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Best German BooksMichael Hulse's Top 12 German Books



Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks (1901)

Jakob Wassermann

Caspar Hauser (1908)

Franz Kafka

The Castle (1926)

Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Alfred Döblin

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)

Robert Musil

The Man without Qualities (1930–43)

Günter Grass

The Tin Drum (1959)

Max Frisch

Man Appears in the Holocene (1979)

Christa Wolf

No Place on Earth (1981)

Elfriede Jelinek

The Piano Teacher (1983)

Patrick Süskind

Perfume (1985)

W. G. Sebald

The Emigrants (1993)

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Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionAuthors on FictionGermany: Michael Hulse