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"Our Bests" - The Germans' 50 Favourite Books (voted by the Public)

This is a definite list, so please don’t change it.
Two of the books are not that famous outside Germany, thus, I couldn’t find the English versions. Since I didn’t want to translate the titles on my own, I decided to take the German titles.

(found at: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/7/0,1872,2181735,00.html)
1. The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
2.
?
 The Holy Bible
by Various Authors
  
3. The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
  
4. Perfume
by Patrick Suskind
  
5. The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  
6. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Thomas Mann
  
7. The Physician
by Noah Gordon
  
8. The Alchemist (Plus)
by Paulo Coelho
  
9. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by J.K. Rowling
  
10. Pope Joan: A Novel
by Donna Cross
  
11. Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke
  
12. Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
  
13. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
14. The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
  
15. Faust: Part 1 (Penguin Classics)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
16. The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  
17. Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
18. Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown
  
19. The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Umberto Eco
  
20. Effi Briest.
by Theodor Fontane
  
21. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J.K. Rowling
  
22. The Magic Mountain (Everyman's Library)
by Thomas Mann
  
23. Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
24. Siddharta
by Hermann Hesse
  
25. The Discovery of Heaven
by Harry Mulisch
  
26. The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
  
27. Das verborgene Wort.
by Ulla Hahn
  
28. Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
  
29.
?
 Narziss and Goldmund
by Hermann Hesse
  
30. The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  
31. The German Lesson
by Siegfried Lenz
  
32. Embers
by Sandor Marai
  
33.
?
 Homo Faber
by Max Frisch
  
34. The Discovery of Slowness
by Sten Nadolny
  
35. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
  
36. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
37. A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
  
38. Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
  
39. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
40. The Wall
by Marlen Haushofer
  
41. The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
  
42. Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
43.
?
 The Stechlin
by Theodore Fontane
  
44. Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
  
45. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
  
46. Joseph and His Brothers (Everyman's Library)
by Thomas Mann
  
47. Der Laden: Roman Trilogie. ( Tb)
by Erwin Strittmatter
  
48. The Tin Drum
by Gunter grass
  
49. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
  
50. The Swarm: A Novel
by Frank Schatzing
  
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Created by Lisili on May 14, 2007.