Zeit Literaturkanon
This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
https://www.librarything.com/award/335/ZEIT-Literaturkanon, 70 Books
The ZEIT Literaturkanon is a curated list of 70 European novels published between 1945 and 2009, assembled in 2012 for a seven-part summer series in the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. Conceived by literary editor Iris Radisch, its purpose was to spotlight the most artistically and historically significant works of the post-war era—ten titles for each decade—to prompt debate and guide readers rather than to rank “the best” by popularity. Selection was not opened to public voting; instead, roughly 30 prominent critics and cultural journalists from DIE ZEIT’s circle each championed one or more books in short essays that were later collected in the volume Kontinent der Bücher (2013).
This list was originally published in 2012 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.
