Books from Germany
185 popular german books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Germany.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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El fin de semana by Bernhard Schlink ES
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Un grupo de antiguos amigos se reúne para pasar un fin de semana en el campo y rememorar los viejos tiempos Pero no se trata de una reunión cualquiera- uno de ellos, Jörg, exmiembro de la Fracción del Ejército Rojo, acaba de salir en libertad Tras más de
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Hungría, 1956. Sin decir una palabra, Katalin huye hacia el mundo capitalista y abandona a su familia. Su marido, Kálmán, vende la casa y la granja y decide recorrer el país con sus dos hijos, Kata e Isti. Mientras Kálmán cae en un estado de melancolía, Kata y su hermano pequeño tratan de mitigar su desconcierto. Sólo cuando están cerca del agua, a la orilla de algún río o junto a un lago, cuando observan cómo nada su padre o cuando ellos mismos lo hacen, sólo entonces hallan momentos mágicos de ligereza y felicidad. Con esta novela, melódica y nostálgica, Zsuzsa Bánk ganó el premio Aspekte de... continue
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Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe EN
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In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into their lives; against morality, good sense, and conscious volition all four are drawn into relationships as inexorably as if they were substances in a chemical equation. The novel asks whether we have free will or not; more disturbingly, it confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of their repression of any real life in themselves. Goethe wrote Elective Affinities when he was sixty a... continue
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Eu şi Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann RO
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Un roman ca un road-movie, alert şi plin de umor, despre lumea artei şi a jurnalismului şi o satiră tăioasă la adresa amândurora. Tânărul ziarist Sebastian Zöllner e convins că a găsit calea spre celebritate: va scrie biografia lui Manuel Kaminski, un pictor octogenar care a ucenicit în preajma lui Matisse. Cândva, pânzele lui stranii le-a sârnit curiozitatea contemporanilor: e geniu sau impostor? Înainte de a afla adevărul, Zöllner îl răpeşte pe bătrânul artist, iar aventura lor se precipită haotică, grotescă şi plină de neprevăz... continue
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Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum : Mit Beiträgen von Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Max Czollek, Mithu Sanyal, Olga Grjasnowa, Margarete Stokowski uvm. | Der Bestseller in Neuausgabe by Fatma Aydemir, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah DE
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17 Autor_innen geben in 14 viel beachteten und drei neuen Essays Einblick in ihren Alltag und halten Deutschland den Spiegel vor: einem Land, das sich als vorbildliche Demokratie begreift und gleichzeitig einen Teil seiner Mitglieder als »anders« markiert, kaum schützt oder wertschätzt.
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Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada EN
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"Based on a true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of a working class couple in Berlin who decide to take a stand against the Nazis. More than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order, it's a deeply moving story of two people who stand up for what's right, and for each other. Hans Fallada wrote Every Man Dies Alone in a feverish twenty-four days, soon after the end of World War II and his release from a Nazi insane asylum. He did not live to see his its publication"--Page 4 of cover.
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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe DE
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Den store tragedien om alkymisten og filosofen Faust er en av hjørnesteinenei tysk - og europeisk - litteratur. Det sentrale motivet er pakten Faust har inngått med djevelen: Faust skal få hjelp til å nå alle sine mål, men han skal miste sin sjel til det onde dersom han fristes til å holde fast ved øyeblikket og glemmer sin sannhetssøken og streben etter erkjennelse.
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Floreana by Margret Wittmer EN
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The true story of the author's 56 years spent living on Floreana in the Galapagos Islands. The story begins in 1932, when Margret Wittmer arrived on the island with her husband, stepson and two dogs.