Der Kanon (The Canon)

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Der Kanon, 20 Books

Der Kanon (German pronunciation: [deːɐ̯ ˈkaːnɔn], "The Canon") or more precisely Marcel-Reich-Ranickis Kanon is a large anthology of exemplary works of German literature.
Edited by the literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), he called the anthology, announced on 18 June 2001 in the German news magazine Der Spiegel under the title
"The Canon of worthwhile German Works", his magnum opus. This list is not the full Canon, this is only the novels.

This list was originally published in 2006 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
282 The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774 German German
622 Elective Affinities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1809 German German
1371 The Devil's Elixir E. T. A. Hoffmann 1815 German German
612 Green Henry Gottfried Keller 1855 Swiss German
9572 Jenny Treibel Theodor Fontane 1892 German German
338 Effi Briest Theodor Fontane 1895 German German
90 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 1901 German German
25 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German German
1008 Professor Unrat Heinrich Mann 1905 German German
9572 Beneath The Wheel Hermann Hesse 1906 German German
305 The Confusions of Young Törless Robert Musil 1906 Austrian German
21 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
201 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin 1929 German German
199 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth 1932 Austrian German
1303 The Seventh Cross Anna Seghers 1942 German German
1778 The Strudlhof Steps Heimito von Doderer 1951 German German
9572 Pigeons On The Grass Wolfgang Koeppen 1951 German German
91 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 German German
10819 Montauk Max Frisch 1975 Swiss German
869 Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard 1984 Austrian German