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21 Best German-language novels

The Modern Novel home page » My Lists home page » 21 Best German-language novels

The Rules

Alfred Andersch: Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund (Flight to Afar)
Ingeborg Bachmann: Malina (Malina)
Horst Bienek: Gleiwitz Tetralogy
Heinrich Böll: Ansichten eines Clowns (The Clown)
Hermann Broch: Die Schlafwandler (The Sleepwalkers)
Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz: Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf (Alexanderplatz, Berlin; Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf)
Max Frisch: Stiller (I’m not Stiller)
Günter Grass: Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)
Peter Handke: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick)
Peter Härtling: Eine Frau (A Woman)
Thomas Hürlimann: Der große Kater [The Big Cat]
Elfriede Jelinek: Die Kinder der Toten [The Children of the Dead]
Uwe Johnson: Jahrestage (Anniversaries)
Franz Kafka: Der Prozess (The Trial)
Wolfgang Koeppen: Tauben im Gras (Pigeons on the Grass)
Siegfried Lenz: Deutschstunde (The German Lesson)
Thomas Mann: Doktor Faustus (Doctor Faustus)
Robert Musil: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities)
W G Sebald: Austerlitz (Austerlitz)
Martin Walser: Halbzeit [Half Time]
Christa Wolf: Nachdenken über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T)

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