The Zeit Library of 100 Books was an educationally ambitious series of articles by the features editorial team of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. Starting in 1978, over the next two years a review of a work of world literature was published week after week.
In 1980, a book edition of these essays was published by Suhrkamp Verlag, edited by Fritz J. Raddatz, whose sales success confirmed the great interest in this type of canon formation. The collection of essays is available in the unchanged 13th edition in 2009.
On November 25, 2023, Die Zeit published a new list in a special edition.
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