Literary recommendations for the autumn season

Various authors and literary works are being highlighted as top recommendations for autumn reading.

In the fantasy genre, Angela Wittmann suggests Frank Herbert’s ‘Die Reise nach Pandora’, a classic sci-fi work involving artificial intelligence and space travel, now fully translated into German. Additionally, Ursula Poznanski’s ‘Canvas’ is noted as a near-future thriller where characters escape an uninhabitable Earth by entering virtual worlds.

Other notable contemporary works include Dana Vowinckel’s ‘Alma und Anton’, which explores the complexities of German-Jewish love, and Dörte Hansen’s ‘Broder’, a family drama centered on sibling rivalry in a rural setting. Sven Regener’s ‘Frankie und Freddie’ offers a nostalgic look at 1980s Berlin, while Yang Shuang-zi’s ‘Das Taiwan-Tagebuch’ follows a Japanese writer traveling through annexed Taiwan prior to World War II.