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I'm joining a book challenge this year. 52 books in 52 weeks. Even though I'm a reader it sounds insane to me. However, I never claimed to be entirely sane.
With the exception of Kafka and Nietzsche, I never read German literature in school, so I thought that my particular spin on the 52 would be to do a survey of German lit. through the ages.
I've melded a variety of book lists together to come up with my particular list and added some oddball choices. I like the Cornelia Funke series- and I thought it would be a nice break from heavier reading.
I've talked one daughter into reading along and my father said (rather vaguely and probably not intentionally) that he'd like to do it too.
I reserve the right to read only the easy choices in German and the rest in English, because, well- have you looked at Hesse's, The Glass Bead Game!?! The English translation makes my brain hurt, the original German, assuming I could manage it- which I couldn't, would make my eyebrows get red hot.
I'm joining a book challenge this year. 52 books in 52 weeks. Even though I'm a reader it sounds insane to me. However, I never claimed to be entirely sane.
With the exception of Kafka and Nietzsche, I never read German literature in school, so I thought that my particular spin on the 52 would be to do a survey of German lit. through the ages.
I've melded a variety of book lists together to come up with my particular list and added some oddball choices. I like the Cornelia Funke series- and I thought it would be a nice break from heavier reading.
I've talked one daughter into reading along and my father said (rather vaguely and probably not intentionally) that he'd like to do it too.
I reserve the right to read only the easy choices in German and the rest in English, because, well- have you looked at Hesse's, The Glass Bead Game!?! The English translation makes my brain hurt, the original German, assuming I could manage it- which I couldn't, would make my eyebrows get red hot.
- D'Aulaire's Norse Mythology
- Hildebrandslied
- Cornelia Funke, Tintenherz
- Hartman von Aue, Der arme Heinrich (1195)
- Nibelungenlied (1200)
- Wolfram von Eschenback, Parzival (1200/10)
- Johan van Saaz, Ackermann aus Böhmen (1400)
- Poetry of Walther von der Vogelweide
- H.J. Chrisotffe von Grimmelshausen, Simplixius Simplicissimus or Die Landstörzerin Courasche (1670)
- Andreas Gryphius, Squentz (1658)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Emilia Gaolotti (1772) or Nathan der Weise (1779)
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, Die Soldaten (1776)
- Immanuel Kant, Beantwortung der Frage: Was is Aufklären? (1784)
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774/1787) or Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809)
- Friedrich Schiller, Die Räuber (1781)
- Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell (1804)
- Cornelia Funke, Tintenblut
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist, Das Edbeben in Chili (1806)
- Ludwig Tieck, Der blonde Eckbert (1796)
- Clemens Brentano, Die Geschichte vom braven Kasperi und dem schönen Anneri (1817)
- Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (1826)
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Undine (1811)
- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Die Elixiere des Teufels (1815)
- Heinrich Heine, Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen (1844)
- Georg Büchner, Junges Deutschland or Woyzeck (1836)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Die Judenbuche (1842)
- Friedrich Hebbel, Maria Magdalene (1843)
- Gottfried Keller , Der grüne Heinrich (1854-55) or Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (1856) or Kleider machen Leute (1874)
- Theodor Storm, Der Schimmelreiter (1888)
- Theodor Fontane, Frau Jenny Triebel (1893) or Effi Briest (1895)
- Gerhard Hauptmann, Sonnenaufgang (1889)
- Arthur Schnitzler, Leutnant Gusti (1901)
- Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (1901)
- Cornelia Funke, Tintentod
- Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg (1924)
- Robert Musil, Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1906)
- Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan (1918) or Professor Unrat
- Hermann Hesse, Das Glasperlenspiel (1943)
- Bertolt Brecht , Neue Sachlichkeit or Mutter Courage (1941)
- Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung (1912)
- Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
- Joseph Roth, Radetzkymarsch (1932)
- Elias Canetti, Die Blendung (1936)
- Wolfgang Borchert, Draussen vor der Tür (1947)
- Wolfgang Koeppen, Tauben im Gras (1951)
- Stefan Zwieg, Die Welt von Gestern (1943)
- Anna Seghers, Das siebte Kreuz (1942)
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On the Western Front
- Heimito von Dodener , Die Strudhofstiege (1951)
- Max Frisch, Montauk (1975)
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker (1962)
- Heinrich Böll, Ansichten eines Clowns (1963)
- Günter Grass, Die Blechtrommel (1959)
- Christa Wolf, Nachdenken über Christa T. (1968)
- Ulrich Plenzdorf, Die neuen Leiden des jungen Werther (1972)
- Thomas Bernhard, Holzfällen (1984)
- Patrick Süskind, Das Parfüm (1985)
- Imre Kertész, Roman eines Schicksallosen
That's more than 52 because life is too short to read a book that one despises, so I gave myself options. On Sundays I'll post snippets about the week's readings- my daughter is going to give her opinions as well, for any other insane people out there who happen to be interested in German literature.
Happy New Years and happy reading!
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Ok well please don't look at my reading list for 2011. It was pathetic, and now I feel even worse about myself, since I only read English! LOL! Can't wait to see how this works for you.
I figure my list is a win win sort of situation no matter how many I read. It's the reading list for a h.s. lit. class plus part of Grace's German IV course. Then when my other kids are old enough and We are covering world lit. I'll be ahead of the game.
I am so inspired! I have a reading goal too, not nearly so impressive, but you've definitely given me courage by your list. Thanks for being my "smart" friend!!
Wow, that's quite a list! I hope you have a lovely reading year, Susan!
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