#German books rec

[stories-by-rie]

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by V.E. Schwab*

Die Seele eines Spukhauses (The Soul of a Haunted House) by Helena Gässler*

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern*

Vom Ende der Einsamkeit (About the End of Loneliness) by Benedict Wells

Earthflown by Frances Wren

Rumo by Walter Moers

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Bartimaeus by Jonathan Stroud

* I already started these books but only made a few pages.

I got tagged by @folatefangirl (on my main but whatever lol), thank you very much! My 9 books I plan to read in 2025.

I already own all of these books x) my goal for this year is only five books and I am only confident about heavenly tyrant tbh but if I read five of these I would be very happy. I did this on mobile so I hope it won't look awful when I post this lol

Tagging: @fourohfourlifenotfound @cilly-the-writer @chemicalforgery @ uuuh I'm on mobile let me add more people here tomorrow x)

[classicliteratureprincess]

Got these gems today

[severin-photocopy]

Do you have any book recommendations? I am trying to find some books and stories to get into.

Hey hi sorry for answering so late I really had to think about this because I'm terrible at giving recommendations :(

I'm mostly going to talk about classics because I am more informed on that topic.

My favorite pieces of literature to recommend that are non Sacher-Masoch related are:

- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

- Kafka's short stories

- Rimbaud's poems

- Fraulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler

then obviously I'm going to tell you to read either Venus in Furs or, if you want something less "sexual" and a bit less sad, Don Juan von Kolomea. The Sacher-Masoch propaganda never stops (plus look through the Jewish Short Stories cause they are also worth it Might be a bit problematic in some aspects but if taken in the context of the 19th century it's actually pretty good)

For some newer stuff that I read this year and that I liked a lot and would recommend I'd say:

- Sándor Marais ("The Embers" has changed my life)

- The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon

- The World of Yesterday by Stephan Zweig

Also little bonus: anything by Rilke because he writes so beautifully.

Also for some of them you might want to thread carefully because they do handle sensitive topics. I wouldn't want for your reading experience to be ruined by getting in a bad mental state.

[blankvers]

Let me do a Schoethe Book Rec about a series that has never been recced?!

For all the Germans here

Ich habe noch nie jemanden in diesem Fandom gesehen, der für diese Trilogie geworben hat, und das ist nicht in Ordnung. Denn diese Bücher sind ein Meisterwerk.

Die Reihe heißt „Goethe und Schiller ermitteln“ von Stefan Lehnberg und besteht aus den Bänden

Durch Nacht und Wind

Die Affäre Carambol

Die Briefe des Ikarus

Der dritte Band ist, leider Gottes, nur als E-Book erhältlich. Die ersten beiden liegen aber auch gedruckt vor. Von, wenn man dem Autor glauben darf, Cottas noch immer existierendem Verlag.

Alle drei Bände sind im Prinzip nichts anderes als gedruckte Fanfictions. Sie sind allesamt aus Schillers POV geschrieben und präsentieren unsere Beiden Dichterfürsten als inoffizielle Ermittler; Auf eine sehr lustige, aber auch enorm spannende und ernsthafte Art und Weise.

Und wenn ich sage „enorm spannend“, dann meine ich enorm spannend. Wirklich.

Insbesondere der erste Teil, der mein Favorit ist, ist so spannend, dass ich es ab der Mitte kaum weglegen konnte. Ein Plottwist nach dem anderen.

Der zweite Teil gefiel mir, wegen dem Ende, deutlich weniger, es war aber dennoch spannend zu lesen. Der dritte Teil wiederum ist ein close second meiner Favoriten, der ebenfalls so unglaublich spannend und crazy war!

Die Seiten sind kleiner, und die Seitenzahl mäßig, deshalb dauert es nicht allzu lange, eins dieser Bücher durchzulesen. Gleichzeitig ist es aber auch nicht so kurz, dass es zu schnell vorbei ist.

Es ist platonisches Schoethe, aber und sehr in character geschrieben.

Es beinhaltet Schiller Whump, manchmal auch Goethe, sehr viel Action, sehr cooler Humor und sehr viel Idiots-Material. Allerdings auch sehr viel Smart-Boys-Material, because, natürlich.

Lest es. Tut es einfach.

I MEAN IT.

(Alle drei Bücher gibts auf Amazon und in den Online-Shops von Hugendubel und Thalia)

[thedaughterofkings]

Favourite fantasy book series

I'm due for a reread for several, if not most of these, and I'm really interested to see how they rank with other people!

So please vote for your favourite of these and let me know which ones I've missed!

In no particular order:

The Lord of the Rings isn't on there because it has the uncontested top place in my heart, mind and soul forever and ever anyways and I can't chance it not taking first place in a poll on my blog, I would probably literally cry.

[thelastrenaissance]

Momo, also known as The Grey Gentlemen or The Men in Grey, is a fantasy novel by Michael Ende. The novel was published on January 1973.  

“Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.”

Michael Ende, Momo

[seherstudies]

I am not sure how relevant this is for many but if you are curious about Japanese-German-Japanese translation, the German Institute for Japanese Studies offers a free pdf for the book "Eine gewisse Farbe der Fremdheit - Aspekte des Übersetzens Japanisch-Deutsch-Japanisch (A Certain Shade of Otherness - Aspects of Japanese-German-Japanese Translation)".

[rattenmann]

For the asks : Which Nautical Novel Series do you prefer and reccomend? I'm looking fir book recs!

i dont have all too many fictional books about the navy to recommend, but John Fisher Memories was a really good read! i also want to get around to reading 20,000 leagues under the sea. Treasure Island was also a good book, and fun fact, Mr. Mercer canonically killed the main characters dad!! some non-fiction books about the navy are (with the links of were i got them on amazon);

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

Jutland: The Unfinished Battle: A Personal History of a Naval Controversy

Naval History of World War I

To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

edit: the John Fisher Memories is a non-fiction book!

[chaos-in-bright-pink-hair-dye]

Hii I am currently looking for some new comics to read so I was hoping Tumblr could perhaps have some recommendations?

I am very open to different genres etc, pretty art is definitely a big bonus :D

(For reference besides Ttlotfk and Tua I have read and quite enjoyed Blacksad, all the Witcher comics, Cyberpunk 2077 Comics, Doom Patrol, modern Venom comics, also quite a bit of shounen manga and I am currently reading Paper Girls so yeah a lot of different stuff lol)

Also since many comic books are hard to get in Czech Republic I would definitely prefer ones that are not divided into issues (or that are but a collected version has been released) and that do not have too many parts, sorryyy

And thank you greatly for any recommendations, I really appreciate it

[oldtvandcomics]

Book Shout-outs for Pride Month #4:

German edition.

Disclaimer: I WAS fully planning to go to a queer German bookshop this year and get some actual recommendations. With all the death and illness currently going on in my family, I haven't yet, and I have no idea what is going to happen in the near future.

So yeah, if you know any queer German fantasy/scifi actually written in German, please let me know!

Ein Meer aus Feuer by Evelyne Aschwanden: A group of pirates rescue an abducted princess, and they have all kinds of adventures on their way back to her kingdom. The entire crew is queer, and there is a lesbian romance, although it takes backstage to the adventure part.

[doitinanotherlanguage]

Non-Anglo Movies You Should Watch 14/∞: Munich – The Edge of War (2020), dir. Christian Schwochow

Country: United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English, German

Genre: Period Spy Thriller

Summary: At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret in the run-up to World War II.

[thequeerlibrarian]

I love Kai Meyer 😍

[classicliteratureprincess]

Who knew some thrift stores have a board book collection, some even featuring a classics section!

Check your thrift stores for books 📚

[moth-time]

The book you are looking for is Aroma: Food-Pairing & Food-Completing by by Thomas Vilgis and Thomas Vierich. Though I… can't find an English version with a very cursory websearch so it might only exist in German.

It does have several chapters on what to pair with what and why, but it also, much more importantly, has huge lists of a wide variety of spices and aromatics (including stuff like lemon zest for example) and tables indicating the optimal heating point and time for different taste profiles, whether they are oil, acid, or water soluble, and all of the good shit.

"Which spices go with which foods" lists are of limited value to me because, like, I have functioning taste buds. What I really need is a "spices that need to be added at the start of the cooking time in order to properly develop versus spices that need to be added in the last five minutes because extended heating fucks up the flavour profile" list – that shit is not intuitive.

[patricideapologist]

Since the year is almost over now here's some random stats on the books I read this year, including some recommendations (I will probably be switching between languages depending on the book)

Also if anyone wants to know know some info about a random book I've read send me an ask with a number from 1-73(?)

So, in total this year I've read 88 books (3 of those were comics but I'm not listing those separately) and 111 manga volumes. So a total of 199, 137 in English (107 manga) and 62 in German (4 manga)

The mangas were mostly One Piece (I've read through all of the main manga this year, currently only waiting on the first part of Ace's story to arrive then I'll be completely caught up) and the rest was #DRCL

Other book stats:

Top 5 longest books (based on page count):

(1. 1440 pages, Spider-Verse/Spider-Geddon Omnibus, in brackets because it's a comic but it's still massive. The book weighs about 3,6 kg and I'm certain it could be used as a murder weapon.)

985 pages, Das Niebelungenlied (Reclamedition in Mittelhochdeutsch/Neuhochdeutsch). Mittelhochdeutsch ist noch erstaunlich lesbar imo und die eine Verfilmung aus diesem Jahr hat die Story so verkackt

876 pages, Evolution der Leere/The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton. Found the book by coincidence and didn't realise it was part of a series, so I was very confused for a while. Ok scifi book, I think, but it's very heavy on technobabble.

759 pages, Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer. The pages of this book are at least twice the size of the books above and I think text-wise it's the longest book I read this year (took me 53 days to read it btw). Varney is the sopping wet cat of a vampire ever, I need to put him in a jar and shake him.

747 pages, Tintentod von Cornelia Funke. Ich hatte die Bücher vor fast 10 Jahren geschenkt bekommen & war irgendwie bis jetzt nie dazu gekommen sie zu lesen. Ich kann mich nicht für einen Charakter entscheiden aber meine Lieblinge sind Violante, der Schwarze Prinz, Basta und Staubfinger.

734 pages, Der Kreis der Dämmerung - Teil II von Ralf Isau. Istg der Autor weiß nicht wie man ein nicht religiöses Buch schreibt. Das ist die zweite Reihe die ich von ihm gelesen hab und es ist so auffällig. Der Hauptcharakter in der ganzen Reihe ging mir so auf die Nerven & vor allem der zweite Band zieht sich weil er die ersten ~600 Seiten gefühlt nichts macht.

Average page count per book: 347,86 pages

Average time to read a book: 3,78 days/ 3 days ~19 hours

Book recommendations (all book series):

(Disclaimer: I am bad at describing things in ways that make them sound interesting, but I'm trying my best

The Fallen Gods Trilogy by Hannah Kaner

(Godkiller, Sunbringer, Faithbreaker [<- releases next March])

Rare moment where I decided to read a book advertised as being from booktok, but this one is pretty good and not focused on romance. There's four POV characters: Kissen, a godkiller, who has hated the gods ever since her family was burned alive as an offering to a fire goddess and her father sacrificed himself to the ocean god to save her life. Elogast, former knight and best friend to the king, who was trying to retire after the war against the gods until the king came by to ask him for help in saving his life. Inara, the sheltered daughter of a noble who is being hunted by assassins, and Skediceth, god of white lies, who is bound to her by magic neither of them understand. Together they have to travel to the ruined city of temples, to ask for help from the wild gods that still reside there.

The Stranger Times Series by C.K. McDonnell

(The Stranger Times, This Charming Man, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Relight My Fire, series still ongoing)

Despite how the titles sound also not a romance series (the first book has the most relationship stuff out of all of them but it's not that much). After her divorce Hannah Willis starts working as an editor for The Stranger Times, a Manchester based newspaper reporting on weird and allegedly supernatural occurrences. After an incident that leads the newspaper staff to question if the things they're reporting on are actually real they start to unwillingly get involved in the supernatural world around them. To me these books feel like the exact midpoint between The Magnus Archives and Welcome to Nightvale.

The Greatcoats and Court of Shadows by Sebastien de Castell

(Traitor's Blade, Knight's Shadow, Saint's Blood, Tyrant's Throne, Tales of the Greatcoats ; Crucible of Chaos, Play of Shadows, series ongoing)

(In Deutsch wurden nur die ersten beiden Bände übersetzt, aber Band 2 wurde aufgeteilt, d.h. die Reihenfolge ist Blutrecht, Hochverrat, Sturmbogen und dann müsste man in Englisch bei Saint's Blood weitermachen)

Greatcoats: Before the king was murdered by his dukes he gave each of his greatcoats a secret mission to carry out after his death. Now Falcio, Kest and Brasti have to try to find the heir to the throne and keep them safe from assassins, knights, dukes and just about every other threat imaginable. (And save the kingdom several times)

(The author has so much world building for this kingdom that he started hiding lore bits he couldn't fit into the story in the acknowledgements. Also this world feels realistic without trying to be super edgy or anything.)

Crucible of Chaos: Estevar Borros, the Greatcoat most commonly tasked with supernatural cases, is called to the abbey said to be the birthplace of the gods, where the monks seem to have gone mad. He has to figure out the cause of this madness, as well as several other mysteries lurking on the island, before the fractions of the abbey start tearing each other apart.

Play of Shadows: Damelas, descendant of two famous Greatcoats, runs away from a duel and joins a theater company performing the city's sacred historical plays. But when Damelas inexplicably starts channeling the spirit of one of the greatest villains in the city's history he has to start unraveling a conspiracy a hundred years in the making, and trying to avoid getting murdered in the process.

Die Sieben Heere Trilogie von Tobias Meissner

Das friedliche Reich Akitanien wird von ihrem Nachbarreich übernommen. In jedem Dorf und jeder Stadt werden Soldaten postiert die Aufstände vermeiden sollen. Als jedoch in dem kleinen Dorf Hagetmau zwei dieser Soldaten erschlagen werden, müssen sich die restlichen Dorfbewohner entscheiden ob sie sich nun wirklich mit der fremden Herrschaft abfinden sollen oder zumindest versuchen sollten ihr Dorf und vielleicht sogar das Land zu befreien.

(Der Plot ist okay, aber die 4 Hauptcharaktere sind halt irgendwann an dem Punkt wo sie literally dieses "Your feelings matter. Murder is okay. Murder is okay. Murder is okay."-meme sind und dass erhöht mein Ranking von der Reihe nochmal ein bisschen)

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"The Pigeon" by Patrick Suskind

Thank you @kerryvaughan for the rec! This was a wild ride! 😂