# Franz Kafka's most important works

What to read by Kafka, from The Metamorphosis to Letter to His Father, according to reading guides and recommendations.

- 28 votes · 15 items
- Jun 7, 2024 · Sabine Müller
- https://even.best/en/l/3096/franz-kafka-s-most-important-works

## Top 15

1. **The Metamorphosis** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1915. Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant insect.
2. **The Castle** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1926. The land surveyor K. never gets where he is going.
3. **The Judgment** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1913. Written in a single night; his most interpreted work.
4. **A Country Doctor** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1918. A nightmarish night ride to a patient.
5. **Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1924. His last story.
6. **Letters to Milena** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — His letters to Milena Jesenská.
7. **Diaries** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1910–1923. His diaries, published against his wishes.
8. **The Burrow** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Late work. An animal forever defending its burrow.
9. **Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1927. Karl Rossmann in America.
10. **In the Penal Colony** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1919. An execution machine on an island.
11. **The Trial** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1925. Josef K. is arrested without knowing why.
12. **Before the Law** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1915. The doorkeeper parable, also in The Trial.
13. **Letter to His Father** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Written in 1919. A letter that never reached his father.
14. **A Hunger Artist** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1922. An artist who lives by starving.
15. **A Report to an Academy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1917. An ape tells how he became human.

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