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Book Awards20 German Novels You Must Read

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The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings (Signet Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe2
The Devil's Elixirs by E. T. A. Hoffmann3
Green Henry [2nd version of 1879/1880] by Gottfried Keller4
Jenny Treibel by Theodor Fontane5
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane6
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann7
The Blue Angel by Heinrich Mann8
Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse9
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil10
The Trial by Franz Kafka11
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann12
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin13
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth14
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers15
The Strudlhof Steps by Heimito von Doderer16
Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen17
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass18
Montauk by Max Frisch19
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard20

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