15 must-read classics books like Die Gedichte by Theodor Fontane

Cover of Die Gedichte by Theodor Fontane

Die Gedichte

By: Theodor Fontane

3.84

Format: 751 pages, Paperback

Paperback book.

If you liked the classics plot in Die Gedichte by Theodor Fontane , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Men Explain Things to Me

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more

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"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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2. Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters

By: Loren Long , Barack Obama

4.24

Format: 40 pages, Library Binding

In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving trib… read more

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3. The Reader

By: Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing nov… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
"There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?"

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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4. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

By: Heinrich von Kleist , None , Nigel Reeves

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baff… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
"In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in…"

-Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

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5. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
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6. The Plague

By: Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more

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  • classics
"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

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7. Wilhelm Tell

By: Friedrich Schiller

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das 1804 erschienene und in Weimar - unter der Regie von Johann Wolfgang Goethe - uraufgefuhrte Bla… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
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8. Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.

By: Ulrich Plenzdorf

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

Der 17-jahrige Edgar Wibeau nimmt einen Streit mit seinem Vorgesetzten zum Anlass, seine Lehre in e… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics

9. The Night of Wishes

By: Michael Ende , Regina Kehn , Heike Schwarzbauer , Rick Takvorian , None

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

The sorcerer Beelzebub Preposteror and his witchy aunt must complete their annual quota of evil dee… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics

10. Ay Işığı Sokağı

By: Stefan Zweig

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Fransa'nin bir liman kentinin denizci mahallesinde gezinirken duydugu arya soyleyen sesi izleyerek … read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
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11. Fünfzig Gedichte

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Rilke

3.25

Format: None pages, Taschenbuch

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  • german literature
  • poetry
  • classics
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12. Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

By: Jessa Crispin

3.68

Format: 593 pages, Paperback

Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as su… read more

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13. 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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  • german literature
  • classics
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14. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

15. Narcissus and Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro

4.05

Format: 336 pages,

Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more

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16. The Glass Bead Game

By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more

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17. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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18. Woyzeck

By: Georg Büchner

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kaum ein bedeutendes Werk der deutschen Literatur ist in seiner Textfassung so problematisch wie Bu… read more

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19. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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20. In the Penal Colony

By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more

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21. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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22. Homo Faber

By: Max Frisch

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Walter Faber, engineer, is a man for whom only the tangible, calculable, verifiable exists. Dubbed … read more

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23. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

By: Amanda Gorman

4.56

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9780593465271 can be found here. On January 20, 2021,… read more

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  • poetry
"So while we once asked: How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it."

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be …"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

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24. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

3.98

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more

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  • poetry
"Live your life like no one’s listening"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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25. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

By: Natalie Haynes

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more

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  • classics
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."

-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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26. Julián Is a Mermaid

By: Jessica Love

4.51

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and… read more

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27. I Am Enough

By: Grace Byers

4.34

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

I Am Enough is the picture book everyone needs This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2) by Stephen Fry

28. Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

By: Stephen Fry

4.32

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such … read more

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  • classics
"You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will."

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"Wicked men never learn, for wicked men have no interest in myths, legends, and stories. If they had they would learn from them and triumph, so we must be glad of their ignorance and dullness of wits."

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept …"

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"A fine statue of a naked Theseus stands proudly today in Athens' central place of assembly, the city's hub, Syntagma Square. Even today he is a focus of Athenian identity and pride. The ship he broug…"

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

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29. Afghanistan: Unbesiegter Verlierer (German Edition)

By: Natalie Amiri

4.50

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

»Natalie Amiris packender Bericht ist Pflichtlektüre für alle, die die Katastrophe Afghanistans und… read more

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30. Die Gedichte

By: Theodor Fontane

3.84

Format: 751 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
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Virginia Woolf

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