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The ORF best list is an Austrian list of what judges consider the best new literary publications from Austria and the world.
The best list has been drawn up since May 2003 by a jury made up of independent literary critics and booksellers. It was initiated by ORF literary journalist Günter Kaindlstorfer .
Once a month in the ORF telecast matinee the top ten presents -Books. Die Zeit im Bild , Ö1 radio, ORF-ON and Teletext also report regularly on the books of the month .
The more than 40 members of the jury (as of 2014) independently award 7, 5, 3 and 1 points for their personal four best titles. The points awarded are added up and result in the order. Each jury member is free to nominate fewer (or even none) titles. As soon as a title has been ranked three times on the ORF best list, it can no longer be considered.
2003
- May: Daniel Kehlmann , me and Kaminski
- 2nd place: Wilhelm Genazino , A woman, an apartment, a novel
- 3rd place: Sabine Gruber , Die Unutung
- June: Jeffrey Eugenides , Middlesex
- July: Josef Winkler , corpse, watching his family
- August: Josef Winkler , corpse, watching his family
- September: Norbert Gstrein , The craft of killing
- October: Raoul Schrott , Tristan da Cunha or Half of the Earth
- November: Imre Kertész , liquidation
- December: Imre Kertész , liquidation
2004
- January: Antal Szerb , journey in the moonlight
- February: Antal Szerb , Journey in the moonlight
- March: John Updike , How was it really
- April: Karl-Markus Gauß , The Dog Eaters from Svinia
- May: Thomas Glavinic , How to Live
- June: Marlene Streeruwitz , Jessica, 30.
- July: Richard Powers , The Sound of Time
- August: Lojze Kovačič , The Newcomers
- September: Peter Handke , Don Juan (told by himself)
- October: Martin Pollack , The Dead in the Bunker
- November: Ralf Rothmann , Young Light
- December: Friederike Mayröcker , Collected Poems
2005
- January: Friederike Mayröcker , Collected Poems
- February: John Updike , Find my face
- March: Wilhelm Genazino , Die Liebesblödigkeit
- April: Eva Menasse , Vienna
- May: Orhan Pamuk , snow
- June: Orhan Pamuk , snow
- July: Joyce Carol Oates , exposed
- August: Fred Wander , The Seventh Well
- September: Ian McEwan , Saturday
- October: Arno Geiger , we are fine
- November: Daniel Kehlmann , Measuring the World
- December: Daniel Kehlmann , Measuring the World
2006
- January: Margit Schreiner , Book of Disappointments
- February: Ulrich Weinzierl , Hofmannsthal
- March: Margriet de Moor , storm surge
- April: Franz Schuh , serious allegations, dirty laundry
- May: Franz Schuh , serious allegations, dirty laundry
- June: Richard Yates , Eleven Kinds of Solitude
- July: Péter Esterházy , introduction to beautiful literature
- August: Thomas Glavinic , The Night's Work
- September: Paulus Hochgatterer , The Sweetness of Life
- October: Peter Waterhouse , War and World
- November: Christoph Ransmayr , The Flying Mountain
- December: Imre Kertész , Dossier K.
2007
- January: Orhan Pamuk , Istanbul
- February: Silvia Bovenschen , getting older
- March: Anna Mitgutsch , Two Lives and One Day
- April: Karl-Markus Gauß , Too early, too late
- May: Karl-Markus Gauß , Too early, too late
- June: Werner Bräunig , fairground
- July: Ilija Trojanow , nomad on four continents
- August: Richard Ford , The State of the Country
- September: Thomas Glavinic , that's me
- October: Michael Köhlmeier , Occident
- November: Gerhard Roth , The Alphabet of Time
- December: Ferdinand Schmatz , fluoroscopy
2008
- January: Mircea Cartarescu , The Knowing
- February: Peter Handke , The Moravian Night
- March: Peter Handke , The Moravian Night
- April: Philip Roth , Exit Ghost
- May: Franz Schuh , Memoirs - An Interview Against Myself
- June: Thomas Pynchon , Against the Day
- July: György Dragomán , The White King
- August: Reiner Stach , Kafka. The years of knowledge
- September: Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan , Herzzeit - Correspondence
- October: Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan , Herzzeit - Correspondence
- November: Gerbrand Bakker , it's quiet upstairs
- December: Aravind Adiga , The White Tiger
2009
- January: Yuri Andruchowytsch , secret
- February: Thomas Bernhard , My Prices
- March: Philip Roth , outrage
- April: Sibylle Lewitscharoff , Apostoloff
- May: Thomas Stangl , What is coming
- June: Cees Nooteboom , the foxes come at night
- July: Thomas Wolfe , look homeward, angel
- August: Gernot Wolfgruber , On the loose
- September: Gerhard Roth , The City. Discovery inside Vienna
- October: Terézia Mora , the only man on the continent
- November: Herta Müller , breathing swing
- December: David Grossman , a woman flees from a message
2010
- January: Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld , The Correspondence
- February: Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld, The Correspondence
- March: Arno Geiger , Everything about Sally
- April: Arno Geiger, Everything about Sally
- May: Anna Mitgutsch , when you come back
- June: Anna Mitgutsch, when you come back
- July: Friederike Mayröcker , I'm in the institution
- August: Karl-Markus Gauß , In the forest of the metropolises
- September: Karl-Markus Gauß, In the forest of the metropolises
- October: Jonathan Franzen , freedom
- November: Peter Handke , Still storm
- December: Peter Handke, Still storm
2011
- January: Péter Esterházy , A production novel (Two production novels)
- February: Arno Geiger , the old king in his exile
- March: Arno Geiger, the old king in his exile
- April: Arno Geiger, the old king in his exile
- May: Gerhard Roth , Orkus
- June: Gerhard Roth, Orkus
- July: Gerhard Roth, Orkus
- August: Sabine Gruber , Stillbach or Die Sehnsucht
- September: Josef Haslinger , Jáchymov
- October: Sabine Gruber , Stillbach or Die Sehnsucht
- November: Eugen Ruge , In Times of Waning Light
- December: Edmund de Waal , The hare with the amber eyes
2012
- January Julian Barnes , From the end of a story
- February Julian Barnes, From the End of a Story
- March Walter Kappacher , land of red stones
- April Péter Nádas , parallel stories
- May: Péter Nádas, parallel stories
- June: Bettina Balàka , Kassiopeia
- July: Ivan Goncharov , Oblomov
- August: Gerhard Roth , portraits
- September: Vea Kaiser , brass music pop or How science got into the mountains.
- October: Clemens J. Setz , Indigo.
- November: Christoph Ransmayr : Atlas of an anxious man.
2013
- January: Mark Twain , My Secret Autobiography.
- March: Eva Menasse , quasicrystals.
- May: Péter Esterházy , Esti.
- June: Andrea Winkler , king, court jester and people.
- July: Andrea Winkler, king, court jester and people.
- August: Fernando Pessoa , My gaze is open like a sunflower ...
- September: Karl-Markus Gauß , the first thing I saw.
- October: Terézia Mora , The Monster.
- November: Thomas Stangl , Rules of Dance.
- December: Christoph W. Bauer , In a bar under the sea.
2014
- January: Wolfgang Herrndorf , work and structure.
- February: Wolfgang Herrndorf, work and structure.
- March: Antonio Fian , The Polykrates Syndrome
- April: Katja Petrowskaja , maybe Esther
- May: Krisztina Tóth , Pixel
- June: Angelika Reitzer , We Heirs
- July: Erich Hackl , Three tearless stories
- August and September: Marlene Streeruwitz , descendants.
- October: Gerhard Roth : Outline of a riddle
- November and December: Lydia Davis , Can't and won't
2015
- January: Lydia Davis : Can't and won't
- February: Ian McEwan : Child welfare
- March: Arno Geiger : Self-portrait with a hippopotamus
- April: Valerie Fritsch : Winter's garden
- May: Péter Esterházy : The coat-and-sword version
- June and July: Siri Hustvedt , The glittering world
- August and September: Anna Baar , The color of the pomegranate
- October: Clemens Setz , The Hour Between Woman and Guitar
- November: Karl Ove Knausgård , Mein Kampf (Original title: Min Kamp )
- December: Drago Jančar : The night I saw her
2016
- January: György Dragomán : funeral pyre
- February: Christoph W. Bauer : Stromern. poems
- March: Hans Platzgumer : At the edge
- April and May: Dževad Karahasan : The comfort of the night sky
- June: Antoine Leiris : You don't get my hatred
- July: Ann Cotten : Banished!
- August, September and October: Sabine Gruber : Daldossi or The Life of the Moment
- November: Teresa Präauer : Oh Schimmi
- December: Christoph Ransmayr : Cox or Der Lauf der Zeit
2017
- January: Terézia Mora : Love among aliens
- February: Andrei Platonow : The excavation pit , translated from the Russian by Gabriele Leupold
- March: Anna Kim : The great homecoming
- April: Julian Barnes : The Noise of Time
- May and June: Brigitta Falkner : Strategies for finding a host
- July: Karl Ove Knausgård : Fighting
- August: Oswald Egger : Val di Non
- September: Paulus Hochgatterer : The day my grandfather was a hero
- October: Robert Menasse : The capital
- November: Daniel Kehlmann : Tyll
- December: Peter Handke : The fruit thief
2018
- January: Peter Handke : The fruit thief
- February and March: Arno Geiger : Under the Drachenwand
- April: Esther Kinsky : Hain. Terrain novel
- May: Norbert Gstrein : The coming years
- June and July: George Saunders : Lincoln in the Bardo
- August and September: Erich Hackl : On the rope
- October: Michael Köhlmeier : brother and sister Lenobel
- November and December: Philipp Weiss : On the edge of the world people sit and laugh
2019
- January and February: Judith Schalansky : List of some losses
- March: Laura Freudenthaler : Ghost story
- April: Karl-Markus Gauß : Adventurous journey through my room
- May: Saša Stanišić : Origin
- June: Undiné Radzevičiūtė : The blood is blue
- July: Thomas Stangl : The history of the body
- August and September: Norbert Gstrein : When I was young
- October: Drago Jančar : When love rests
- November and December: Mircea Cărtărescu : Solenoid
2020
- January: Olga Tokarczuk : The Jacob books
- February: Sigrid Nunez : The friend
- March and April: Monika Helfer : Die Bagage
- May: Birgit Birnbacher : Me by my side
- June: Xaver Bayer : Stories with Marianne
- July: Melitta Breznik : Mother. Chronicle of a farewell and Zsófia Bán : Keep breathing
- August: Iris Hanika : Echo's chambers
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- ↑ The current jury of the ORF best list ( memento of the original from October 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on orf.at, accessed October 8, 2014
- ↑ Top 10 in June 2012
- ↑ Top 10 in July 2012
- ↑ Top 10 in August 2012
- ↑ The best in September 2012: Vea Kaiser
- ↑ winner 2012.10 Clemens J. Setz
- ↑ Winner 2012.11 Christoph Ransmayr
- ^ Peter Fritz : Winner 2013.01 Mark Twain
- ↑ Judith Hoffmann: Winner 2013.03 EVA MENASSE
- ↑ Susanne Schaber: Winner 2013.05 Péter Esterházy
- ↑ Cornelius Hell : Winner 2013.07 Andrea Winkler
- ↑ THE BEST IN JANUARY 2014: WOLFGANG HERRNDORF