# Thomas Mann's most important works

The Nobel laureate's novels and novellas named again and again in schools, criticism and best-of lists, from Buddenbrooks to Felix Krull.

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- May 29, 2021 · Johanna Winkler
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## Top 15

1. **Buddenbrooks** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1901. The decline of a Lübeck merchant family; the basis of his 1929 Nobel Prize.
2. **The Magic Mountain** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1924. Seven years in a Davos sanatorium.
3. **Death in Venice** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1912. A writer and his last passion.
4. **Doctor Faustus** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1947. A composer who sells his soul.
5. **Tonio Kröger** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1903. An artist between bourgeois life and art.
6. **Joseph and His Brothers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1933-1943. The biblical Joseph story in four volumes.
7. **Confessions of Felix Krull** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1954. A charming con man tells his story.
8. **Mario and the Magician** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1930. A magician as an image of fascism.
9. **Lotte in Weimar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1939. Goethe's youthful love visits Weimar.
10. **Royal Highness** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1909. A prince and a rich American woman.
11. **Tristan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1903. A novella set in a sanatorium.
12. **Little Herr Friedemann** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1897. An early story about an outsider.
13. **Gladius Dei** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1902. A fanatic against a Munich art shop.
14. **The Holy Sinner** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1951. A medieval legend retold.
15. **The Transposed Heads** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1940. An Indian legend.

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