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Description: Ein Jahrhundert lesen. SPIEGEL-Literaturkanon. Jury: Eva Horn, Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Miryam Schellbach, Joseph Vogl Veröffentlicht in DER SPIEGEL Nr. 42 / 12.10.2024

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1

The Magic Mountain

11,194 members

195 reviews

4.2

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

2

Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

3,128 members

43 reviews

3.8

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

3

744 members

14 reviews

3.9

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

4

Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften 1: Erstes und zweites Buch

by Robert Musil

415 members

3 reviews

4.2

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

5

The Artificial Silk Girl

by Irmgard Keun

594 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

6

by Gabriele Tergit

231 members

9 reviews

4.1

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

7

Where You Come From

by Saša Stanišić

392 members

14 reviews

4

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

8

Vom Aufstehen: Ein Leben in Geschichten

by Helga Schubert

50 members

4 reviews

4

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

9

Blaue Frau: Roman

by Antje Rávik Strubel

48 members

5 reviews

3.8

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

10

Allegro Pastell

62 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

11

by Fatma Aydemir

124 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: JuliaMaria, Donna_conlibro

12

9,577 members

119 reviews

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria

13

696 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: JuliaMaria

14

The Pious Dance

130 members

1 review

4

Member: JuliaMaria

15

by Arthur Schnitzler

2,114 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria

16

The Case of Sergeant Grischa

by Arnold Zweig

354 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria

17

by Hans Henny Jahnn

44 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

Member: JuliaMaria

18

by Edlef Köppen

68 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: JuliaMaria

19

Job: The Story of a Simple Man

1,054 members

23 reviews

4

Member: JuliaMaria

20

The Sleepwalkers

by Hermann Broch

1,008 members

13 reviews

4

Member: JuliaMaria

21

In Matto's Realm

by Friedrich Glauser

243 members

6 reviews

4

Member: JuliaMaria

22

Youth Without God

by Ödön von Horváth

639 members

13 reviews

4

Member: JuliaMaria

23

by Anna Seghers

788 members

23 reviews

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria

24

Die Notizen oder Von der unvoreiligen Versöhnung

30 members

5

Member: JuliaMaria

25

Every Man Dies Alone

by Hans Fallada

4,107 members

171 reviews

4.2

Member: JuliaMaria

26

Herod's Children

by Ilse Aichinger

192 members

2 reviews

4

Member: JuliaMaria

27

Berlin Childhood around 1900

by Walter Benjamin

504 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria

28

The Strudlhof Steps

by Heimito von Doderer

357 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: JuliaMaria

29

The Judge and His Hangman

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,896 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: JuliaMaria

30

by Wolfgang Koeppen

344 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: JuliaMaria

31

Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen und andere Satiren

by Heinrich Böll

274 members

3 reviews

4.2

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32

The Gadarene Club

by Martin Walser

204 members

2 reviews

2.8

Member: JuliaMaria

33

Kaff auch Mare Crisium

by Arno Schmidt

67 members

½ 4.3

Member: JuliaMaria

34

9 members

Member: JuliaMaria

35

The Thirtieth Year: Stories

by Ingeborg Bachmann

360 members

5 reviews

4.1

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36

by Marlen Haushofer

1,889 members

90 reviews

4.2

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37

115 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: JuliaMaria

38

Der Weg nach Oobliadooh

by Fritz Rudolf Fries

22 members

2.8

Member: JuliaMaria

39

by Hubert Fichte

36 members

3

Member: JuliaMaria

40

by Jurek Becker

749 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria

41

Gesammelte Erzählungen

by Kurt Kusenberg

2 members

Member: JuliaMaria

42

Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl {1-4}

426 members

11 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: JuliaMaria

43

An Ordinary Youth

by Walter Kempowski

247 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: JuliaMaria

44

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

by Peter Handke

875 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria

45

The New Sorrows of Young W

by Ulrich Plenzdorf

566 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: JuliaMaria

46

Franziska Linkerhand

by Brigitte Reimann

88 members

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria

47

The Aesthetics of Resistance

189 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria

48

The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood

by Elias Canetti

1,033 members

10 reviews

4.1

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49

by Bernward Vesper

57 members

1 review

3.1

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50

Guten Morgen, du Schone

by Maxie Wander

98 members

3 reviews

4

Member: JuliaMaria

51

Tagebuch vom Überleben und Leben

by Hermann Lenz

4 members

½ 4.7

Member: JuliaMaria

52

Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man

114 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria

53

No Place on Earth

by Christa Wolf

301 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: JuliaMaria

54

The Meeting at Telgte

by Günter Grass

416 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: JuliaMaria

55

Man in the Holocene

595 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: JuliaMaria

56

Kleinstadtnovelle

by Ronald M. Schernikau

19 members

1 review

4.2

Member: JuliaMaria

57

The Father of a Murderer

by Alfred Andersch

163 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria

58

Marbot: A Biography

by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

85 members

1 review

3.8

Member: JuliaMaria

59

Couples, Passersby

by Botho Strauß

243 members

5 reviews

3.1

Member: JuliaMaria

60

At the Burning Abyss: Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem

by Franz Fühmann

14 members

4

Member: JuliaMaria

61

by Rainald Goetz

128 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: JuliaMaria

62

The Piano Teacher

by Elfriede Jelinek

2,240 members

39 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: JuliaMaria

63

by Thomas Bernhard

1,156 members

21 reviews

4.2

Member: JuliaMaria

64

by Jörg Fauser

79 members

3 reviews

4.1

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65

Hinze-Kunze-Roman

by Volker Braun

36 members

2.8

Member: JuliaMaria

66

Die Mördergrube. Roman.

by Werner Steinberg

3 members

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67

by Christoph Ransmayr

714 members

12 reviews

3.8

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68

Yellow Street: A Novel in Five Scenes

by Veza Canetti

103 members

½ 3.4

Member: JuliaMaria

69

Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

by Ruth Klüger

513 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: JuliaMaria

70

Krieg ohne Schlacht: Leben in zwei Diktaturen. Mit einem Dossier von Dokumenten des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit der ehemaligen DDR

by Heiner Müller

26 members

3.8

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71

by Christian Kracht

382 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: JuliaMaria

72

The Karnau Tapes

by Marcel Beyer

132 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria

73

by Feridun Zaimoglu

26 members

½ 4.5

Member: JuliaMaria

74

by W. G. Sebald

4,788 members

117 reviews

4.1

Member: JuliaMaria

75

Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde.

by Emine Sevgi Özdamar

24 members

½ 3.5

Member: JuliaMaria

76

In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS

351 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: JuliaMaria

77

Chronik der Gefühle (suhrkamp taschenbuch)

by Alexander Kluge

20 members

½ 4.5

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78

by Terézia Mora

126 members

5 reviews

3.8

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79

by Christoph Hein

100 members

2 reviews

4

Member: JuliaMaria

80

Wir schlafen nicht

by Kathrin Röggla

35 members

3.8

Member: JuliaMaria

81

Part of the Solution

by Ulrich Peltzer

53 members

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria

82

82 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

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83

The Hunger Angel

by Herta Müller

1,111 members

60 reviews

4

Member: JuliaMaria

84

Atlas de Islas Remotas. Cincuenta y cinco islas en las que nunca estuve y a las que nunca iré

by Judith Schalansky

1,137 members

45 reviews

4.2

Member: JuliaMaria

85

ich bin in der Anstalt: Fusznoten zu einem nichtgeschriebenen Werk

by Friederike Mayröcker

16 members

Member: JuliaMaria

86

by Sibylle Lewitscharoff

78 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: JuliaMaria

87

All Russians Love Birch Trees

by Olga Grjasnowa

245 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: JuliaMaria

88

Frühling der Barbaren

by Jonas Lüscher

73 members

4 reviews

4

Member: JuliaMaria

89

Arbeit und Struktur

by Wolfgang Herrndorf

117 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: JuliaMaria

90

Das Verschwinden des Philip S.

by Ulrike Edschmid

33 members

½ 4.4

Member: JuliaMaria

91

225 members

8 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: JuliaMaria

92

by Katja Petrowskaja

223 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria

93

The Eighth Life (for Brilka)

by Nino Haratischwili

995 members

47 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: JuliaMaria

94

Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre

by Clemens J. Setz

41 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: JuliaMaria

95

Chronik meiner Straße

by Barbara Honigmann

16 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Member: JuliaMaria

96

Erste Erde: Epos

by Raoul Schrott

13 members

Member: JuliaMaria

97

Am Weltenrand sitzen die Menschen und lachen

by Philipp Weiss

23 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: JuliaMaria

98

Out of the Sugar Factory

by Dorothee Elmiger

54 members

4 reviews

2.8

Member: JuliaMaria

99

Die Inkommensurablen

by Raphaela Edelbauer

48 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: JuliaMaria

100

Die Projektoren: Roman | Ausgezeichnet mit dem Bayerischen Buchpreis 2024

by Clemens Meyer

23 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: JuliaMaria

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