Appendix D: The Chaotic Age, Pt 5: Germany, Russia, etc. (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)

1.
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,168 ratings
2.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,424 ratings
3.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,960 ratings
4.
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus 4.08 avg rating — 13,447 ratings
5.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 122,148 ratings
6.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 62,419 ratings
7.
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities 4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
8.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago 4.01 avg rating — 101,123 ratings
9.
The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1) 4.33 avg rating — 24,216 ratings
10.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 3.93 avg rating — 9,669 ratings
11.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain 4.13 avg rating — 56,609 ratings
12.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,961 ratings
13.
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke 4.36 avg rating — 16,995 ratings
14.
Galileo: A Play
Galileo: A Play 3.66 avg rating — 18,232 ratings
15.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle 3.74 avg rating — 8,976 ratings
16.
The Castle
The Castle 3.92 avg rating — 72,007 ratings
17.
The Confusions of Young Törless
The Confusions of Young Törless 3.67 avg rating — 9,868 ratings
18.
The Little Angel
The Little Angel 3.95 avg rating — 147 ratings
19.
The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3)
The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3) 4.09 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
20.
Sonnets to Orpheus
Sonnets to Orpheus 4.24 avg rating — 4,056 ratings
21.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920 4.13 avg rating — 45 ratings
21.
Poems 1913-1956
Poems 1913-1956 4.28 avg rating — 679 ratings
23.
Aforismos
Aforismos 3.67 avg rating — 4,261 ratings
24.
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera 3.88 avg rating — 14,170 ratings
25.
Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph and His Brothers 4.44 avg rating — 2,146 ratings
26.
Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund 4.22 avg rating — 69,828 ratings
27.
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years 3.83 avg rating — 5,480 ratings
28.
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game 4.10 avg rating — 41,309 ratings
29.
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 13,641 ratings
29.
Poems of Paul Celan
Poems of Paul Celan 4.33 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
31.
The Visit
The Visit 3.67 avg rating — 36,010 ratings
32.
Petersburg
Petersburg 3.97 avg rating — 5,600 ratings
33.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.32 avg rating — 7,026 ratings
34.
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward 4.26 avg rating — 17,574 ratings
35.
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich 4.13 avg rating — 3,469 ratings
36.
Barabbas
Barabbas 3.87 avg rating — 6,065 ratings
37.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.05 avg rating — 147 ratings
38.
Pan
Pan 3.84 avg rating — 11,832 ratings
39.
Poems and verse plays
Poems and verse plays 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
40.
Selected Prose
Selected Prose 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
41.
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: Selected Plays and Libretti
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: Selected Plays and Libretti really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
42.
New Poems
New Poems 4.13 avg rating — 700 ratings
43.
The Death of Virgil
The Death of Virgil 4.14 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
44.
The Poems of Georg Trakl
The Poems of Georg Trakl 4.29 avg rating — 524 ratings
45.
Selected Poems and Prose
Selected Poems and Prose really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
46.
Amerika: The Missing Person
Amerika: The Missing Person 3.74 avg rating — 33,129 ratings
47.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating — 28,039 ratings
48.
The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The Blue Octavo Notebooks 4.06 avg rating — 1,206 ratings
49.
Diaries, 1910-1923
Diaries, 1910-1923 4.23 avg rating — 4,001 ratings
50.
The Good Woman of Setzuan
The Good Woman of Setzuan 3.66 avg rating — 13,020 ratings
51.
Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children 3.62 avg rating — 22,268 ratings
52.
Round Dance and Other Plays
Round Dance and Other Plays 3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings
53.
Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas
Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas 4.16 avg rating — 361 ratings
54.
The Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies
The Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies 3.84 avg rating — 118 ratings
55.
Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening 3.82 avg rating — 14,078 ratings
56.
The Last Days of Mankind
The Last Days of Mankind 4.12 avg rating — 437 ratings
57.
Pigeons and Moles: Selected Writings
Pigeons and Moles: Selected Writings 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
58.
Stories of Three Decades
Stories of Three Decades 4.43 avg rating — 124 ratings
59.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.84 avg rating — 10,888 ratings
60.
Woodcutters
Woodcutters 4.19 avg rating — 7,956 ratings
61.
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Billiards at Half-Past Nine 3.93 avg rating — 4,760 ratings
62.
In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann
In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann 4.19 avg rating — 86 ratings
63.
Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems
Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
64.
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections 4.29 avg rating — 12,266 ratings
65.
Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.02 avg rating — 163 ratings
66.
Cassandra
Cassandra 3.87 avg rating — 6,625 ratings
67.
Slow Homecoming (New York Review Books Classics)
Slow Homecoming (New York Review Books Classics) 3.54 avg rating — 624 ratings
68.
I'm Not Stiller
I'm Not Stiller 4.03 avg rating — 5,558 ratings
69.
Man in the Holocene
Man in the Holocene 3.86 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
70.
The Flounder
The Flounder 3.79 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
71.
Shadow Lands: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
Shadow Lands: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook) 4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings
72.
Poems of Akhmatova
Poems of Akhmatova 4.35 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
73.
The Selected Poems
The Selected Poems 4.25 avg rating — 2,314 ratings
74.
The King of Time
The King of Time 4.31 avg rating — 94 ratings
75.
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
The Bedbug and Selected Poetry 4.20 avg rating — 3,079 ratings
76.
Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings
Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
77.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev 3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings
78.
Autobiography
Autobiography 4.09 avg rating — 8,823 ratings
79.
Sunstroke: Selected Stories
Sunstroke: Selected Stories 4.06 avg rating — 596 ratings
80.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel 4.21 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
81.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.22 avg rating — 859 ratings
82.
Envy
Envy 3.70 avg rating — 3,908 ratings
83.
Nervous People and Other Satires
Nervous People and Other Satires 4.20 avg rating — 740 ratings
84.
The Foundation Pit
The Foundation Pit 3.78 avg rating — 6,238 ratings
85.
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation 4.33 avg rating — 33,414 ratings
86.
August 1914 (The Red Wheel #1)
August 1914 (The Red Wheel #1) 3.94 avg rating — 2,771 ratings
87.
A Part of Speech
A Part of Speech 4.44 avg rating — 650 ratings
88.
Winter's Tales
Winter's Tales 3.86 avg rating — 2,515 ratings
89.
Seven Gothic Tales
Seven Gothic Tales 3.87 avg rating — 3,696 ratings
90.
Pelle the Conqueror
Pelle the Conqueror 4.01 avg rating — 297 ratings
91.
Kristin Lavransdatter
Kristin Lavransdatter 4.31 avg rating — 13,886 ratings
92.
Guide to the Underworld
Guide to the Underworld 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
93.
Selected Poems, 1954-1986
Selected Poems, 1954-1986 4.25 avg rating — 483 ratings
94.
Stillness of the World Before Bach: New Selected Poems
Stillness of the World Before Bach: New Selected Poems 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings
95.
The War With The Newts
The War With The Newts 4.17 avg rating — 16,886 ratings
96.
R.U.R.
R.U.R. 3.84 avg rating — 16,750 ratings
97.
Largo Desolato
Largo Desolato 3.94 avg rating — 367 ratings
98.
The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert 3.98 avg rating — 246 ratings
99.
The Fly
The Fly really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings