The books on this list are in chronological order by date of publication and span the years 1872- 1955. The challenge highlights the work of European, particularly German, authors. I have provided some checkpoint dates below for those who might be interested.
1876: Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
1892: Ibsen - The Master Builder
1895: Fontane - Effi Briest
1901: Chekhov - Three Sisters
1905: Wharton - The House of Mirth
1915: Kafka - Metamorphosis
1918: Spengler: The Decline of the West, part 1
1922: Eliot - The Waste Land
1925: Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
1929: Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
1933: Malraux - Man's Fate
1938: Sartre - Nausea
1939: Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
1942: Camus - The Stranger
1943: Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
1947: Mann - Doctor Faustus
1949: Orwell - 1984
1952: Beckett - Waiting for Godot
1955: Nabokov - Lolita
Note: Joseph & His Brothers is duplicated - 1st icon for first part & 2nd icon for 4th part