin (1958) and runs to 4 books across 1958–1981, ending with Reinhart's Women (1981).

Thomas Berger has 23 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1958 and 2004. 6 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Reinhart series with 4 books — and 17 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Thomas Berger's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Reinhart (1958–1981, 4 books) and Little Big Man (1964–1999, 2 books).

This guide splits Thomas Berger's 23 books into 2 named series and 17 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Reinhart (4 books, 1958–1981); Little Big Man (2 books, 1964–1999).