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| The German Flag; image from here |
My goal is to:
- Understand German history, to include key events that shaped Germany's identity as a nation
- Be familiar with key works of German literature and fiction, from classics to modern bestsellers
If I've already read a title, I link to my review of it below. A few are in German and so labeled. I'm about halfway through, and really enjoying it so far.
| Author | Title | Category |
| Norman Davies | Europe: A History | History- Europe |
| Neil MacGregor | Germany: Memories of a Nation | History- Germany |
| Joachim Whaley | German and the Holy Roman Empire Vol. 1 | History- Medieval |
| Stephen Nichols | The Reformation | History- Reformation |
| Roland Bainton | The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century | History- Reformation |
| Oliver Pötzsch | The Castle of Kings | Fiction- Historical |
| David Macaulay | Cathedral | History- Architecture |
| C.V. Wedgwood | The Thirty Years War | History- Medieval |
| Oliver Pötzsch | The Hangman's Daughter | Fiction- Historical |
| Hans von Grimmelshausen | Simplicius Simplicissimus | Literature |
| Johann Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Literature |
| Johann Goethe | Faust | Literature |
| E.T.A. Hoffmann | The Devil's Elixirs | Literature |
| E.T.A. Hoffmann | The Nutcracker and the Mouse King | Literature |
| E.T.A. Hoffmann | The Sandman | Literature |
| Christopher Clark | Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia | History- Prussia |
| Carl von Clausewitz | On War | War |
| Ernst Lothar | The Vienna Melody | Novel- Austria |
| Franz Kafka | The Castle | Literature |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis | Literature |
| Thomas Mann | Buddenbrooks | Fiction |
| Barbara Tuchman | The Guns of August | History- WWI |
| DK Publishing | World War I- The Complete Visual History | History- WWI |
| Ernst Jünger | Storm of Steel | Memoir- WWI |
| Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | Literature- WWI |
| Heinrich Mann | The Loyal Subject | Fiction |
| Judith Kerr | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Autobiography/WWII |
| Lion Feuchtwanger | The Oppermanns | Novel- WWII |
| Klaus Mann | Mephisto | Novel- WWII |
| Gert Hofmann | The Film Explainer | Fiction- WWII |
| William Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | History- WWII |
| Anna Seghers | The Seventh Cross | Fiction- Historical |
| DK Publishing | World War II- The Complete Visual History | History- WWII |
| Elie Wiesel | Night | Memoir- WWII |
| Dietrich Boenhoffer | The Cost of Discipleship | Religion |
| Gunter Grass | The Tin Drum | Novel- WWII |
| Bernhard Schlink | The Reader | Novel- WWII |
| Wolfgang Koeppen | Death in Rome | Novel- WWII |
| Robert Harris | Fatherland | Alternate Hist.- WWII |
| W.G. Sebald | Austerlitz | Novel- Historical |
| Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha | Literature |
| Peter Schneider | The Wall Jumper | Fiction- Cold War |
| Christian Kracht | Imperium | Novel- Satire |
| Markus Heitz | The Dwarves | Fantasy |
| Bernard Hennen | The Elven | Fantasy |
| Walter Moers | The City of Dreaming Books | Fantasy |
| Michael Ende | The Never Ending Story | Fantasy |
| Various | Die Schönsten Kinderklassiker | Children's/German |
| Otfried Preussler | Der Rauber Hotzenplatz | Children's/German |
| Otfried Preussler | The Little Ghost | Children's |
| Kai Meyer | Pirate Curse | Children's- Fantasy |
| Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Mythology |
| P. Craig Russell | The Ring of the Nibelung | Mythology |
| Eugen Hollerbach | Rhine Legends | Folklore |
| Elke Leger | Hessische Sagen fur Kinder | Folklore/German |
| Arnold Leitner | German Made Simple | Language |
| Stephen O'Shea | The Alps | Travelogue |
| Fritsche et al | Technik in den Alpen | Engineering/German |
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