15 must-read german literature books like Das Verschwinden des Philip S. by Ulrike Edschmid

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Das Verschwinden des Philip S.

By: Ulrike Edschmid

3.91

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Im Mai 1975 stirbt Philip S. beim Schusswechsel mit der Polizei auf einem Kölner Parkplatz. Fast vi…

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1. La carte et le territoire

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more

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"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

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2. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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3. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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4. Asterix and the Normans (Asterix, #9)

By: René Goscinny , Albert Uderzo

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Normans never feel fear--but they do believe that terror literally gives one wings, enabling a pers… read more

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5. Baise-Moi

By: Virginie Despentes , Bruce Benderson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Baise-Moiis one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes … read more

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6. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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7. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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8. The Radetzky March

By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more

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9. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

By: Christiane V. Felscherinow , Horst Rieck , Kai Hermann

4.48

Format: 192 pages,

Sie ist heute sechzehn, kam mit zwolf in einem evangelischen Jugendheim zum Haschisch, mit dreizehn… read more

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10. Collected Stories, 1939-1976

By: Gore Vidal , Paul Bowles

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

The publication by Black Sparrow in 1979 of Paul Bowles' Collected Stories sparked the rediscovery … read more

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11. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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12. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

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13. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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14. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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15. ‎22 Bahnen

By: Caroline Wahl

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre klein… read more

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16. Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo

4.28

Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition

Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more

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"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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17. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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18. Hard Land

By: Benedict Wells

4.29

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Missouri, 1985: Um vor den Problemen zu Hause zu fliehen, nimmt der fünfzehnjährige Sam einen Ferie… read more

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19. Die Möglichkeit von Glück

By: Anne Rabe

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In der DDR geboren, im wiedervereinigten Deutschland aufgewachsen. Als die Mauer fällt, ist Stine g… read more

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20. Gewässer im Ziplock

By: Dana Vowinckel

4.30

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Ein Sommer zwischen Berlin, Chicago und Jerusalem. Wie jedes Jahr verbringt die fünfzehnjährige Mar… read more

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21. Vladimir

By: Julia May Jonas

3.44

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew … read more

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"Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)"

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

"She is delighted with herself, unaware of the mess she is making, the sight she looks, the implications of her movements."

-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

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22. Herkunft

By: Saša Stanišić

4.17

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was da… read more

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"Träume sind etwas Lebendiges - und als solche vergänglich wie das Gedächtnis."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Zoki walks into the classroom, puts a piece of paper down on the teacher’s desk, and shouts: “Everyone write your name."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Otec tancoval a už nebol nazúrený, napokon to ani nejde dohromady, všetko ostatné sa dá robiť aj s hnevom, ale toto nie, nie objímanie."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Ich verstehe nicht, dass Herkunft Eigenschaften mit sich bringen soll, und verstehe nicht, dass manche bereit sind, in ihrem Namen in Schlachten zu ziehen."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

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23. Allein

By: Daniel Schreiber

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Zu keiner Zeit haben so viele Menschen allein gelebt, und nie war elementarer zu spüren, wie brutal… read more

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"Doch der springende Punkt all dieser Serien, das, worauf sie immer zusteuern, wird leicht übersehen: Sie enden damit, dass ausnahmslos alle ihrer Protagonistinnen und Protagonisten Partnerinnen und P…"

-Daniel Schreiber, Allein

"Ich glaube, dass Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller so gerne wandern gehen, weil es ein gutes Mittel gegen die dunklen Zustände ist, die einen, ob man es will oder nicht, bei der einsamen Arbeit …"

-Daniel Schreiber, Allein

"Das Glück der Freundschaft besteht gerade nicht in ihrem Ideal. Es stellt sich nicht ein, wenn lediglich die eigenen Bedürfnisse nach der Aufmerksamkeit anderer Menschen erfüllt werden, wenn wir sie …"

-Daniel Schreiber, Allein

"Bei Durchblättern von Büchern, die ich immer wieder zur Hand nehme, stoße ich auf Unterstreichungen wie diese: »Heute, so scheint es ihm, schreibt er mehr aus einer freien Position heraus. … Er sagt …"

-Daniel Schreiber, Allein

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24. De randen

By: Angelo Tijssens

3.94

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

" Le goût du sang et l'odeur du plâtre humide. Un peu plus tôt dans la journée, avec un seau à moit… read more

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25. Frühlingserwachen

By: Isabelle Lehn

4.08

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

»Ich glaube an den Verstand, den freien Willen und die Kraft der Gedanken. Ich glaube an Biochemie,… read more

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26. Zukunftsmusik

By: Katerina Poladjan

3.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Der neue Roman von Katerina Poladjan über vier Generationen von Frauen, eine Kommunalka und das End… read more

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27. Himmelwärts

By: Karen Köhler

4.64

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Eine einzigartige literarische Stimme, umwerfend komische Dialoge und zwei mitreißende Mädchen voll… read more

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28. Die schönste Version

By: Ruth-Maria Thomas

4.41

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Die späten Nullerjahre, frühen 2010er Jahre in einer ostdeutschen Die schönste Version erzählt die… read more

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29. Das Verschwinden des Philip S.

By: Ulrike Edschmid

3.91

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Im Mai 1975 stirbt Philip S. beim Schusswechsel mit der Polizei auf einem Kölner Parkplatz. Fast vi… read more

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30. Juli, August, September

By: Olga Grjasnowa

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Lous zweiter Ehemann ist eine Trophäe – das muss selbst ihre Mutter anerkennen. Sergej ist Pianist … read more

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31. Von Norden rollt ein Donner

By: Markus Thielemann

4.24

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Täglich treiben der 19-jährige Jannes und seine Familie die Schafe über die Flächen der Lüneburger … read more

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27 Top fiction books like Zukunftsmusik by Katerina Poladjan

Transform Your Habits

Venterommet i Atlanteren

Mona Høvring

3.71

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Tijan Sila

4.47

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