#Gunter Martell

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Gunter Martell | Die Scouts und der perfekte Planet | 1974

Kurt Becker (born 1931; died 1993) was a German author of books for young people, including science fiction, crime stories, and some nonfiction for young people. He used numerous pseudonyms, including Gunter Martell, Micha Aalborg, and Benno Michael. He is not to be confused with the U.S. priest and author Kurt Becker (1916-2010), who also wrote science fiction. [wikipedia]

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Books 41 through 50 of the year 📚

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The 5000 most popular books ever written part 1

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell

Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov

Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce

The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie

Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley

The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner

The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck

Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen

Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy

Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison

The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger

Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell

Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee

The Hobbit (1937) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo

To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf

On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac

War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy

Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison

The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka

Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell

The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte

Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding

Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut

Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens

The Master and Margarita (1973) by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll

Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad

Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) by Alexandre Dumas

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes

Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte

East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde

The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco

The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood

Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot

The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann

The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams

The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker

Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury

Fairy Tales (1812) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright

Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace

American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway

The Fault in Our Stars (2012) by John Green

And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie

Persuasion (1818) by Jane Austen

Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier

The War of the Worlds (1898) by H.G. Wells

The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini

House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton

Journey to the End of the Night (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck

Lonesome Dove (1985) by Larry McMurtry

Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas

Pale Fire (1989) by Vladimir Nabokov

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915) by James Joyce

The Hunger Games (2008) by Suzanne Collins

Emma (1815) by Jane Austen

The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo

Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London

Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence

A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) by John Irving

The Stand (1978) by Stephen King

Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott

Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh

Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell

Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen

Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf

Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank

Othello by William Shakespeare

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham

Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert

Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens

As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner

Odyssey by Homer

Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift

Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley

Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe

Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers

Harry Potter (1997) by J.K. Rowling

Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller

Iliad by Homer

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston

Where the Wild Things Are (1963) by Maurice Sendak

Room With a View (1908) by E.M. Forster

Charlotte's Web (1952) by E.B. White

Green Eggs and Ham (1988) by Dr. Seuss

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

A Song of Ice and Fire (1996) by George R.R. Martin

Oliver Twist (1837) by Charles Dickens

Blindness (1995) by Jose Saramago

In Search of Lost Time (1927) by Marcel Proust

Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) by Stephen Chbosky

The Secret Garden (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Lorax (1971) by Dr. Seuss

The Pillars of the Earth (1989) by Ken Follett

The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Help (2009) by Kathryn Stockett

Matilda (1988) by Roald Dahl

Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell

House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski

Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath

Watchmen (1987) by Alan Moore

Gravity's Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon

Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) by Roald Dahl

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle

American Gods (2001) by Neil Gaiman

Sophie's Choice (1979) by William Styron

The Magus (1977) by John Fowles

Flowers for Algernon (1959) by Daniel Keyes

Schindler's List (1982) by Thomas Keneally

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

It (1986) by Stephen King

Tender Is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

World War Z (2006) by Max Brooks

Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel

Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Book of Mormon by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser

Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville

Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa

A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens

The Kingkiller Chronicle (2007) by Patrick Rothfuss

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque

A Fine Balance (1995) by Rohinton Mistry

Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Orczy

The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969) by Eric Carle

Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens

The Giving Tree (1964) by Shel Silverstein

Howards End (1910) by E.M. Forster

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A.A. Milne

Anne of Green Gables (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Heroes of Olympus (2010) by Rick Riordan

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Fight Club (1996) by Chuck Palahniuk

The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy

Metamorphoses by Ovid

Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry

Looking for Alaska (2005) by John Green

The Day of the Jackal (1971) by Frederick Forsyth

Roots (1976) by Alex Haley

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy

The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles

Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Thorn Birds (1977) by Colleen McCullough

Good Omens (1990) by Terry Pratchett

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Fifty Shades of Grey (2011) by E.L. James

The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal

The Book Thief (2006) by Markus Zusak

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce

Ficciones (1956) by Jorge Luis Borges

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy

I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves

Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick

The Green Mile (1996) by Stephen King

The Shining (1977) by Stephen King

Aeneid by Virgil

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994) by Haruki Murakami

Mansfield Park (1814) by Jane Austen

Women in Love (1920) by D.H. Lawrence

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) by Robert M. Pirsig

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) by Khaled Hosseini

Cat in the Hat (1985) by Dr. Seuss

Outsiders (1967) by S.E. Hinton

Zorba the Greek (1946) by Nikos Kazantzakis

Trainspotting (1993) by Irvine Welsh

Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) by Lionel Shriver

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003) by Mark Haddon

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon

Night (1956) by Elie Wiesel

The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins

Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

The Time Traveler's Wife (2003) by Audrey Niffenegger

Man's Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor Emil Frankl

Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan

In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote

Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut

Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Perfume (1985) by Patrick Suskind

V for Vendetta (1989) by 

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) by Jules Verne

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Tin Drum (1959) by Gunter Grass

The BFG (1982) by Roald Dahl

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1985) by Dr. Seuss

Candide (1759) by Voltaire

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) by D.H. Lawrence

Fountainhead (1943) by Ayn Rand

Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad

Little Princess (1905) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Holes (1998) by Louis Sachar

Mere Christianity (1952) by C.S. Lewis

Phantom Tollbooth (1961) by Norton Juster

David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens

Goodnight Moon (1947) by Margaret Wise Brown

The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick

Time to Kill (1989) by John Grisham

Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse

Cryptonomicon (1999) by Neil Stephenson

The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro

Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

James and the Giant Peach (1961) by Roald Dahl

Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce

Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak

Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith

Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) by Arthur Golden

Essential Rumi by Rumi

Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy

Hiding Place (1971) by Corrie Ten Boom