Tick off each book as you read it. 13 of these 60 German classics are free to read online at pagineapp.com/classics/german, with author guides and links to the rest.
Medieval to the Enlightenment
☐1.The Nibelungenlied — Anonymous (1200)
☐2.Parzival — Wolfram von Eschenbach (1210)
☐3.Simplicius Simplicissimus — Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1668)
☐4.Minna von Barnhelm — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1767)
☐5.Nathan the Wise — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1779)
Goethe, Schiller & the Romantics
☐6.The Sorrows of Young Werther — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774) · free on Pagine
☐7.The Robbers — Friedrich Schiller (1781)
☐8.Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1795)
☐9.Wallenstein — Friedrich Schiller (1799)
☐10.Mary Stuart — Friedrich Schiller (1800)
☐11.William Tell — Friedrich Schiller (1804)
☐12.Faust — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808) · free on Pagine
☐13.The Marquise of O— — Heinrich von Kleist (1808)
☐14.Elective Affinities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1809)
☐15.Michael Kohlhaas — Heinrich von Kleist (1810)
☐16.Undine — Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1811) · free on Pagine
☐17.Grimm’s Fairy Tales — Jacob Grimm (1812) · free on Pagine
☐18.Peter Schlemihl — Adelbert von Chamisso (1814)
☐19.The Devil’s Elixirs — E. T. A. Hoffmann (1815)
☐20.The Nutcracker and the Mouse King — E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816)
☐21.The Sandman — E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816)
☐22.Book of Songs — Heinrich Heine (1827)
☐23.Woyzeck — Georg Büchner (1837)
The 19th century: realism & children’s classics
☐24.Struwwelpeter — Heinrich Hoffmann (1845) · free on Pagine
☐25.Max and Moritz — Wilhelm Busch (1865) · free on Pagine
☐26.Heidi — Johanna Spyri (1880) · free on Pagine
☐27.Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche (1883) · free on Pagine
☐28.The Rider on the White Horse — Theodor Storm (1888)
☐29.Effi Briest — Theodor Fontane (1895)
Mann, Kafka, Rilke & the early 20th century
☐30.Buddenbrooks — Thomas Mann (1901)
☐31.Tonio Kröger — Thomas Mann (1903)
☐32.Death in Venice — Thomas Mann (1912)
☐33.The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka (1915) · free on Pagine
☐34.A Country Doctor — Franz Kafka (1919)
☐35.Demian — Hermann Hesse (1919)
☐36.Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (1922) · free on Pagine
☐37.Bambi, a Life in the Woods — Felix Salten (1923) · free on Pagine
☐38.Duino Elegies — Rainer Maria Rilke (1923)
☐39.The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann (1924)
☐40.The Trial — Franz Kafka (1925) · free on Pagine
☐41.The Castle — Franz Kafka (1926)
☐42.Steppenwolf — Hermann Hesse (1927)
☐43.The Threepenny Opera — Bertolt Brecht (1928)
☐44.Emil and the Detectives — Erich Kästner (1929) · free on Pagine
☐45.Letters to a Young Poet — Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)
☐46.All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
☐47.Berlin Alexanderplatz — Alfred Döblin (1929)
☐48.The Man Without Qualities — Robert Musil (1930)
Exile, war & modern German classics
☐49.Mother Courage and Her Children — Bertolt Brecht (1941)
☐50.The Royal Game (Chess Story) — Stefan Zweig (1942)
☐51.The World of Yesterday — Stefan Zweig (1942)
☐52.The Glass Bead Game — Hermann Hesse (1943)
☐53.Doctor Faustus — Thomas Mann (1947)
☐54.The Tin Drum — Günter Grass (1959)
☐55.The Physicists — Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1962)
☐56.The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum — Heinrich Böll (1974)
☐57.The NeverEnding Story — Michael Ende (1979)
☐58.Perfume — Patrick Süskind (1985)
☐59.The Reader — Bernhard Schlink (1995)
☐60.Austerlitz — W. G. Sebald (2001)
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