The Books canon

Sourced and shelved.

Every book chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
Browse all 1,178 books or filter by subject, era, place, and author.
2 volumes
SortEditorial Year Title
Subject·Illness✕clear
Fiction · Modernism

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann
1924 · 706 pages

Hans Castorp goes to a Swiss sanatorium to visit his tubercular cousin for three weeks and stays seven years. Time comes loose there while the patients debate everything and Europe drifts into war.

★ 9.1