Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century

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"The Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century is a list of books compiled in 1999 by Literaturhaus München and Bertelsmann, in which 99 prominent German authors, literary critics, and scholars of German ranked the most significant German-language novels of the twentieth century.

The group brought together 33 experts from each of the three categories. Each was allowed to name three books as having been the most important of the century. "

  1. 1.
    The Man Without Qualities (2 volume set)
    by Robert Musil

  2. 2.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

  3. 3.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  4. 4.
    Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
    by Alfred Doblin

  5. 5.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

  6. 6.
    Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
    by Uwe Johnson

  7. 7.
    Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
    by Thomas Mann

  8. 8.
    The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth)
    by Joseph Roth

  9. 9.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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Created by frbrown on Jul 12, 2011.
 

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