November is fast approaching, which means time to start strategically planning my reading (because it’s German Literature Month, Novella November and Nonfiction November).
German Literature Month is hosted by Lizzy’s Literary Life and Beauty is a Sleeping Cat (find inspiration if you’re looking for titles here).
The one rule of GLM: reading material must have been originally written in German.
There are some prompts (Nov 1-7 Crime Week; Nov 8-14 Read as You Please; Nov 15-21 Franz Kafka week; Nov 22-30 Read as You Please) but I will probably read free-range, in an attempt to tackle the TBR stack and create some overlap with Novella November.
I’ll be choosing from the following –
- Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink
- The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
- Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
- Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
- The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika (novella)
- The German House by Annette Hess
- Stella by Takis Würger
- Siblings by Brigitte Reimann (novella)
- Background for Love by Helen Wolff
- The Field by Robert Seethaler
- An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
- New Lives by Ingo Schulze
- The Granddaughter by Bernhard Schlink
Any that you’ve read that I should start with?