Reading German Books in 2020 discussion

I'd like to challenge myself to read 10-12 books in German this year, but it could be that some will be translated from Scandinavian languages, so this seems the safest level to aim for (as I'm understanding that only books written in German count, yes?)

I should read mainly from my shelves, which have a lot. There are more than 10, and I also have the aforementioned Scandinavian translations which I'm not listing. Anyone have any comments on any of the books I already have lying around here to narrow my selection? (well, the first two are in the mail, so will be here shortly!):

Die schärfsten Gerichte der tatarischen Küche, Alina Bronsky
Die Grenze, Erika Fatland
Nachtzug nach Lissabon, Pascal Mercier
Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit, Sten Nadolny
Rückwärtswalzer, Vea Kaiser
Gott wohnt im Wedding, Regina Scheer
Altes Land, Dörte Hansen
Bühlerhöhe, Brigitte Glaser
Vom Ende der Einsamkeit, Benedict Wells
Die Mitte der Welt, Andreas Steinhöffel
Hermine, ein Tierleben, Maria Beig
Nach Mitternacht, Irmgard Keun
Aus dem Sinn, Emma Bratlavsky
Die Sängerin: Anna Magdalena Bach, Eleonore Dehnerdt
Ruhm, Daniel Kehlmann

I have also been wanting to read a Stefan Zweig or W.G. Sebald, some of whose titles I can get out of the library. I haven't read anything by either of those authors yet, so again, suggestions welcome!

On your list I've only read the Irmgard Keun and would definitely recommend it. I haven't read much Zweig or Sebald but would probably start with Beware of Pity and Austerlitz

I finished my first book in German for this year, but unfortunately it doesn't count for this challenge, as it was translated from Danish! But about halfway through Die schärfsten Gerichte der tartarishen Küche.

Finished my third German book (but only the second that counts for this challenge!), Gott wohnt im Wedding by Regina Scheer. I really liked this book. It touches on a lot of reading themes I like - multicultural experience, multigenerational, I learn a bit about history I didn't know before. It follows the story of a group of people that have lived in a house in the Wedding section of Berlin from WW2 to the present. The main people it follows is a (now) old woman who during WW2 hid two Jewish "U-Boot" youth, but one was captured and killed. His friend survived and emigrated to Israel but is back visiting Berlin for the first time with his granddaughter. Also a Sinti Roma family; the grandfather briefly lived in the house and his granddaughter does now (though she doesn't know he ever lived there). There are also a group of Roma from Romania who are living in the house currently. I knew very little about the German Sinti or the rest of the Roma in WW2 other than they were also put in the camps. I thought the various stories were woven together well, also tying together the past with what's going on today, and I really enjoyed it.
Trying to decide on my next German book - I'm leaning towards a chunkster translated from Norwegian (Die Geschichte der Bienen), which also won't count for this... ;)

Well, December is here and I don't think I'll finish the German book I'm currently reading before it ends, so looks like I'm a book short for Seewinkel! :( I did read 7 books in German, but one was translated from Danish and the other from Norwegian, so they don't count for this challenge. I read 3/4 of the quarterly read-a-longs.

I read:
Die schärfsten Gerichte der tatarischen Küche
Gott wohnt im Wedding
Die Vermessung der Welt
Altes Land
Die Reisende

Hope maybe to do a bit better next year? (I hope this group will continue next year?) I do have one Norwegian book and a couple of Icelandic mysteries I'd like to get to, but the rest of the German language books I'm looking forward to are originally in German (as is the one I'm currently reading).