# All the German Book Prize winners

The twenty novels awarded the German Book Prize for the best German-language novel of the year since 2005.

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- Oct 22, 2024 · Johanna Winkler
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## Top 20

1. **We Are Doing Fine — Arno Geiger** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2005. Three generations of a Viennese family; the first winner.
2. **The Have-Nots — Katharina Hacker** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2006. A couple between Berlin and London after 9/11.
3. **In Times of Fading Light — Eugen Ruge** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2011. Four generations of an East German family.
4. **The Blind Side of the Heart — Julia Franck** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2007. A mother abandons her son at a station in 1945.
5. **The Tower — Uwe Tellkamp** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2008. Dresden's educated middle class in the final years of East Germany.
6. **Du stirbst nicht — Kathrin Schmidt** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2009. A woman wakes up speechless after a brain haemorrhage.
7. **Fly Away, Pigeon — Melinda Nadj Abonji** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2010. A family from Vojvodina in Switzerland.
8. **Landgericht — Ursula Krechel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2012. A Jewish judge returns from exile in Cuba.
9. **The Monster — Terézia Mora** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2013. A widower travels across Eastern Europe with his wife's diaries.
10. **Kruso — Lutz Seiler** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2014. Drop-outs on the island of Hiddensee in East Germany's last summer.
11. **The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a Manic-Depressive Teenager in the Summer of 1969 — Frank Witzel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2015. An 800-page novel about old West Germany.
12. **Widerfahrnis — Bodo Kirchhoff** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2016. Two strangers drive together to southern Italy.
13. **The Capital — Robert Menasse** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2017. A satirical novel about the European Commission in Brussels.
14. **Archipel — Inger-Maria Mahlke** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2018. Tenerife in the 20th century, told in reverse.
15. **Where You Come From — Saša Stanišić** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2019. Memories of Višegrad, flight and Heidelberg.
16. **Annette, A Heroic Epic — Anne Weber** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2020. The life of Resistance fighter Anne Beaumanoir in verse.
17. **Blue Woman — Antje Rávik Strubel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2021. A young Czech woman in Helsinki after a rape.
18. **Blutbuch — Kim de l'Horizon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2022. A non-binary narrator and the grandmother's history.
19. **Echtzeitalter — Tonio Schachinger** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2023. A pupil at an elite Viennese school and video games.
20. **Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir? — Martina Hefter** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2024. A performer and a night-time romance scammer.

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