The Reader

Quality:

The Reader - novel by Bernhard Schlink. This book is the 494^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 811^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “The Reader” in English Wikipedia has 60 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 51 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is German.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 811^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 494^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Reader”, its content was written by 171 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 842 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Reader is on the 811^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 494^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 53 times in English Wikipedia and cited 339 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3220 in February 2009
• Global: #6423 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #558 in February 2009
• Global: #682 in February 2009

There are 27 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, 2026 (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		59.9901
2	German (de) Der Vorleser		48.6246
3	Romanian (ro) Cititorul (roman)		41.762
4	Ukrainian (uk) Читець (роман)		38.2981
5	Greek (el) Διαβάζοντας στη Χάννα		36.9905
6	Georgian (ka) წამკითხველი		27.6398
7	Armenian (hy) Ընթերցողը (գիրք)		24.6934
8	Arabic (ar) القارئ		22.1512
9	Indonesian (id) The Reader		21.7406
10	Russian (ru) Чтец (роман)		21.6785

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Der Vorleser		4 302 879
2	English (en) The Reader		3 643 616
3	Spanish (es) El lector		801 651
4	French (fr) Le Liseur		398 061
5	Russian (ru) Чтец (роман)		338 691
6	Japanese (ja) 朗読者		156 968
7	Italian (it) A voce alta - The Reader		133 693
8	Dutch (nl) Der Vorleser		86 265
9	Chinese (zh) 朗读者		81 882
10	Arabic (ar) القارئ		53 500

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Der Vorleser		6 465
2	English (en) The Reader		3 835
3	Russian (ru) Чтец (роман)		996
4	Spanish (es) El lector		949
5	French (fr) Le Liseur		931
6	Japanese (ja) 朗読者		407
7	Italian (it) A voce alta - The Reader		274
8	Chinese (zh) 朗读者		253
9	Polish (pl) Lektor (powieść)		136
10	Dutch (nl) Der Vorleser		133

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		319
2	English (en) The Reader		171
3	French (fr) Le Liseur		64
4	Spanish (es) El lector		44
5	Italian (it) A voce alta - The Reader		35
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	French (fr) Le Liseur		1
2	Portuguese (pt) O Leitor (livro)		1
3	Arabic (ar) القارئ		0
4	Czech (cs) Předčítač (kniha)		0
5	German (de) Der Vorleser		0
6	Greek (el) Διαβάζοντας στη Χάννα		0
7	English (en) The Reader		0
8	Esperanto (eo) La legisto		0
9	Spanish (es) El lector		0
10	Persian (fa) کتاب‌خوان		0

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

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