The Magic Mountain
1924★ 9.1
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Gravity's Rainbow
1973★ 8.7
Slaughterhouse Five
1969★ 8.4
The Tin Drum
1959★ 8.3
Night
1955★ 8.3
Buddenbrooks
1901★ 8.0
All Quiet on the Western Front
1928★ 8.0
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774★ 7.3
A Time of Gifts
1977★ 7.1
Life is a Dream
1635★ 7.0
The Radetzky March
1932★ 7.0
The Captive Mind
1953★ 7.0
Man's Search for Meaning
1946★ 6.9
The World of Yesterday
1942★ 6.9
Mother Courage and Her Children
1939★ 6.9
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1963★ 6.8
The Loser
1983★ 6.8
The Hare with Amber Eyes
2010★ 6.7
Daniel Deronda
1876★ 6.7
The Nibelungenlied
Author unknown
1200★ 6.6
Effi Briest
1895★ 6.6
The Street of Crocodiles
1934★ 6.5
Embers
1942★ 6.5
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1960★ 6.5
The Thirty Years War
1938★ 6.4
Narcissus and Goldmund
1930★ 6.3
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1974★ 6.3
The Berlin Stories
1945★ 6.2
The Emperor's Tomb
1938★ 6.1
Fatelessness
1975★ 6.1
Malina
1971★ 6.1
Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997
1998★ 5.9
Hitler
2008★ 5.4
The Zone of Interest
2014★ 5.0
Band of Brothers
1992★ 4.9