Book AwardsZEIT Literaturkanon

Book awards by cover

Works (70)

TitlesOrder
The Book About Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist2000-today
Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy2000-today
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk2000-today
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann [2000]
Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas2000-today
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano2000-today
Snow by Orhan Pamuk2000-today
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye2000-today
The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country by Uwe Tellkamp [2000]
White Teeth by Zadie Smith2000-today
1984 by George Orwell — not in English Common Knowledge1945-1949
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese1945-1949
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić1945-1949
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann1945-1949
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi1945-1949
On Overgrown Paths by Knut Hamsun1945-1949
The Plague by Albert Camus1945-1949
The Skin by Curzio Malaparte1945-1949
Strahlungen by Ernst Jünger1945-1949
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry1945-1949
A Change of Heart by Michel Butor1950-1959
The Demons by Heimito von Doderer1950-1959
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak1950-1959
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1950-1959
Lord of the Flies by William Golding1950-1959
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir1950-1959
A Poet's Journal: Days of 1945-51 by George A. Seferis1950-1959
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski1950-1959
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass1950-1959
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett1950-1959
The Clown by Heinrich Böll1960-1969
Each Man in His Darkness by Julien Green1960-1969
The experience of pain by Carlo Emilio Gadda1960-1969
The Flanders Road by Claude Simon1960-1969
Gantenbein by Max Frisch1960-1969
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing1960-1969
De romantici by Nâzim Hikmet1960-1969
Solaris by Stanisław Lem1960-1969
Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg1960-1969
The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre1960-1969
Communism in Spain in the Franco Era: The Autobiography of Federico Sanchez by Jorge Semprún1970-1979
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész1970-1979
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1970-1979
History by Elsa Morante1970-1979
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino1970-1979
The Land at the End of the World: A Novel by António Lobo Antunes1970-1979
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann1970-1979
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal1970-1979
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke1970-1979
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš1970-1979
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson1980-1989
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa1980-1989
Cassandra by Christa Wolf1980-1989
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie1980-1989
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco1980-1989
The Notebook by Ágota Kristóf1980-1989
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera1980-1989
The Use of Man by Aleksandar Tišma1980-1989
The War: A Memoir by Marguerite Duras1980-1989
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard1980-1989
All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom1990-1999
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch1990-1999
Dukla by Andrzej Stasiuk1990-1999
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq1990-1999
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald1990-1999
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller1990-1999
A Heart So White by Javier Marías1990-1999
Die Kinder der Toten by Elfriede Jelinek1990-1999
Melancholy by Jon Fosse1990-1999
Original Bliss: Stories by A. L. Kennedy1990-1999