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Books for my qualifying exam
Author
10 August 1878–26 June 1957
Also known as Alfred Döblin, Alfred Doblin, Alfred DOBLIN, Alfred Doeblin, Alfred Doblin (1878 - 1957)
German expressionist novelist
103 works
Recorded as 1967; date may be inaccurate
68 editions
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Recorded as 1976; date may be inaccurate
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Books for my qualifying exam
Every book I have read so far in 2026, ranked in order of how much I enjoyed reading it.
Freshly free off a quadrennial confinement, Franz vows to walk the straight and narrow. No more funny business from here on out. The whole Ida business leading to his arrest was a fluke, see, he is no villain, this time Franz is going things legitimate. But,…
I picked this up simply because the plot of future technocrats attempting to colonize Greenland felt timely, but this is some of the best speculative fiction I’ve read: surpassing Dune in strangeness and literary merit, Frankenstein in its themes, and at leas…
[...N]ational glory became ever more pronounced and tawdry amid a dead and dying political life. The powers in the zones and state entities everywhere adopted the same methods, driven both by pressure to assert themselves, and by the devices around which they…