Der Vorleser

Quality:

The Reader - novel by Bernhard Schlink. This book is the 474^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 34^th most popular book in German Wikipedia. Article “Der Vorleser” in German Wikipedia has 48.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 19 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.56 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 3233^rd most popular in German Wikipedia.

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The 6946^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 34^th most popular in books in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 474^th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “Der Vorleser” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Der Vorleser”, its content was written by 317 registered users of German Wikipedia (6946^th place) and edited by 822 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Reader is on the 34^th place in local ranking of books in German Wikipedia and on the 474^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 56 times in German Wikipedia and cited 356 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #174 in February 2009
• Global: #6424 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #12 in March 2009
• Global: #692 in February 2009

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) The Reader		60.2382
2	German (de) Der Vorleser		48.6042
3	Romanian (ro) Cititorul (roman)		41.8889
4	Ukrainian (uk) Читець (роман)		39.0464
5	Georgian (ka) მკითხველი		25.8966
6	Armenian (hy) Ընթերցողը (գիրք)		24.659
7	Arabic (ar) القارئ		22.2516
8	Indonesian (id) The Reader		22.1687
9	Russian (ru) Чтец (роман)		21.6607
10	Uzbek (uz) Kitob o'qib beruvchi		20.0732

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Der Vorleser		4 215 303
2	English (en) The Reader		3 580 420
3	Spanish (es) El lector		786 212
4	French (fr) Le Liseur		383 642
5	Russian (ru) Чтец (роман)		320 690
6	Japanese (ja) 朗読者		152 122
7	Italian (it) A voce alta - The Reader		130 208
8	Dutch (nl) Der Vorleser		83 882
9	Chinese (zh) 朗读者		77 973
10	Arabic (ar) القارئ		52 311

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Reader		7 285
2	German (de) Der Vorleser		6 512
3	Russian (ru) Чтец (роман)		1 447
4	French (fr) Le Liseur		1 087
5	Spanish (es) El lector		1 006
6	Japanese (ja) 朗読者		417
7	Chinese (zh) 朗读者		373
8	Italian (it) A voce alta - The Reader		351
9	Dutch (nl) Der Vorleser		170
10	Portuguese (pt) O Leitor (livro)		125

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Der Vorleser		317
2	English (en) The Reader		167
3	French (fr) Le Liseur		62
4	Spanish (es) El lector		43
5	Italian (it) A voce alta - The Reader		33
6	Hebrew (he) נער קריאה		29
7	Chinese (zh) 朗读者		22
8	Dutch (nl) Der Vorleser		20
9	Ukrainian (uk) Читець (роман)		17
10	Armenian (hy) Ընթերցողը (գիրք)		15

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Der Vorleser		1
2	English (en) The Reader		1
3	Arabic (ar) القارئ		0
4	Czech (cs) Předčítač (kniha)		0
5	Esperanto (eo) La legisto		0
6	Spanish (es) El lector		0
7	Persian (fa) کتاب‌خوان		0
8	French (fr) Le Liseur		0
9	Hebrew (he) נער קריאה		0
10	Armenian (hy) Ընթերցողը (գիրք)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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