Read German Books 2020 Challenge: TBR & Pile of Possibilities

Read German Books 2020 Challenge: TBR & Pile of Possibilities

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Mel’s announcement video:

Britta’s announcement video:

Goodreads group:


Books mentioned:

German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century - Elizabeth R. Herrmann (Editor), Edna Huttenmaier Spitz (Editor):

One Clear Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century - Roland Schimmelpfennig, Jamie Bulloch (Translator):


Homo Faber - Max Frisch (Michael Bullock, trans.):

Man in the Holocene - Max Frisch, Geoffrey Skelton (Translator):

Transit - Anna Seghers, Margot Bettauer
Dembo (Translation):

The Seventh Cross - Anna Seghers, Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator):
(My full review:

The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun, Kathie von Ankum (Translator):
(My full review:

Gilgi, One of Us - Irmgard Keun (Geoff Wilkes, trans.):

The Loser - Thomas Bernhard, Jack Dawson (Translator):

The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann (Translator):

At the Edge of the Night - Friedo Lampe, Simon Beattie (Translation):

The Madwoman on a Pilgrimage - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jonathan Ned Katz (Translation):

Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin, Michael Hofmann (Translator):

Berlin Finale - Heinz Rein, Shaun Whiteside (Translation):

The Train Was on Time - Heinrich Böll, , Leila Vennewitz (Translator):

Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane, Mike Mitchell (Translator):

Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann, Philip Boehm (Translator):


Mr. Zed's Reflections - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Wieland Hoban (Translator):

The Cold Centre - Inka Parei, Katy Derbyshire (Translation):

What Was Before - Martin Mosebach, Kári Driscoll (Translator):

The Dark Ship - Sherko Fatah, Martin Chalmers (Translator):

The Unfinished - Reinhard Jirgl, Iain Galbraith (Translation):


The Forty Days of Musa Dagh - Franz Werfel, Geoffrey Dunlop (Translator), James Reidel (Translator):

The Last Summer - Ricarda Huch, Jamie Bulloch (Translator):


The Storyteller - Pierre Jarawan, Rachel McNicholl (Translator), Sinéad Crowe (Translator):



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