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The Neverending Story
1979 novel by Michael Ende
Perfume
1985 novel by Patrick Süskind
The Reader
novel by Bernhard Schlink
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
novel by Rainer Maria Rilke
Undine
novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Look Who's Back
2012 satire novel by Timur Vermes
Radetzky March
novel by Joseph Roth
Homo Faber
novel by Max Frisch
Hyperion
c. 1797 novel by Friedrich Hölderlin
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
novella by Stefan Zweig
Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia
narrative by Rudolf Erich Raspe
Auto-da-Fé
1935 novel by Elias Canetti
Austerlitz
2001 German novel by W.G. Sebald
Every Man Dies Alone
1947 novel by Hans Fallada
The Little Vampire
novel series by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
I'm Not Stiller
1954 novel by Max Frisch
The Flounder
1977 novel by Günter Grass
The Post Office Girl
novel by Stefan Zweig
A Dangerous Game
1956 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Judge and His Hangman
1952 crime novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Jesus Video
1998 novel by Andreas Eschbach
The Ghost-Seer
novel by Friedrich Schiller
Timm Thaler
1962 children's novel by James Krüss
Job
novel by Joseph Roth
Suspicion
1952 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Earthquake in Chile
1807 short story by Heinrich von Kleist
Geschwister Tanner
1907 novel by Robert Walser
The Rat
1986 novel by Günter Grass
Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century
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Eumeswil
Eumeswil is a 1977 novel by the German author Ernst Jünger. The narrative is set in an undatable post-apocalyptic world, somewhere in present-day Morocco. It follows the inner and outer life of Manuel Venator, a historian in the city-state of Eumeswil who also holds a part-time job in the night bar of Eumeswil's ruling tyrant, the Condor. The book was published in English in 1993, translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
The Last World
novel by Christoph Ransmayr
The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel
1958 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1970 Novel by Peter Handke
Vertigo
novel by W. G. Sebald
Billiards at Half-past Nine
novel by Heinrich Böll
In My Brother's Shadow
2003 novel by Uwe Timm
Jakob von Gunten
novel by Robert Walser
Gantenbein
Mein Name sei Gantenbein (roughly "[Let] my name be Gantenbein") is a 1964 novel by the Swiss writer Max Frisch. It was translated into English in 1965 by Michael Bullock as A Wilderness of Mirrors; this translation was later reprinted under the title Gantenbein in 1982. The novel features a narrator who recounts a multitude of dislocated, fragmented stories, which together reveal certain traits and patterns.
The new sorrows of young W.
1976 novel by Ulrich Plenzdorf
The Drinker
1950 novel by Hans Fallada
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
1972 novella by Peter Handke
The Assistant (Walser novel)
1908 novel by Robert Walser
The Execution of Justice
1985 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Blackout
novel by Marc Elsberg
Bluebeard
book by Max Frisch
The Bread of Those Early Years
story by Heinrich Böll
Me and Kaminski
novel by Daniel Kehlmann
Malina
novel by Ingeborg Bachmann
Visit to Godenholm
novel by Ernst Jünger
Imperium
2012 novel by Christian Kracht
The Meeting at Telgte
1979 novel by Günter Grass