Wiesel, Elie "Night"

Wiesel, Elie (Eliezer Vizl) "Night" (French: La Nuit/Yiddish: Un di Velt Hot Geshvign)  - 1958

Elie Wiesel wrote this novel as a report about his life in the concentration camps Buchenwald and Auschwitz/Oswiecim.

Seldom did we agree more on a book than this time. We thought it was shocking and unbelievable. The enormity, the plans, everything was so calculated. Horrifying to see what people are able to do. We could understand that people wouldn't believe it at the time because it is hard to believe even now.

There was a lot of denial going on but also misinformation. The concentration camp Terezín (Theresienstadt) in the Czech Republic was a showcase where they were demonstrating that they only got the Jews together.

We were not sure what to think about these people's beliefs. Some of them praying to the bitter end, others, like the author, believing God is dead.

We noticed that people who are degraded to animals loose their human touch. The thing they could do to your mind, how people can accept cruelty as a fact and accept this.

We also agreed that we have to keep reading this so we can believe it. This is especially important now, we have to keep the story going because a lot of the witnesses keep dying.

Another subject: elections. If the ordinary voter doesn't take up his right, the extreme parties will gain more percentage. We cannot let this happen. We blame the media for bad information, but other than in the thirties of the last century, we can get the information, but we often choose not to.

We didn't agree, though, that twelve year olds should read it in school. That might be a little too early both to understand the whole background and to get to terms with the impact such a book has on someone.

We also talked about the fact that religion is often used as an excuse for conflicts that usually have quite another reason, often money and power.

Does Elie Wiesel still believe in God? Only he can answer that question and we couldn't find that he did that anywhere. He said in his speech that we are all orphans. Is that because God is dead?

I have read quite a few accounts of survivors of the Nazi time and some of them of victims from the concentration camps. I think he really deserves the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 1986 since he tries to remind people about what happened without just throwing the other stone. He doesn't excuse his tormentors (why should he?) but he doesn't blame it all on everybody either. (If you don't have good nerves, you probably shouldn't read this as every account of any Jew from WWII has to be horrible).

Some of the concentration camps were also used for "medical research". You cannot understand how you can put people on different levels, treat them like they were even less than animals. Someone mentioned a "study" done in Tuskegee, Alabama. You can read more about that here.
In this connection, a famous sentence was brought up:
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" from the novel "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.
But this was not the first time this existed. Any kind of slavery does this, you can only treat a human being as your possession if you don't treat them like a human being. I had just found an interesting site about 200 years of slavery, looks like a series that was broadcast in the States, but the website * is rather interesting, too.
There seems to be a series on PBS, looks very interesting, maybe they'll show it here, one day, or not …
The Terrible Transformation 1450-1750
Revolution 1750-1805
Brotherly Love 179-1831 
Judgment Day 1831-1865

Then there is the "famous" (infamous) Lebensborn (fount of life) which officially encouraged SS officers to have more children. But they also had camps where "Aryan" women had children with "Aryan" soldiers, so it was a real breeding programme. Read more about it here.

If you haven't got enough of reading about the topic of the Nazis, everyone of us seemed to know at least one other book worth reading, so here is a list of that literature.
Corrie Ten Boom "The Hiding Place"
(You can also get a short version in Easy English, maybe for your children: The Secret Room) (De schuilplaats), 1971
Websites:  Wikipedia and amazon.
Lois Lowry "Number the Stars" (youth book, 10-14 yrs) - 1990 (Goodreads)
Set in Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943, this 1990 Newbery winner tells of a 10-year-old girl who undertakes a dangerous mission to save her best friend.
Websites:  Wikipedia and amazon.
Jurek Becker "Jacob the Liar" (Jacob der Lügner), 1969
Websites: Wikipedia, amazon
Imre Kertész "Fatelessness" (older translation: Fateless) (Sorstalanság), 1975
Websites: Wikipedia, amazon  
Tessa de Loo "The Twins" (De Tweeling) - 2000
Websites: Wikipedia, amazon
Todd Strasser (pen name: Morton Rhue) "The Wave"- 1988
Websites: Wikipedia, amazon
J.N. Stroyar "The Children's War" - 2001 - ONE OF MY FAVOURITE BOOKS EVER
What would have happened had the Nazis won the war. How would we live now? Quite shocking!!!
Website: amazon  
Elizabeth Rosner "The Speed of Life" - 2001 - Another one of my absolute favourites.
How do Holocaust survivors and their children come to terms with their memories.
Websites: Wikipedia, amazon   

We also talked about several movies covering our theme. The first one was about an orchestra that saved Jews who played in it. The only thing I could find was the girl orchestra from Auschwitz/Oswiecim. (here).
Schindler's List
based on the book by Thomas Keneally "Schindler's Ark"
Zwartboek - (The Black Book)
Band of Brothers
The Twins - movie made after the book by Tessa de Loo (which we read in this book club).

Then we mentioned other movies we thought worth seeing, these two on the life of the Germans in East Germany (the movie received the Oscar this year for best foreign picture): "The Lives of Others" (Das Leben der anderen).
And "Goodbye Lenin", a funny, yet thought-provoking movie about a son who has to recreate GDR for his mother who was in a coma while the wall came down and now can't face any changes.

We discussed this in our international book club in March 2007.

From the back cover:

"In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, Orthodox teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust & the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare worlds of Auschwitz-Birkenau & Buchenwald present him with an intolerable question: how can the god he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died."

Original Yiddish title: Un di Velt Hot Geshvign/And the World Remained Silent

Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986 as he "has emerged as one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterise the world".

I contribute to this page: Read the Nobels and you can find all my blogs about Nobel Prize winning authors and their books here.

* Unfortunately, some websites disappear after a while. Sorry.

See more comments on my ThrowbackThursday post in 2023.

Niffenegger, Audrey "The Time Traveler's Wife"

Niffenegger, Audrey "The Time Traveler's Wife" - 2003

As a start I have to say, I really don't like science fiction. My husband and boys don't watch any sci-fi movies with me any more because I always come up with logical explanations why something doesn't work, mostly the author isn't constant in their plot and then it all get's really illogical.

Anyway, I thought the story itself was well written, I liked the characters.

But the whole time-travelling thing really was too much. Everything was so weird, whatever seemed to be said in one part was contradicted in the next, there are many plots that really don't make sense, even if this chronological disorder would exist, which is - of course - rubbish.

Someone suggested to take the whole book apart and write it again in the time traveler's chronological order. And this is where it starts. Of course, you would have to be able to do this in "normal life" but here it doesn't work because he doesn't have a chronological order.

I certainly wouldn't have read this book if it wasn't a book club read but I have picked up others that way and really enjoyed them. Not this one, though. One of the worst books ever.

We discussed this in our international book club in March 2006.

From the back cover:

"A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.

An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come."

Wolfe, Thomas "Look Homeward, Angel"

Wolfe, Thomas "Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life." - 1929

This novel was mentioned several times in "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver which I really loved. So, I just had to read this one, as well.

I didn't expect it to be like Barbara Kingsolver's writing, however, I thought this might be another great American author. Thomas Wolfe has only written this one novel and I doubt I would have touched another one if he had.

The idea of the book was great, the writing style wasn't bad, either, but I think the novel would have gained so much if it had been written on 300 instead of 500 pages, a lot of unnecessary descriptions and thoughts that neither add to the story or are necessary for it nor was it so beautifully written that you read it just because it's almost poetry. Did I say I usually love long stories, prefer books to be longer than 500 pages over those that are around 200 only?

Not bad but definitely not one of my favourites, the title was a lot more promising.

From the back cover:

"A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It gave the world proof of his genius and launched a powerful legacy.The novel follows the trajectory of Eugene Gant, a brilliant and restless young man whose wanderlust and passion shape his adolescent years in rural North Carolina. Wolfe said that Look Homeward, Angel is "a book made out of my life," and his largely autobiographical story about the quest for a greater intellectual life has resonated with and influenced generations of readers, including some of today's most important novelists. Rich with lyrical prose and vivid characterizations, this twentieth-century American classic will capture the hearts and imaginations of every reader."

Glover, Douglas "Elle"

Glover, Douglas "Elle" - 2003

Douglas Glover usually writes short stories. And received a lot of prizes for them. Also for this novel. Before we read it in the book club, one of our members gave it to me because she wanted to hear my thoughts about it. The author had just received the very prodigious Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction for this book.

Both of us couldn't really identify with the novel but someone suggested it for the book club and it was chosen, not despite but probably because our warnings, people became interested.

Apparently, the novel is based on a true story or legend. Well, "according to the legend, in 1542 the Sieur de Roberval exiled his niece Marguerite de la Roche for her lusty behaviour on board his ship, along with her nurse and her lover. The trio found themselves on what was then called the Ile des Demons, on the Labrador coast. Amazingly, she survived three summers and two winters, and the deaths of her nurse, her lover and her baby, before she was rescued and returned to France to tell her story."

So far the introduction. Granted, there are some interesting parts in the novel, the description of the island, for instance, but the rest was more a very complicated weird vision, partly like a fairy tale or fantasy, not very real at all. Apparently he tried to "mangle and distort the facts as best as he could". Mission accomplished, Mr. Glover. The critics praise his “wild imagination”. Yes, indeed.

Our readers were not very impressed either. One of them said she thinks the author is a sexual pervert, another one, a little more modest, "'Elle' was not my favourite." Neither was it mine.

We discussed this in our book club in March 2005.

From the back cover:

"Imagine a 16th-century society belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza, and you'll have an inkling of what's in store in Douglas Glover's outrageously Rabelaisian new novel -- his first in ten years. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on a true story, Elle chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the desolate Isle of Demons during Jacques Cartier's ill-fated third and last attempt to colonize Canada. Of course, the plot is only the beginning. The bare outline is a true story: the Sieur de Roberval did abandon his unruly young niece, her lover, and her nurse on the Isle of Demons; her companions and her newborn baby did die; and she was indeed rescued and taken home to France. Beyond that, Glover's Rabelaisian imagination takes over. What with real bears, spirit bears, and perhaps hallucinated bears, with mystified and mystifying Natives, with the residue of a somewhat lurid religious faith, and with a world of self-preserving belligerence, the voluble heroine of Elle does more than survive. Elle brilliantly reinvents the beginnings of this country's history: what Canada meant to the early European adventurers, what these Europeans meant to Canada's original inhabitants, and the terrible failure of the two worlds to recognize each other as human. In a carnal whirlwind of myth and story, of death, lust and love, of beauty and hilarity, Glover brings the past violently and unexpectedly into the present. In Elle, Glover's well-known scatological realism, exuberant violence, and dark, unsettling humour give history a thoroughly modern chill."

German Books - Deutsche Bücher

Here is a separate list of the German books I read, some of them are not available in English. I indicate the English title in brackets, normal font, if available, in italics if not.

Abarbanell, Stephan "Morgenland" (Displaced) - 2015
Abel, Susanne "Stay Away from Gretchen. Eine unmögliche Liebe" [Stay Away from Gretchen] - 2021 

Adorf, Mario "Der Dieb von Trastevere. Geschichten aus Italien" [The Thief from Trastevere] - 1994
- "Der Fotograf von San Marco" [The Photographer of San Marco] - 2003

- "Der Mäusetöter" [The Micekiller] - 1992

Ahmad, Aeham "Und die Vögel werden singen. Ich, der Pianist aus den Trümmern" (The Pianist from Syria) (aka The Pianist of Yarmouk) - 2017
Aicher-Scholl, Inge "Die weiße Rose" (The White Rose) - 1952
Akçam, Dursun "Deutsches Heim - Glück allein" (TR: Alaman Ocağı) [German Home - Happiness Alone] - 1982

Akyün, Hatice "Einmal Hans mit scharfer Soße. Leben in zwei Welten" [Once Hans with Hot Sauce. Living in Two Worlds] - 2005
Arenz, Ewald "Der grosse Sommer" [The Big Summer] - 2019
- "Ein Lied über der Stadt" [A Song Over the City] - 2013 
Arntz, Jochen; Schmale, Holger "Die Kanzler und ihre Familien: Wie das Privatleben die deutsche Politik prägt" [The Chancellors and their Families: How Private Life Shapes German Politics] - 2017 

B., Fatma (Sonja Fatma Bläser) "Henna Mond - Mein Leben zwischen zwei Welten" [Henna Moon - My life between two worlds] - 1999
Bánk, Zsuzsa "Die hellen Tage" [The Light Days] - 2011
- "Schlafen werden wir später" [We will sleep later] - 2017
- "Sterben im Sommer" [Dying in Summer] - 2020
Basti, Abel & van Helsing, Jan "Hitler überlebte in Argentinien" (Hitler in Argentina) [Hitler survived in Argentina] - 2011

Bauer, Thomas "Die Vereindeutigung der Welt. Über den Verlust an Mehrdeutigkeit und Vielfalt" [The Unification of the World. About the loss of ambiguity and diversity] - 2018
Baumgart, Klaus "Lauras Stern" (Laura's Star) - 1996
Becker, Artur "Die Zeit der Stinte" [Time of the Smelt(fish)] - 2006 
Becker, Jurek "Jakob der Lügner" (Jacob the Liar) - 1969

Belinga Belinga, Jean-Félix "Ngono Mefane, das Mädchen der Wälder: Ein Märchen aus dem Regenwald" [Ngono Mefane, the Girl of the Woods] - 1990 
Bell, Catherine "Jane Austen und die Kunst der Worte" [Jane Austen and the Art of Words] - 2021
Berg-Ehlers, Luise "Mit Miss Marple aufs Land: Englische Krimischriftstellerinnen zwischen Tearoom und Tatort" [Visiting the Countryside with Miss Marple] - 2013 
Bergmann, Michel "Herr Klee und Herr Feld" [Mr. Klee and Mr. Feld] - 2013

Berlin, Peter "So sind sie, die Schweden: Die Fremdenversteher von Reise-Know-How" [This is how the Swedes are] - 2017
Biskupek, Matthias "Der Quotensachse. Vom unaufhaltsamen Aufstieg eines Staatsbürgers sächsischer Nationalität" [The Quota Saxon] - 1996
Bode, Sabine "Kriegsspuren: Die deutsche Krankheit - German  Angst" [War Traces] - 2008
Bohlmann-Modersohn, Marina "Hamburg. Eine Stadt in Biographien" [Hamburg. A Town in Biographies] - 2013
Böhme, Irene "Die Buchhändlerin" [The Bookseller] - 1999
Böll, Heinrich "Der Engel schwieg" (The Silent Angel) - 1949/50

Boning, Wigald "In Rio steht ein Hofbräuhaus. Reisen auf fast alle Kontinente" [There is a Bavarian Brewery in Rio. Travels Through Most Continents] - 2010
Bontscheva, Antonia "Die Schönheit von Baltschik ist keine heitere" [The beauty of Balchik is not a serene one] - 2021
Borchert, Wolfgang "Das Gesamtwerk" (complete works - I'm pretty sure some of them have been trasnlated) - 1945/47

-"Schischyphusch oder Der Kellner meines Onkels" [Shishyphush or my uncle's waiter] - 1947/2016 
Borrmann, Mechtild "Der Geiger" - 2012

- "Grenzgänger. Die Geschichte einer verlorenen deutschen Kindheit" [Cross-border commuters. The story of a lost German childhood] - 2018
Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander "Der Reisende" (The Passenger/The Fugitive) - 1939

Bosetsky, Horst "Brennholz für Kartoffelschalen" [Firewood for Potato Skins] - 1995
Böttcher, Jan "Am Anfang war der Krieg zu Ende" (Y) - 2016
Brandt, Rut "Freundesland. Erinnerungen" [Friends' Country] - 1992
Brecht, Bertolt "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan" (The Good Person of Szechwan) - 1938-40
- "Der kaukasische Kreidekreis" (The Caucasian Chalk Circle) - 1944/45
- "Das Leben des Galilei" (Life of Galileo) - 1938

Broerken, Hella "Paris-Spaziergänge: Die schönsten Streifzüge durch die französische Metropole" [Walks through Paris] - 2013
Bruckner, Karl "Sadako will leben" (The Day of the Bomb) - 1961
Büchner, Georg "Woyzeck" (Woyzeck) - 1879
Bürster, Helga "Luzies Erbe" [Luzie's Heritage] - 2019

Busch, Nikki "Dies ist kein Adventskalender" [This is not an Advent Calendar] - 2012
Busch, Wilhelm "Max und Moritz" (Max and Moritz) - 1865
Canetti, Elias "Die Blendung" (Auto-da-Fé) - 1935
Conrad, François "Warum Deutsch bellt und Französisch schnurrt" [Why German Barks and French Purrs] - 2021

Damm, Sigrid "Christiane and Goethe. Eine Recherche.)" [Christiane and Goethe. A Research] - 1998
Danella, Uta "Der blaue Vogel" [The Blue Bird] - 1973
Degen, Michael "Nicht alle waren Mörder - Eine Kindheit in Berlin" [Not All of Them Were Killers - A childhood in Berlin] - 1999  
Ditfurth, Hoimar von "Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel: Die Evolution unseres Bewußtseins" [The mind did not fall from the sky: the evolution of our consciousness] - 1976
Dobbert, Steffen "Ukraine verstehen: Geschichte, Politik und Freiheitskampf" [Understanding Ukraine: History, Politics and Struggle for Freedom] - 2022
Döblin, Alfred "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (Berlin Alexanderplatz) - 1929
Doron, Lizzie "Who the fuck is Kafka" [Who the Fuck Is Kafka] - 2015

Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von "Die Judenbuche" (The Jew's Beech) - 1842
Dumbach, Annette E.; Newborn, Jud; Gierlichs, Annerose "Die Geschichte der weißen Rose" (Sophie Scholl and the White Rose) - 2002
Durgun, Tahsim "Mama, bitte lern Deutsch: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft" [Mum, please learn German] - 2025

Dürrenmatt, Friedrich "Der Besuch der Alten Dame" (The Visit) - 1956
- "Der Richter und sein Henker" (The Judge and his Hangman) - 1950

Eichendorff, Joseph von "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts und andere Novellen" (Life of a Good-For-Nothing) - 1826
Ekert-Rotholz, Alice M. "Strafende Sonne, Lockender Mond" [Punishing Sun, Tempting Moon] - 1959
Elbogen, Ismar; Sterling, Eleonore "Die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland" [The History of the Jews in Germany] - 1935/66
Emcke, Carolin "Gegen den Hass" (Against Hate) - 2016
- "Von den Kriegen. Briefe an Freunde" (Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter) - 2004
Ende, Michael "Die unendliche Geschichte" (The Neverending Story) - 1979
Engberding, Hans; Thöns, Bodo (Hrsg) "Transsib-Lesebuch: Reiseerlebnisse auf der längsten Bahnstrecke der Welt" [Transsib Reader: Travel Experiences On The Longest Railway Line In The World] - 2002
Erfmeyer, Klaus "Karrieresprung" [Career Leap/Career Jump] - 2006
Erpenbeck, Jenny "Aller Tage Abend" (The End of Days) - 2012
- "Kairos." (Kairos) - 2021

Eschbach, Andreas "Eine Billion Dollar" (One Trillion Dollars) - 200

Fallada, Hans "Jeder stirbt für sich allein" (Every Man Dies Alone) - 1947
Feuchtwanger, Lion "Jud Süß" (Jew Suss) - 1925
Feyl, Renate "Die profanen Stunden des Glücks" [The Mundane Hours of Happiness] - 1996
Finkbeiner, Bernhard, Brekle, Hans-Jörg "Frag Mutti" [Ask Mum] - 2006
Fleischhauer, Wolfram "Das Buch in dem die Welt verschwand" [The book the world disappeared in] - 2003
- "Schule der Lügen" (aka "Die Inderin") (In a Tender Hold)  - 2014
Fleischmann, Lea "Dies ist nicht mein Land. Eine Jüdin verlässt die Bundesrepublik" [This is not my country. A Jewish woman leaves the Federal Republic [of Germany]] – 1980
- "Ich bin Israelin. Erfahrungen in einem orientalischen Land" [I am Israeli. Experience in a Middle Eastern country] - 1982
Fleischmann, Lea/Noll, Chaim "Meine Sprache wohnt woanders. Gedanken zu Deutschland und Israel" [My Language Lives Elsewhere. Thoughts to Germany and Israel] - 2006  
Fontane, Theodor "Effi Briest" (Effi Briest) - 1894
- "Frau Jenny Treibel oder Wo sich Herz zum Herzen find't" (Frau Jenny Treibel) - 1892

Friedrichs, Julia "Gestatten: Elite - Auf den Spuren der Mächtigen von morgen" [Introducing Elite - In the Footsteps of the Mighty of Tomorrow] - 2008
Frisch, Max "Biedermann und die Brandstifter" (The Arsonists) - 1958
- "Homo Faber" (Homo Faber) - 1957
Fröhlich, Alexandra "Dreck am Stecken" [A Skeleton in the Closet] - 2019
- "Meine russische Schwiegermutter und andere Katastrophen" [My Russian Mother-in-Law and Other Catastrophies] - 2012

Funke, Cornelia "Tintenherz" (Inkheart) - 2003

Gauck, Johannes "Winter im Sommer - Frühling im Herbst: Erinnerungen" [Winter in Summer, Spring in Autum: Memories] - 2009
Gercke, Stefanie "Ich kehre zurück nach Afrika" [I return to Africa] - 1998

Gesthuysen, Anne "Mädelsabend" [Girls' Night] - 2018
- "Sei mir ein Vater" [Be a Father to me] - 2015
- "Wir sind doch Schwestern" [But we're sisters] - 2012 

Giordano, Ralph "Die Bertinis" [The Bertinis] - 1982
- "Deutschlandreise. Aufzeichnungen aus einer schwierigen Heimat" [Germany trip. Notes from a difficult homeland] - 1998
- "Mein irisches Tagebuch" [My Irish Diary] - 1996
Gödde, Stefan "Nice to Meet You, Jerusalem. Auf Entdeckungstour ins Herz der Stadt" - 2019
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (Goethe German) "Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil" (Urfaust. Faust Fragment. Faust I. Faust II) - 1808

- "Iphigenie auf Tauris" (Iphigenia in Tauris) - 1787
- "Italienische Reise" (Italian Journey aka Letters from Italy) - 1817
- "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" (The Sorrows of Young Werther) - 1774
- "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship) - 1795/96

Goldmann, Klaus; Wermusch, Günter "Vineta. Die Wiederentdeckung einer versunkenen Stadt" [Vineta. The Rediscovery of a Lost City] - 1999
Gotthelf, Jeremias "Die schwarze Spinne" (The Black Spider) - 1842
Grass, Günter "Beim Häuten der Zwiebel" (Peeling the Onion) - 2006
- "Die Blechtrommel. Danziger Trilogie 1" (The Tin Drum) - 1959
- "Die Box. Dunkelkammergeschichten" (The Box: Tales from the Darkroom) - 2008
- "Fünf Jahrzehnte" [Five Decades] - 1999

- "Grimms Wörter. Eine Liebeserklärung" (Autobiographical Trilogy #3) [Grimms Words - A Declaration of Love] - 2010
- "Im Krebsgang" (Crabwalk) - 2002

- "Katz und Maus" (Cat and Mouse) - 1961
- "Mein Jahrhundert" (My Century) - 1999
Greiner, Lena; Padberg, Carola "Unser Mathelehrer unterrichtet von draußen - damit er dabei rauchen kann!: Die lustigsten Storys über Lehrer" [Our math teacher teaches from outside - so he can smoke!: The funniest stories about teachers] - 2020
Grimm, Hans Herbert aka Emil Schulz "Schlump. Geschichten und Abenteuer des unbekannten Musketiers Emil Schulz, genannt 'Schlump', von ihm selbst erzählt" (Schlump. The Story of an unknown soldier) - 1928
Grimm, Jacob und Wilhelm "Jorinde und Joringel. Acht Märchen der Brüder Grimm" [Jorinda and Joringel. Eight Fairy Tales] - 1812
Grjasnowa, Olga "Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt" (All Russians Love Birch Trees) - 2012 
Güngör, Dilek "Ganz schön deutsch. Meine türkische Familie und ich" [Pretty German. My Turkish family and I] - 2007
- "Das Geheimnis meiner türkischen Großmutter" [My Turkish Grandmother's Secret] - 2007

Hagena, Katharina "Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen" (The Taste of Apple Seeds) - 2008
Hahn, Ulla "Das verborgene Wort" [The Hidden Word] - 2001
- "Aufbruch" [Departure] - 2009  

- "Liebesarten" [Types of Love] - 2006
- "Spiel der Zeit" [Game of Time] - 2014
Hamann, Brigitte "Elisabeth, Kaiserin wider Willen" (The Reluctant Empress) - 1981
Handke, Peter "Immer noch Sturm" (Storm Still) - 2010
Hansen, Dörte "Altes Land" (This House is Mine) - 2015 
- "Mittagsstunde" [Lunchtime] - 2018
- "Zur See" [At Sea] - 2022
Hartlieb, Petra "Weihnachten in der wundervollen Buchhandlung" [Christmas in the Wonderful Bookshop] - 2018

Hauff, Wilhelm "Das kalte Herz" (Heart of Stone or The Cold Heart or the Marble Heart) - 1837
Haushofer, Marlen "Die Wand" (The Wall) - 1962

Hausmann, Manfred "Lampioon (küßt Mädchen und kleine Birken). Erlebnisse eines Wanderers" [Lampioon (Kissing Girls and Little Birches). Experiences of a Hiker] - 1928

Heidenreich, Elke "Also… - Kolumnen aus der Brigitte" [Thus ... Columns from Brigitte] - 1988
- "Dein Max" [Your Max] - 1996
- "Erika oder der verborgene Sinn des Lebens" [Erika or the hidden meaning of life] - 2002

- "Darf's ein bisschen mehr sein?" [Can it be a little more?] - 1984

- "Geschnitten oder am Stück?" [Sliced or whole] - 1985
- "Hier geht’s lang! Mit Büchern von Frauen durchs Leben" [This way! Through life with books by women] - 2021
- "Kolumnen aus Brigitte 4" [So … Columns from the newspaper Brigitte 4] - 1988

- "Männer in Kamelhaarmänteln. Kurze Geschichten über Kleider und Leute" [Men in Camel Hair Coats] - 2020

- "Mit oder ohne Knochen?" [With or without bones] - 1986

- "Nero Corleone" [Nero Corleone] - 1995

- "Wörter aus 30 Jahren" [Words from 30 years] - 2003
Heidenreich, Elke; Schroeder, Bernd "Rudernde Hunde" [Rowing Dogs] - 2002
Heidenreich, Elke; Sowa, Michael "Erika oder der verborgene Sinn des Lebens" [Erika or the hidden meaning of life] - 2002
- "Frau Dr. Moormann & ich" - [Dr. Moormann & I] - 2023
Hennig, Bettina "Der frühe Vogel kann mich mal! Ein Lob der Langschläfer" [The early bird can go to hell! A Praise of the Late Risers] - 2011
Hermann, Judith "Sommerhaus, später" (The Summer House, Later) - 1998
Herrndorf, Wolfgang "tschick" (Why We Took the Car) - 2010
Hesse, Hermann  "Narziss und Goldmund" (Narcissus and Goldmund) - 1930
- "Siddhartha" (Siddhartha) - 1922
- "Der Steppenwolf" (Steppenwolf) - 1927

Hetmann, Frederik "Traumklänge oder Das längste Märchen, das es je gab" [Dream sounds or The longest fairy tale that ever existed] - 2004
Hilliges, Ilona Maria "Die weiße Hexe" [The White Witch] - 2000
H., A. "M.K." (My Struggle - Notes by some idiot who thought he could rule the world) - 1925/26
Hoffmann, Heinrich "Der Struwwelpeter" (Struwwelpeter or Shockheaded/Slovenly Peter) - 1845
Holzach, Michael "Das vergessene Volk. Ein Jahr Bei den deutschen Hutterern In Kanada" (The Forgotten People: A Year Among the Hutterites) - 1980
Hopmann, Sophie/Heidelore Mais "Gurkensandwich im Handschuhfach" [Cucumber Sandwich in the Glove Compartment] - 2019
Hüsch, Hanns Dieter "Frieda auf Erden" [Frieda/Peace on Earth] - 1959

Hyun, Martin; Kaminer, Wladimir "Gebrauchsanweisung für Nachbarn" [Instructions for neighbours] - 2024

Illies, Florian "1913: Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts" (1913: The Year before the Storm) - 2012

Jäger, Mia (Hrsg.) "Morgen, Freundchen, wird's was geben!" [Tomorrow, my friend, there will be something!] - 2012
Janesch, Sabrina "Sibir" [Sibiria] - 2023
Janson, Stefan (Hrsg.) "Griechenland. Reise-Lesebuch" [Greece. Travel Reader] - 2002
Jelinek, Elfriede "Die Klavierspielerin" (The Piano Teacher) - 1988

Jonuleit, Anja "Herbstvergessene" [Forgotten in Autumn or Autumn Crocus] - 2010 

Kafka, Franz "Die Verwandlung" (The Metamorphosis) - 1912
- "Das Urteil" (The Judgment) - 1912
Kaléko, Mascha "Das lyrische Stenogrammheft: Gedichte aus der Welt der Großstadt" [The Lyrical Shorthand Booklet] - 1933
Kalisa, Karin "Sungs Laden" [Sung's Shop] - 2015
Kaminer, Wladimir "Ausgerechnet Deutschland. Geschichten unserer neuen Nachbarn" (Germany of all. Stories of our new neighbours) - 2018
- "Ich bin kein Berliner. Ein Reiseführer für faule Touristen" [I'm not a Berliner. A travel guide for lazy tourists] - 2007

- "Die Kreuzfahrer " [The Crusaders] - 2018

- "Mein deutsches Dschungelbuch" [My German Jungle Book] - 2003
- "Meine Mutter, ihre Katze und der Staubsauger: Ein Unruhestand in 33 Geschichten" [My Mother, her Cat and the Vacuum Cleaner] - 2016
- "Die Reise nach Trulala" (Travel to Trulala) - 2002
- "Rotkäppchen raucht auf dem Balkon ... und andere Familiengeschichten" [Little Red Riding Hood smokes on the balcony … and other family stories] - 2020

- "Russendisko" (Russian Disco) - 2000
- "Tolstois Bart und Tschechows Schuhe, Streifzüge durch die russische Literatur" [Tolstoy's beard and Chekhov's shoes, excursions through Russian literature] - 2019

- "Der verlorene Sommer. Deutschland raucht auf dem Balkon" [The Lost Summer. Germany smokes on the balcony] - 2021
- "Die Wellenreiter. Geschichten aus dem neuen Deutschland" [The Wave Riders. Stories from the new Germany] - 2021
Kaminer, Wladimir; Hyun, Martin "Gebrauchsanweisung für Nachbarn" [Instructions for neighbours] - 2024

Kapitelman, Dmitrij "Das Lächeln meines unsichtbaren Vaters" [The smile of my invisible father] - 2016
Kästner, Erich "Als ich ein kleiner Junge war" (When I was a little boy) - 1957
- "Drei Männer im Schnee" [Three Men in the Snow] - 1934
- "Das doppelte Lottchen" (Lisa and Lottie aka The Parent Trap) - 1949
- "Emil und die Detektive" (Emil and the Detectives) - 1929
Kehlmann, Daniel "Die Vermessung der Welt" (Measuring the World) - 2005 
Keller, Gottfried "Novellen (Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe u.a.) (Novellas - A Village Romeo and Juliet and others) - 1855/56

Kennel, Odile "Was Ida sagt" [What Ida says] - 2011

Kerkeling, Hape "Der Junge muss an die frische Luft. Meine Kindheit und ich" [The boy needs some fresh air] - 2014
- "Frisch hapeziert. Die Kolumnen" [Freshly "hallpapered"] - 2018
- "Ich bin dann mal weg. Meine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg" (I'm off then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago) - 2006
- "Pfoten vom Tisch! Meine Katzen, andere Katzen und ich" [Paws off the table! My cats, other cats and me] - 2021
Kermani, Navid "Dein Name" [Your Name] - 2011 (Friedenspreis)
- "Zwischen Koran und Kafka. West-östliche Erkundungen" (Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities) - 2014 (Friedenspreis)
Kleist, Heinrich von "Die Marquise von O...." (The Marquise of O-) - 1808
- "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin" (The Prince of Homburg) - 1809/1810

Knöppler, Florian "Kronsnest" [Kronsnest [Name of Village] - 2020

Kohl, Walter "Das leere Land" [The Empty Land] - 2011

Köhlmeier, Michael "Abendland" [Occident] - 2007
Kornbichler, Sabine "Klaras Haus" [Klara's House] - 2000

Korschunow, Irina "Ebbe und Flut" [Low and High Tide] - 1995

- "Von Juni zu Juni" [From June to June] - 1999
- "Das Spiegelbild" [The Mirror Image] - 1992
Kaléko, Mascha "Das lyrische Stenogrammheft: Gedichte aus der Welt der Großstadt" - 1933
Kröger, Theodor "Das vergessene Dorf. Vier Jahre Sibirien. Ein Buch der Kameradschaft" [The Forgotten Village] - 1934
Krone-Schmalz, Gabriele "Russland verstehen. Der Kampf um die Ukraine und die Arroganz des Westens" [Understanding Russia. The battle for the Ukraine and the arrogance of the West] - 2015
Krug, Nora "Heimat. Ein deutsches Familienalbum" (Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home) - 2018
Küstenmacher, Werner Tiki "Die 3-Minuten-Bibel" [The Three Minute Bible] - 2004
Kwalanda, Miriam "Die Farbe meines Gesichts. Lebensreise einer kenianischen Frau" [Life Journey of a Kenian woman] - 2000

Laube, Günter "Gefangener Nummer 343" [Prisoner No. 343] - 2016
Leky, Mariana "Kummer aller Art" [Sorrow of all kinds] - 2022
- "What You Can See From Here" (GE: Was man von hier aus sehen kann) - 2017
Lenz, Siegfried  "Deutschstunde" (The German Lesson) - 1968
- "Landesbühne" [Province Stage] - 2009
- "Zaungast" (Edition Welttag) [Spectator over the Hedge] - 2002 
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim "Nathan der Weise" (Nathan the Wise) - 1779
Lind, Stefanie (Hrsg.) "Reise nach Norwegen: Kulturkompass fürs Handgepäck" [Trip to Norway: Cultural Compass for your Hand Luggage] - 2010
Lippe, Jürgen von der "Der König der Tiere. Geschichten und Glossen" [The King of the Animals. Stories and Glosses] - 2017

Lippe, Jürgen von der; Cleves, Monika "Verkehrte Welt" [Wrong World] - 2012

Littger, Peter "The Devil Lies in the Detail: Lustiges und Lehrreiches über unsere Lieblingsfremdsprache" [Funny and informative things about our favourite foreign language] - 2015
Loewe, Elke "Teufelsmoor" [Teufelsmoor = Devil's Bog, German region] - 2002
Loriot "Die Jodelschule und andere dramatische Werke" [The Yodeling School and other dramatic works] - 1981

Lovenberg, Felicitas von "Lob der guten Buchhandlung" [Praise for the Good Bookshop] - 2020
Lüpkes, Sandra "Die Inselvogtin" [The Island Mayoress] - 2009

Magnani, Franca "Mein Italien" [My Italy] – 1997
Mann, Heinrich "Der Untertan" (Man of Straw, The Patrioteer, or The Loyal Subject) - 1914
- "Professor Unrat" - The Blue Angel - 1904
Mann, Thomas "Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull" (Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man) - 1954

- "Buddenbrooks" (Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family) - 1901
- "Herr und Hund" (A Man and His Dog) - 1918
- "Der Tod in Venedig" (Death in Venice) - 1912
- "Der Zauberberg" (The Magic Mountain) - 1924  

Maron, Monika "Das Haus" [The House] - 2023
Marschner, Rosemarie "Das Bücherzimmer" [The Book Room] - 2004
- "Das Mädchen am Klavier" [The Girl at the Piano] - 2013
Marx, Karl "Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie" (Capital. Critique of Political Economy) - 1867
Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich "Das kommunistische Manifest" (The Communist Manifesto) - 1848
Matzig, Gerhard "Meine Frau will einen Garten. Vom Abenteuer, ein Haus am Stadtrand zu bauen" [My Wife Wants a Garden. The Adventure of Building a House in the Suburbs] - 2010 
May, Karl "Durch die Wüste" (aka Durch Wüste und Harem) (Through the Desert) - 1892 
Mehden, Heilwig von der "Eigentlich nur halb so schlimm … weil's den andern auch so geht" [Actually, it's not that bad... because others are in the same boat] - 1989
- "Nehmt die Männer wie sie sind. Es gibt keine anderen" [Take the men as they are, there are no others] - 1993 
Menasse, Robert "Die Hauptstadt" (The Capital) - 2017
Mercier, Pascal "Das Gewicht der Worte" (The Weight of the Words) - 2020
-  "Lea" (Lea) - 2007
- "Nachtzug nach Lissabon" (Night Train to Lisbon) - 2004

- "Perlmanns Schweigen" (Perlmann's Silence) - 1995
Meyerhoff, Joachim "Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke" [Oh, this gap, this terrible gap] - 2015 

- "Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen" [You can also fall upwards] - 2024

Michel, Sascha; Hosemann, Jürgen (Hrsg./Ed.) "Weihnachtsgeschichten für Glückliche Stunden" [Christmas Stories for Happy Hours] - 2021

Modick, Klaus "Bestseller" [Bestseller] - 2006

- "Die Schatten der Ideen" [The Shadows of the Ideas] - 2008
- "Konzert ohne Dichter" [Concert without poets] - 2015
Monferat, Benjamin (Stephan Rother) "Welt in Flammen" [World in Flames] - 2014
Montasser, Thomas "Das Glück der kleinen Augenblicke" [The happiness of the small moments] - 2017
- "Monsieur Jean und sein Gespür für Glück" [Monsieur Jean and his sense of luck] - 2015
Mora, Terézia "Das Ungeheuer" [The Monster] - 2007
Moor, Dieter "Was wir nicht haben, brauchen Sie nicht" [You don't need what we don't have] - 2009
Mosebach, Martin "Die Türkin" [The Turkish Woman] - 2002
Müller, Herta "Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet" (The Appointment) - 1997
- "Der Köng verneigt sich und tötet" (The King Bows and Kills) - 2003

Münk, Katharina "Die Eisläuferin" [The Ice Skater] - 2011
Münnix, Gabriele "Anderwelten: Eine fabelhafte Einführung ins Philosophieren" [Otherworlds: A fantastic Introduction to Philosophy] - 2009 

Nadolny, Sten "Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit" (The Discovery of Slowness) - 1983

Nast, Michael "#EGOLAND" - 2018
Nawrath, Bianca "Iss das jetzt, wenn du mich liebst" [Eat This Now If You Love Me] - 2021
Neumann, Eva-Maria "Sie nahmen mir nicht nur die Freiheit" [They didn't just take my freedom] - 2007
Nietzsche, Friedrich "Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen" (Thus spoke Zarathustra. A Book for All and None) - 1883-85
- "Jenseits von Gut und Böse. Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft/Zur Geneologie der Moral" (Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future/On the Genealogy of Morality) - 1886sen
Noack, Barbara "Auf einmal sind sie keine Kinder mehr" [All of a sudden, they're not children anymore] - 1978

Noort, Tamar "Die Ewigkeit ist ein guter Ort" [Eternity is a good place] - 2023

Nöstlinger, Christine "Best of Mama" [Best of Mum] - 2001

Oelker, Petra "Das glücklichste Jahr" [The Happiest Year] - 2015
- "Zwei Schwestern. Eine Geschichte aus unruhiger Zeit" [Two Sisters: A story from troubled times] - 2017
Orth, Stephan "Absolutely Ausgesperrt" [Absolulely Locked Out] - 2022
- "Couchsurfing in China. Durch die Wohnzimmer der neuen Supermacht" (Couchsurfing in China: Encounters and Escapades Beyond the Great Wall aka High Tech and Hot Pot: Revealing Encounters Inside the Real China) - 2019
- "Couchsurfing im Iran - Meine Reise hinter verschlossene Türen" (Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World) - 2015
- "Couchsurfing in Russland. Wie ich fast zum Putin-Versteher wurde" (Couchsurfing in Russia: Friendships and Misadventures Behind Putin’s Curtain) - 2017
- "Couchsurfing in Saudi-Arabien: Meine Reise durch ein Land zwischen Mittelalter und Zukunft" [Couchsurfing in Saudi Arabia: My Journey Through a Country Between the Middle Ages and the Future] - 2021
- "Couchsurfing in der Ukraine" [Couchsurfing in Ukraine] - 2024 

Ortheil, Hanns-Josef "Im Licht der Lagune" [In the Light of the Lagoon] - 1999

Paluch, Andrea; Habeck, Robert "Der Schrei der Hyänen" [The Cry of the Hyenas] - 2004
Paretti, Sandra "Der Wunschbaum" (The Wishing Tree) - 1975
Pauly, Gisa "Fräulein Wunder. Sylt-Saga" [Miss Wunder/Wonder] - 2022
Pausewang, Gudrun "Guten Tag, lieber Feind!" [Good day, dear enemy] - 1986
- "Die letzten Kinder von Schewenborn oder ... sieht so unsere Zukunft aus?" (The Last Children) - 1983 
Pautner, Norbert "Die 200 besten Eselsbrücken" [The 200 best mnemonics] - 2021
Peetz, Monika "Die Dienstagsfrauen" [The Tuesday Women] - 2010
- "Sommerschwestern" [Summer Sisters] - 2022
Peters, Veronika "Was in zwei Koffer passt" [Whatever fits into two suitcases] - 2007
Petrowskaja, Katja "Vielleicht Esther" (Maybe Esther) - 2014
Petz, Ingo "Kuckucksuhren in Baku. Reise in ein Land, das es wirklich gibt" [Cuckoo Clocks in Baku. A trip to a country that really exists] - 2006
Plenzdorf, Ulrich "Die neuen Leiden des jungen W." (The new Sufferings of Young W.) - 1972

Pleschinski, Hans "Königsallee" - 2013
Precht, Georg Jonathan & Richard David "Die Instrumente des Herrn Jørgensen" oder "Das Schiff im Noor" [Mr. Jørgensen's Instruments or The Boat in the Noor] - 1999

Precht, Richard David "Anna, die Schule und der liebe Gott. Der Verrat des Bildungssystems an unsere Kinder" [Anna, the School and the Good God] - 2013
- "Die Kunst, kein Egoist zu sein" [The Art of not being selfish] - 2010
- "Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid. Meine kleine deutsche Revolution" [Lenin only reached Lüdenscheid. My Small German Revolution] - 2007
- "Wer bin ich und wenn ja, wie viele? Eine philosophische Reise" (Who Am I and If So How Many?: A Journey Through Your Mind) - 2007
Preisendörfer, Bruno "Als Deutschland noch nicht Deutschland war. Reise in die Goethezeit" [When Germany wasn't Germany, yet. A travel to Goethe's Time] - 2015

Raddatz, Fritz J. "Dann wird aus Zwein: Wir beide. Kurt Tucholsky & Mary Gerold" [Then two will make the two of us] - 2015
Rávic Strubel, Antje "Gebrauchsanweisung für Schweden" [User's Guide for Sweden] - 2008
Regener, Sven "Herr Lehmann" (Berlin Blues) - 2001
- "Neue Vahr Süd" [Neue Vahr South] - 2004
Remarque, Erich Maria "Im Westen nichts Neues" (All Quiet on the Western Front) - 1928
Rosendorfer, Herbert "Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit" (Letters Back to Ancient China) - 1983
Roth, Charlotte "Als der Himmel uns gehörte" [When Heaven Belonged to Us] - 2015
- "Als wir unsterblich waren" [When We Were Immortal] - 2014  
Roth, Martin "Widerrede! Eine Familie diskutiert über Populismus, Werte und politisches Engagement" [Contradiction (Talk back)! A family discusses populism, values and political commitment] - 2017
Rückert, Friedrich "Am Abend zu lesen. Texte zum Nachdenken" [To Read in the Evening. Texts to Think About] ~ 1850/1860

Schami, Rafik "Das Geheimnis des Kalligraphen" (The Calligrapher’s Secret) – 2008

- "Die dunkle Seite der Liebe" (The Dark Side of Love) - 2004

- "Der erste Ritt durchs Nadelöhr" [The first ride through the eye of the needle] - 1988
- "Eine deutsche Leidenschafts names Nudelsalat: und andere seltsame Geschichten" – 2011 
- "Eine Hand voller Sterne" (A Hand Full of Stars) - 1987
Scheib, Asta "Eine Zierde in ihrem Hause" [An Ornament in her House] - 2002

Scherz, Reiner "Gibt’s hier auch Bücher? Kuriose Anekdoten eines Buchhändlers" [Do you also sell books here? Quaint anecdotes from a bookseller] - 2007

Scherzant, Sina; Notter, Marius "Noch 3 Treuepunkt bis zum Pfannen-Set" [3 loyalty points left until the pan set] - 2021

Schiller, Friedrich "Kabale und Liebe" (Intrigue and Love) - 1784
Schlink, Bernhard "Abschiedsfarben" [Colours of Good-bye] - 2020
- "Der Vorleser" (The Reader) - 1994
Schmitz, Ralf "Schmitz' Katze. Hunde haben Herrchen, Katzen haben Personal" [Schmitz' cat. Dogs have masters, cats have employees] - 2008
- "Schmitz' Häuschen: Wer Handwerker hat, braucht keine Feinde mehr" [Schmitz' little house: If you have craftsmen, you no longer need enemies] - 2014

Schneider, Wolf "Deutsch fürs Leben. Was die Schule zu lehren vergaß" [German for Life. What the school forgot to teach] - 1994
Schnoy, Sebastian "Das bisschen Frieden: Eine heitere Geschichte Europas in drei Revolutionen und einem Geistesblitz" [That Little Bit of Peace] - 2019
- "Smørrebrød in Napoli. Ein vergnüglicher Streifzug durch Europa" [Smørrebrød in Napoli. A fun journey through Europe] - 2009
- "Von Napoleon lernen, wie man sich vorm Abwasch drückt" [Learn from Napoleon how to avoid doing the dishes] - 2013

Schöfer, Maike "Nö: Eine Anstiftung zum Neinsagen" [Nope: An incitement to say no] - 2025

Schreiber, Jasmin "Marianengraben" [Mariana Trench] - 2020 
Schrobsdorff, Angelika "Du bist nicht so wie andre Mütter" (You Are Not Like Other Mothers) - 1992
Schulte-Loh, Christian "Zum Lachen auf die Insel" [Onto the island to laugh] - 2017
Schulze, Ingo "Simple Storys: Ein Roman aus der ostdeutschen Provinz" [Simple Stories: A Novel from the East-German Province] - 1998 

Schroeder, Steffen "Was alles in einem Menschen sein kann. Begegnung mit einem Mörder" [What can be in a person. Encountering a murderer] - 2017
Schwarzer, Alice "Lebenslauf" [My life] - 2011
Schweizer, Gerhard "Islam verstehen. Geschichte, Kultur und Politik" [Understanding Islam. History, Culture and Politics] - 2016
Sedano, Nina "Die Ländersammlerin" [The Collector of Countries] - 2014
Sendker, Jan-Philipp "Am anderen Ende der Nacht" (The Far Side of the Night) - 2016
- "Drachenspiele" (The Language of Solitude/Dragon Games) - 2009
- "Das Flüstern der Schatten" (Whispering Shadows) - 2007 -
- "Das Herzenhören" (The Art of Hearing Heartbeats) - 2002
- "Herzenstimmen" (A Well-Tempered Heart) - 2012
- "Risse in der großen Mauer" [Cracks in the Great Wall) - 2000
Shakib, Siba "Eskandar" [Eskandar] - 2009
"Nach Afghanistan kommt Gott nur noch zum Weinen" (Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep) - 2002
- "Samira und Samir" (Samira and Samir) - 2004
Sieg, Sören "Schönen Sonntag: Die 88 Besten Geschichten Von Leo, Lina und Lukas" [Have a nice Sunday: The 88 best stories of Leo, Lina and Lukas] - 2010
- "Schönen Sonntag 2. Das Neueste von Leo, Lina und Lukas" [Have a nice Sunday 2: The latest from Leo, Lina and Lukas] - 2012
Sieg, Sören; Krohn, Axel "Ich hab dich rein optisch nicht verstanden. Deutsche Dialoge mitgehört" [I didn't understand you visually. Overheard German dialogues] - 2015
Sonneborn, Martin & seine politische Beraterin: Latour, Claudia "99 Ideen zur Wiederbelebung der politischen Utopie. Das kommunistische Manifest" [99 Ideas to Revive the Political Utopia. The Communist Manifesto] - 2021
- "Herr Sonneborn geht nach Brüssel" [Mr. Sonneborn goes to Brussels] - 2019
Specht, Heike "Die ersten ihrer Art. Frauen verändern die Welt"  [The first of their kind, Women are changing the world] - 2022

Spyri, Johanna "Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre" und "Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat" (Heidi) - 1880-1881 

Stanišić, Saša "Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert" (How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone) - 2006
Steghöfer, Marie-Helene "Ein Jahr in Schweden" [A Year in Sweden] - 2017 
Steinmeier, Frank-Walter "Wir" [We] - 2024
Stelter, Bernd "Das Leben ist zu kurz, um schlechten Wein zu trinken" [Life is too short to drink bad wine] - 2004
- "Der Killer kommt auf leisen Klompen: Camping-Krimi" [The killer comes on quiet clogs: A Camping thriller] - 2017
- "Mieses Spiel um schwarze Muscheln. Ein Camping-Krimi" [Lousy Game for Black Shells/Mussels] - 2021 ++
- "Mode, Mord und Meeresrauschen. Camping-Krimi" [Fashion, murder, and the sound of the sea. Camping crime thriller] - 2024

- "Nie wieder Ferienhaus" [Never again a holiday cottage] - 2004 
- "Der Tod hat eine Anhängerkupplung" [Death has a Tow Bar] - 2008

- "Wer abnimmt, hat mehr Platz im Leben" [Whoever Slims Down Has More Space in His Life] - 2011 
- "Wer älter wird, braucht Spaß am Leben" [As you get older, you need to enjoy life] - 2022
Storm, Theodor "Bötjer Basch" aus "Bei kleinen Leuten" (Cooper Basch) - 1886
- "Ein Doppelgänger" (A Double) - 1887
- "Es waren zwei Königskinder" (There were Two King's Children) - 1884
- "Pole Poppenspäler" (Paul the Puppeteer) - 1874
- "Der Schimmelreiter" (The Rider on the White Horse/The Dikegrave/The Dykemaster) - 1888
Stratmann, Cordula "Sie da oben, er da unten" [She up there, he down there] - 2010
Suttner, Bertha von "Die Waffen nieder!" (Lay Down Your Arms! or Down with Weapons!) - 1889

Taha, Karosh "Im Bauch der Königin" (In the Belly of the Queen) - 2020
Tannous, Samer; Hachmöller, Gerd "Kommt ein Syrer nach Rotenburg (Wümme): Versuche, meine neue deutsche Heimat zu verstehen" [When a Syrian comes to Rotenburg (Wümme): Trying to understand my new German homeland] - 2020
Taschler, Judith W. "bleiben" [stay] - 2016
- "David" [David] - 2017
- "Die Deutschlehrerin" [The German Teacher]
- "Roman ohne U" [Novel without a U] - 2014
- "Sommer wie Winter" [Summer and Winter] - 2011
Tau, Max "Das Land, das ich verlassen mußte" [The Country I Had to Leave] - 1961
- "Ein Flüchtling findet sein Land" [A Refugee Finds His Country] - 1964
Tellkamp, Uwe "Der Turm. Geschichte aus einem versunkenen Land" [The Tower] - 2008

Trojanow, Ilija "Nomade auf vier Kontinenten. Auf den Spuren von Sir Richard Francis Burton" [Nomad on Four continents. In the Footsteps of Sir Richard Francis Burton] - 2006
- "Der Weltensammler" (The Collector of Worlds) - 2006

Tucholsky, Kurt "Rheinsberg - ein Bilderbuch für Verliebte" (Rheinsberg - a Picture Book for Lovers) - 1912 
- "Schloss Gripsholm" - 1931
Twilfer, Kai "Finn-Luca, komm bei Fuß! Der verrückte Familienhorror von nebenan" [Finn-Luca, heel! The Crazy Family Horror Next Door] - 2016

Venske, Henning "Briefe aus dem Regierungslager" [Fictional letters from Politicans] - 1999   
Vermes, Timur "Er ist wieder da" (Look who's back) - 2012
Verschiedene "Die schönsten Wintermärchen" - 2016
Vilar, Esther "Der dressierte Mann" (The Manipulated Man) - 1971
Voland, Maxim "Die Republik" [The Republic) - 2020

Wahl, Caroline "22 Bahnen" [22 Lanes] - 2023
Wallraff, Günter "Zeugen der Anklage. Die 'Bild'-beschreibung wird fortgesetzt" [Witnesses for the prosecution. The "Bild"-description continued] - 1979
- "Von einem, der auszog und das Fürchten lernte" [From the Guy Who Went Forth and Learned to Fear] - 1970
Walser, Martin "Ein fliehendes Pferd" (Runaway Horse) - 1978
Weidemann, Siggi "Gebrauchsanweisung für Brüssel und Flandern" [User's Guide for Brussels and Flanders] - 2007
Weidermann, Volker "Mann vom Meer. Thomas Mann und die Liebe seines Lebens" [Man from the Sea. Thomas Mann and the Love of His Life] - 2023

- "Ostende - 1936, Sommer der Freundschaft" (Summer before The Dark, Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936) - 2014

Weigand, Sabine "Ich, Eleonore, Königin zweier Reiche" [I, Eleonore, Queen of Two Realms] - 2015

Weiler, Jan "Die Ältern" [The Elders] (Pubertiere #4) - 2020
- "Älternzeit" [Eldertime] (Pubertiere #5) - 2023
- "Antonio im Wunderland" [Antonio in Wonderland] - 2005

- "Das Beste. Mein Leben zwischen Pubertieren" [The best. My life between puberty animals] (Pubertiere #6) - 2025

- "Das Buch der 39 Kostbarkeiten" [The Book of 39 Precious Things] - 2011

- "Drachensaat" [Dragon's Seed] - 2008
- "In meinem kleinen Land" [In My Little Country] - 2006
- "Kühn hat zu tun" [Kühn is busy] - 2015 

- "Maria, ihm schmeckt's nicht!" [Maria, he doesn't like it!] - 2003
- "Der Markisenmann" [The Awning Man] - 2022
- "Mein Leben als Mensch" [My Life as a Human] - 2009
- "Munk" [Munk] - 2024
- "Nicks Sammelsurium" [Nick's Hodgepodge] (Pubertiere #0,5) - 2016
- "Das Pubertier" [Teenosaurus Rex/Wordplay: The Puberty-Animal] - 2014
- "Im Reich der Pubertiere" [In the realm of the puberty animal] (Pubertiere #2) - 2016
- "Und ewig schläft das Pubertier" [And the puberty animal sleeps forever] (Pubertiere #3) - 2017

Weizsäcker, Richard von "Drei Mal Stunde Null? 1949-1969-1989" - 2001
Wells, Benedict "Vom Ende der Einsamkeit" (The End of Loneliness) - 2016
Westerteicher, Inga "Liebe Freundin: Briefe Berühmter Frauen" [Dear friend: letters from famous women] - 2000
Wickert, Ulrich "Alles über Paris" [Everything about Paris] - 2004
- "Frankreich muss man lieben, um es zu verstehen" [You have to love France to understand it] - 2017

Wimschneider, Anna "Herbstmilch. Lebenserinnerungen einer Bäuerin" [Autumn Milk. Memories of a Farmer's Wife] - 1985 
Witzel, Frank "Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969" [The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a Manic Depressive Teenager in the Summer of 1969] - 2015
Wolf, Christa "Der geteilte Himmel" (They Divided the Sky aka Divided Heaven) - 1963
Wolff, Iris "So tun, als ob es regnet" [Pretend it's Raining] - 2017 ++

Wolff, Uwe "Wo war Jesus zwischen Karfreitag und Ostersonntag?" [Where was Jesus between Good Friday and Easter Sunday?] - 2003
Wulf, Britta "Das Rentier in der Küche. Eine deutsch-sibirische Liebe" [The Reindeer in the kitchen. A German-Siberian love] - 2016
 
Young European Collective (Vincent-Immanuel Herr, Martin Speer, Katharina Moser, Krzysztof Ignaciuk, Liza Noteris, Zlatin Georgiev, Thomas Goujat-Gouttequillet, Stylia Kampani, Zara Kitson, Nini Tsiklauri, Giulia Zeni, Phelan Chatterjee) "Wer, wenn nicht wir?" (Who, if not us?)  - 2017

Zaimoglu, Feridun "Siebentürmeviertel" [Seven Towers Quarter] - 2015 
Zeh, Juli "Corpus Delicti. Ein Prozess" (The Method) - 2009 
- "Die Stille ist ein Geräusch. Eine Fahrt durch Bosnien" [The Silence is a Sound] - 2002
- "Über Menschen" [About People] - 2021
- "Unterleuten" [Name of Town] - 2016
Zierl, Helmut "Follow the Sun. Der Sommer meines Lebens" [Follow the Sun. The Summer of my Life] - 2020
Zöller, Elisabeth "Anton oder Die Zeit des unwerten Lebens" [Anton or the Time of the Unworthy Life] - 2004
Zweig, Stefan "Rausch der Verwandlung" (The Post Office Girl) ~1930/1982 

- "Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers" (The World of Yesterday) - 1942
Zweig, Stefanie "Das Haus in ther Rothschildallee" [The House in Rothschild Lane] - 2007
- "Die Kinder der Rothschildallee" [The Children of Rothschild Avenue] - 2009 
- "Heimkehr in die Rothschildallee" [Homecoming to Rothschild Avenue] - 2010
- "Neubeginn in die Rothschildallee" [A New Beginning on Rothschild Avenue] -2010
- "Ein Mundvoll Erde" [A mouth full of earth/soil] - 1980

- "Es begann damals in Afrika" [It started back in Africa] - 2004
- "Nirgendwo in Afrika" (Nowhere in Africa) - 1995 
- "Irgendwo in Deutschland" (Somewhere in Germany) - 1996
- "Nirgendwo war Heimat. Mein Leben auf zwei Kontinenten" [Home was Nowhere. My Life on Two Continents] - 2012

- "Owuors Heimkehr" [Owuor's Homecoming] -2003

- "Der Traum vom Paradies" [The Dream of Paradise] - 1999

- "Wiedersehen mit Afrika" [Reunion in Africa] - 2002