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The Neverending Story
1979 novel by Michael Ende
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Perfume
1985 novel by Patrick Süskind
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The Reader
novel by Bernhard Schlink
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Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
novel by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Undine
novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Look Who's Back
2012 satire novel by Timur Vermes
Radetzky March
novel by Joseph Roth
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Homo Faber
novel by Max Frisch
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Hyperion
c. 1797 novel by Friedrich Hölderlin
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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
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Auto-da-Fé
1935 novel by Elias Canetti
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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
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The Flounder
1977 novel by Günter Grass
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The Post Office Girl
novel by Stefan Zweig
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A Dangerous Game
1956 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Judge and His Hangman
1952 crime novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Jesus Video
1998 novel by Andreas Eschbach
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The Ghost-Seer
novel by Friedrich Schiller
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Timm Thaler
1962 children's novel by James Krüss
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Job
novel by Joseph Roth
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Suspicion
1952 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Earthquake in Chile
1807 short story by Heinrich von Kleist
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Geschwister Tanner
1907 novel by Robert Walser
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The Rat
1986 novel by Günter Grass
Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century
Wikimedia list article
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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.
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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
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Vertigo
novel by W. G. Sebald
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Billiards at Half-past Nine
novel by Heinrich Böll
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In My Brother's Shadow
2003 novel by Uwe Timm
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Jakob von Gunten
novel by Robert Walser
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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.
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The new sorrows of young W.
1976 novel by Ulrich Plenzdorf
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The Drinker
1950 novel by Hans Fallada
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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
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Blackout
novel by Marc Elsberg
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Bluebeard
book by Max Frisch
The Bread of Those Early Years
story by Heinrich Böll
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Me and Kaminski
novel by Daniel Kehlmann
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Malina
novel by Ingeborg Bachmann
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Visit to Godenholm
novel by Ernst Jünger
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Imperium
2012 novel by Christian Kracht
The Meeting at Telgte
1979 novel by Günter Grass