100 German must-reads by Deutsche Welle

100 Works 175,607 Books 4,182 Reviews ½ 3.9
Deutsche Welle presents the ultimate list of German-language books translated into English
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2018
WorkOrder Label
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1924) by Thomas Mann
1901
The Confusions of Young Törless (1906) by Robert Musil
1906
Jakob von Gunten (1909) by Robert Walser
1909
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) by Rainer Maria Rilke
1910
Mein Herz (1976) by Else Lasker-Schüler
1912
Rheinsberg: A Storybook for Lovers (1912) by Kurt Tucholsky
1912
Man of Straw (1919) by Heinrich Mann
1918
Demian (1958) by Hermann Hesse
1919
Storm of Steel (1920) by Ernst Jünger
1920
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
1925
Grand Hotel (1929) by Vicki Baum
1929
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Döblin
1929
All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) by Erich Maria Remarque
1929
Job: The Story of a Simple Man (1930) by Joseph Roth
1930
Fabian: The Story of a Moralist (1931) by Erich Kästner
1931
Blood Brothers (1932) by Ernst Haffner
1932
The Artificial Silk Girl (1932) by Irmgard Keun
1932
The Oppermanns (1933) by Lion Feuchtwanger
1933
Threepenny Novel (1934) by Bertolt Brecht
1934
Auto-da-Fé (1935) by Elias Canetti
1935
Mephisto (1936) by Klaus Mann
1936
Beware of Pity (1982) by Stefan Zweig
1939
The Seventh Cross (1939) by Anna Seghers
1942
The Vienna Melody (1947) by Ernst Lothar
1946
Every Man Dies Alone (2009) by Hans Fallada
1947
Herod's Children (1948) by Ilse Aichinger
1948
Death in Rome (1992) by Wolfgang Koeppen
1954
The Demons (1956) by Heimito von Doderer
1956
Payback (1956) by Gert Ledig
1956
Homo Faber (1959) by Max Frisch
1957
The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
1959
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary (1954) by Marta Hillers
1959
The Wall (1963) by Marlen Haushofer
1963
Divided Heaven (1963) by Christa Wolf
1963
Jacob the Liar (1996) by Jurek Becker
1969
Malina (1971) by Ingeborg Bachmann
1971
Short Letter, Long Farewell (1972) by Peter Handke
1972
The New Sorrows of Young W (1973) by Ulrich Plenzdorf
1973
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) by Heinrich Böll
1974
The Nazi and the Barber (1971) by Edgar Hilsenrath
1977
Runaway Horse (1978) by Martin Walser
1978
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite (1979) by Gregor von Rezzori
1979
The Wall Jumper (1982) by Peter Schneider
1982
Insane (1983) by Rainald Goetz
1983
The Piano Teacher (1988) by Elfriede Jelinek
1983
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (2018) by Uwe Johnson
1983
The Discovery of Slowness (1983) by Sten Nadolny
1983
Woodcutters (1984) by Thomas Bernhard
1984
Rohstoff (1984) by Jörg Fauser
1984
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) by Patrick Süskind
1985
The Film Explainer (1990) by Gert Hofmann
1990
The Mussel Feast (1990) by Birgit Vanderbeke
1990
Brother of Sleep (1992) by Robert Schneider
1992
Tu no eres como otras madres (1992) by Angelika Schrobsdorff
1992
Life is a Caravanserai: Has Two Doors I Came in One I Went Out the Other (1993) by Emine Sevgi Özdamar
1992
'I' (1993) by Wolfgang Hilbig
1993
The Reader (1995) by Bernhard Schlink
1995
Animal Triste (1995) by Monika Maron
1996
Midsummer Night (1996) by Uwe Timm
1996
Agnes (1998) by Peter Stamm
1998
Lost (1998) by Hans-Ulrich Treichel
1998
The Tortoises (1999) by Veza Canetti
1999
The Shadow-Boxing Woman (1999) by Inka Parei
1999
The Architects (2000) by Stefan Heym
2000
Mrs. Sartoris (2000) by Elke Schmitter
2000
Berlin Blues (2001) by Sven Regener
2001
Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald
2001
The Swimmer (2002) by Zsuzsa Bánk
2002
Inkheart (2003) by Cornelia Funke
2003
Night Train to Lisbon (2004) by Pascal Mercier
2004
Day In Day Out (2004) by Terézia Mora
2004
Young Light (2004) by Ralf Rothmann
2004
The Swarm (2004) by Frank Schätzing
2004
Measuring the World (2005) by Daniel Kehlmann
2005
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (2008) by Saša Stanišić
2006
The Collector of Worlds (2006) by Ilija Trojanow
2006
The Blindness of the Heart (2007) by Julia Franck
2007
Babylon Berlin (2007) by Volker Kutscher
2007
Broken Glass Park (2010) by Alina Bronsky
2008
Visitation (2008) by Jenny Erpenbeck
2008
A Minute's Silence (2008) by Siegfried Lenz
2008
The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country (2010) by Uwe Tellkamp
2008
An Exclusive Love: A Memoir (2009) by Johanna Adorjan
2009
Summer Resort (2009) by Esther Kinsky
2009
Apostoloff (2009) by Sibylle Lewitscharoff
2009
The Hunger Angel (2012) by Herta Müller
2009
The Method (2009) by Juli Zeh
2009
Why We Took the Car (2010) by Wolfgang Herrndorf
2010
In Times of Fading Light (2011) by Eugen Ruge
2011
The Giraffe's Neck (2011) by Judith Schalansky
2011
All Russians Love Birch Trees (2012) by Olga Grjasnowa
2012
Atlas of an Anxious Man (2012) by Christoph Ransmayr
2012
Bricks and Mortar (2013) by Clemens Meyer
2013
Maybe Esther (2014) by Katja Petrowskaja
2014
A Whole Life (2014) by Robert Seethaler
2014
Kruso (2014) by Lutz Seiler
2014
Memoirs of a Polar Bear (2014) by Yōko Tawada
2014
This House Is Mine (2015) by Dörte Hansen
2015
The End of Loneliness (2016) by Benedict Wells
2016
Hool (2016) by Philipp Winkler
2016

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