How many have you read?

The BBC believes most readers have only read SIX of the books on this list of the "most loved" one hundred books of all times.

I've read THIRTY-FOUR, mostly because whoever compiled the list is a Thomas Hardy fanatic - as am I. 

Can you beat my score?

Actually, there are quite a few lame authors and even lamer titles on this list.  And only one German "author' (Nietzsche)?  Nowadays I mostly only read German authors.   So what would a list of the 100 "most loved" German books look like?  Can you list some?

Here are some lists I've already compiled:

The Ten Greatest German Novels

The Top Ten German Poets

Fifty Near-Perfect Books of German Poetry

Five of Most Precocious German Writers

Here are some (much better) lists from others:

Die ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher

SZ-Bibilothek : One Hundred Great Novels of the 20th Century

And, finally, from the most important critic of German literature:

Marcel Reich-Ranicki: Der Kanon: Die deutsche Literatur

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Comments

[erphschwester]

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[kunstler]

I read 32 of those. Surprised "Confederacy of Dunces" made that list. Too funny! Some stuff on there, Harry Potter? What sort of list is this?