Some of my all-time favourite books

In no particular order, really:

• The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel), by Hermann Hesse
• Narcissus and Goldmund (Narziss und Goldmund), by Hermann Hesse
• The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
• The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), by Thomas Mann
• The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
• Man’s Search for Meaning (Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen), by Viktor Frankl
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera