Recs if you like The Reader...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
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German to the core
Translated german language literature that is considered by many to be "core" reading from the modern and contemporary eras - meaning 1880 onwards, making it very readable. 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭 I usually kept it to one book per author to make this a starting off point (sometimes added additional faves). Suggestions welcome!
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Books That are Love Letters to Books
Books don't just sit on shelves and these novels show it. Each one is its own love letter to the importance of stories in every corner of human life, built on the belief that the right book, in the right hands, at the right moment, can change the entire shape of a life. (Always taking recommendations!)
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Kids Can Be Cruel
Name-calling and insults you might hear on the playground and beyond...
Anything can be an insult if you believe it! My kid brother used to get in trouble for calling us "you...you BEAN" with all the spite his little preschool self could manage 🥹
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Bleakness Is My Weakness
For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.
More to come!
Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!
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📚 Book to movie adaptations 🎥
Books that were adapted into movies (not tv shows). Let's make this list as long as possible!
(going to only add the first book in a series)
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German lit classics 🥨🍻
this is a list consisting of some German books that are considered classics by the internet (and also me) in their original language. some books may be by Austrian/Swiss authors but they had an impact on German literature. it's a work in progress, so let me know what books I’m missing 🫡
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German Must-Reads
From classics to modern lit, a selection of great books written in German.
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German books that blew my mind
Books of all genres.
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Now a Major Motion Picture
I'm deeply invested in the book to screenplay pipeline
Note: I will be deleting my PB account within the next two weeks, and I believe this list will be erased. Feel free to screenshot it if you see anything that interests you! ☺️ 3/17/2026
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Questionable life choices in fiction
Real-Life consequences and how they affect the protagonists
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