Recs if you like Berlin Alexanderplatz...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I tried to find the latest version (2026).
Criterion Films Based on Novels
Because good movies appreciate good stories first. Adding more to this all the time!
German Must-Reads
From classics to modern lit, a selection of great books written in German.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
This is the compendium of books from the 2012 edition.
Weimar Germany
Books about and set during the Weimar era, including those from the era.
20th-century German classics, vol. I
Incomplete list of texts largely originally written in the German language considered foundational works of the 20th century, mostly by authors or expats from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and their antecedents. Partially personalized, naturally. Modernist/postmodernist; stylistically varied; weighed down by history, memory, and institutions; sometimes ironic, comic, or melancholic, or all three at once; atmospheric, psychological and/or philosophical. Pre/post-catastrophic humanism.
Counterpunch's 100 Best Novels, in Translation, Since 1900
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