THE BEST GERMAN NOVELS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. The Trial 1925 Franz Kafka
2. The Man Without Qualities 1930-43 Robert Musil
3. The Magic Mountain 1924 Thomas Mann
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929 Alfred Doblin
5. The Tin Drum 1959 Gunter Grass
6. Buddenbrooks 1901 Thomas Mann
7. The Castle 1926 Franz Kafka
8. The Death of Virgil 1945 Hermann Broch
9. Doctor Faustus 1947 Thomas Mann
10. Auto da Fé 1935 Elias Canetti
11. Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl 1970-1983 Uwe Johnson
12. Radetzky March 1932 Joseph Roth
13. Siddhartha 1922 Hermann Hesse
14. All Quiet on the Western Front 1929 Erich Maria Remarque
15. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 1910 Rainer Maria Rilke
16. Perfume 1985 Patrick Süskind
17. Steppenwolf 1927 Hermann Hesse
18. The Reader 1995 Bernhard Schlink
19. Zettels Traum 1970 Arno Schmidt
20. Gargoyles 1967 Thomas Bernhard
21. Jakob von Gunten 1909 Robert Walser
22. The Aesthetics of Resistance 1975-1981 Peter Weiss
23. The Glass Bead Game 1943 Hermann Hesse
24. The Loser 1983 Thomas Bernhard
25. The Sleepwalkers 1932 Hermann Broch
26. The Land of Green Plums 1994 Herta Müller 
27. Homo Faber 1957 Max Frisch
28. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum 1974 Heinrich Böll
29. Demian 1919 Hermann Hesse
30. Woodcutters 1984 Thomas Bernhard
31. The Confusions of Young Törless 1906 Robert Musil
32. Correction 1975 Thomas Bernhard
33. The Strudelhof Steps 1951 Heimito von Doderer
34. The Clown 1963 Heinrich Böll
35. Montauk 1975 Max Frisch
36. Beware of Pity 1939 Stefan Zweig