- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Sorrows of Young Werther: the classic Bildungsroman was a huge best-seller and helped kick off the romantic movement
- Thomas Mann
- Death in Venice: a very short novel in which an old man is captured by the beauty of a young boy in plague-ridden Venice
- Timur Vernes
- Look Who's Back: a comic novel anout the return of Hitler in modern (reunited) Germany
- Friedrich Schiller
- Don Carlos: a classic play
- Erich Maria Remarque
- All's Quiet on the Western Front: a classic short novel about the First World War
- Hermann Hesse
- Demian: a bildungsroman about an outsider.
- Steppenwolf: a classic novel about an outsider.
- Adelbert von Chamisso
- Peter Schlemihl: a man sells his shadow to the devil; an adult fable
- Heinrich Boll
- The Train Was on Time: a novel about the last day of a soldier in the Second World War
- Bernhard Schlink
- The Reader: a coming-of-age novel about a young man and a Nazi war criminal
- Peter Schneider
- The Wall Jumper: a collection of anecdotes about people who illegally crossed the Berlin Wall
- E T A Hoffman
- The Sandman: one of the 'Tales from Hoffman' that make up the Offenbach ballet
- Gunter Grass
- Cat and Mouse: in which the narrator hero-worships his school-friend ... and then they grow up.
This blog has lots of book reviews. I read biography, history books and fiction; I sometimes read other non-fiction book genres too.
German authors reviewed in this blog
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