Reading German Books in 2020 discussion

Hello everyone!

Anyone got a mountain of German Literature to conquer this year?

I’m signing up for the 25 book mountain again this year, and funnily enough my first book took place on a mountain. The Musa Dagh. Franz Werfel’s The 40 Days of Musa Dagh is an absolute 5* masterpiece. I’m a bit worried anything I read thereafter is going to pale into insignificance. But I shall carry on regardless …

I'm sticking to about where I was last year - I read about 10-12 books *in* German every year, but some of those are always translated. On my second German book now (Stefan Zweig) but only the first written in German (the other was Lars Mytting - Norwegian)
Musa Dagh is already on my long TBR, but I'm already overcrowded with chunksters to get to this year - maybe next year! Thanks for the review!

I'm hoping to do better this year, last year was a little haphazard. I'm starting with an ARC of Siegfried Kracauer's novel Ginster in English translation, and looking forward to it.

I do have a heap of books translated from the German unread as yet by me. Rather than let this group die I will post my reading intentions soon. I’m currently reading the Peacock, which I know everyone read years ago. It’s a lovely light read and a great story making me laugh. Hope there are a few of us around to swap notes with.