Guten Abend!
Yes, the calendar has just flipped into October but I’m fairly sure that other readers are doing what I’m doing… that is, making November reading plans. We have to be strategic given that it’s German Literature Month, Novella November and Nonfiction November!
This year, German Literature Month XV is hosted by Beauty is a Sleeping Cat and Tony’s Reading List (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 1-9 Genre Week; Nov 10-16 City Week; Nov 17-23 Thomas Mann Week; Nov 24-30 GDR Week) 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 Pigeon by Patrick Süskind (novella)
- The German House by Annette Hess
- Stella by Takis Würger (novella)
- Siblings by Brigitte Reimann (novella)
- Background for Love by Helen Wolff
- The Field by Robert Seethaler (novella)
- New Lives by Ingo Schulze
- Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler
- Eurotrash by Christian Kracht (novella)
I’m also considering a re-read – Perfume by Patrick Süskind (I read this decades ago and still think about it…). And, this is a bit crazy because there is no way that my German is up to it, but I have a copy of 22 Bahnen by Caroline Wahl, in German, on the way. Reading it will be a huge project – I might finish it by German Literature Month XVI 🙂
