List of works on the SWR leaderboard
The list of works on the SWR best list contains literary works that have been placed on the SWR best list since 1975 by a commission of experts .
Years 1975-1994
The works from 1975–1994 are not broken down individually by month. Therefore, this section contains a selection.
| author | title | year |
|---|---|---|
| Hans Mayer | outsider | 1975 |
| Franz Kafka | Letters to Ottla and the family | 1975 |
| Herbert Achternbusch | The hour of death | 1975 |
| Hans Magnus Enzensberger | mausoleum | 1975 |
| Max Frisch | Montauk | 1975 |
| Rolf Dieter Brinkmann | Westward 1 and 2. | 1975 |
| Nicolas Born | The remote side of the story. | 1976 |
| Reiner Kunze | The wonderful years | 1976 |
| Martin Walser | Beyond love | 1976 |
| Wolfgang Koeppen | youth | 1976 |
| James Joyce | Ulysses | 1976 |
| Peter Rühmkorf | Walther von der Vogelweide, Klopstock and me. | 1976 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The family idiot | 1977 |
| Elias Canetti | The Saved Tongue: Tale of a Youth | 1977 |
| Fritz anger | Mars. | 1977 |
| Hans Joachim Schädlich | Tried closeness | 1977 |
| Thomas Brasch | The sons die before the fathers | 1977 |
| Gabriel García Marquez | The autumn of the patriarch | 1978 |
| Hans Magnus Enzensberger | The sinking of the Titanic | 1978 |
| Bernward Vespers | The trip | 1978 |
| Helmut Heißenbüttel | Eichendorff's downfall and other fairy tales | 1978 |
| Martin Walser | A fleeing horse | 1978 |
| Alfred Doblin | November 1918: A German Revolution: anthology contains: citizens and soldiers, betrayed people, return of the front troops and Karl and Rosa |
1978 |
| Peter Rosei | From here to there | 1978 |
| Günter Grass | The meeting in Telgte | 1979 |
| Gert Jonke | The distant sound | 1979 |
| Wolfdietrich Schnurre | The shadow photographer | 1979 |
| Hermann Burger | Diabelli | 1979 |
| Nicolas Born | The fake | 1979 |
| Joyce Carol Oates | Crossing boundaries | 1979 |
| Klaus Hoffer | Halfway. At the Bieresch 1. | 1979 |
| Martin Walser | Soul work | 1979 |
| Günter Kunert | Killing procedure | 1980 |
| Alfred Andersch | The father of a murderer | 1980 |
| Günter Herburger | The eyes of the fighters. Second trip. | 1980 |
| Elias Canetti | The torch in the ear: life story 1921–1931 | 1980 |
| Peter Handke | The teaching of the Sainte-Victoire | 1980 |
| Botho Strauss | Rumor | 1980 |
| Christoph Meckel | Search image. About my father | 1980 |
| Thomas Bernhard | The cold: an isolation | 1981 |
| Thomas Hürlimann | The Ticino woman | 1981 |
| Friedrich Christian Delius | A hero of internal security. | 1981 |
| Ludwig Fels | An absurdity of love | 1981 |
| Giorgio Manganelli | Errands. 100 novels in pill form | 1981 |
| Wolfgang Hildesheimer | Marbot: A Biography | 1981 |
| Katherine Mansfield | All the stories. | 1981 |
| Reto Hänny | Zurich, early September. | 1981 |
| Peter Weiss | Aesthetics of Resistance. | 1981 |
| Thomas Bernhard | concrete | 1982 |
| Thomas Pynchon | The ends of the parabola | 1982 |
| Ludwig Hohl | The Notes or Of the hasty reconciliation. | 1982 |
| Thomas Bernhard | A child | 1982 |
| Sarah Kirsch | Erdreich: poems | 1982 |
| Birgitta Arens | Fool's gold | 1982 |
| Karin Reschke | Pursued the luck find book of Henriette Vogel | 1982 |
| Michel Leiris | The ribbon on the neck of the Olympia | 1983 |
| Guntram Vesper | The islands in the land sea: poems | 1983 |
| Witold Gombrowicz | Ferdydurke | 1983 |
| Uwe Johnson | Anniversaries. From the life of Gesine Cresspahl. | 1983 |
| Christa Wolf | Kassandra. Four lectures. A story | 1983 |
| Peter Sloterdijk | Critique of Cynical Reason | 1983 |
| Ulla Hahn | End of the game: poems | 1983 |
| Thomas Bernhard | Wittgenstein's nephew | 1983 |
| Italo Svevo | The stories I | 1984 |
| Milan Kundera | The unbearable lightness of being | 1984 |
| Paul Celan | Collected works in seven volumes | 1984 |
| Rolf Haufs | June farewell. | 1984 |
| Sarah Kirsch | Cat life: poems | 1984 |
| Botho Strauss | The Young Man | 1984 |
| Robert Walser | From the pencil field | 1985 |
| Fernando Pessoa | The book of unrest by the assistant accountant Bernardo Soares | 1985 |
| Patrick Süskind | The perfume. The Story of a Murderer | 1985 |
| Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | The river in between | 1985 |
| Walker Percy | The idiot of the south | 1985 |
| Volker Braun | Hinze - Kunze - novel | 1985 |
| Djuna Barnes | Ladies Almanac | 1985 |
| Norbert Wehr | Copybook 24. Journal for Literature. | 1985 |
| Brigitte Kronauer | Mounted archer | 1986 |
| Herta Müller | Man is a great pheasant in the world: a story by Herta Müller | 1986 |
| Marguerite Duras | The pain | 1986 |
| Gerhard Meier (writer) | The ballad of snowing | 1986 |
| Thorsten Becker (writer) | The guarantee | 1986 |
| Peter Handke | The repetition | 1986 |
| Orhan Veli Kanık | Strange | 1986 |
| Wolfgang Koeppen | Collected Works | 1986 |
| Sarah Kirsch | Irrstern: prose | 1986 |
| Ludwig Harig | All of life is orderly. My father's novel | 1986 |
| Otto Schily | From the state of the republic. | 1986 |
| Primo Levi | The periodic table | 1987 |
| Marguerite Duras | The lover | 1987 |
| Gerhard Köpf | The community of heirs | 1987 |
| Libuše Moníková | The facade | 1987 |
| Hans Blumenberg | The concern goes over the river (library Suhrkamp) | 1987 |
| Wolfgang Hilbig | The women | 1987 |
| Juerg Laederach | Flugelmeyer's madness. The last seven days | 1987 |
| Paul Éluard | Love letters to Gala (1924–1948) | 1987 |
| Peter Handke | A writer's afternoon. | 1987 |
| Inger Christensen | alphabet | 1988 |
| Johannes Moy | The ball game stories | 1988 |
| Christoph Ransmayr | The last world . With an Ovidian repertoire | 1988 |
| Andrzej Szczypiorski | The beautiful Frau Seidenman | 1988 |
| Christine Lavant | Poems | 1988 |
| Ilse Aichinger | Kleist, moss, pheasants | 1988 |
| Ennio Flaiano | Nightly diary. Texts | 1988 |
| Danilo Kiš | hourglass | 1988 |
| Witold Gombrowicz | Diary 1953–1969. | 1988 |
| Albert Drach | Unsentimental journey: a report | 1988 |
| Thomas Hürlimann | The garden shed. Novella. | 1989 |
| Ismail Kadare | The torn April | 1989 |
| Virginia Woolf | The drive out | 1989 |
| Gustave Flaubert | Flaubert-Turgenev correspondence 1863–1880 | 1989 |
| Danilo Kiš | Early suffering | 1989 |
| Philip Roth | Counter-life | 1989 |
| Norbert Conrad Kaser | Collected Works | 1989 |
| Paul Nizon | In the belly of the whale | 1989 |
| Hartmut Geerken | Mappa | 1989 |
| Thomas Bernhard | On the Mountain (Quartet Encounters) | 1989 |
| Peter Handke | Try about fatigue. | 1989 |
| Volker Braun | Bottomless sentence | 1990 |
| Paul Valery | Cahiers =: notebooks | 1990 |
| Francesco Petrarch | Canzoniere. Bilingual complete edition. | 1990 |
| Danilo Kiš | The attic | 1990 |
| Brigitte Kronauer | The woman in the pillow | 1990 |
| Oskar Pastior | Head butt Janus head | 1990 |
| Isaak Emmanuilowitsch Babel | Diary 1920 | 1990 |
| Peter Handke | Try on the jukebox | 1990 |
| Jan Skácel | Wound clover. Poems. | 1990 |
| Wolfgang Hilbig | Old cover shop | 1991 |
| Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt | The secretion. narrative | 1991 |
| Claude Simon | The acacia | 1991 |
| Michel Leiris | The rule of the game. Four volumes | 1991 |
| Saul Bellow | A theft | 1991 |
| Peter Urban | Mistake of Death: Two Centuries of Russian Absurdity | 1991 |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | I am a force of the past. Letters 1940–1975 | 1991 |
| Hanna Krall | Legoland | 1991 |
| Harald Hartung | Air Freight: International Poetry 1940–1990 | 1991 |
| Ror Wolf | News from the inhabited world | 1991 |
| Ossip Emiljewitsch Mandelstam | Collected essays: About the interlocutor | 1991 |
| Karoline von Günderrode | All works and selected studies | 1991 |
| Peter Handke | Try over the successful day | 1991 |
| Botho Strauss | Beginninglessness | 1992 |
| Péter Nádas | Book of memory | 1992 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | The death of Methuselah and other stories of human happiness and unhappiness | 1992 |
| Sarah Kirsch | Erlkönig's daughter | 1992 |
| Amos Oz | Company | 1992 |
| Claude Simon | Georgica | 1992 |
| Peter Rühmkorf | Come out! : Chants, fairy tales, tricks | 1992 |
| Philip Roth | My life as a son: a true story | 1992 |
| Hanna Krall | Faster than God | 1992 |
| Albert Camus | Diary March 1951 - December 1959. | 1992 |
| Ruth Klüger | live on: a youth | 1992 |
| Günter de Bruyn | Interim balance. A youth in Berlin. | 1992 |
| Wolfgang Hilbig | I | 1993 |
| AS Byatt | Obsessed | 1993 |
| Steen St. Blicher | Fragments from the diary of a village coastal | 1993 |
| Scott Bradfield | The story of the luminous movement | 1993 |
| Daniil Kharms | The art is a closet | 1993 |
| Charles Simic | A book of gods and devils | 1993 |
| Wolfgang Hilbig | Green green grave. | 1993 |
| Alejo Carpentier | Le Sacre du Printemps. | 1993 |
| Cees Nooteboom | Rituals | 1993 |
| Franz Fuehmann | Letters 1950–1984. A selection | 1994 |
| Walter Kempowski | The echo sounder | 1994 |
| Brigitte Kronauer | The handkerchief | 1994 |
| Gert Hofmann | The little Stechardin | 1994 |
| Isaac Babel | The cavalry army | 1994 |
| Reinhard Lettau | Escape from guests | 1994 |
| Louis Begley | Lies in times of war | 1994 |
| Peter Handke | My year in no man's bay | 1994 |
| William H. Gass | Order of the Insects. Three stories | 1994 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | 1994 |
| Zbigniew Herbert | Still life with curb. Sketches and Apocrypha. | 1994 |
Year 1995
September 1995
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The children of the dead | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2 | The slowness | Milan Kundera |
| 3 | Explains Pereira | Antonio Tabucchi |
| 4th | Let's hear what's still to come / Now that it's all too late | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 5 | Titanic buffet | Ivo Andric |
| 6th | Letters (1925–1939) | Isaac Babylon |
| 7th | The sea | Gerhard Roth |
| 8th | Fruit bats | Marcel Beyer |
| 9 | The sleepwalking country | Mia Couto |
| 10 | The indoor fountain | Jens Sparschuh |
| 11 | Felicia's journey | William Trevor |
| 12 | I want to bear witness to the last | Victor Klemperer |
October 1995
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I want to bear witness to the last | Victor Klemperer |
| 2 | Taboo I | Peter Rühmkorf |
| 3 | 33 moments of happiness | Ingo Schulze |
| 4th | Let's hear what's still to come / Now that it's all too late | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 5 | The sea | Gerhard Roth |
| 6th | Kitahara disease | Christoph Ransmayr |
| 7th | What's new from the war? | Robert Bober |
| 8th | The first man | Albert Camus |
| 9 | The thirteenth black horse | Jan Skácel |
| 10 | Lucky pennies | Georg Hensel |
| 11 | The indoor fountain | Jens Sparschuh |
| 12 | The thistle finch's lament | Anna Maria Ortese |
November 1995
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Roosters' lawyer | AF Th. Van der Heijden |
| 2 | Taboo I | Peter Rühmkorf |
| 3 | Rovigo | Zbigniew Herbert |
| 4th | I want to bear witness to the last | Victor Klemperer |
| 5 | Lucky pennies | Georg Hensel |
| 6th | The first man | Albert Camus |
| 7th | What's new from the war? | Robert Bober |
| 8th | Premature love for animals | Katja Lange-Müller |
| 9 | Kitahara disease | Christoph Ransmayr |
| 10 | 33 moments of happiness | Ingo Schulze |
| 11 | Of the grace in sleep | Vizconde de Lascano Tegui |
December 1995
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Of the grace in sleep | Vizconde de Lascano Tegui |
| 2 | Long Saturday | Burkhard spiders |
| 3 | The Reader | Bernhard Schlink |
| 4th | Premature love for animals | Katja Lange-Müller |
| 5 | The culture of lies | Dubravka Ugresic |
| 6th | The sea | Gerhard Roth |
| 7th | Collected Works 1 - 3 | Sergei Esenin |
| 8th | The rings of Saturn | WG Sebald |
| 9 | Independence day | Richard Ford |
| 10 | Stefan Martinez | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 11 | Dalinghissima | Janet Flanner |
Year 1996
January 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long Saturday | Burkhard spiders |
| 2 | The naked masks | Luigi Malerba |
| 3 | Sommerfugledalen / The butterfly valley | Inger Christensen |
| 4th | Stefan Martinez | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 5 | Seals summer 1912 - spring 1913 | Georg Trakl |
| 6th | Independence day | Richard Ford |
| 7th | Premature love for animals | Katja Lange-Müller |
| 8th | The Reader | Bernhard Schlink |
| 9 | The culture of lies | Dubravka Ugresic |
| 10 | Correspondence with Edmund Wilson 1940–1971 | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 11 | The rings of Saturn | WG Sebald |
February 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A love in its time | Ulrike Kolb |
| 2 | The letters to Louise Colet | Gustave Flaubert |
| 3 | Bleeding stone | Ibrahim al-Koni |
| 4th | Sommerfugledalen / The butterfly valley | Inger Christensen |
| 5 | The naked masks | Luigi Malerba |
| 6th | The thistle finch's lament | Anna Maria Ortese |
| 7th | Stefan Martinez | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 8th | The miracle worker | Carmen Boullosa |
| 9 | Ways to fame | Robert Gernhardt |
| 10 | Brazil | John Updike |
| 11 | Chekhov in Sondrio | Aldo Buzzi |
March 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | An outsider | Emmanuel Bove |
| 2 | Animal sad | Monika Marron |
| 3 | Among aunts and other still lifes | Ingomar von Kieseritzky |
| 4th | Bottomless | Sarah Kirsch |
| 5 | The thistle finch's lament | Anna Maria Ortese |
| 6th | The appearance of the left-handed poet Alexander Galajda | Maria Georg Hofmann |
| 7th | The Prince of West End Avenue | Alan Isler |
| 8th | The great way | Julien Gracq |
| 9 | memories | Thea Sternheim |
| 10 | So listen up | Theodor Eschenburg |
April 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Moors last sigh | Salman Rushdie |
| 2 | The daily nothing | Zoé Valdés |
| 3 | Among aunts and other still lifes | Ingomar von Kieseritzky |
| 4th | Thanatos | Helmut Krausser |
| 5 | Animal sad | Monika Marron |
| 6th | The Prince of West End Avenue | Alan Isler |
| 7th | memories | Thea Sternheim |
| 8th | Bottomless | Sarah Kirsch |
| 9 | Medea. be right | Christa Wolf |
| 10 | Palace of Remembrance | Lars Gustafsson |
| 11 | Swarm of ideas | Jean Paul |
| 12 | Woman in red on a gray background | Miguel Delibes |
May 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Voronezh Booklets | Ossip Mandelstam |
| 2 | Swarm of ideas | Jean Paul |
| 3 | The daily nothing | Zoé Valdés |
| 4th | NÖSPL | BK Tragelehn |
| 5 | Among aunts and other still lifes | Ingomar von Kieseritzky |
| 6th | Bottomless | Sarah Kirsch |
| 7th | Seductions | Marlene Streeruwitz |
| 8th | Fateless novel | Imre Kertész |
| 9 | Thanatos | Helmut Krausser |
| 10 | An ordinary rainbow | Les Murray |
| 11 | An ordinary rainbow | Les Murray |
June 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fateless novel | Imre Kertész |
| 2 | The Voronezh Booklets | Ossip Mandelstam |
| 3 | My heart so white | Javier Marias |
| 4th | Local history or everything is cheerful and noble | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 5 | Swarm of ideas | Jean Paul |
| 6th | Seductions | Marlene Streeruwitz |
| 7th | An ordinary rainbow | Les Murray |
| 8th | Dream of more to less beautiful women | Samuel Beckett |
| 9 | Death in the Andes | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 10 | The lack of secrecy | Peter Waterhouse |
July 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | My heart so white | Javier Marias |
| 2 | Fateless novel | Imre Kertész |
| 3 | Pleasure garden. Prussia | Volker Braun |
| 4th | The best of intentions | Max Aub |
| 5 | Prelude | S. Yizhar |
| 6th | Dream of more to less beautiful women | Samuel Beckett |
| 7th | The Voronezh Booklets | Ossip Mandelstam |
| 8th | Years with a wind turbine | Harald Hartung |
| 9 | Small town heroes | Andreas Mand |
| 10 | Invent life. | Vladimir Nabokov |
August 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mainland | Markus Werner |
| 2 | My heart so white | Javier Marias |
| 3 | The best of intentions | Max Aub |
| 4th | fear | Anton Chekhov |
| 5 | The real life of Sebastian Knight | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 6th | Pleasure garden. Prussia | Volker Braun |
| 7th | The moment of love | Virginia Woolf |
| 8th | Sabbath's theater | Philip Roth |
| 9 | When it is no longer important | Juan Carlos Onetti |
| 10 | Messages from Lacandon | Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos |
September 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | My mother's ashes | Frank McCourt |
| 2 | Sabbath's theater | Philip Roth |
| 3 | Mainland | Markus Werner |
| 4th | The natural order of things | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 5 | The guest from the future | György Dalos |
| 6th | The thing with Randow | Klaus Schlesinger |
| 7th | The real life of Sebastian Knight | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 8th | Forty years | Günter de Bruyn |
| 9 | Nature poems | Franz Josef Czernin |
| 10 | My mother's autobiography | Jamaica Kincaid |
| 11 | My house in Umbria | William Trevor |
| 12 | Madam! or the art of deep sleep | Herbert Maurer |
October 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soledades. Loneliness | Antonio Machado |
| 2 | Sabbath's theater | Philip Roth |
| 3 | Rub 'al-Khali. Empty quarter | Michael Roes |
| 4th | The natural order of things | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 5 | JR | William Gaddis |
| 6th | Gilles' wife | Madeleine Bourdouxhe |
| 7th | Nature poems | Franz Josef Czernin |
| 8th | The homeless | Danilo Kis |
| 9 | Get through | Uta-Maria Heim |
| 10 | The Church of John F. Kennedy | Thomas Meinecke |
| 11 | Transfigured night | Libuše Moníková |
| 12 | The stroller's gaze | Ulf Peter Hallberg |
November 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rub 'al-Khali. Empty quarter | Michael Roes |
| 2 | Talks 1961–1990 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
| 3 | JR | William Gaddis |
| 4th | So I am dreaming | Margriet de Moor |
| 5 | Collect life, don't ask why and why | Victor Klemperer |
| 6th | Gilles' wife | Madeleine Bourdouxhe |
| 7th | Who howls with the wolves becomes a wolf | Ludwig Harig |
| 8th | Peter and the cow | Ernst Jandl |
| 9 | We love | Aleksandar Tišma |
| 10 | The Church of John F. Kennedy | Thomas Meinecke |
| 11 | Diaries 1922–1989 | Michel Leiris |
December 1996
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death and I, the two of us | Arnold Stadler |
| 2 | Peter and the cow | Ernst Jandl |
| 3 | Room service | Richard Swartz |
| 4th | Rub 'al Khali. Empty quarter | Michael Roes |
| 5 | Notes on a camel | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 6th | Talks 1961–1990 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
| 7th | Deer crossing with siding | Christian Geissler |
| 8th | So I am dreaming | Margriet de Moor |
| 9 | The world is big and salvation is everywhere | Ilija Trojanow |
| 10 | The work of love | Gillian Rose |
| 11 | Tracked | Carmen Boullosa |
1997 year
January 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Athena | John Banville |
| 2 | Room service | Richard Swartz |
| 3 | America | TC Boyle |
| 4th | The work of love | Gillian Rose |
| 5 | Alphabet of feelings | Goffredo Parise |
| 6th | Notes on a camel | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 7th | Wanderings inside the prisoner | Stefanie Menzinger |
| 8th | Sacrifice of the Kings | Zbigniew Herbert |
| 9 | The story of my death | Harold Brodkey |
| 10 | Deer crossing with siding | Christian Geissler |
| 11 | The Dresden Art Practice | Thomas Rosenlöcher |
| 12 | Salon stories (Historiettes) | Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux |
February 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iron slow motion | Vyacheslav Kupriyanov |
| 2 | Poems 1954–1994 | Robert Gernhardt |
| 3 | rotten | Thomas Kling |
| 4th | In the basement | Jan Philipp Reemtsma |
| 5 | The man who switched to soprano | John Updike |
| 6th | Athena | John Banville |
| 7th | Wanderings inside the prisoner | Stefanie Menzinger |
| 8th | Life and me | Marcel Levy |
| 9 | Alphabet of feelings | Goffredo Parise |
| 10 | The Parisian farmer | Louis Aragon |
| 11 | In the basement | Jan Philipp Reemtsma |
March 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Last round | Graham Swift |
| 2 | The man who switched to soprano | John Updike |
| 3 | In the basement | Jan Philipp Reemtsma |
| 4th | The missing rest | Jürgen Becker |
| 5 | Poems 1954–1994 | Robert Gernhardt |
| 6th | The fly in the soup | Charles Simic |
| 7th | MOI | Heiko Michael Hartmann |
| 8th | Alphabet of feelings | Goffredo Parise |
| 9 | Escape pieces | Anne Michaels |
| 10 | The Parisian farmer | Louis Aragon |
April 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The wonderful counterfeiters | Rolf Vollmann |
| 2 | All the poems | Tomas Tranströmmer |
| 3 | MOI | Heiko Michael Hartmann |
| 4th | The missing rest | Jürgen Becker |
| 5 | Thirteenth Vertical Poetry | Roberto Juarroz |
| 6th | Mulligan Stew | Gilbert Sorrentino |
| 7th | no mans land | Pat Barker |
| 8th | The way to Surabaya | Christoph Ransmayr |
| 9 | The man who switched to soprano | John Updike |
| 10 | The walled-up windows | Alexandru Vona |
| 11 | Glass heart | Melissa Green |
May 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The raging around the world | Maarten 't Hart |
| 2 | Wrong feed | Marcel Beyer |
| 3 | Salve Res Publica Poetica | Paul Wühr |
| 4th | One dark night I left my silent house | Peter Handke |
| 5 | The wonderful counterfeiters | Rolf Vollmann |
| 6th | My time | Thomas Mann |
| 7th | And the stars flashed | John Ashbery |
| 8th | The walled-up windows | Alexandru Vona |
| 9 | The copyist's mistakes | Botho Strauss |
| 10 | Ä | Max Goldt |
| 11 | Angel in the snow | Stewart O'Nan |
| 12 | The way to Surabaya | Christoph Ransmayr |
| 13 | Medea and her children | Lyudmila Ulitzkaya |
June 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob is sleeping | Klaus Merz |
| 2 | The poems from the estate | Paul Celan |
| 3 | Salve Res Publica Poetica | Paul Wühr |
| 4th | Over the ice | Peter Kurzck |
| 5 | Angel in the snow | Stewart O'Nan |
| 6th | Adalina | Silvio Huonder |
| 7th | The way to Surabaya | Christoph Ransmayr |
| 8th | Wrong feed | Marcel Beyer |
| 9 | The copyist's mistakes | Botho Strauss |
| 10 | The raging around the world | Maarten 't Hart |
| 11 | Lichtenberg's case | Georg M. Oswald |
July 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adalina | Silvio Huonder |
| 2 | The poems from the estate | Paul Celan |
| 3 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| 4th | Salve Res Publica Poetica | Paul Wühr |
| 5 | The smoke over Birkenau | Liana Millu |
| 6th | Over the ice | Peter Kurzck |
| 7th | Your Passport is Not Guilty | Brigitte Oleschinski |
| 8th | steppe | Anton Chekhov |
| 9 | hypnosis | Hanna Krall |
| 10 | The copyist's mistakes | Botho Strauss |
| 11 | The girl and the knife thrower | Wolf Wondratschek |
| 12 | Am i a killer | Calel Perechodnik |
August 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Women's novel | Matthias Politycki |
| 2 | Your Passport is Not Guilty | Brigitte Oleschinski |
| 3 | The smoke over Birkenau | Liana Millu |
| 4th | The Handbook of the Inquisitors | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 5 | hypnosis | Hanna Krall |
| 6th | The luxury of exile | Louis Buss |
| 7th | Monkey dear Naupen dreadful historical confusion | Johann Fischart |
| 8th | The fire and the water test | Michael Maar |
| 9 | The cartographer | Per Olov Enquist |
| 10 | Light poems | Robert Gernhardt |
| 11 | A major | Katrin Askan |
September 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Handbook of the Inquisitors | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 2 | Monkey dear Naupen dreadful historical confusion | Johann Fischart |
| 3 | Light poems | Robert Gernhardt |
| 4th | Kapo | Aleksandar Tišma |
| 5 | Your Passport is Not Guilty | Brigitte Oleschinski |
| 6th | The missing head of Damasceno Monteiro | Antonio Tabucchi |
| 7th | The great Bagarozy | Helmut Krausser |
| 8th | The god of little things | Arundhati Roy |
| 9 | Hearing the genitive | Oskar Pastior |
| 10 | I thought they couldn't find us | Jens Sparschuh |
| 11 | Marbacher Magazin / special issue 78/1997 | edited by Hans-Albert Walter . line |
October 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kapo | Aleksandar Tišma |
| 2 | The Handbook of the Inquisitors | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 3 | Dog nights | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 4th | The complete work | Konstantinos Kavafis |
| 5 | The purpose of life is life | Jan-Christoph Hauschild / Michael Werner |
| 6th | Travel remains | Bruno Bayen |
| 7th | Read in the dark | Seamus Deane |
| 8th | The great Bagarozy | Helmut Krausser |
| 9 | Light poems | Robert Gernhardt |
| 10 | Galatea 2.2 | Richard Powers |
November 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paradise without borders | Lidia Jorge |
| 2 | Kapo | Aleksandar Tišma |
| 3 | Noise | Kathrin Röggla |
| 4th | Of Major Aebi's progressive transgressions | Gianluigi Melega |
| 5 | The invention of poetry | Raoul scrap |
| 6th | Hearing the genitive | Oskar Pastior |
| 7th | Dog nights | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 8th | Falling parents | AF Th. Van der Heijden |
| 9 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| 10 | Marcie Flint's trouble | John Cheever |
| 11 | Indivisible | Michael Hamburger |
| 12 | case | Ernst-Wilhelm dealer |
December 1997
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The process | Franz Kafka |
| 2 | Where is Berlin? | Alfred Kerr |
| 3 | Alberta welcomes a lover | Birgit Vanderbeke |
| 4th | Three little novels | Anton Chekhov |
| 5 | The diaries 1943–1977 | Hans Erich Nossack |
| 6th | Falling parents | AF Th. Van der Heijden |
| 7th | The invention of poetry | Raoul scrap |
| 8th | Silvatica | Helga M. Novak |
| 9 | Paradise without borders | Lidia Jorge |
| 10 | Noise | Kathrin Röggla |
Year 1998
January 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three little novels | Anton Chekhov |
| 2 | Alberta welcomes a lover | Birgit Vanderbeke |
| 3 | The diaries 1943–1977 | Hans Erich Nossack |
| 4th | Where is Berlin? | Alfred Kerr |
| 5 | Ink blots | Robert Pinget |
| 6th | window | Robert Creeley |
| 7th | The complete work | Konstantinos Kavafis |
| 8th | I thought they couldn't find us | Jens Sparschuh |
| 9 | Thirteenth vertical poetry | Roberto Juarroz |
| 10 | I have no regrets | Brigitte Reimann |
February 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomorrow in battle think of me | Javier Marias |
| 2 | The island of the second face | Albert Vigoleis Thelen |
| 3 | Alberta welcomes a lover | Birgit Vanderbeke |
| 4th | Where is Berlin? | Alfred Kerr |
| 5 | Berenice's hair | Thomas Kling / Catullus |
| 6th | window | Robert Creeley |
| 7th | U & I | Nicholson Baker |
| 8th | Shahrijar's ring | Dževad Karahasan |
| 9 | I would rather not have met today | Herta Müller |
| 10 | I thought they couldn't find us | Jens Sparschuh |
| 11 | Incisions on the pyramid of Mykerinos | Friedrich Aspetsberger |
March 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomorrow in battle think of me | Javier Marias |
| 2 | How you take it | Norbert Niemann |
| 3 | The plan | Gerhard Roth |
| 4th | At the rock window in the morning | Peter Handke |
| 5 | Looking for Marie | Madeleine Bourdouxhe |
| 6th | The lost one | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 7th | postscript 2 | Heimrad baker |
| 8th | Westerners | Richard Ford |
| 9 | Simple stories | Ingo Schulze |
| 10 | I would rather not have met today | Herta Müller |
| 11 | The distant Euphrates | Aryeh Lev Stollman |
| 12 | Sex II | Sibylle Berg |
April 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simple stories | Ingo Schulze |
| 2 | The lost one | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 3 | The plan | Gerhard Roth |
| 4th | Looking for Marie | Madeleine Bourdouxhe |
| 5 | Light years | James Salter |
| 6th | postscript 2 | Heimrad baker |
| 7th | Westerners | Richard Ford |
| 8th | The distant Euphrates | Aryeh Lev Stollman |
| 9 | Tomorrow in battle think of me | Javier Marias |
| 10 | Trivial novel | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 11 | The speed queen | Stewart O'Nan |
May 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Literary conditions and contemporaries | Karl August Boettiger |
| 3 | The bridge from the golden horn | Emine Sevgi Ozdamar |
| 4th | Simple stories | Ingo Schulze |
| 5 | The lost one | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 6th | Trivial novel | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 7th | The Museum of Unconditional Surrender | Dubravka Ugresic |
| 8th | The plan | Gerhard Roth |
| 9 | An unforgivingly gentle ending | Hermann Peter Piwitt |
| 10 | Light years | James Salter |
| 11 | I live when others are alive | Grete Weil |
June 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | I - another | Imre Kertész |
| 3 | Literary conditions and contemporaries | Karl August Boettiger |
| 4th | The time, the great artist | Marguerite Yourcenar |
| 5 | The museum of unconditional surrender | Dubravka Ugresic |
| 6th | The stories | Julio Cortazar |
| 7th | And love? I ask her | Liane Dirks |
| 8th | The long march | Rafael Chirbes |
| 9 | The bridge from the golden horn | Emine Sevgi Ozdamar |
| 10 | The speed queen | Stewart O'Nan |
| 11 | The palm house | Carlos Nascimento Silva |
July 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The long march | Rafael Chirbes |
| 2 | All the stories | Reinhard Lettau |
| 3 | Now is the time to see | Max Frisch |
| 4th | An unforgivingly gentle ending | Hermann Peter Piwitt |
| 5 | Everything tastes like goodbye | Brigitte Reimann |
| 6th | I - another | Imre Kertész |
| 7th | In the open | Karl-Heinz Ott |
| 8th | On the way to the stories | Gert Loschütz |
| 9 | The museum of unconditional surrender | Dubravka Ugresic |
| 10 | Literary conditions and contemporaries | Karl August Boettiger |
| 11 | The stories | Julio Cortazar |
| 12 | Chronicle from a dark world | Paul Steinberg |
August 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A leaping fountain | Martin Walser |
| 2 | What's the answer | Elisabeth Borchers |
| 3 | American idyll | Philip Roth |
| 4th | Now is the time to see | Max Frisch |
| 5 | God and the Wilmots | John Updike |
| 6th | All the stories | Reinhard Lettau |
| 7th | Free us | Bert Pinget |
| 8th | An unforgivingly gentle ending | Hermann Peter Piwitt |
| 9 | The long march | Rafael Chirbes |
| 10 | noblesse oblige | Alec Guinness |
September 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A leaping fountain | Martin Walser |
| 2 | American idyll | Philip Roth |
| 3 | Tomboy | Thomas Meinecke |
| 4th | God and the Wilmots | John Updike |
| 5 | The cashiers | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 6th | Blanche or The Atelier in the Garden | Paul Kornfeld |
| 7th | All the stories | Reinhard Lettau |
| 8th | Weather forecast | Michael Kruger |
| 9 | brütt or The Sighing Gardens | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 10 | The man who loved his children | Christina Stead |
| 11 | Cool stars | Hertha Kräftner |
October 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A leaping fountain | Martin Walser |
| 2 | The exchange of marriage letters. | Emilie and Theodor Fontane |
| 3 | Underworld | Don DeLillo |
| 4th | American idyll | Philip Roth |
| 5 | Before that comes | Thomas Kapielski |
| 6th | Correspondence | Max Frisch / Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
| 7th | Essays | Michel de Montaigne |
| 8th | Tomboy | Thomas Meinecke |
| 9 | Weather forecast | Michael Kruger |
| 10 | The cashiers | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 11 | Where else go, I have to fly ... | Klabund |
November 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Essays | Michel de Montaigne |
| 2 | Summer house, later | Judith Hermann |
| 3 | Jardin des Plantes | Claude Simon |
| 4th | Hanomag | Hella Eckert |
| 5 | The cashiers | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 6th | Underworld | Don DeLillo |
| 7th | The exchange of marriage letters | Emilie and Theodor Fontane |
| 8th | A garden in the north | Michael Kleeberg |
| 9 | brütt or the sighing gardens | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 10 | Franziska left hand | Brigitte Reimann |
| 11 | Anna and Franz | Franz Josef Czernin |
December 1998
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer house, later | Judith Hermann |
| 2 | Underworld | Don DeLillo |
| 3 | Libidissi | Georg Klein |
| 4th | A garden in the north | Michael Kleeberg |
| 5 | Opera novel | Petra Morsbach |
| 6th | The Gunnar Lennefsen Expedition | Kathrin Schmidt |
| 7th | edge | Hartmut Geerken |
| 8th | Essays | Michel de Montaigne |
| 9 | In memory | Dieter Forte |
| 10 | Agnes | Peter Stamm |
| 11 | My dear, wonderful blue rider | Else Lasker-Schüler / Franz Marc |
Year 1999
January 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summer house, later | Judith Hermann |
| 2 | Agnes | Peter Stamm |
| 3 | Collected Works | Johannes Bobrowski |
| 4th | edge | Hartmut Geerken |
| 5 | In memory | Dieter Forte |
| 6th | Opera novel | Petra Morsbach |
| 7th | The head of the poet | Per Højholt |
| 8th | The cashiers | Wilhelm Genazino |
February 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jardin des Plantes | Claude Simon |
| 2 | The tragedy of a people | Orlando Figes |
| 3 | Collected Works | Johannes Bobrowski |
| 4th | We are well so far. We are at the end for now | Volker Braun |
| 5 | The fake of the world | William Gaddis |
| 6th | Matricide | Jürgen Lodemann |
| 7th | futility | William Alexander Gerhardie |
| 8th | Perfect world | Walter Kempowski |
| 9 | In memory | Dieter Forte |
| 10 | Durus Arabij / Arabic lessons | Michael Roes |
| 11 | Cohn & King | Joachim Helfer |
March 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All Souls | Cees Nooteboom |
| 2 | The tragedy of a people | Orlando Figes |
| 3 | Pawel's letters | Monika Marron |
| 4th | Perfect world | Walter Kempowski |
| 5 | The beautiful font | Rafael Chirbes |
| 6th | Memories and thoughts. Years of apprenticeship in France | Golo man |
| 7th | City-Country-River | Christoph Peters |
| 8th | The coup of the Berdache | Michael Roes |
| 9 | The gray earth | Galsan Tschinag |
| 10 | The fake of the world | William Gaddis |
| 11 | Letters to Hartmut 1974–1975 | Rolf Dieter Brinkmann |
April 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loyalty and betrayal | Aleksandar Tišma |
| 2 | After the satires | Durs Grünbein |
| 3 | The world as a whole and in detail | Claudio Magris |
| 4th | The beautiful font | Rafael Chirbes |
| 5 | Sudden weather | Wulf Kirsten |
| 6th | Pigafetta | Felicitas Hoppe |
| 7th | The gray earth | Galsan Tschinag |
| 8th | All Souls | Cees Nooteboom |
| 9 | The incognito | Roberto Zapperi |
| 10 | Memories and Thoughts - Years of Apprenticeship in France | Golo man |
| 11 | Pawel's letters | Monika Marron |
| 12 | The application | Manfred Zach |
May 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | So I sit between all the chairs | Victor Klemperer |
| 2 | The beautiful font | Rafael Chirbes |
| 3 | When Freud saw the sea | Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt |
| 4th | Expansion of the combat zone | Michel Houellebecq |
| 5 | The world as a whole and in detail | Claudio Magris |
| 6th | After the satires | Durs Grünbein |
| 7th | Loyalty and betrayal | Aleksandar Tišma |
| 8th | Buddha's little finger | Viktor Pelevin |
| 9 | Cherubin Hammer and Cherubin Hammer | Peter Bichsel |
| 10 | The ground beneath your feet | Salman Rushdie |
| 11 | Errata | George Steiner |
| 12 | The shadow and the sundial | Paolo Maurensig |
June 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | There is no more river | Hanna Krall |
| 2 | After the satires | Durs Grünbein |
| 3 | The world as a whole and in detail | Claudio Magris |
| 4th | The ground beneath your feet | Salman Rushdie |
| 5 | Expansion of the combat zone | Michel Houellebecq |
| 6th | The Turkish woman | Martin Mosebach |
| 7th | The Magical Labyrinth - Volume 1 | Max Aub |
| 8th | tumulus | Volker Braun |
| 9 | Buddha's little finger | Viktor Pelevin |
| 10 | The stories | Alexander Pushkin |
| 11 | Errata | George Steiner |
July 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | There is no more river | Hanna Krall |
| 2 | The Magical Labyrinth - Volume 1 | Max Aub |
| 3 | An exchange of letters | Max Frisch / Uwe Johnson |
| 4th | tumulus | Volker Braun |
| 5 | The stories | Alexander Pushkin |
| 6th | Pigafetta | Felicitas Hoppe |
| 7th | The valley of the Issa | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 8th | Buddha's little finger | Viktor Pelevin |
| 9 | Edward's homecoming | Peter Schneider |
| 10 | The gray earth | Galsan Tschinag |
| 11 | The Swan | Guðbergur Bergsson |
August 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A gorgeous scrap dealer | Arnold Stadler |
| 2 | I can see what you can not see | Birgit Vanderbeke |
| 3 | There is no more river | Hanna Krall |
| 4th | The stories | Alexander Pushkin |
| 5 | An exchange of letters | Max Frisch / Uwe Johnson |
| 6th | The Egyptian Heinrich | Markus Werner |
| 7th | Vladimir Nabokov - The Russian Years 1899–1940 | Brian Boyd |
| 8th | The valley of the Issa | Czeslaw Milosz |
| 9 | The Finckensteins | Günter de Bruyn |
| 10 | Small travel guide to nowhere | Ingomar von Kieseritzky |
| 11 | University Hospital | Jörg Uwe Sauer |
September 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The shadow boxer | Inca Parei |
| 2 | The Egyptian Heinrich | Markus Werner |
| 3 | Small travel guide to nowhere | Ingomar von Kieseritzky |
| 4th | Lighter than air | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| 5 | I can see what you can not see | Birgit Vanderbeke |
| 6th | The rules of the game, 4 | Michel Leiris |
| 7th | A gorgeous scrap dealer | Arnold Stadler |
| 8th | Goethe 1790-1803 | Nicholas Boyle |
| 9 | The English years | Norbert Gstrein |
| 10 | Who have disappeared in the landscapes | Katarina Frostenson |
| 11 | Talk about happiness | Émilie du Châtelet |
October 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Egyptian Heinrich | Markus Werner |
| 2 | Give him language - life and death of the poet Aesop | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 3 | If - but then | Peter Rühmkorf |
| 4th | Lighter than air | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| 5 | You are my Moscow and my Rome and my little David | Ossip Mandelstam |
| 6th | The pudding of the apocalypse | Adolf Endler |
| 7th | The rules of the game, vol. 4 | Michel Leiris |
| 8th | Summer of trains | Stewart O'Nan |
| 9 | The flutter tongue | Friedrich Christian Delius |
| 10 | The correspondence | Uwe Johnson / Siegfried Unseld |
| 11 | Strange matter | Terézia Mora |
| 12 | All or none | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 13 | The heretical Orpheus | Gunnar Ekelöf |
November 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All or none | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 2 | If - but then | Peter Rühmkorf |
| 3 | Waste for everyone | Rainald Goetz |
| 4th | The correspondence | Uwe Johnson / Siegfried Unseld |
| 5 | Elementary particles | Michel Houellebecq |
| 6th | The embers | Sandor Marai |
| 7th | All the dramas | Christopher Marlowe |
| 8th | Welcome bob | Juan Carlos Onetti |
| 9 | From the history of the breakups | Jürgen Becker |
| 10 | Lighter than air | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
December 1999
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | If - but then | Peter Rühmkorf |
| 2 | Instructions to the crocodiles | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 3 | You are my Moscow and my Rome and my little David | Ossip Mandelstam |
| 4th | The great Babel, n | Ferdinand Schmatz |
| 5 | The embers | Sandor Marai |
| 6th | history | Claude Simon |
| 7th | From the history of the breakups | Jürgen Becker |
| 8th | Black ice | Peter Stamm |
| 9 | All or none | Ulrich Pelzer |
Year 2000
January 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long-distance trade | Thomas Kling |
| 2 | Black ice | Peter Stamm |
| 3 | Nabokov's cat | Thomas Lehr |
| 4th | Instructions to the crocodiles | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 5 | The great babel, n | Ferdinand Schmatz |
| 6th | The pudding of the apocalypse | Adolf Endler |
| 7th | You are my Moscow and my Rome and my little David | Ossip Mandelstam |
| 8th | history | Claude Simon |
| 9 | My husband, the communist | Philip Roth |
| 10 | The last draftsman | Robert Gernhardt |
February 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love escapes | Bernhard Schlink |
| 2 | The pudding of the apocalypse | Adolf Endler |
| 3 | posterity | Marlene Streeruwitz |
| 4th | Never mind | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 5 | Nabokov's cat | Thomas Lehr |
| 6th | In memoria. The wind of eternity grows stronger | Biagio Marin |
| 7th | Black ice | Peter Stamm |
| 8th | The novels | Alexander Pushkin |
| 9 | Olga - Pasternak's last love | György Dalos |
| 10 | Elementary particles | Michel Houellebecq |
March 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The provisional | Wolfgang Hilbig |
| 2 | Never mind | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 3 | shame | JM Coetzee |
| 4th | Love escapes | Bernhard Schlink |
| 5 | Tristan chord | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 6th | fire salamander | Jan Peter Bremer |
| 7th | Nabokov's cat | Thomas Lehr |
| 8th | Milk and coal | Ralf Rothmann |
| 9 | My midnight blue pants | David Wagner |
| 10 | In memoria. The wind of eternity grows stronger | Biagio Marin |
| 11 | The imagination is the reality | Wieland Förster |
April 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The provisional | Wolfgang Hilbig |
| 2 | Scholarly republic | Karl Mickel |
| 3 | shame | JM Coetzee |
| 4th | Tristan chord | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 5 | The Atlantic Wall | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 6th | Off the hook | Katrin Askan |
| 7th | Milk and coal | Ralf Rothmann |
| 8th | Would you please shut up, please | Raymond Carver |
| 9 | The mountain | Gerhard Roth |
| 10 | Beyond | Werner Fritsch |
| 11 | Dance late at night | Andre Dubus |
May 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scholarly republic | Karl Mickel |
| 2 | Would you please shut up, please | Raymond Carver |
| 3 | The particular | Botho Strauss |
| 4th | The mountain | Gerhard Roth |
| 5 | Off the hook | Katrin Askan |
| 6th | The provisional | Wolfgang Hilbig |
| 7th | Wore | Klaus Schlesinger |
| 8th | The state of mystery and poem of death | Inger Christensen |
| 9 | Breakfast with max | Ulrike Kolb |
| 10 | The smaller half of the world | Alissa Walser |
| 11 | Leaving the house where we made love | Urošzupan |
June 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What remains in the end | Paula Fox |
| 2 | Venus in the poodle | Paul Wühr |
| 3 | Wore | Klaus Schlesinger |
| 4th | The state of mystery and poem of death | Inger Christensen |
| 5 | The bride and groom | Alessandro Manzoni |
| 6th | My thoughts | Montesquieu |
| 7th | The death of Carlos Gardel | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 8th | Off the hook | Katrin Askan |
| 9 | The particular | Botho Strauss |
| 10 | Scholarly republic | Karl Mickel |
July 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Willenbrock | Christoph Hein |
| 2 | Venus in the poodle | Paul Wühr |
| 3 | Insane weather | Kathrin Röggla |
| 4th | Lights in Menlo Park | Raphael Urweider |
| 5 | The death of Carlos Gardel | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 6th | The bride and groom | Alessandro Manzoni |
| 7th | My thoughts | Montesquieu |
| 8th | What remains in the end | Paula Fox |
| 9 | Wore | Klaus Schlesinger |
| 10 | Diary written at night | Gustaw Herling |
| 11 | The world in the notebook | Ryszard Kapuscinski |
August 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Childhood home | Anna Mitgutsch |
| 2 | All that counts | Georg M. Oswald |
| 3 | Insane weather | Kathrin Röggla |
| 4th | Diary written at night | Gustaw Herling |
| 5 | How should one write poems there? | Peter Huchel |
| 6th | Belly landing | Julia Franck |
| 7th | The death of Carlos Gardel | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 8th | The Diaries, Volumes 1 and 2 | Sandor Marai |
| 9 | Generation P | Viktor Pelevin |
| 10 | Milk and coal | Ralf Rothmann |
| 11 | At the wrong place | Edward W. Said |
September 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | bad luck & dazzle | Lutz Seiler |
| 2 | All that counts | Georg M. Oswald |
| 3 | Teufelsbrück | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 4th | Generation P | Viktor Pelevin |
| 5 | Hampel's escapes | Michael Kumpfmüller |
| 6th | The cello player | Michael Kruger |
| 7th | pink | Thomas Harlan |
| 8th | Insane weather | Kathrin Röggla |
| 9 | Again and again everything | Jürgen Theobaldy |
| 10 | Villanella & Pantum | Oskar Pastior |
| 11 | orthodoxy | Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
October 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villanella & Pantum | Oskar Pastior |
| 2 | Teufelsbrück | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 3 | The last: Notes from Udo Posbich's print shop | Katja Lange-Müller |
| 4th | Hampel's escapes | Michael Kumpfmüller |
| 5 | The situation | Peter Weiss |
| 6th | Spies | Marcel Beyer |
| 7th | The really wanted | Volker Braun |
| 8th | Nietzsche | Rüdiger Safranski |
| 9 | With the ravens at the table | Johannes Kühn |
| 10 | The Stalin organ | Gert Single |
| 11 | love life | Zeruya Shalev |
November 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chronicle of feelings | Alexander Kluge |
| 2 | Teufelsbrück | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 3 | The world behind Dukla | Andrzej Stasiuk |
| 4th | The last: Notes from Udo Posbich's print shop | Katja Lange-Müller |
| 5 | The really wanted | Volker Braun |
| 6th | The soul seeker | Aris Fioretos |
| 7th | The return of the caravels | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 8th | greed | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 9 | Villanella & Pantum | Oskar Pastior |
| 10 | A long night | Martin Mosebach |
| 11 | I'm floating over Krakow | Adam Zagajewski |
| 12 | A lady lives in the topknot | Herta Müller |
December 2000
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Schatz in the watch case | Jan Koneffke |
| 2 | I'm floating over Krakow | Adam Zagajewski |
| 3 | Sparkling happiness | AL Kennedy |
| 4th | The love wish | Dieter Wellershoff |
| 5 | The fall of Madrid | Rafael Chirbes |
| 6th | Towards the end of time | John Updike |
| 7th | The lifeguard | Katharina Hacker |
| 8th | Chronicle of feelings | Alexander Kluge |
| 9 | The last: Notes from Udo Posbich's print shop | Katja Lange-Müller |
| 10 | Adrienne Mesurat | Julien Green |
| 11 | Authors, authors | Isolde Ohlbaum |
| 12 | Distraction | Hans Pleschinski |
Year 2001
January 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sparkling happiness | AL Kennedy |
| 2 | Life between the pages | Corinna Soria |
| 3 | The fall of Madrid | Rafael Chirbes |
| 4th | Chronicle of feelings | Alexander Kluge |
| 5 | The love wish | Dieter Wellershoff |
| 6th | I'm floating over Krakow | Adam Zagajewski |
| 7th | A year with Thomas Bernhard | Karl Ignaz Hennetmair |
| 8th | Already dead | Denis Johnson |
| 9 | Wäldchestag | Andreas Maier |
| 10 | In the beginning there was | Anne Weber |
| 11 | The soul seeker | Aris Fioretos |
February 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The crime of love in the middle of Europe | Marielouise Janssen-Jurreit |
| 2 | Sutter's luck | Adolf Muschg |
| 3 | The poorest! | Gabriele Goettle |
| 4th | A year with Thomas Bernhard | Karl Ignaz Hennetmair |
| 5 | Sparkling happiness | AL Kennedy |
| 6th | Life between the pages | Corinna Soria |
| 7th | The narrative work | Walter Serner |
| 8th | The love wish | Dieter Wellershoff |
| 9 | Already dead | Denis Johnson |
| 10 | Glass, irony and god | Anne Carson |
March 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austerlitz | WG Sebald |
| 2 | The visit of the personal doctor | Per Olov Enquist |
| 3 | The ignorance | Milan Kundera |
| 4th | Folds of life | Charles Simmons |
| 5 | Sutter's luck | Adolf Muschg |
| 6th | California years | Paula Fox |
| 7th | Answers by the wayside | Philippe Jaccottet |
| 8th | Now we satisfy our hunger | Christoph Bauer |
| 9 | An unnecessary victory | Anton Chekhov |
| 10 | The Stalin organ | Gert Single |
April 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The night of the timeless | Patrick Roth |
| 2 | Austerlitz | WG Sebald |
| 3 | The visit of the personal doctor | Per Olov Enquist |
| 4th | spring | Thomas Lehr |
| 5 | The big insult | Wolf Wondratschek |
| 6th | Answers by the wayside | Philippe Jaccottet |
| 7th | I have to go | Annette Pehnt |
| 8th | Requiem for Ernst Jandl | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 9 | Barbarian Rosa | Georg Klein |
| 10 | Folds of life | Charles Simmons |
| 11 | Waiting for the barbarians | JM Coetzee |
| 12 | show teeth | Zadie Smith |
May 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barbarian Rosa | Georg Klein |
| 2 | The visit of the personal doctor | Per Olov Enquist |
| 3 | spring | Thomas Lehr |
| 4th | Holder the polders | Urs Allemann |
| 5 | Requiem for Ernst Jandl | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 6th | childhood | Moses Rosary |
| 7th | Correspondence | Paul Celan / Gisèle Celan-Lestrange |
| 8th | SO | Norbert Zähringer |
| 9 | Mr. Brecher's fiasco | Martin Kessel |
| 10 | Red gloves | Eginald Schlattner |
| 11 | Refinement of the details | Johannes Jansen |
June 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cinema Naturale | Gianni Celati |
| 2 | Messenger substances | Thomas Kling |
| 3 | childhood | Moses Rosary |
| 4th | cathedral | Raymond Carver |
| 5 | Red gloves | Eginald Schlattner |
| 6th | The dream of reason | Michael Schneider |
| 7th | Little girl with strange hair | David Foster Wallace |
| 8th | spring | Thomas Lehr |
| 9 | The goat festival | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 10 | Correspondence | Paul Celan / Gisèle Celan-Lestrange |
| 11 | Barbarian Rosa | Georg Klein |
| 12 | Death in exile | Hermann Broch / Annemarie Meier-Graefe |
July 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | necropolis | Boris Pahor |
| 2 | Messenger substances | Thomas Kling |
| 3 | They came like swallows | William Maxwell |
| 4th | Little girl with strange hair | David Foster Wallace |
| 5 | Body time | Don DeLillo |
| 6th | Last poems | Ernst Jandl |
| 7th | Man And Woman | Zeruya Shalev |
| 8th | cells hired for the night | Ulrike Draesner |
| 9 | Death in exile | Hermann Broch / Annemarie Meier-Graefe |
| 10 | Burning cash | Ricardo Piglia |
| 11 | The special memory of Rosa Masur | Vladimir Vertlib |
August 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | An umbrella for that day | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 2 | The life course of love | Martin Walser |
| 3 | Miss Stark | Thomas Hürlimann |
| 4th | The expulsion from hell | Robert Menasse |
| 5 | A winter among deer | Ralf Rothmann |
| 6th | Invitation to dance | AL Kennedy |
| 7th | Polemics | Ivan Nagel |
| 7th | A house in Istria | Richard Swartz |
| 9 | Without a scream | Aleksandar Tišma |
| 10 | Body time | Don DeLillo |
| childhood | Moses Rosary |
September 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The life course of love | Martin Walser |
| 2 | An umbrella for that day | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 3 | Miss Stark | Thomas Hürlimann |
| 4th | Approximate landscape | Peter Stamm |
| 5 | All live like that | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 6th | Complete Works | Friedrich Holderlin |
| 7th | Eagle and angel | July toe |
| 8th | The expulsion from hell | Robert Menasse |
| 9 | The hidden word | Ulla Hahn |
| 10 | School of violence | Norbert Niemann |
| 11 | Tell me that You Love Me... | Erich Maria Remarque - Marlene Dietrich |
October 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The hiding place of the Minotaur | Undine Gruenter |
| 2 | Harmonia Caelestis | Péter Esterházy |
| 3 | An umbrella for that day | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 4th | Parlando | Bodo Kirchhoff |
| 5 | All live like that | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 6th | Natura morta | Josef Winkler |
| 7th | The hidden word | Ulla Hahn |
| 8th | School of violence | Norbert Niemann |
| 9 | Baudolino | Umberto Eco |
| 10 | Light Blue | Thomas Meinecke |
| 11 | Afterwards | Gottfried Benn |
November 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angel | Denis Johnson |
| 2 | The year of miracles | Rainer Merkel |
| 3 | La Beltà / splendor | Andrea Zanzotto |
| 4th | Harmonia Caelestis | Péter Esterházy |
| 5 | Trinkets | Jenny Erpenbeck |
| 6th | Light Blue | Thomas Meinecke |
| 7th | red | Uwe Timm |
| 8th | The first year | Durs Grünbein |
| 9 | The happiness of others | Stewart O'Nan |
| 10 | Afterwards - letters to Ursula Ziebarth | Gottfried Benn |
| 11 | The Arbogast case | Thomas Hettche |
| 12 | The Foglord | Martin Mosebach |
December 2001
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angel | Denis Johnson |
| 2 | The Kritikon | Baltasar Gracián |
| 3 | The Foglord | Martin Mosebach |
| 4th | Morning and evening | Jon Fosse |
| 5 | Bartleby & Co. | Enrique Vila-Matas |
| 6th | The young rebels | Sándor Márai |
| 7th | Young dogs | Martina Hefter |
| 8th | Trinkets | Jenny Erpenbeck |
| 9 | Colette Salmand | Emmanuel Bove |
| 10 | Harmonia Caelestis | Péter Esterházy |
| 11 | La Beltà / splendor | Andrea Zanzotto |
| 12 | Children's and Household Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm |
Year 2002
January 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porterous | Ferdinand Schmatz |
| 2 | Humoresques and satires 1880–1892 | Anton Chekhov |
| 3 | Bartleby & Co. | Enrique Vila-Matas |
| 4th | The Foglord | Martin Mosebach |
| 5 | A winter among deer | Ralf Rothmann |
| 6th | The Kritikon | Baltasar Gracián |
| 7th | Morning and evening | Jon Fosse |
| 8th | Correspondence 1901–1945 | Rudolf Borchardt / Rudolf Alexander Schröder |
| 9 | Film and doom | Ilse Aichinger |
| 10 | Mirrored sky | Jochen Missfeldt |
| 11 | An old lady went herring | Rich Schwab |
February 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The loss of image or through the Sierra de Gredos | Peter Handke |
| 2 | The human flaw | Philip Roth |
| 3 | Mirrored sky | Jochen Missfeldt |
| 4th | Porterous | Ferdinand Schmatz |
| 5 | Humoresques and satires 1880–1892 | Anton Chekhov |
| 6th | The experience of the world | Nicolas Bouvier |
| 7th | The disturbed Eros | Dieter Wellershoff |
| 8th | Morning and evening | Jon Fosse |
| 9 | Weather conditions | Julien Gracq |
| 10 | Anything but a hero | Rudolf Lorenzen |
| 11 | The finiteness of light | Susanne Riedel |
| 12 | The body of the salamander | Julia Schoch |
| 13 | Schiller's skull | Albrecht Schöne |
March 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The human flaw | Philip Roth |
| 2 | Bodily | Christa Wolf |
| 3 | Bryant Park | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 4th | Laura's silence | Paula Fox |
| 5 | The loss of image or through the Sierra de Gredos | Peter Handke |
| 6th | Almost a little bit of Spring | Alex Capus |
| 7th | Weather conditions | Julien Gracq |
| 8th | In the crab | Günter Grass |
| 9 | Grand Tour or the Night of the Great Complication | Steffen Kopetzky |
| 10 | Tiger Bay | Pedro Rosa Mendes |
| 11 | Siegfried and Krimhild | Jürgen Lodemann |
April 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bryant Park | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 2 | The human flaw | Philip Roth |
| 3 | Grand Tour or the Night of the Great Complication | Steffen Kopetzky |
| 4th | Tiger Bay | Pedro Rosa Mendes |
| 5 | dowry | Ulrike Draesner |
| 6th | Laura's silence | Paula Fox |
| 7th | Mrs. Merian! | Dieter Kühn |
| 8th | Four ways to bury my father | Liane Dirks |
| 9 | The short history of German literature | Heinz Schlaffer |
| 10 | Than | Thomas Lang |
| 11 | The life. Instructions for use | Georges Perec |
May 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run hunter run | Henning Ahrens |
| 2 | The tram | Claude Simon |
| 3 | Klausen | Andreas Maier |
| 4th | Mrs. Merian! | Dieter Kühn |
| 5 | Schiller's skull | Albrecht Schöne |
| 6th | The echo sounder | Walter Kempowski |
| 7th | Four ways to bury my father | Liane Dirks |
| 8th | dowry | Ulrike Draesner |
| 9 | Tropics in the dew - permutation | Stephan Krass |
| 10 | On the way to Messara | Andreas Schäfer |
| 11 | nine | Andrzej Stasiuk |
| 12 | The TV guest or How I learned to see the world | Kurt Oesterle |
June 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Siegfried and Krimhild | Jürgen Lodemann |
| 2 | Diogenes on the park bench | Fritz Rudolf Fries |
| 3 | The tram | Claude Simon |
| 4th | Genealogy of killing | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 5 | Klausen | Andreas Maier |
| 6th | His only son | Clarín |
| 7th | The echo sounder | Walter Kempowski |
| 8th | Reading prohibited | Dubravka Ugresic |
| 9 | I wish someone was waiting for me somewhere | Anna Gavalda |
| 10 | Run hunter run | Henning Ahrens |
| 11 | Schiller's skull | Albrecht Schöne |
| 12 | Geography | Marcel Beyer |
July 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The corrections | Jonathan Franzen |
| 2 | Siegfried and Krimhild | Jürgen Lodemann |
| 3 | Lena's love | Judith Kuckart |
| 4th | Spring collection | Kurt Drawert |
| 5 | Everything i loved | Aharon Appelfeld |
| 6th | Picasso sees red | László Garaczi |
| 7th | Klausen | Andreas Maier |
| 8th | Shilling shocker | Bodo Kirchhoff |
| 9 | Reading prohibited | Dubravka Ugresic |
| 10 | The aquarium | Thommie Bayer |
| 11 | dowry | Ulrike Draesner |
| 12 | The TV guest or How I learned to see the world | Kurt Oesterle |
| 13 | The silence is a sound | July toe |
August 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The earthly Cupid | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 2 | Complete edition in 8 volumes | Unica Zürn |
| 3 | The corrections | Jonathan Franzen |
| 4th | The valley of rituals | Fuad Rifka |
| 5 | Shilling shocker | Bodo Kirchhoff |
| 6th | Kreutzer Sonata | Margriet de Moor |
| 7th | The scorpion fish | Nicolas Bouvier |
| 8th | The TV guest or How I learned to see the world | Kurt Oesterle |
| 9 | The Murnausche gap | Jochen Schimmang |
| 10 | Death of a critic | Martin Walser |
| 11 | The Wanderer - Goethe in Italy | Norbert Miller |
September 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The young years | JM Coetzee |
| 2 | Apology | Ian McEwan |
| 3 | The earthly Cupid | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 4th | Elements, sonnets | Franz Josef Czernin |
| 5 | Complete edition in 8 volumes | Unica Zürn |
| 6th | Edge of the sea | Véronique Olmi |
| 7th | Kreutzer Sonata | Margriet de Moor |
| 8th | The current | Gerhard Roth |
| 9 | The blue dress | Doris Dörrie |
| 10 | sister | Keto from Waberer |
| 11 | Fragments from the mountain used for the country road | André du Bouchet |
October 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | First person | Anne Weber |
| 2 | Apology | Ian McEwan |
| 3 | Everything you need | AL Kennedy |
| 4th | sister | Keto from Waberer |
| 5 | Elements, sonnets | Franz Josef Czernin |
| 6th | Op Oloop | Juan Filloy |
| 7th | The bent sound | Matthias Hermann |
| 8th | Terminal moraines | Monika Marron |
| 9 | The current | Gerhard Roth |
| 10 | Kissed away | Angela Krauss |
| 11 | Edge of the sea | Véronique Olmi |
| 12 | Short interviews with nasty men | David Foster Wallace |
| 13 | Auto-da-fe | George Tabori |
November 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | When we die | Ernst-Wilhelm dealer |
| 2 | Apology | Ian McEwan |
| 3 | Everything you need | AL Kennedy |
| 4th | Rabbit, a return | John Updike |
| 5 | Terminal moraines | Monika Marron |
| 6th | cases | Daniil Charms |
| 7th | The swimmer | Zsuzsa Bánk |
| 8th | The bent sound | Matthias Hermann |
| 9 | Gould's Book of Fish | Richard Flanagan |
| 10 | Portrait of someone invisible | Hans Pleschinski |
| 11 | technical languages X-XVIII | Ulf Stolterfoht |
| 12 | Like in an endless stream | Herrad Schenk |
December 2002
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albert Drach | Eva Schobel |
| 2 | Exercises to a riot | Friederike Kretzen |
| 3 | Gould's Book of Fish | Richard Flanagan |
| 4th | Koenig's children | Kathrin Schmidt |
| 5 | Monsieur Ibrahim and the flowers of the Koran | Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt |
| 6th | Everything you need | AL Kennedy |
| 7th | The conversion format | Melitta Breznik |
| 8th | cases | Daniil Charms |
| 9 | The sea alone | Amos Oz |
| 10 | He and she / that ends well | Anton Chekhov |
| 11 | Portrait of someone invisible | Hans Pleschinski |
| 12 | technical languages X-XVIII | Ulf Stolterfoht |
| 13 | Artificial breathing | Ricardo Piglia |
Year 2003
January 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cases | Daniil Charms |
| 2 | Life to tell about it | Gabriel García Marquez |
| 3 | Ideas on the philosophy of human history | Johann Gottfried Herder |
| 4th | Koenig's children | Kathrin Schmidt |
| 5 | The sea alone | Amos Oz |
| 6th | The current | Gerhard Roth |
| 7th | The beginning of a vanished age | Konstantin Paustowski |
| 8th | He and she / that ends well | Anton Chekhov |
| 9 | Minute amendments | István Örkény |
| 10 | Investigation on girls | Albert Drach |
| 11 | Exercises to a riot | Friederike Kretzen |
| 12 | Soldiers from Salamis | Javier Cercas |
February 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing but ghosts | Judith Hermann |
| 2 | Malibu | Leon de Winter |
| 3 | First person | Anne Weber |
| 4th | Investigation on girls | Albert Drach |
| 5 | The circus fire | Stewart O'Nan |
| 6th | Life to tell about it | Gabriel García Marquez |
| 7th | The beginning of a vanished age | Konstantin Paustowski |
| 8th | Koenig's children | Kathrin Schmidt |
| 9 | Kaddish I - X | Paulus Böhmer |
| 10 | We have a land of words | Mahmud Darwish |
March 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The dying animal | Philip Roth |
| 2 | Me and Kaminski | Daniel Kehlmann |
| 3 | Montgomery | Sibylle Lewitscharoff |
| 4th | Paradises, overseas | Felicitas Hoppe |
| 5 | The sleep of the righteous | Wolfgang Hilbig |
| 6th | Nothing but ghosts | Judith Hermann |
| 7th | A new refutation of time | Jorge Luis Borges |
| 8th | Lewis trip | Per Olov Enquist |
| 9 | heat | Ralf Rothmann |
| 10 | The person person | Barbara King |
April 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Contempt and taboo | Klaus Briegleb |
| 2 | Journey to the end of the night | Louis-Ferdinand Celine |
| 3 | A woman, an apartment, a novel | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 4th | Everything is enlightened | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| 5 | Montgomery | Sibylle Lewitscharoff |
| 6th | The unfinished | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 7th | Me and Kaminski | Daniel Kehlmann |
| 8th | Uc | Helmut Krausser |
| 9 | The sleep of the righteous | Wolfgang Hilbig |
| 10 | The face | Joachim Zelter |
| 11 | A bed of snow | Roswitha Haring |
May 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A woman, an apartment, a novel | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 2 | The unfinished | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 3 | Götz and Meyer | David Albahari |
| 4th | Berlin - Moscow | Wolfgang Büscher |
| 5 | heat | Ralf Rothmann |
| 6th | The story of the clouds | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| 7th | Everything is enlightened | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| 8th | A bed of snow | Roswitha Haring |
| 9 | Summer guests in Trouville | Undine Gruenter |
| 10 | A woman from America | Susanne Riedel |
| 11 | Candide or the optimism | Voltaire |
June 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| 2 | Götz and Meyer | David Albahari |
| 3 | The book of unrest by the assistant accountant Bernardo Soares | Fernando Pessoa |
| 4th | A woman, an apartment, a novel | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 5 | An invisible land | Stephan Wackwitz |
| 6th | A woman in Berlin | Anonymous |
| 7th | Bitter almonds | Max Aub |
| 8th | heat | Ralf Rothmann |
| 9 | The black ridge | Burkhard spiders |
| 10 | The ignorant | Philippe Jaccottet |
July 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | As a guest | Peter Kurzck |
| 2 | The book of unrest by the assistant accountant Bernardo Soares | Fernando Pessoa |
| 3 | Götz and Meyer | David Albahari |
| 4th | Improved output | Péter Esterházy |
| 5 | An invisible land | Stephan Wackwitz |
| 6th | The Aspern Fonts | Henry James |
| 7th | A woman in Berlin | Anonymous |
| 8th | Doctor Schleyer's isabelle-colored winter school | Peter Bichsel |
| 9 | Injured look | Rabah Belamri |
| 10 | Trilogy of the next goals | Jürgen Theobaldy |
| 11 | Twelve | Nick McDonell |
August 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Aspern Fonts | Henry James |
| 2 | As a guest | Peter Kurzck |
| 3 | The book of unrest by the assistant accountant Bernardo Soares | Fernando Pessoa |
| 4th | The craft of killing | Norbert Gstrein |
| 5 | Messmer's travels | Martin Walser |
| 6th | Improved output | Péter Esterházy |
| 7th | Doctor Schleyer's isabelle-colored winter school | Peter Bichsel |
| 8th | Fiskadoro | Denis Johnson |
| 9 | Lost property office | Siegfried Lenz |
| 10 | Twelve | Nick McDonell |
| 11 | Girls on the run | John Ashbery |
September 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The craft of killing | Norbert Gstrein |
| 2 | The school of the naked | Ernst Augustin |
| 3 | thirst | Michael Kumpfmüller |
| 4th | Messmer's travels | Martin Walser |
| 5 | Campfire | Julia Franck |
| 6th | Using my brother's example | Uwe Timm |
| 7th | Tristan da Cunha | Raoul scrap |
| 8th | Party in the flash | Elias Canetti |
| 9 | Kill mother | Juerg Amann |
| 10 | Anabasis | Rudolf Borchardt |
| 11 | so you | Doris Runge |
| 12 | In heaven | Georg M. Oswald |
October 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The king bows and kills | Herta Müller |
| 2 | Using my brother's example | Uwe Timm |
| 3 | The night with Alice when Julia sneaked around the house | Botho Strauss |
| 4th | Tristan da Cunha | Raoul scrap |
| 5 | One day a year | Christa Wolf |
| 6th | Reading instead of climbing | Hugo Loetscher |
| 7th | Viktor Vavich | Boris Shitkov |
| 8th | Anabasis | Rudolf Borchardt |
| 9 | Campfire | Julia Franck |
| 10 | Campo Santo | WG Sebald |
| 11 | Declaration of love | Michael Lentz |
November 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time telescope | Vyacheslav Kupriyanov |
| 2 | liquidation | Imre Kertész |
| 3 | forty kilometers at night | Lutz Seiler |
| 4th | Learn to live | Peter Härtling |
| 5 | Using my brother's example | Uwe Timm |
| 6th | The void the devil leaves | Alexander Kluge |
| 7th | Viktor Vavich | Boris Shitkov |
| 8th | Different | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 9 | Campfire | Julia Franck |
| 10 | A brief history of fly fishing | Paulus Hochgatterer |
| 11 | Reading instead of climbing | Hugo Loetscher |
| 12 | Klaras NO | Soazig Aaron |
December 2003
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some don't | Ford Madox Ford |
| 2 | The cloth of night | Christoph Peters |
| 3 | Almond Jam | Ralph Dutli |
| 4th | In heaven | Georg M. Oswald |
| 5 | Journey in the moonlight | Antal Szerb |
| 6th | the arrow of time | Herbert J. Wimmer |
| 7th | The big reading book | Alfred Polgar |
| 8th | A brief history of fly fishing | Paulus Hochgatterer |
| 9 | forty kilometers at night | Lutz Seiler |
| 10 | Nothing in sight | Jens Rehn |
Year 2004
January 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some don't | Ford Madox Ford |
| 2 | What will I do when everything burns? | Antonio Lobo Antunes |
| 3 | Troublemaker | Fritz J. Raddatz |
| 4th | Different | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 5 | Half swimmer | Katja Oskamp |
| 6th | In heaven | Georg M. Oswald |
| 7th | The king bows and kills | Herta Müller |
| 8th | the arrow of time | Herbert J. Wimmer |
| 9 | The foreigner | Gernot Wolfram |
| 10 | Robert Musil | Karl Corino |
February 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Halloween | Stewart O'Nan |
| 2 | How was it really | John Updike |
| 3 | Winner on points | Thorsten Becker |
| 4th | Conquest (novel) | Christoph Hein |
| 5 | The father's book | Urs Widmer |
| 6th | Some don't | Ford Madox Ford |
| 7th | Journey in the moonlight | Antal Szerb |
| 8th | The 120 days of Berlin | Lukas Hammerstein |
| 9 | The trip to the north | Elizabeth Bowen |
| 10 | Bad luck for George | Paula Fox |
| 11 | My father's century | Geert Mak |
March 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winner on points | Thorsten Becker |
| 2 | The father's book | Urs Widmer |
| 3 | The Karamazov brothers | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 4th | John Henry Days | Colson Whitehead |
| 5 | How was it really | John Updike |
| 6th | The locked garden | Undine Gruenter |
| 7th | Conquest (novel) | Christoph Hein |
| 8th | Back then | Reinhard Baumgart |
| 9 | There is a person walking | Alexander Granach |
| 10 | The return of the hooligan | Norman Manea |
| 11 | The accordion player | Marie-Luise Scherer |
| 12 | From the immediate unreality | M. Blecher |
April 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visit to Cerberus | Anne Weber |
| 2 | The accordion player | Marie-Luise Scherer |
| 3 | The one below on tiptoe | Botho Strauss |
| 4th | We don't sleep | Kathrin Röggla |
| 5 | From all heavens | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 6th | Jesus of Texas | DBC Pierre |
| 7th | A box of matches | Nicholson Baker |
| 8th | Back then | Reinhard Baumgart |
| 9 | The locked garden | Undine Gruenter |
| 10 | Shop talk | Philip Roth |
| 11 | Fredy Neptune | Les Murray |
May 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fredy Neptune | Les Murray |
| 2 | The accordion player | Marie-Luise Scherer |
| 3 | A box of matches | Nicholson Baker |
| 4th | twilight | Erasmus Schöfer |
| 5 | Red and black | Stendhal |
| 6th | through and through | Zsuzsanna Gahse |
| 7th | We don't sleep | Kathrin Röggla |
| 8th | Living in Germany. | Said |
| 9 | Twelve grams of luck | Feridun Zaimoglu |
| 10 | tokyo, echo or we'll build the shaft of babel, continue | Ferdinand Schmatz |
June 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | through and through | Zsuzsanna Gahse |
| 2 | From all heavens | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 3 | We don't sleep | Kathrin Röggla |
| 4th | earth life pictures | Wulf Kirsten |
| 5 | The sound of time | Richard Powers |
| 6th | twilight | Erasmus Schöfer |
| 7th | A box of matches | Nicholson Baker |
| 8th | A cherry stone in March | Peter Kurzck |
| 9 | The secret diaries | Samuel Pepys |
| 10 | There is a person walking | Alexander Granach |
July 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inscribed stone and other poems | Yves Bonnefoy |
| 2 | A cherry stone in March | Peter Kurzck |
| 3 | The sound of time | Richard Powers |
| 4th | earth life pictures | Wulf Kirsten |
| 5 | through and through | Zsuzsanna Gahse |
| 6th | Turn of the year | Gerhard Kelling |
| 7th | Criminals and Failures | Felicitas Hoppe |
| 8th | Samarkand and other markets I've been to | Wole Soyinka |
| 9 | The suicide sisters | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| 10 | The secret diaries | Samuel Pepys |
| 11 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
August 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | On a slope | Markus Werner |
| 2 | The moment of love | Martin Walser |
| 3 | Young light | Ralf Rothmann |
| 4th | The writing of the stones | Roger Caillois |
| 5 | The sun is shining on us | Georg Klein |
| 6th | The unoccupied area | Volker Braun |
| 7th | Jerome O'Toole's love of salmon | Alice Virmond |
| 8th | The correspondence with the Goncourt brothers | Gustave Flaubert |
| 9 | A cherry stone in March | Peter Kurzck |
| 10 | Life of the Little Dead | Pierre Michon |
| 11 | Universal Encyclopedia of Human Stupidity | Gustave Flaubert |
September 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Young light | Ralf Rothmann |
| 2 | Don juan | Peter Handke |
| 3 | The unoccupied area | Volker Braun |
| 4th | The dean | Lars Gustafsson |
| 5 | A chapter from my life | Barbara Honigmann |
| 6th | Jerome O'Toole's love of salmon | Alice Virmond |
| 7th | Where the sea begins | Bodo Kirchhoff |
| 8th | The correspondence with the Goncourt brothers | Gustave Flaubert |
| 9 | The sun is shining on us | Georg Klein |
| 10 | Life of the Little Dead | Pierre Michon |
| 11 | On a slope | Markus Werner |
| 12 | Curious about the world | Robert Lebeck |
October 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All days | Terézia Mora |
| 2 | On the other side of the world | Dieter Forte |
| 3 | Taboo II | Peter Rühmkorf |
| 4th | The unoccupied area | Volker Braun |
| 5 | Young light | Ralf Rothmann |
| 6th | Ghost song | Wieland friend |
| 7th | Starlite Terrace | Patrick Roth |
| 8th | Dialogues between immortals, living and dead | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| 9 | A chapter from my life | Barbara Honigmann |
| 10 | The stretched look | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 11 | Encounters - Intersection | Joachim Fest |
November 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poems | Nicolas Born |
| 2 | The free women | Irina Liebmann |
| 3 | Taboo II | Peter Rühmkorf |
| 4th | A story of love and darkness | Amos Oz |
| 5 | The stretched look | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 6th | Desire for music and mountains | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 7th | Starlite Terrace | Patrick Roth |
| 8th | On the other side of the world | Dieter Forte |
| 9 | Heaven at your feet | Sandra Hoffmann |
| 10 | Spirit flow | Brigitte Oleschinski |
| 11 | A perfect waiter | Alain Claude Sulzer |
| 12 | Where the sea begins | Bodo Kirchhoff |
December 2004
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A story of love and darkness | Amos Oz |
| 2 | A love on the Tiber | Jan Koneffke |
| 3 | Water green | Marisa Madieri |
| 4th | Collected poems | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 5 | Taboo II | Peter Rühmkorf |
| 6th | A perfect waiter | Alain Claude Sulzer |
| 7th | C. | Ivan Bunin |
| 8th | Tender Buttons - Delicate buttons | Gertrude Stein |
| 9 | My year as a murderer | Friedrich Christian Delius |
| 10 | Ezekiel's machine | Fritz Rudolf Fries |
| 11 | Conquering the useless | Werner Herzog |
| 12 | Diary from 1954 | Alice Schmidt |
Year 2005
January 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collected poems | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 2 | Memories of my sad whores | Gabriel García Marquez |
| 3 | No more parades | Ford Madox Ford |
| 4th | Desire for music and mountains | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 5 | Train dreams | Denis Johnson |
| 6th | Schiller or | Rüdiger Safranski |
| 7th | Water green | Marisa Madieri |
| 8th | Letters of friendship | Ingeborg Bachmann / Hans Werner Henze |
| 9 | Light whisk made of lead | Stephan Krass |
| 10 | heaven and hell | Alice Munro |
| 11 | 0 | Henry David Thoreau |
February 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seek my face | John Updike |
| 2 | Story of a life | Aharon Appelfeld |
| 3 | The love stupidity | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 4th | the maze | Gerhard Roth |
| 5 | Train dreams | Denis Johnson |
| 6th | Letters of friendship | Ingeborg Bachmann / Hans Werner Henze |
| 7th | Collected poems | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 8th | Desire for music and mountains | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 9 | taste | Andrei Bitov |
| 10 | Bouvard and Pécuchet | Gustave Flaubert |
| 11 | Water green | Marisa Madieri |
| 12 | A thousand and one passions | Volker Muller |
March 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The love stupidity | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 2 | Evaluation of the flight data | Thomas Kling |
| 3 | Vienna | Eva Menasse |
| 4th | the maze | Gerhard Roth |
| 5 | I want to become a wild apple tree | Attila József |
| 6th | The echo sounder | Walter Kempowski |
| 7th | Dead acquaintances | Patricia Görg |
| 8th | A man's heart | William Boyd |
| 9 | On Sundays I thought of God | Lutz Seiler |
| 10 | Seek my face | John Updike |
| 11 | Theory pharmacy | Jochen Hörisch |
April 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nebbich | Adolf Endler |
| 2 | A man's heart | William Boyd |
| 3 | snow | Orhan Pamuk |
| 4th | Evaluation of the flight data | Thomas Kling |
| 5 | Swan '45 | Walter Kempowski |
| 6th | Twelve rings | Yuri Andrukhovych |
| 7th | White water | Tim Parks |
| 8th | Poems | Jesse Thoor |
| 9 | I want to become a wild apple tree | Attila József |
| 10 | On Sundays I thought of God | Lutz Seiler |
| 11 | My hero's place | Lajos Parti Nagy |
May 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evaluation of the flight data | Thomas Kling |
| 2 | The excited | Karin Kersten |
| 3 | Twelve rings | Yuri Andrukhovych |
| 4th | snow | Orhan Pamuk |
| 5 | Back to go! | Martina Hefter |
| 6th | Westward 1 & 2 | Rolf Dieter Brinkmann |
| 7th | On Sundays I thought of God | Lutz Seiler |
| 8th | Exposed | Joyce Carol Oates |
| 9 | White water | Tim Parks |
| 10 | The adventures and wanderings of Gaviero Maqroll | Álvaro Mutis |
| 11 | Acacia and orion | Rolf Vollmann |
| 12 | Corpse Collector / The Shipyard | Juan Carlos Onetti |
June 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The origin of the world | Jorge Edwards |
| 2 | Journey to the moon and the sun | Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 3 | The excited | Karin Kersten |
| 4th | Offside | Günter de Bruyn |
| 5 | Corpse Collector / The Shipyard | Juan Carlos Onetti |
| 6th | The adventures and wanderings of Gaviero Maqroll | Álvaro Mutis |
| 7th | Ohio | Ruth Schweikert |
| 8th | Works in two volumes | Hans Keilson |
| 9 | Kirillov | Andreas Maier |
| 10 | Boarding home | Guillermo Rosales |
July 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journey to the moon and the sun | Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 2 | So are we | Gila Funny |
| 3 | Corpse Collector / The Shipyard | Juan Carlos Onetti |
| 4th | Cliff | Jochen Missfeldt |
| 5 | Five words | David Albahari |
| 6th | The love of the sailors | Annette Mingels |
| 7th | Terrified, but not desperate | Mihail Sebastian |
| 8th | The adventures and wanderings of Gaviero Maqroll | Álvaro Mutis |
| 9 | Confessions of an Italian | Ippolito Nievo |
| 10 | snow | Orhan Pamuk |
August 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturday | Ian McEwan |
| 2 | The illiterate | Agota Kristof |
| 3 | Cliff | Jochen Missfeldt |
| 4th | Journey to the moon and the sun | Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 5 | The pilgrim and his bowl | Philippe Jaccottet |
| 6th | The 1968/69 financial year | Bernd Cailloux |
| 7th | Luisa | Paula Fox |
| 8th | Corpse Collector / The Shipyard | Juan Carlos Onetti |
| 9 | Human flight | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 10 | The life of Antoine B. | Paul Nizan |
| 11 | Records of a Notorious Swimmer | Paul Morand |
September 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conspiracy against America | Philip Roth |
| 2 | Yesterday on the road | Peter Handke |
| 3 | And I shook a darling | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 4th | The invocation | Lutz Seiler |
| 5 | Incredible trips | Ilse Aichinger |
| 6th | The illiterate | Agota Kristof |
| 7th | The Turin Comedy | Michael Kruger |
| 8th | Human flight | Hans-Ulrich Treichel |
| 9 | Saturday | Ian McEwan |
| 10 | Normal life | Dieter Wellershoff |
| 11 | Broken | Curzio Malaparte |
October 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Measuring the World | Daniel Kehlmann |
| 2 | Dark society | Gert Loschütz |
| 3 | Collected poems 1939–2005 | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 4th | We are fine | Arno Geiger |
| 5 | Conspiracy against America | Philip Roth |
| 6th | The distant garden | Hwang Sok-Yong |
| 7th | Life and writing | Martin Walser |
| 8th | paradise | AL Kennedy |
| 9 | The beauty line | Alan Hollinghurst |
| 10 | Saturday | Ian McEwan |
| 11 | Dondog | Antoine Volodine |
November 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apostate | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 2 | Paradise lost | Cees Nooteboom |
| 3 | paradise | AL Kennedy |
| 4th | New life | Ingo Schulze |
| 5 | Dark society | Gert Loschütz |
| 6th | We are fine | Arno Geiger |
| 7th | Measuring the World | Daniel Kehlmann |
| 8th | Selina or The Other Life | Walter Kappacher |
| 9 | The quake | Martin Mosebach |
| 10 | Seebach's black cats | Kathrin Schmidt |
| 11 | The Turin Comedy | Michael Kruger |
December 2005
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suite française | Irène Némirovsky |
| 2 | New life | Ingo Schulze |
| 3 | Apostate | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 4th | The dog life of Juanita Narboni | Ángel Vázquez |
| 5 | Selina or The Other Life | Walter Kappacher |
| 6th | Unstable texts | Zsuzsanna Gahse |
| 7th | Seebach's black cats | Kathrin Schmidt |
| 8th | Everything we had to give | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 9 | Hofmannsthal | Ulrich Weinzierl |
| 10 | The quake | Martin Mosebach |
| 11 | The Sonnets - The Sonnets | William Shakespeare |
Year 2006
January 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Selina or the other life | Walter Kappacher |
| 2 | Hofmannsthal | Ulrich Weinzierl |
| 3 | The quake | Martin Mosebach |
| 4th | Everything we had to give | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 5 | My journey with Herodotus | Ryszard Kapuś ski |
| 6th | New life | Ingo Schulze |
| 7th | Suite française | Irène Némirovsky |
| 8th | Unstable texts | Zsuzsanna Gahse |
| 9 | The pregnant Madonna | Peter Henisch |
| 10 | Once more Marseille | Björn Kern |
| 11 | Dark society | Gert Loschütz |
February 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | My journey with Herodotus | Ryszard Kapuś ski |
| 2 | Country Life | John Updike |
| 3 | Near Jedenew | Kevin Vennemann |
| 4th | Unstable texts | Zsuzsanna Gahse |
| 5 | The pregnant Madonna | Peter Henisch |
| 6th | East and West / The rest of the world | William Somerset Maugham |
March 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A life as a dwarf | Urs Widmer |
| 2 | The intrigue | Peter of Matt |
| 3 | souvenir | Lars Brandt |
| 4th | steal horses | Per Petterson |
| 5 | Nice literature | Martin Mosebach |
| 6th | The animation of the blind spots | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 7th | chimney | Jan factor |
April 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The have-nots | Katharina Hacker |
| 2 | When you look through the world like that | Ernst Herbeck |
| 3 | When we were dreaming | Clemens Meyer |
| 4th | chimney | Jan factor |
| 5 | I stand on the stairs of the wind | Rolf Bossert |
| 6th | The world collector | Ilija Trojanow |
May 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Letter to the oasis | Joseph Brodsky |
| 2 | The world collector | Ilija Trojanow |
| 3 | Consummatus | Sibylle Lewitscharoff |
| 4th | School of the unemployed | Joachim Zelter |
| 5 | Eleven types of solitude | Richard Yates |
| 6th | A deceptive summer | Sybille Bedford |
| 7th | The have-nots | Katharina Hacker |
| 8th | The nightly enlightenment of the civil servant Varamo | César Aira |
| 9 | Journey to the center of the heart | Ludwig Fels |
June 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The sound of the fathers | Helmut Lethen |
| 2 | The nightly enlightenment of the civil servant Varamo | César Aira |
| 3 | Consummatus | Sibylle Lewitscharoff |
| 4th | Milene | Lídia Jorge |
| 5 | Whores for Gloria | William T. Vollmann |
| 6th | Introduction to beautiful literature | Péter Esterházy |
| 7th | Jesus' son | Denis Johnson |
| 8th | The world collector | Ilija Trojanow |
July 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diary 1964–1976 East Berlin | Einar Schleef |
| 2 | Jesus' son | Denis Johnson |
| 3 | A summer in Baden-Baden | Leonid Zypkin |
| 4th | Josefine and me | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| 5 | Introduction to beautiful literature | Péter Esterházy |
| 6th | The novels | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
August 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | On a day like this | Peter Stamm |
| 2 | Fear bloom | Martin Walser |
| 3 | The novels | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 4th | A summer in Baden-Baden | Leonid Zypkin |
| 5 | Murder on ffolkes manor | Gilbert Adair |
| 6th | Diary 1964–1976 East Berlin | Einar Schleef |
September 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What we are made of | Thomas Hettche |
| 2 | Anyone | Philip Roth |
| 3 | Fear bloom | Martin Walser |
| 4th | Poor fools | Andrea Winkler |
| 5 | On a day like this | Peter Stamm |
October 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger | Antonia Grunenberg |
| 2 | Age | Silvia Bovenschen |
| 3 | The weather 15 years ago | Wolf Haas |
| 4th | Here where we meet | John Berger |
| 5 | Forty roses | Thomas Hürlimann |
November 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scary company | Carlos Fuentes |
| 2 | The weather 15 years ago | Wolf Haas |
| 3 | Age | Silvia Bovenschen |
December 2006
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Careful positioning | Péter Nádas |
| 2 | Istanbul | Orhan Pamuk |
| 3 | Why thinking makes you sad | George Steiner |
| 4th | The threat | Gert Loschütz |
| 5 | Clear contours | Nico Bleutge |
| 6th | The year of magical thinking | Joan Didion |
| 7th | Portrait of the mother as a young woman | Friedrich Christian Delius |
| 8th | Age | Silvia Bovenschen |
Year 2007
January 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Copenhagen Journal | Peter Weiss |
| 2 | A hero of our time | Mikhail Lermontov |
| 3 | Istanbul | Orhan Pamuk |
| 4th | My mother's lovers | Ulrike Edschmid |
| 5 | Mirage | Gianni Celati |
| 6th | The year of magical thinking | Joan Didion |
February 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The hour between dog and wolf | Silke Scheuermann |
| 2 | Years under them | Hermann Peter Piwitt |
| 3 | Open 24 hours | Jürgen Theobaldy |
| 4th | A hero of our time | Mikhail Lermontov |
| 5 | The following pages | Jürgen Becker |
March 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two lives and one day | Anna Mitgutsch |
| 2 | mobile phone | Ingo Schulze |
| 3 | Grace and grace | Wolfgang Schlueter |
April 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamburger Hochbahn | Ulf Erdmann Ziegler |
| 2 | mobile phone | Ingo Schulze |
| 3 | Colder layers of air | Antje Rávic Strubel |
| 4th | The invisible cities | Italo Calvino |
| 5 | Tall fir trees | Karin Kersten |
| 6th | The nine dreams of Genghis Khan | Galsan Tschinag |
May 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tall fir trees | Karin Kersten |
| 2 | The unrest zone | Jonathan Franzen |
| 3 | October and who we are | Peter Kurzck |
| 4th | Phi Phi Island | Josef Haslinger |
June 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | October and who we are | Peter Kurzck |
| 2 | Romantics | Annette Mingels |
| 3 | The battered animal | Martin Walser |
July 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come on let's go | Arnold Stadler |
| 2 | Wallner begins to fly | Thomas von Steinaecker |
| 3 | You love me you don't love me | Jonathan Lethem |
| 4th | Phi Phi Island | Josef Haslinger |
August 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The location of the country | Richard Ford |
| 2 | At the beach | Ian McEwan |
| 3 | Through the snow | Varlam Shalamov |
| 4th | Pfeifer's travels | Ror Wolf |
| 5 | The moon and the girl | Martin Mosebach |
| 6th | Come on let's go | Arnold Stadler |
| 7th | Wallner begins to fly | Thomas von Steinaecker |
September 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Part of the solution | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 2 | The moon and the girl | Martin Mosebach |
| 3 | Through the snow | Varlam Shalamov |
| 4th | Pfeifer's travels | Ror Wolf |
| 5 | Don't forget Anna | Arno Geiger |
| 6th | Occident | Michael Köhlmeier |
| 7th | That's me | Thomas Glavinic |
October 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Juan de la Mancha | Robert Menasse |
| 2 | An undertone of happiness | Harald Hartung |
| 3 | Part of the solution | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 4th | Occident | Michael Köhlmeier |
| 5 | Pfeifer's travels | Ror Wolf |
November 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The thirteenth month | David Mitchell |
| 2 | The awkward | Botho Strauss |
| 3 | mobbing | Annette Pehnt |
| 4th | A question of time | Alex Capus |
| 5 | Part of the solution | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 6th | Roppongi | Josef Winkler |
December 2007
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | mobbing | Annette Pehnt |
| 2 | Tattoo | Ford Madox Ford |
| 3 | Fluoroscopy | Ferdinand Schmatz |
| 4th | Karlmann | Michael Kleeberg |
| 5 | Wartime notebooks | Marguerite Duras |
| 6th | Falling Man | Don DeLillo |
Year 2008
January 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Falling Man | Don DeLillo |
| 2 | mobbing | Annette Pehnt |
| 3 | Broken | Henry Parland |
| 4th | In the father's garden | Jan Siebelink |
| 5 | December stories | Peter Bichsel |
February 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liars in love | Richard Yates |
| 2 | Those who know | Rescu |
| 3 | Life and destiny | Vasily Grossman |
| 4th | The cattle wagon | Georges Hyvernaud |
| 5 | Gun weather | Dietmar Dath |
| 6th | King of Hearts | Hanna Krall |
March 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life and destiny | Vasily Grossman |
| 2 | Women's dresses | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 3 | visitation | Jenny Erpenbeck |
| 4th | A loving man | Martin Walser |
| 5 | King of Hearts | Hanna Krall |
| 6th | The well-meaning | Jonathan Littell |
April 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaltenburg | Marcel Beyer |
| 2 | Love brand | Feridun Zaimoglu |
| 3 | A loving man | Martin Walser |
| 4th | Early in the morning, in the evening or at night | Yasmina Reza |
| 5 | My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| 6th | The cinnamon shops | Bruno Schulz |
| 7th | In the secret center | Vyacheslav Kupriyanov |
| 8th | City of the wild dogs | Martin Mosebach |
| 9 | Disappeared | Silvia Bovenschen |
May 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disappeared | Silvia Bovenschen |
| 2 | Kaltenburg | Marcel Beyer |
| 3 | Revenge of the dinosaurs | Deborah Eisenberg |
| 4th | No country for old men | Cormac McCarthy |
| 5 | The cinnamon shops | Bruno Schulz |
June 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Works / Volume 1 | Wolfgang Hilbig |
| 2 | to clean up | Franz Dobler |
| 3 | Foreign signals | Katharina Faber |
| 4th | No country for old men | Cormac McCarthy |
| 5 | We fly | Peter Stamm |
| 6th | The dark ship | Sherko Fatah |
| 7th | My Antonia | Willa Cather |
July 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | When the moon fell from the sky | Anja Jardine |
| 2 | Minute of silence | Siegfried Lenz |
| 3 | Two meet | Iris Hanika |
| 4th | Foreign signals | Katharina Faber |
| 5 | End of Sundays | Alberto Vigevani |
| 6th | A hundred days | Lukas Bärfuss |
August 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two meet | Iris Hanika |
| 2 | Could be Cologne | Andreas Neumeister |
| 3 | Foreign signals | Katharina Faber |
| 4th | When the moon fell from the sky | Anja Jardine |
| 5 | A hundred days | Lukas Bärfuss |
| 6th | The fig tree | Ramiro Pinilla |
| 7th | visitation | Jenny Erpenbeck |
| 8th | The Ministry of Special Cases 18 | Nathan Englander |
September 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Penumbra | Uwe Timm |
| 2 | Adam and Evelyn | Ingo Schulze |
| 3 | The lonely women | Cesare Pavese |
| 4th | The maid and the millionaire | Markus Orths |
| 5 | The winters in the south | Norbert Gstrein |
| 6th | lost along the way | Ruth Klüger |
October 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | lost along the way | Ruth Klüger |
| 2 | Welcome new dreams | Norbert Niemann |
| 3 | The lonely women | Cesare Pavese |
| 4th | Two meet | Iris Hanika |
| 5 | I'll be here in the sunshine and in the shade | Christian Kracht |
November 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What do you want to know that for? | Alice Munro |
| 2 | A straight smoke | Denis Johnson |
| 3 | I'll be here in the sunshine and in the shade | Christian Kracht |
| 4th | Sayonara, my books | Kenzaburo Oe |
| 5 | Welcome new dreams | Norbert Niemann |
December 2008
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A straight smoke | Denis Johnson |
| 2 | I thought my shadow was one | Kurt Drawert |
| 3 | Shanghai far from where | Ursula Krechel |
| 4th | A story never to be forgotten | Jan Koneffke |
| 5 | if we want to or not | Karl-Heinz Ott |
| 6th | The coasts of the mountains | Martina Hefter |
| 7th | Don Quixote of the Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes |
| 8th | The black horse | Robert Olmstead |
| 9 | A special providence | Richard Yates |
Year 2009
January 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shanghai far from where | Ursula Krechel |
| 2 | Dog novella | Marion Poschmann |
| 3 | The black horse | Robert Olmstead |
| 4th | Don Quixote of the Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes |
| 5 | A special providence | Richard Yates |
| 6th | A question of guilt | Sofja Tolstaya |
| 7th | I wouldn't start from here | Hanns Zischler |
| 8th | A story never to be forgotten | Jan Koneffke |
February 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | My prices | Thomas Bernhard |
| 2 | Fall strips | Nico Bleutge |
| 3 | The fly palace | Walter Kappacher |
| 4th | Happiness in times far from happiness | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 5 | Dog novella | Marion Poschmann |
| 6th | indignation | Philip Roth |
March 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | indignation | Philip Roth |
| 2 | Shields | Hermann Burger |
| 3 | The fly palace | Walter Kappacher |
| 4th | Happiness in times far from happiness | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 5 | Mitsuko's restaurant | Christoph Peters |
| 6th | Piazza Oberdan | Boris Pahor |
| 7th | At the speed of summer | Julia Schoch |
April 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | At the speed of summer | Julia Schoch |
| 2 | A different life | Per Olov Enquist |
| 3 | The fly palace | Walter Kappacher |
May 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fire doesn't burn | Ralf Rothmann |
| 2 | Death of an inconsolable man | David Rieff |
| 3 | Human smoke | Nicholson Baker |
| 4th | Frau Sorgedahl's beautiful white arms | Lars Gustafsson |
| 5 | restlessness | Olga Tokarczuk |
| 6th | Mitsuko's restaurant | Christoph Peters |
June 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A way of life | Maria Beig |
| 2 | Look home, angel | Thomas Wolfe |
| 3 | dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol |
| 4th | restlessness | Olga Tokarczuk |
| 5 | Daniel Stein | Lyudmila Ulitzkaya |
July 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The school on the border | Géza Ottlik |
| 2 | Golo man | Tilmann Lahme |
| 3 | Dispatches to Mailland | Juerg Laederach |
| 4th | dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol |
| 5 | You don't die | Kathrin Schmidt |
September 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | One of many | Norbert Zähringer |
| 2 | Seven years | Peter Stamm |
| 3 | Frau Sorgedahl's beautiful white arms | Lars Gustafsson |
| 4th | The dead are always the others | Rudolf circle |
| 5 | Incomplete memories | Inge Jens |
| 6th | You don't die | Kathrin Schmidt |
October 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I curse the flow of time | Per Petterson |
| 2 | Borderline | Stephan Thome |
| 3 | Endless fun | David Foster Wallace |
| 4th | A woman flees from a message | David Grossman |
| 5 | Seven years | Peter Stamm |
| 6th | The only man on the continent | Terézia Mora |
| 7th | Was my time my time | Hugo Loetscher |
November 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A woman flees from a message | David Grossman |
| 2 | Borderline | Stephan Thome |
| 3 | From the stay | Botho Strauss |
| 4th | Heaven is not a place | Dieter Wellershoff |
| 5 | Over the noise | Norbert Scheuer |
December 2009
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Over the noise | Norbert Scheuer |
| 2 | Simple thunderstorm | William Boyd |
Year 2010
January 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthem of the democratic youth | Serhiy Zhadan |
| 2 | Distant sister | Ruth Rehmann |
| 3 | Heaven is not a place | Dieter Wellershoff |
| 4th | Anna Karenina | Lev Tolstoy |
| 5 | Circle without a master | Ulrich Raulff |
February 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the beginning the night was music | Alissa Walser |
| 2 | Circle without a master | Ulrich Raulff |
| 3 | Union Atlantic | Adam Haslett |
| 4th | Read Chekhov | Janet Malcolm |
| 5 | That was not me | Kristof Magnusson |
| 6th | Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin |
March 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | My beyond | Martin Walser |
| 2 | Air and love | Anne Weber |
| 3 | Summer of life | JM Coetzee |
| 4th | Aircraft noise over the palaces of ours | Andre Rudolph |
| 5 | In the beginning the night was music | Alissa Walser |
| 6th | Bottomless | Thomas Lang |
April 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seiobo stayed on earth | László Krasznahorkai |
| 2 | The real thing | Iris Hanika |
| 3 | Novel of our childhood | Georg Klein |
| 4th | Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin |
| 5 | Life and writing | Martin Walser |
| 6th | Open balance wheel | Michael Lentz |
| 7th | The omega point | Don DeLillo |
| 8th | Georg's worries about the past or | Jan factor |
May 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kokoschkin's journey | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 2 | Open balance wheel | Michael Lentz |
| 3 | Georg's worries about the past or | Jan factor |
| 4th | the alert | Kathrin Röggla |
| 5 | The end of vandalism | Tom Drury |
| 6th | Seiobo stayed on earth | László Krasznahorkai |
| 7th | Artist of the shovel | Varlam Shalamov |
| 8th | Nothing to fear | Julian Barnes |
June 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The story of a murder | Ernst Kaiser |
| 2 | Disturbance of the peace | Richard Yates |
| 3 | The truth about the future | Samanta Schweblin |
| 4th | Artist of the shovel | Varlam Shalamov |
| 5 | blind bees | Kathrin Schmidt |
| 6th | The real thing | Iris Hanika |
| 7th | Kokoschkin's journey | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 8th | Nothing to fear | Julian Barnes |
July 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three strong women | Marie Ndiaye |
| 2 | The spirit of Turin | Maike Albath |
| 3 | Even parrots survive us | Olga Martynova |
| 4th | Disturbance of the peace | Richard Yates |
| 5 | And then this silence | Harriet Koehler |
| 6th | The real thing | Iris Hanika |
| 7th | The lust for doom | Friedrich Sieburg |
September 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three strong women | Marie Ndiaye |
| 2 | A Jew as an example | Jacques Chessex |
| 3 | The night teacher | Klaus Böldl |
| 4th | City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr. | Christa Wolf |
| 5 | The lust for doom | Friedrich Sieburg |
| 6th | Ben | Annika Scheffel |
October 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | September. Mirage | Thomas Lehr |
| 2 | The missing year of Juan Salvatierra | Pedro Mairal |
| 3 | Raven love | Peter Wawerzinek |
| 4th | Mafeking Road | Herman Charles Bosman |
| 5 | All of a madness game | Fritz Rudolf Fries |
| 6th | Wrong place at the wrong time | Alain Claude Sulzer |
November 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | in field Latin | Lutz Seiler |
| 2 | Still storm | Peter Handke |
| 3 | Wrong place at the wrong time | Alain Claude Sulzer |
| 4th | The night teacher | Klaus Böldl |
| 5 | we make music | Gisela from Wysocki |
| 6th | war and peace | Lev Tolstoy |
December 2010
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | we make music | Gisela from Wysocki |
| 2 | A production novel | Péter Esterházy |
| 3 | Still storm | Peter Handke |
| 4th | At the origin of the days | Ivan Bunin |
| 5 | Clay pigeons | Annette Mingels |
Year 2011
January 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | An urbane country | John Ashbery |
| 2 | Diaries 1660–1669 | Samuel Pepys |
| 3 | album | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| Fire friend | Sabine Peters | |
| Brooklyn | Colm Tóibín | |
| 6th | Notebooks | Henning Ritter |
| 7th | Song out of nothing. German-language poetry of the 21st century | Michael Braun & Hans Thill (Eds.) |
| 8th | The Council of Planets | Stephan Krass |
| 9 | Australia | Jan Wagner |
| 10 | My favorite flops, followed by an ideas magazine | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| Natural defects | Thomas Pynchon |
February 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | My dear Petrović | Milovan Danojlić |
| 2 | Homer & Langley | EL Doctorow |
| 3 | Archive of discarded opportunities | Naomi Schenck & Ulrich Rüdenauer (Eds.) |
| 4th | In the forest of the metropolises | Karl-Markus Gauss |
| 5 | On the trail of the truth | Thomas Bernhard |
| 6th | Black square on a black background | Tadeusz Dąbrowski |
| 7th | The truth about Marie | Jean-Philippe Toussaint |
| 8th | It starts right in the middle | Ulrich Peltzer |
| Cupids for Marie | Pierre de Ronsard | |
| 10 | The big house | Nicole Krauss |
March 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The old king in his exile | Arno Geiger |
| 2 | Nemesis | Philip Roth |
| 3 | The last Greek | Aris Fioretos |
| 4th | The colors of cruelty | Joseph Zoderer |
| 5 | Léon and Louise | Alex Capus |
| 6th | The bright days | Zsuzsa Bánk |
| 7th | My father's tears | John Updike |
| 8th | Skippy dies | Paul Murray |
| 9 | In the light of darkness | Anita Albus |
| Bad society | Katharina Born |
April 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleep was out of the question | Karin Kersten |
| 2 | Lies about my father | John Burnside |
| 3 | The last Greek | Aris Fioretos |
| 4th | Map and area | Michel Houellebecq |
| 5 | Love at the time of the Mahlstadt child | Clemens Setz |
| 6th | The President's oranges | Abbas Khider |
| 7th | Shanghai performance | Silke Scheuermann |
| 8th | Sea back | Peter Stamm |
| The gift | Wolf Wondratschek | |
| 10 | Skippy dies | Paul Murray |
| Rachel | Rahel Levin Varnhagen |
May 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lies about my father | John Burnside |
| 2 | Map and area | Michel Houellebecq |
| 3 | Love at the time of the Mahlstadt child | Clemens Setz |
| 4th | The big case | Peter Handke |
| 5 | Sea back | Peter Stamm |
| 6th | The lights from Bullet Park | John Cheever |
| 7th | Max Frisch | Julian Schuett |
| 8th | Only you and only me | Christian Uetz |
| 9 | Rachel | Rahel Levin Varnhagen |
| 10 | The President's oranges | Abbas Khider |
| eve | Peter Kurzck | |
| In the shadow of the father | David Vann |
June 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | eve | Peter Kurzck |
| 2 | Too lucky | Alice Munro |
| 3 | The light of the rivers | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 4th | My house is there | Hans Keilson |
| Venus hair | Mikhail Shishkin | |
| St. Ives | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 7th | The extradited | Per Olov Enquist |
| Drilling hard boards | Alexander Kluge | |
| 9 | Orcus | Gerhard Roth |
| Rachel | Rahel Levin Varnhagen |
July / August 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Grande Beune | Pierre Michon |
| 2 | Hobalala | Marc Fischer |
| 3 | Invasions of the private | Anna Kim |
| 4th | Black sun shine | Albert Ostermaier |
| 5 | An American | Henry Roth |
| 6th | The radio family | Ingeborg Bachmann |
| 7th | Drilling hard boards | Alexander Kluge |
| In the best case | Angela Krauss | |
| 9 | The reactor | Elisabeth Filhol |
| eve | Peter Kurzck | |
| Legend of human happiness | Peggy Madler |
September 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | If we were animals | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 2 | For a song and a hundred songs | Liao Yiwu |
| 3 | Mother son | Martin Walser |
| 4th | Forms of disturbance | Lydia Davis |
| Diaries | Erich Mühsam | |
| Winter fish | Gregor Sander | |
| 7th | Too lucky | Alice Munro |
| 8th | Angel of oblivion | Maja Haderlap |
| The Lichtenberg figures | Ben Lerner | |
| The art of storytelling | James Wood |
October 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The girl | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 2 | The giraffe's neck | Judith Schalansky |
| 3 | Blumenberg | Sibylle Lewitscharoff |
| 4th | In times of waning light | Eugene Ruge |
| 5 | salamander | Jürgen Lodemann |
| 6th | The seven lives of Felix Kannmacher | Jan Koneffke |
| 7th | Once you open your eyes | Robert Bober |
| Shimmering haze over Coby County | Leif Randt | |
| 9 | The glory of life | Michael Kumpfmüller |
| 10 | Angel of oblivion | Maja Haderlap |
| it | Christof Wackernagel | |
| silent post | Urs Widmer |
November 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The giraffe's neck | Judith Schalansky |
| 2 | "Any friendship with me is pernicious" | Joseph Roth & Stefan Zweig |
| 3 | The American investor | Jan Peter Bremer |
| 4th | The bright piles | Volker Braun |
| 5 | Commedia | Dante Alighieri |
| Wunsiedel | Michael Buselmeier | |
| Blumenberg | Sibylle Lewitscharoff | |
| Boy | Sebastian Polmans | |
| 9 | Lord of the Crows | Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
| Wide awake, on the verge of sleep | Wallace Stevens |
December 2011
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The song of doing and not doing | Jan Boettcher |
| 2 | Boy | Sebastian Polmans |
| The pain maker | Marlene Streeruwitz | |
| 4th | The golden yoke | Eileen Chang |
| 5 | The act of love | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| 6th | sand | Wolfgang Herrndorf |
| 7th | Doblin | Wilfried F. Schoeller |
| 8th | Schmidt's insight | Louis Begley |
| 9 | Medium rich | Josef Bierbichler |
| The labyrinth of the dreaming books | Walter Moers | |
| The answer is the misfortune of the question | Walter Boehlich |
Year 2012
January 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | From the end of a story | Julian Barnes |
| 2 | You see me in the window | Daniil Charms |
| 3 | minuet | Louis Paul Boon |
| 4th | Alias or Real Life | Felix Philipp Ingold |
| 5 | sand | Wolfgang Herrndorf |
| 6th | Schmidt's insight | Louis Begley |
| The House | Andreas Maier | |
| 8th | The answer is the misfortune of the question | Walter Boehlich |
| 9 | The single story America | Ilya Ilf / Yevgeny Petrow |
| Lord of the Crows | Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
February 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sire, I'm in a hurry | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 2 | Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| 3 | Great expectations | Charles Dickens |
| 4th | Summer outside the walls | Nora Bossong |
| 5 | Emily, alone | Stewart O'Nan |
| 6th | House of Holes | Nicholson Baker |
| 7th | sand | Wolfgang Herrndorf |
| 8th | A white land | Sherko Fatah |
| 9 | From the end of a story | Julian Barnes |
| 10 | The single story America | Ilya Ilf / Yevgeny Petrow |
March 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robinson's blue house | Ernst Augustin |
| 2 | Parallel stories | Péter Nádas |
| 3 | imperium | Christian Kracht |
| 4th | Land of the red stones | Walter Kappacher |
| 5 | Cat table | Michael Ondaatje |
| 6th | Tomas Tranströmmer | Fredrik Sjöberg |
| 7th | The greater part of the world | Jennifer Egan |
| 8th | The Russian is one who loves birch trees | Olga Grjasnova |
| 9 | The white land | Sherko Fatah |
| 10 | Great expectations | Charles Dickens |
April 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | On the Black Mountain | Anna Katharina Hahn |
| Parallel stories | Péter Nádas | |
| 3 | Hoppe | Felicitas Hoppe |
| 4th | Blue hours | Joan Didion |
| imperium | Christian Kracht | |
| 6th | In the café of lost youth | Patrick Modiano |
| 7th | The year I stopped worrying and started dreaming | Thomas von Steinaecker |
| 8th | Credited Losses | Bernd Cailloux |
| 9 | Bugatti appears | Dea Loher |
| The meadow house | Christoph Schmitz |
May 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canale Mussolini | Antonio Pennacchi |
| 2 | Parallel stories | Péter Nádas |
| 3 | Bugatti appears | Dea Loher |
| 4th | Celestial mechanics | Maurizio Maggiani |
| 5 | The little rest of death | Ulla Lenze |
| 6th | The Chernobyl cyclist | Javier Sebastián |
| 7th | Land of the red stones | Walter Kappacher |
| 8th | Credited Losses | Bernd Cailloux |
| 9 | Sunrise | Patrick Roth |
| 10 | In the café of lost youth | Patrick Modiano |
June 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shakespeare's chickens | Ralf Rothmann |
| 2 | The immensity | David Vann |
| 3 | The red room | August Strindberg |
| 4th | New secessionist radiator cladding | Thomas Kapielski |
| Bugatti appears | Dea Loher | |
| 6th | Hour of silence | Ivan Klíma |
| 7th | The detour | Gerbrand Bakker |
| When owls cry | Janet Frame | |
| 9 | Fame kills everything | Jack Kerouac & Allen Ginsberg |
| 10 | Moments of existence | Virginia Woolf |
July / August 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weitlings summer retreat | Sten Nadolny |
| 2 | Moments of existence | Virginia Woolf |
| 3 | Handbook of the Unsuccessful | Patricia Görg |
| 4th | Oil on water | Helon Habila |
| 5 | dreams | Arthur Schnitzler |
| 6th | The virtues of darkness | Ror Wolf |
| 7th | Sidewalk damage | Helmut Kuhn |
| 8th | Everything falls apart | Chinua Achebe |
| 9 | Ustrinkata | Arno Camenisch |
| 10 | Beginners | Raymond Carver |
| 11 | Life is open to the top | Philipp Schönthaler |
| The sound of a snail eating | Elisabeth Tova Bailey |
September 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shrapnel | Karl Heinz Bohrer |
| 2 | Centrifugal forces | Stephan Thome |
| 3 | The owl haters in the hall houses | Jan Wagner |
| 4th | Every day evening | Jenny Erpenbeck |
| 5 | Canada | Richard Ford |
| 6th | Thank you for living | Sibylle Berg |
| Oblomov | Ivan Goncharov | |
| Peeh's love | Norbert Scheuer | |
| 9 | The betrayed | Michael Maar |
| 10 | In the interior of the country | Dirk Brauns |
| New secessionist radiator cladding | Thomas Kapielski | |
| Nothing white | Ulf Erdmann Ziegler |
October 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every day evening | Jenny Erpenbeck |
| 2 | Centrifugal forces | Stephan Thome |
| 3 | The blue book | AL Kennedy |
| 4th | The phantom of Alexander Wolf | Gaito Gasdanov |
| 5 | Out of joint | Alain Claude Sulzer |
| 6th | Locus Solus | Raymond Roussel |
| 7th | Defense of the missionary position | Wolf Haas |
| The thirteenth chapter | Martin Walser | |
| 9 | The green tent | Lyudmila Ulitzkaya |
| 10 | The rough outline of love | Bodo Kirchhoff |
November 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The urgency and the patience | Jean-Philippe Toussaint |
| 2 | The way to Oobliadooh | Fritz Rudolf Fries |
| 3 | Totenberg | Thomas Hettche |
| 4th | indigo | Clemens J. Setz |
| 5 | The blue book | AL Kennedy |
| 6th | Out of joint | Alain Claude Sulzer |
| 7th | My secret autobiography | Mark Twain |
| 8th | district Court | Ursula Krechel |
| 9 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| 10 | Valley of the Glories | Anne Weber |
December 2012
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Try on the Quiet Place | Peter Handke |
| 2 | All works and letters in four volumes | Masha Kaléko |
| 3 | Atlas of a Scared Man | Christoph Ransmayr |
| 4th | The phantom of Alexander Wolf | Gaito Gasdanov |
| 5 | In truth, we are seeing the end of the world | Maurice Chappaz |
| 6th | Horses | Helmut Höge |
| 7th | Totenberg | Thomas Hettche |
| 8th | The Manon Lescaut from Turdej | Vsevolod Nikolayevich Petrov |
| 9 | Company with limited liability | Nora Bossong |
| 10 | Every day evening | Jenny Erpenbeck |
Year 2013
January 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The correspondence | Peter Handke / Siegfried Unseld |
| 2 | Write | Kurt Drawert |
| 3 | Sunset Boulevard | Kevin Vennemann |
| 4th | Atlas of a Scared Man | Christoph Ransmayr |
| 5 | American diary 1962 | Siegfried Lenz |
| 6th | German ballads | Wulf Segebrecht (ed.) |
| 7th | La Commedia / The Divine Comedy
Paradiso / paradise |
Dante Alighieri |
| 8th | The phantom of Alexander Wolf | Gaito Gasdanov |
| 9 | Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| 10-11 | Love service | Howard Jacobson |
| The Manon Lescaut from Turdej | Vsevolod Nikolayevich Petrov |
February 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | Dirk Kurbjuweit |
| 2 | The song from Hackescher Markt | Irina Liebmann |
| 3 | The Diaries I. | Ferdinand Beneke |
| 4th | The correspondence | Peter Handke / Siegfried Unseld |
| 5 - 6 | Carrying on is more than I can do | Samuel Beckett |
| The Adventures of Joel Strollers | Michael Köhlmeier | |
| 7th | The five | Vladimir Jabotinsky |
| 8th | Further away | Jonathan Franzen |
| 9-10 | Kronhardt | Ralph Dohrmann |
| Why happy instead of simply normal? | Jeanette Winterson |
March 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quasicrystals | Eva Menasse |
| 2 | The Adventures of Joel Strollers | Michael Köhlmeier |
| 3 | Kronhardt | Ralph Dohrmann |
| 4th | brothers and sisters | Birk Meinhardt |
| 5 | Bonita Avenue | Peter Buwalda |
| 6th | The French art of war | Alexis Jenni |
| 7th | Records from the war | Julien Gracq |
| 8th | Barbarian Spring | Jonas Lüscher |
| 9 | dirt | David Vann |
| 10 | Life | David Wagner |
April 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawks | Hilary coat |
| 2 | Life | David Wagner |
| 3 | Georg Buechner | Hermann Kurzke |
| 4th | brothers and sisters | Birk Meinhardt |
| 5 | Kronhardt | Ralph Dohrmann |
| 6th | Nothing of you on earth | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 7 - 8 | covered terrain | Nico Bleutge |
| The fables of the encounter | Botho Strauss | |
| 9 | The Tatar desert | Dino Buzzati |
| 10 | The survivor | Ernst-Wilhelm dealer |
May 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Europe Central | William T. Vollmann |
| 2 | Wishes | Judith Kuckart |
| 3 | Nothing of you on earth | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 4 - 6 | Soutine's last ride | Ralph Dutli |
| The disappearance of Philip S. | Ulrike Edschmid | |
| The fables of the encounter | Botho Strauss | |
| 7th | Esti | Péter Esterházy |
| 8th | No couple like us | Eberhard Rathgeb |
| 9 | Half the sun | Aris Fioretos |
| 10 | The stolen life of the orphan Jun Do | Adam Johnson |
June 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The disappearance of Philip S. | Ulrike Edschmid |
| 2 | Screw mill | Jochen Schmidt |
| 3 | Soutine's last ride | Ralph Dutli |
| 4th | Half the sun | Aris Fioretos |
| 5 - 7 | The correspondence | Willy Brandt / Günter Grass |
| Heaven on your shoulders | Sergei Lebedev | |
| Europe Central | William T. Vollmann | |
| 8th | My mother's loved ones | Peter Schneider |
| 9 | The little adversities in life | Grace Paley |
| 10 | Flow chart / flow chart | John Ashbery |
July / August 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing of you on earth | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 2 | The canine heart | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| 3 | Mörike's collarbone | Olga Martynova |
| 4th | 1948 | Yoram Kaniuk |
| 5 | The way of the hawk | Jamil Ahmad |
| 6th | The elf | Pierre Michon |
| 7th | My mother's loved ones | Peter Schneider |
| 8th | The correspondence | Willy Brandt / Günter Grass |
| 9 | The house on Dorotheenstrasse | Hartmut Lange |
| 10 | Cabo de Gata | Eugene Ruge |
September 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Koenigsallee | Hans Pleschinski |
| 2 | The horizon | Patrick Modiano |
| 3 | A clue from the beginning | Norbert Gstrein |
| 4th | Not one and but one | Christian Enzensberger |
| 5 - 6 | The position of the sun | Marion Poschmann |
| Travel to the edge of the universe | Urs Widmer | |
| 7 - 9 | F. | Daniel Kehlmann |
| Bird pasture | Uwe Timm | |
| The order of the stars over Como | Monika Zeiner | |
| 10 | Sermon on the fall of Rome | Jérôme Ferrari |
October 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the stone | Clemens Meyer |
| 2 - 3 | F. | Daniel Kehlmann |
| The monster | Terézia Mora | |
| 4th | Last stop | Imre Kertész |
| 5 | Try over the mushroom fool | Peter Handke |
| 6th | All that is | James Salter |
| 7th | The order of the stars over Como | Monika Zeiner |
| 8th | The position of the sun | Marion Poschmann |
| 9-10 | honey | Ian McEwan |
| Goethe | Rüdiger Safranski |
November 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balco Atlantico | Jérôme Ferrari |
| 2 | Rumble and bustle | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 3 | Last stop | Imre Kertész |
| 4th | Try over the mushroom fool | Peter Handke |
| 5 | All that is | James Salter |
| 6th | The order of the stars over Como | Monika Zeiner |
| 7th | The position of the sun | Marion Poschmann |
| 8 - 9 | The childhood of Jesus | JM Coetzee |
| The street | Andreas Maier | |
| 10-11 | F. | Daniel Kehlmann |
| Archipelago | North | Claude Simon |
December 2013
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goodbye to Brideshead | Evelyn Waugh |
| 2 | Interlude | Monika Marron |
| 3 | Life or writing. The narrator Varlam Shalamov | Wilfried F. Schoeller (Ed.) |
| 4th | In Bruno Schulz's head | Maxim Biller |
| 5 | Rumble and bustle | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 6 - 7 | The childhood of Jesus | JM Coetzee |
| Last stop | Imre Kertész | |
| 8th | Overcast and cool today | Michael Maar |
| 9-11 | The street | Andreas Maier |
| Gravel pit night | Volker Reiche | |
| Faces | Andreas Schäfer |
2014
January 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The childhood of Jesus | JM Coetzee |
| 2 | Work and structure | Wolfgang Herrndorf |
| 3 | The condottiere | Georges Perec |
| 4th | Goodbye to Brideshead | Evelyn Waugh |
| 5 | The street | Andreas Maier |
| 6th | Life or writing. The narrator Varlam Shalamov | Wilfried F. Schoeller (Ed.) |
| 7th | Stoner | John Williams |
| 8th | Gravel pit night | Volker Reiche |
| 9-10 | Appointments | Durs Grünbein / Aris Fioretos |
| Then, now and at all | Jamaica Kincaid |
February 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | From the Berlin Journal | Max Frisch |
| 2 | Journal. Memories from literary life 1851–1896 | Edmond & Jules de Goncourt |
| 3 | Work and structure | Wolfgang Herrndorf |
| 4th | The beech festival | Martin Mosebach |
| 5 | Stoner | John Williams |
| 6th | Far from the clouds | Joanna Bator |
| 7th | Oh, this paradise | John Cheever |
| 8th | London NW | Zadie Smith |
| 9 | On the bank | Rafael Chirbes |
| 10 | My cousin Emilia | Vlada Urošević |
March 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great love | Navid Kermani |
| 2 | Happy the lucky ones | Yasmina Reza |
| 3 | The beech festival | Martin Mosebach |
| 4th | Journal. Memories from literary life 1851–1896 | Edmond & Jules de Goncourt |
| 5 | My cousin Emilia | Vlada Urošević |
| 6th | On the bank | Rafael Chirbes |
| 7th | April | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 8th | Work and structure | Wolfgang Herrndorf |
| 9 | Flood and ground | Per Leo |
| 10 | The tempter | Julien Gracq |
April 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maybe Esther | Katja Petrovskaya |
| 2 | Before the party | Saša Stanišić |
| 3 | Flood and ground | Per Leo |
| 4th | April | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 5 | The beech festival | Martin Mosebach |
| 6th | Heart in sight | Wolfgang Hegewald |
| 7 - 8 | Koala bear | Lukas Bärfuss |
| Memories of Wolfgang Hilbig | Margret Franzlik | |
| 9 | Works in eight volumes | Hermann Burger |
| 10-11 | 14th | Jean Echenoz |
| The all-researcher | Heinrich Steinfest |
May 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maybe Esther | Katja Petrovskaya |
| 2 | Washington Square | Henry James |
| 3 | End of summer time | Jens Sparschuh |
| 4th | The book against death | Elias Canetti |
| 5 | When only the animals lived | Zsófia Bán |
| 6 - 9 | Working days 2 | Volker Braun |
| To be German | Oswald Egger | |
| Insectopedia | Hugh Raffles | |
| The goldfinch | Donna Tartt | |
| 10 | Before the party | Saša Stanišić |
June 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Later fame | Arthur Schnitzler |
| 2 | Nightward | Thomas Palzer |
| 3 | Seven leaps from the edge of the world | Ulrike Draesner |
| 4 - 5 | Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| The paradise of the little things | Sophia & Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| 6th | plankton | Walter Kempowski |
| 7th | Panic spring | Gertrud Leutenegger |
| 8-10 | Working days 2 | Volker Braun |
| Against nature | Tomas Espedal | |
| Ladavine | Marie NDiaye |
July / August 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. Yamashiro prefers potatoes | Christoph Peters |
| 2 | The peregrine falcon | John Alec Baker |
| 3 - 4 | Ludvigshöhe | Herman Bang |
| Ladavine | Marie NDiaye | |
| 5 | Panic spring | Gertrud Leutenegger |
| 6th | Washington Square | Henry James |
| 7th | December 10th | George Saunders |
| 8th | Working days 2 | Volker Braun |
| 9 | From here to there | Paul Auster & JM Coetzee |
| 10 | Moravagine | Blaise Cendrars |
September 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kruso | Lutz Seiler |
| 2 | Peacock Island | Thomas Hettche |
| 3 | Desire and melancholy | Bodo Kirchhoff |
| 4th | When it rains in the hall | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 5 | Madness and madness | William Faulkner |
| 6th | All love beginning | Judith Hermann |
| 7th | We fished missiles | Karen Koehler |
| 8th | Against nature | Tomas Espedal |
| 9-10 | Life | Karl Ove Knausgård |
| The chance | Stewart O'Nan |
October 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kruso | Lutz Seiler |
| 2 | Peacock Island | Thomas Hettche |
| 3 | Father years | Michael Kleeberg |
| 4th | House of the mute | John Burnside |
| 5 | Rain barrel variations | Jan Wagner |
| 6th | Orfeo | Richard Powers |
| 7th | Sketch of the grass | Silke Scheuermann |
| 8th | We fished missiles | Karen Koehler |
| 9 | Desire and melancholy | Bodo Kirchhoff |
| 10 | The last place | Sherko Fatah |
November 2014
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | origin | Botho Strauss |
| 2 - 3 | Peacock Island | Thomas Hettche |
| Kafka. The early years | Pure sting | |
| 4th | Pictures of your great love | Wolfgang Herrndorf |
| 5 - 6 | graphite | Marcel Beyer |
| Father years | Michael Kleeberg | |
| 7th | tumult | Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| 8th | We fished missiles | Karen Koehler |
| 9-10 | Along the river | Esther Kinsky |
| Machandel | Regina Scheer |
December 2014 / January 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kafka. The early years | Pure sting |
| 2 | origin | Botho Strauss |
| 3 | Grasses of the night | Patrick Modiano |
| 4th | The red sheep of the family | Susanne Kippenberger |
| 5 | House of the mute | John Burnside |
| 6th | Lost illusions | Honoré de Balzac |
| 7th | And now you, Orlando! | Ulf Erdmann Ziegler |
| 8 - 9 | The wings | Mircea Cărtărescu |
| tumult | Hans Magnus Enzensberger | |
| 10 | Bleeding edge | Thomas Pynchon |
2015
February 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | submission | Michel Houellebecq |
| 2 - 3 | Counterplay | Stephan Thome |
| Rain barrel variations | Jan Wagner | |
| 4th | Marlene | Alfred Polgar |
| 5 | Child welfare | Ian McEwan |
| 6th | The day my wife found a husband | Sibylle Berg |
| 7th | The only ones | Norbert Niemann |
| 8th | Zeiden, in January | Ursula Ackrill |
| 9 | Family circus | Danilo Kiš |
| 10 | she turns around | Angelika Overath |
March 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Child welfare | Ian McEwan |
| 2 | Horcynus Orca | Stefano D'Arrigo |
| 3 | The language of the birds | Norbert Scheuer |
| 4th | Zeiden, in January | Ursula Ackrill |
| 5 | Self-portrait with a hippo | Arno Geiger |
| 6th | The alligators smile | Michael Wildenhain |
| 7th | The festival of insignificance | Milan Kundera |
| 8th | submission | Michel Houellebecq |
| 9 | Every day belongs to the thief | Teju Cole |
| 10 - 12 | Family circus | Danilo Kiš |
| The end of Eddy | Edouard Louis | |
| Immersion | Lydia Chukovskaya |
April 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Concert without a poet | Klaus Modick |
| 2 | Horcynus Orca | Stefano D'Arrigo |
| 3 | Tough | TC Boyle |
| 4th | The stranger in the Palazzo d'Oro | Paul Theroux |
| 5 | Family circus | Danilo Kiš |
| 6th | The language of the birds | Norbert Scheuer |
| 7 - 8 | Every day belongs to the thief | Teju Cole |
| Ancestors | Anne Weber | |
| 9 | Stages of life | Julian Barnes |
| 10-11 | Map of the wild | Robert Macfarlane |
| Judas | Amos Oz |
May 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancestors | Anne Weber |
| 2 | Judas | Amos Oz |
| 3 | The coat-and-sword version | Péter Esterházy |
| 4th | risk | Steffen Kopetzky |
| 5 - 6 | Horcynus Orca | Stefano D'Arrigo |
| Planet Magnon | Leif Randt | |
| 7th | Sunspots, shadow spots | Philippe Jaccottet |
| 8 - 9 | Retribution - Rhoon 1944 | Jan Brokken |
| English | Sarah Kirsch | |
| 10 | The festival of insignificance | Milan Kundera |
June 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Final Berlin | Heinz Rein |
| 2 | Planet Magnon | Leif Randt |
| 3 | The last scream | AL Kennedy |
| 4th | Lucky ones | Kristine Bilkau |
| 5 | risk | Steffen Kopetzky |
| 6th | The principle | Jérôme Ferrari |
| 7th | All the poems | Emily Dickinson |
| 8 - 9 | All the light we don't see | Anthony Doerr |
| Sunspots, shadow spots | Philippe Jaccottet | |
| 10 - 12 | Horcynus Orca | Stefano D'Arrigo |
| My lieutenant | Daniil Granin | |
| Butcher's Crossing | John Williams |
July / August 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Of minds and spirits | Hilary coat |
| 2 | The sun watcher | Charles Haldeman |
| 3 | Die in spring | Ralf Rothmann |
| 4th | The invention of the Red Army Faction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 | Frank Witzel |
| 5 | Sunspots, shadow spots | Philippe Jaccottet |
| 6th | Simeliberg | Michael Fehr |
| 7 - 8 | sunshine | Daša Drndić |
| Travel without maps | Graham Greene | |
| 9 | magic hat | Christoph Meckel |
| 10 | All the poems | Emily Dickinson |
September 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The better life | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 2 | Die in spring | Ralf Rothmann |
| 3 | Euphoria | Lily King |
| 4 - 6 | Rose stem | Angela Steidele |
| Postscript | Alain Claude Sulzer | |
| The invention of the Red Army Faction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 | Frank Witzel | |
| 7 - 8 | The salt in the wound | Jean Prévost |
| The letter writer Goethe | Albrecht Schöne | |
| 9 | Go find a guard | Harper Lee |
| 10 | A Sunday child | Jan Koneffke |
October 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skip | Katharina Hacker |
| 2 | Go went Gone | Jenny Erpenbeck |
| 3 | Power and resistance | Ilija Trojanow |
| 4th | The better life | Ulrich Peltzer |
| 5 | The hour between woman and guitar | Clemens J. Setz |
| 6th | innocence | Jonathan Franzen |
| 7th | Recorded | Michael Rutschky |
| 8th | That you have to go through Belgium on the way to happiness | Judith Kuckart |
| 9 | Everything counts | Verena Lueken |
| 10 | dream | Karl Ove Knausgård |
November 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goodbye Paris | Daniel Anselme |
| 2 | So that you don't get lost in the neighborhood | Patrick Modiano |
| 3 | 36.9 ° | Nora Bossong |
| 4th | Fleeting shine | Joan Sales |
| 5 - 6 | Skip | Katharina Hacker |
| Bone music | Werner Söllner | |
| 7th | This is how the bad begins | Javier Marías |
| 8-10 | An impeccable man | Jane Gardam |
| The better life | Ulrich Peltzer | |
| Rose stem | Angela Steidele |
December 2015
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The pyre | György Dragomán |
| 2 | More beautiful than loneliness | Yiyun Li |
| 3 | This is how the bad begins | Javier Marías |
| 4th | A question of education | Anthony Powell |
| 5 | The narrow path through the hinterland | Richard Flanagan |
| 6th | Risk and idiocy | Monika Rinck |
| 7 - 8 | Everything counts | Verena Lueken |
| The resurrection | Karl-Heinz Ott | |
| 9-10 | Kronos | Witold Gombrowicz |
| Rose stem | Angela Steidele |
2016
January 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The ambassadors | Henry James |
| 2 | A street in Moscow | Mikhail Ossorgin |
| 3 | The years in the zoo | Durs Grünbein |
| 4th | Karadag October 13 | Esther Kinsky / Martin Chalmers |
| 5 | The emerald light in the air | Donald Antrim |
| 6th | Frank | Richard Ford |
| 7th | The European | Henry James |
| 8th | A starry man | Martin Walser |
| 9 | Days and works | Peter Handke |
| 10 | Risk and idiocy | Monika Rinck |
February 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A horse comes into the bar | David Grossman |
| 2 | The big moment | Clarice Lispector |
| 3 | A dying man | Martin Walser |
| 4th | In Robert Walser's armchair | Jörg Steiner |
| 5 | The years in the zoo | Durs Grünbein |
| 6th | The ambassadors | Henry James |
| 7th | Slap | Abbas Khider |
| 8th | In the free world | Norbert Gstrein |
| 9 | Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| 10 | A street in Moscow | Mikhail Ossorgin |
March 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The return of the Buddha | Gaito Gasdanov |
| 2 | The comfort of the night sky | Dževad Karahasan |
| 3 | The years in the zoo | Durs Grünbein |
| 4th | The golden glove | Heinz Strunk |
| 5 | The girl with the thimble | Michael Köhlmeier |
| 6th | Slap | Abbas Khider |
| 7th | I am happy that I was born | Birgit Vanderbeke |
| 8th | Y | Jan Boettcher |
| 9-10 | The ninth | Ferenc Barnás |
| The Meursault case - a reply | Camel Daoud |
April 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | In front of the tree shadow wall at night | Peter Handke |
| 2 | Far across the country | Peter Stamm |
| 3 | The fire above, the mountain below | Reinhard Jirgl |
| 4th | The golden glove | Heinz Strunk |
| 5 | The love life of voices | Hendrik Rost |
| 6th | My mother's dress | Anna Katharina Hahn |
| 7th | Lady to fox | David Garnett |
| 8th | The half-life of love | Corinna T. Sievers |
| 9 | The Persian | Alexander Ilichevsky |
| 10 | Satin Island | Tom McCarthy |
May 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Markus version | Péter Esterházy |
| 2 | Satin Island | Tom McCarthy |
| 3 | Outline | Rachel Cusk |
| 4 - 5 | Lady to fox | David Garnett |
| From the increase in characters | Senthuran Varatharajah | |
| 6th | Frohburg | Guntram Vesper |
| 7th | The golden glove | Heinz Strunk |
| 8 - 9 | Observation of the moon in a moonless night | Marion Poschmann |
| The Persian | Alexander Ilichevsky | |
| 10 | Child of all countries | Irmgard Keun |
June 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | West of sunset | Stewart O'Nan |
| 2 | My mother's dress | Anna Katharina Hahn |
| 3 | Banished! | Ann Cotten |
| 4th | Trappers | Saša Stanišič |
| 5 | Storm height | Emily Brontë |
| 6th | Language for life | Franz Mon |
| 7 -10 | What else I missed | Lucia Berlin |
| England and other stories | Graham Swift | |
| Frohburg | Guntram Vesper | |
| Under people | July toe |
July / August 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Y | Jan Boettcher |
| 2 | Of love and hunger | Julian MacLaren-Ross |
| 3 | Trappers | Saša Stanišič |
| 4th | Manhattan transfer | John Dos Passos |
| 5 | England and other stories | Graham Swift |
| 6th | Lettipark | Judith Hermann |
| 7th | The last pomegranate | Bakhtyar Ali |
| 8th | Every day is mother's day | Hilary coat |
| 9 | Elephantina's Moscow years | Julia Kissina |
| 10 | The room | Jonas Karlsson |
September 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Revolving door | Katja Lange-Müller |
| 2 | Elephantina's Moscow years | Julia Kissina |
| 3 | Nobody speaks about us except us | Wilhelm Genazino |
| 4th | Apollo Calypse | Gerhard Falkner |
| 5 | The dead | Christian Kracht |
| 6th | Mogador | Martin Mosebach |
| 7th | TRAM 83 | Fiston Mwanza Mujila |
| 8th | Last song of a bygone world | Anthony Marra |
| 9 | The Girls | Emma Cline |
| 10 | Mary | Aris Fioretos |
October 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 - 2 | Mary | Aris Fioretos |
| Lettipark | Judith Hermann | |
| 3 | My brilliant friend | Elena Ferrante |
| 4 - 5 | The viewer | Imre Kertész |
| The dead | Christian Kracht | |
| 6th | Revolving door | Katja Lange-Müller |
| 7th | Mogador | Martin Mosebach |
| 8 - 9 | Like all others | John Burnside |
| The widows | Dagmar Leupold | |
| 10 | The grief of Belgium | Hugo Claus |
November 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The world behind you | Thomas Melle |
| 2 | Last friends | Jane Gardam |
| 3 | Why the gentlemen wear starfish | Anna Weidenholzer |
| 4th | Mogador | Martin Mosebach |
| 5 | Zero K | Don DeLillo |
| 6th | Kapok's sisters | Kathrin Schmidt |
| 7th | Revolving door | Katja Lange-Müller |
| 8-10 | Like all others | John Burnside |
| Mary | Aris Fioretos | |
| Alien soul, dark forest | Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker |
December 2016
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kapok's sisters | Kathrin Schmidt |
| 2 | Cox or the passage of time | Christoph Ransmayr |
| 3 | Meadow ground | Gisela from Wysocki |
| 4th | Zero K | Don DeLillo |
| 5 | The love among aliens | Terézia Mora |
| 6th | Records from the madhouse | Christine Lavant |
| 7th | Collected poems | Zbigniew Herbert |
| 8 - 9 | Reference library of the vacant. New poems | Volker Braun |
| All poems 1956-2008 | Peter Rühmkorf | |
| 10-11 | The world behind you | Thomas Melle |
| Nora Webster | Colm Tóibín |
2017
January 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sheik of Aachen | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 2 | compass | Matthias Enard |
| 3 | All poems 1956-2008 | Peter Rühmkorf |
| 4th | Records from the madhouse | Christine Lavant |
| 5 | Night broadcast | Kathrin Röggla |
| 6 - 7 | You should have left | Daniel Kehlmann |
| Collected poems | Zbigniew Herbert | |
| 8th | The excavation | Andrei Platonov |
| 9 | Oniritti cave paintings | Botho Strauss |
| 10 | You stand very comfortably between all fronts. Letters 1952–2011 | Christa Wolf |
February 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | Jonas Lüscher |
| 2 | A little life | Hanya Yanagihara |
| 3 | A brief chronicle of the gradual disappearance | Juliana Kálnay |
| 4th | Instead of something or the last rank | Martin Walser |
| 5 | The story of a new name | Elena Ferrante |
| 6th | The excavation | Andrei Platonov |
| 7 - 9 | Here I am | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| The love among aliens | Terézia Mora | |
| Witnesses of time | Mikhail Ossorgin | |
| 10 | Reference library of the vacant. New poems | Volker Braun |
March 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The noise of time | Julian Barnes |
| 2 | She came from Mariupol | Natascha Wodin |
| 3 | force | Jonas Lüscher |
| 4 - 5 | Collected poems | Zbigniew Herbert |
| According to Onkalo | Kerstin Preiwuss | |
| 6th | The excavation | Andrei Platonov |
| 7 - 8 | elbow | Fatma Aydemir |
| The stranger | Stefan Hertmans | |
| 9 | Work edition: Male oscuro. Records from the time of the illness | Ingeborg Bachmann |
| 10 - 12 | The animal kingdom | David Albahari |
| The story of a new name | Elena Ferrante | |
| Kirio | Anne Weber |
April 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now: story of my adventure with the imagination | Karl Heinz Bohrer |
| 2 | Kafka goes to the cinema | Hanns Zischler |
| 3 | Collected poems | Zbigniew Herbert |
| 4th | Work edition: Male oscuro. Records from the time of the illness | Ingeborg Bachmann |
| 5 | The animal kingdom | David Albahari |
| 6th | Katie | Christine Wunnicke |
| 7th | force | Jonas Lüscher |
| 8th | the ships light up at night: poems | Nico Bleutge |
| 9-10 | Pancreas diary | Péter Esterházy |
| She came from Mariupol | Natascha Wodin |
May 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The horse | Claude Simon |
| 2 | The blind weeping century | Marcel Beyer |
| 3 | Katie | Christine Wunnicke |
| 4th | The stranger | Stefan Hertmans |
| 5 | Advanced animals | Eva Menasse |
| 6th | A Russian novel | Emmanuel Carrère |
| 7th | Biography, diary, letters | Tomas Espedal |
| 8th | What was all | Annette Mingels |
| 9 | Collected poems | Johannes Bobrowski |
| 10 | I would die for you. stories | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
June 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Russian novel | Emmanuel Carrère |
| 2 | The blind weeping century | Marcel Beyer |
| 3 | The return. Looking for my lost father | Hisham Matar |
| 4th | A feast day | Graham Swift |
| 5 | What was all | Annette Mingels |
| 6th | The terrible days of terrible horror | Roman Ehrlich |
| 7th | transit | Rachel Cusk |
| 8th | The horse | Claude Simon |
| 9-10 | A lazy god | Stephan Lohse |
| Katie | Christine Wunnicke |
July / August 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The levels | Gerald Murnane |
| 2 | The shadow line | Joseph Conrad |
| 3 | A feast day | Graham Swift |
| 4th | The walker from Aleppo | Niroz Malek |
| 5 - 7 | Strategies for finding a host | Brigitta Falkner |
| Man's element | Ellen Hinsey | |
| After the escape | Ilija Trojanow | |
| 8th | The poems | Ror Wolf |
| 9 | A Russian novel | Emmanuel Carrère |
| 10 | Kafka's son | Szilárd Borbély |
September 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The treasures of Poynton | Henry James |
| 2 | The art of loving a black man without getting tired | Dany Laferrière |
| 3 - 4 | The exile | Ismail Kadare |
| The pine islands | Marion Poschmann | |
| 5 - 6 | Imani | Mia Couto |
| Diary II | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7th | Babylon | Yasmina Reza |
| 8th | Sleeping sun | Thomas Lehr |
| 9 | The flowers of evil | Charles Baudelaire |
| 10-11 | Peter Holtz. His happy life tells of himself | Ingo Schulze |
| Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
October 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The pine islands | Marion Poschmann |
| 2 | The treasures of Poynton | Henry James |
| 3 | Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
| 4th | Peter Holtz. His happy life tells of himself | Ingo Schulze |
| 5 - 6 | The life of the Vernon Subutex | Virginie Despentes |
| Right after and shortly before | Frank Witzel | |
| 7-10 | The day my grandfather was a hero | Paulus Hochgatterer |
| Lady Barbarina | Henry James | |
| The capital | Robert Menasse | |
| A feast day | Graham Swift |
November 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The years | Annie Ernaux |
| 2 | Tyll | Daniel Kehlmann |
| 3 | The day my grandfather was a hero | Paulus Hochgatterer |
| 4th | Three stories | Gustave Flaubert |
| 5 | How it is and how it was | David Constantine |
| 6 - 7 | Water, goosebumps | Aris Fioretos |
| The red-haired woman | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 8th | Luminous details | Péter Nádas |
| 9 | Palace of Justice | Petra Morsbach |
| 10-11 | Sleeping sun | Thomas Lehr |
| It's all true | Carmen Stephan |
December 2017
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyll | Daniel Kehlmann |
| 2 | Samuel Johnson is angry | Lydia Davis |
| 3 | Luminous details | Péter Nádas |
| 4th | Then you sleep too | Leïla Slimani |
| 5 | Fathers and sons | Ivan Turgenev |
| 6th | The four books | Yan Lianke |
| 7th | Lucid dream | Olga Flor |
| 8th | Spark plugs | Durs Grünbein |
| 9 | Manette Salomon | Edmond & Jules de Goncourt |
| 10 | Impossible love. The art of minstrel in new transmissions | Tristan Marquardt & Jan Wagner (Eds.) |
2018
January 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The fruit thief | Peter Handke |
| 2 | Faber. The destroyer | Tristan Garcia |
| 3 | Imani | Mia Couto |
| 4th | Himmerlandsfolk | Johannes V. Jensen |
| 5 | Turtle soldier | Melinda Nadj Abonji |
| 6th | Impossible love. The art of minstrel in new transmissions | Tristan Marquardt & Jan Wagner (Eds.) |
| 7th | Palace of Justice | Petra Morsbach |
| 8th | undead swan | Katharina Schultens |
| 9 | The end | Attila Bartis |
| Seventeenth summer | Maureen Daly |
February 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under the dragon wall | Arno Geiger |
| 2 | Even in high resolution | Ulrich Koch |
| 3 | Dagny or A Festival of Love | Zurab Karumidze |
| 4th | Felix and Felka | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 5 | Keep still | Nina Jackle |
| 6th | Patria | Fernando Aramburu |
| 7th | No money, no watch, no hat | Wilhelm Genazino |
| The fruit thief | Peter Handke | |
| 9 | Years later | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 10 | The story of the lost child | Elena Ferrante |
March 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | grove | Esther Kinsky |
| 2 | The years to come | Norbert Gstrein |
| 3 | How high the waters rise | Anja Kampmann |
| 4th | Years later | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 5 | Meadow stone | Hans Pleschinski |
| 6th | Book of Numbers | Joshua Cohen |
| 7th | Under the dragon wall | Arno Geiger |
| 8th | A beautiful couple | Gert Loschütz |
| 9 | Seven empty houses | Samanta Schweblin |
| The boxer | Szczepan Twardoch |
April 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pravda | Felicitas Hoppe |
| 2 | Dark numbers | Matthias Senkel |
| 3 | Boarding school | Serhiy Zhadan |
| 4th | Foreign relations | Thomas Stangl |
| 5 | The four parts of the world | Hanno Millesi |
| 6th | Miaco | Georg Klein |
| 7th | grove | Esther Kinsky |
| Beautiful souls and accomplices | Julia Schoch | |
| 9 | From this world | James Baldwin |
| 10 | Humbug and variations | Ion Luca Caragiale |
| The bird god | Susanne Röckel |
May 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The follower | Botho Strauss |
| 2 | Years later | Angelika Klüssendorf |
| 3 | The Life of Vernon Subutex 2 | Virginie Despentes |
| 4th | Thoughts under the clouds | Philippe Jaccottet |
| 5 | The agenda | Eric Vuillard |
| 6th | Snooker in Cairo | Waguih Ghali |
| Off-days | Thorsten Palzhoff | |
| 8th | Citizen | Claudia Rankine |
| 9 | The world's gentle indifference | Peter Stamm |
| 10 | Humbug and variations | Ion Luca Caragiale |
June 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lincoln in the bardo | George Saunders |
| 2 | The god of that summer | Ralf Rothmann |
| 3 | Pale heroes | Arthur Isarin |
| 4th | Let yourself go home, father, or write Death to my heart | Josef Winkler |
| 5 | Oxenberg & Bernstein | Cătălin Mihuleac |
| 6th | The agenda | Eric Vuillard |
| 7th | Pathos and Swallow | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 8th | Lies and deception and advice and death | Silvia Bovenschen |
| 9 | Thoughts under the clouds | Philippe Jaccottet |
| Scary stories | Edgar Allan Poe |
July / August 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The mermaid's generosity | Denis Johnson |
| 2 | What a man is | David Szalay |
| 3 | Pathos and Swallow | Friederike Mayröcker |
| 4th | The Babylonian Dictionary | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis |
| 5 | The atlas of memory | Norbert Hummelt |
| 6th | Chevengur | Andrei Platonov |
| 7th | From this world | James Baldwin |
| 8th | Of birds and people | Margriet de Moor |
| Death is an arduous business | Khaled Khalifa | |
| The field | Robert Seethaler |
September 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light of war | Michael Ondaatje |
| 2 | All except me | Francesca Melandri |
| 3 | Stromern | Andor Endre Gelléri |
| 4th | Twilight and turmoil | Bodo Kirchhoff |
| 5 | Brother and sister Lenobel | Michael Köhlmeier |
| 6th | And the sea every morning | Karl-Heinz Ott |
| 7th | asymmetry | Lisa Halliday |
| The projectionist | Aka Morchiladze | |
| 9 | Night lights | María Cecilia Barbetta |
| 10 | Kudos | Rachel Cusk |
October 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Night lights | María Cecilia Barbetta |
| Shadowy | Michael Lentz | |
| 3 | Homecoming | Thomas Hürlimann |
| 4th | Baron Wenckheim's homecoming | László Krasznahorkai |
| 5 | And the sea every morning | Karl-Heinz Ott |
| 6th | Brother and sister Lenobel | Michael Köhlmeier |
| 7th | Days with Ora | Michael Kumpfmüller |
| 8th | Annoying love | Elena Ferrante |
| 9 | Overcoming gravity | Heinz Helle |
| 10 | The red scarf | Yves Bonnefoy |
November 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Light of war | Michael Ondaatje |
| 2 | The life of the Vernon Subutex 3 | Virginie Despentes |
| Hysteria | Eckhart Nickel | |
| 4th | The roots of life | Richard Powers |
| 5 | Ghost train | Ursula Krechel |
| 6th | Memories of a girl | Annie Ernaux |
| Snow over Venice | Ben Lerner & Alexander Kluge | |
| 8th | Homecoming | Thomas Hürlimann |
| Shadowy | Michael Lentz | |
| The Live Butterfly Show | Jan Wagner |
December 2018
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Memories of a girl | Annie Ernaux |
| 2 | List of some losses | Judith Schalansky |
| 3 | Hunter's Notes | Ivan Turgenev |
| 4th | Schermann's eyes | Steffen Mensching |
| 5 | Poems | Elizabeth Bishop |
| 6th | Ghost train | Ursula Krechel |
| 7th | Hysteria | Eckhart Nickel |
| 8th | "Write down everything that is true" | Ingeborg Bachmann & Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| 9 | Young man | Wolf Haas |
| 10 | Border districts | Gerald Murnane |
2019
January 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Overcoming gravity | Heinz Helle |
| 2 | Border districts | Gerald Murnane |
| 3 | List of some losses | Judith Schalansky |
| 4th | Homecoming | Thomas Hürlimann |
| 5 | Bluets | Maggie Nelson |
| 6th | Become an animal | Teresa Preauer |
| 7th | Sweet seriousness | AL Kennedy |
| 8th | homeland | Nora Krug |
| 9 | "Write down everything that is true" | Ingeborg Bachmann & Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| 10 | Lunchtime | Dörte Hansen |
| "The inside is not affected by the external circumstances" | Hermann Lenz & Hanne Trautwein |
February 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweet seriousness | AL Kennedy |
| 2 | Serotonin | Michel Houellebecq |
| 3 | Babel | Kenah Cusanit |
| 4th | The second wife | Günter Kunert |
| 5 | The narrator | Richard Flanagan |
| 6th | The sad guest | Matthias Nawrat |
| 7th | I had a dream | Juan Pablo Villalobos |
| 8th | Triumph of colors | Oswald Egger |
| 9 | Bluets | Maggie Nelson |
| Sheep in the dry | Anke Stelling | |
| Sendbo-o-te | Yoko Tawada |
March 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The only story | Julian Barnes |
| 2 | Babel | Kenah Cusanit |
| expropriation | Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker | |
| 4th | company | Klaus Merz |
| 5 | Champagne for the horses | Monika Rinck |
| 6th | The seat | Annie Ernaux |
| 7th | George | Barbara Honigmann |
| 8th | The sad guest | Matthias Nawrat |
| 9 | The consolation of round things | Clemens J. Setz |
| 10 | Sweet seriousness | AL Kennedy |
April 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | File closed. My mother, the spy | András Forgách |
| 2 | Babel | Kenah Cusanit |
| 3 | The escape from time | Hugo Ball |
| 4th | The disappeared | Antonio Ortuño |
| 5 | Towards the end. Diary entries 1996–2009 | Michael Rutschky |
| 6th | expropriation | Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker |
| 7th | The consolation of round things | Clemens J. Setz |
| 8th | Home somewhere | Petr Hruška |
| 9 | The sad guest | Matthias Nawrat |
| 10 | The pain | André de Richaud |
| 10 | Gringo Champ | Aura xilons |
May 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The seat | Annie Ernaux |
| 2 | Where we are going | Peggy Madler |
| 3 | Days like dogs | Ruth Schweikert |
| 4th | The Sparsholt affair | Alan Hollinghurst |
| 5 | Sheep in the dry | Anke Stelling |
| 6th | origin | Saša Stanišić |
| 7th | petrol | Gunther Geltinger |
| 8th | German for everyone. The definitive textbook | Abbas Khider |
| Grand Tour. Journey through the young lyric poetry of Europe | Federico Italiano & Jan Wagner (Eds.) | |
| 10 | Hand strokes | Volker Braun |
| 100 years of the twilight of mankind - exercise book. Journal of Literature, No. 92 | Norbert Wehr (Ed.) | |
| Mendelssohn on the roof | Jiří Weil |
June 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The hawk | TH White |
| 2 | Milk teeth | Helene Bukowski |
| 3 | Schorfheide. Poems en plain air | Gerhard Falkner |
| 4th | The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
| 5 | Virginia | Nell zinc |
| 6th | Hand strokes | Volker Braun |
| 7th | Missouri | Gregor Hens |
| 8th | Freedoms | Zadie Smith |
| 9 | Praise to melancholy. Mysterious messages | László F. Földényi |
| 10 | Contested zone. My brother, the east and the hatred | Ines Geipel |
| To lose all of that | Leïla Slimani |
July / August 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Machines like me | Ian McEwan |
| 2 | The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
| 3 | Unheard of voices | Elif Shafak |
| 4th | Berta Isla | Javier Marías |
| 5 | Love in an emergency | Daniela Krien |
| 6th | Praise to melancholy. Mysterious messages | László F. Földényi |
| 7th | Eggplant with windshield wiper - The drawings by Oskar Pastior | Heidede Becker |
| 8th | A house in the country / an apartment in the city | Jan Brandt |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | |
| The big garden | Lola Randl |
September 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The beautiful, the shabby, the wavering | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 2 | There are lions here | Katerina Poladjan |
| 3 | On earth we are briefly terrific | Ocean Vuong |
| 4th | Conversations with friends | Sally Rooney |
| 5 | Le Spleen de Paris - The Spleen of Paris | Charles Baudelaire |
| In the third minute of the dawn | Christian Saalberg | |
| 7th | out of my life | Franz Michael Felder |
| The forgetful giant | David Wagner | |
| 9 | My alphabet | Ilma Rakusa |
| 10 | Like her children later | Nicolas Mathieu |
| Inappropriate despair. Metaphysical Diary 1 | Frank Witzel |
October 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Archive of the lost children | Valeria Luiselli |
| 2 | The beautiful, the shabby, the wavering | Brigitte Kronauer |
| 3 | On earth we are briefly terrific | Ocean Vuong |
| 4th | The forgetful giant | David Wagner |
| 5 | There are lions here | Katerina Poladjan |
| 6th | The previous summer and the summer before | Peter Kurzck |
| 7th | On the rope | Terézia Mora |
| 8th | Le Spleen de Paris - The Spleen of Paris | Charles Baudelaire |
| The young PhD student | Jan Peter Bremer | |
| The other name. Heptalogy I - II | Jon Fosse |
November 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The poems | Adolf Endler |
| 2 | Solenoid | Mircea Cartarescu |
| 3 | Winter bees | Norbert Scheuer |
| 4th | The ice castle | Tarjei Vesaas |
| 5 | Red. Two novels in verse | Anne Carson |
| Henry in person | Stewart O'Nan | |
| 7th | Metropolitan | Eugene Ruge |
| 8th | The forgetful giant | David Wagner |
| 9 | There are lions here | Katerina Poladjan |
| 10 | When i was young | Norbert Gstrein |
December 2019
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daydream and drunkenness of a young woman | Clarice Lispector |
| 2 | Holderlin's ghosts | Karl-Heinz Ott |
| 3 | Dream of china | Ma Jian |
| 4th | propaganda | Steffen Kopetzky |
| 5 | A cockroach | Ian McEwan |
| 6th | autumn | Ali Smith |
| 7th | Luna Luna | Maren Kames |
| The Jacob books | Olga Tokarczuk | |
| 9 | "We really got used to all sorts of things" The correspondence | Sarah Kirsch & Christa Wolf |
| Henry in person | Stewart O'Nan |
2020
January 2020
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| 2 | Too often smiled for nothing | Botho Strauss |
| 3 | Luna Luna | Maren Kames |
| 4th | Nineteen Ways to Look At Wang Wei | Eliot Weinberger |
| 5 | "We really got used to all sorts of things" The correspondence | Sarah Kirsch & Christa Wolf |
| 6th | Holderlin's ghosts | Karl-Heinz Ott |
| 7th | Childhood scenes | Jon Fosse |
| 8th | autumn | Ali Smith |
| 9 | Florida | Lauren Groff |
| 10 | Monsieur Pain | Roberto Bolaño |
February 2020
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | About love and magic - I put a spell on you | John Burnside |
| 2 | Dshan, or The First Socialist Tragedy | Andrei Platonov |
| 3 | Nelly B's heart | Aris Fioretos |
| 4th | My Europe. Poems from the diary | Michael Krüger (writer) |
| 5 | The letters - critical edition in four volumes | Ernst Barlach |
| Switchbacks | Bov Bjerg | |
| 7th | Too often smiled for nothing | Botho Strauss |
| 8th | Berlin trilogy. Three poems | Macaws Ören |
| 9 | Echoes bones | Samuel Beckett |
| 10 | The baggage | Monika Helfer |
March 2020
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The red spots | Maggie Nelson |
| 2 | "something completely personal" | Paul Celan |
| 3 | Switchbacks | Bov Bjerg |
| 4th | Oh, Virginia | Michael Kumpfmüller |
| 5 | The death of Jesus | JM Coetzee |
| 6th | The Street | Ann Petry |
| 7th | The boyfriend | Sigrid Nunez |
| 8th | nimbus | Marion Poschmann |
| 9 | Gone with the wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 10 | The baggage | Monika Helfer |
April 2020
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star 111 | Lutz Seiler |
| 2 | Me by my side | Birgit Birnbacher |
| 3 | The righteous killers | Ingo Schulze (Author) |
| 4th | nimbus | Marion Poschmann |
| 5 | The war of the poor | Eric Vuillard |
| 6th | A room to yourself | Virginia Woolf |
| 7th | Picnic in the dark | Markus Orths |
| 8th | Tough years | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 9 | power | Verena Güntner |
| 10 | Night sky with exit wounds | Ocean Vuong |
May 2020
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allegro pastel | Leif Randt |
| 2 | The Street | Ann Petry |
| 3 | Flexen in Miami | Joshua Great |
| 4th | Star 111 | Lutz Seiler |
| 5 | Sweetest fruits | Monique Truong |
| 6th | Palace of the Miserable | Abbas Khider |
| 7th | The Great Hamburger Strasse | Irina Liebmann |
| 8th | Sarah | Scott McClanahan |
| 9 | Mirror and light | Hilary coat |
| A room to yourself | Virginia Woolf |
June 2020
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I await the arrival of the devil | Mary MacLane |
| 2 | Sweetest fruits | Monique Truong |
| 3 | From post-exile | Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt |
| 4th | The boyfriend | Sigrid Nunez |
| 5 | what parsley knows about the soul | Alexandru Bulucz |
| 6th | Stories with Marianne | Xaver Bayer |
| 7th | The Villa | Hans Joachim Schädlich |
| 8th | Sarah | Scott McClanahan |
| The long evenings | Elizabeth Strout | |
| 10 | Poems | Emmy Hennings |
| Exchange of blows | Ivan Vladislavić |
July / August 2020
| space | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berlin letters | Susanne Kerckhoff |
| 2 | dew point | Kerstin Preiwuss |
| 3 | Echoes chambers | Iris Hanika |
| 4th | Out and away | Anna Katharina Hahn |
| 5 | Here we are | Graham Swift |
| 6th | Background for love | Helen Wolff |
| 7th | Momentum | David Vann |
| 8th | Friday Black | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| The actress | Anne Enright | |
| The long evenings | Elizabeth Strout |