Helena_Buchwelt rated The Magic Mountain: 4 stars
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg, pronounced [deːɐ̯ ˈt͡saʊ̯bɐˌbɛʁk] (listen)) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German …
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Helena_Buchwelt rated The Sorrows of Young Werther: 4 stars
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. …
Helena_Buchwelt rated Perfume: 4 stars
Helena_Buchwelt rated Rumo & die Wunder im Dunkeln: 5 stars
Rumo & die Wunder im Dunkeln by Walter Moers
Rumo, der junge Wolpertinger aus »Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär«, macht sich selbstständig und geht seinen eignen Weg …
Helena_Buchwelt rated Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit: 3 stars
Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit by Sten Nadolny
The Discovery of Slowness (original German title: Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit) is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a …
Helena_Buchwelt rated Falken: 5 stars
Falken by Hilary Mantel
England zur Tudor-Zeit: Als Sekretär und erster Minister von König Henry VIII. hat Thomas Cromwell 1535 den Zenit seiner Macht …
Helena_Buchwelt rated The Slow Regard of Silent Things: 5 stars
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways …
Helena_Buchwelt rated Anna Karenina: 3 stars
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
While previous versions have softened the robust and sometimes shocking qualities of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a …
Helena_Buchwelt rated Life of Pi: 5 stars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Martel Yann
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only …
Helena_Buchwelt rated One hundred years of solitude: 5 stars
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (A Bard book)
It´s the best work of García Márquez. A novel that narrates the vicisitudes of Aureliano Buendía in the mythic Macondo, …
Helena_Buchwelt rated Don't Panic: 5 stars
Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman, David K. Dickson, M. J. Simpson, and 1 other
'It's all absolutely devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies' Douglas Adams
Don't Panic celebrates the life …
Helena_Buchwelt rated Metamorphosis: 5 stars
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Evan Robertson, Nichole Robertson
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. …
Helena_Buchwelt rated Siddhartha: 3 stars
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy …
Helena_Buchwelt rated The Pursuit of the Pankera: 5 stars
The Pursuit of the Pankera by Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In the book Zeb, Deety, Hilda …
Helena_Buchwelt rated The Odyssey (Penguin Classics): 5 stars
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …