
Captain Ladurner is a 1940 German adventure novel by the South Tyrol mountaineer Luis Trenker. It portrays a group of First World War veterans who conspire to overthrow the Weimar Republic, portrayed as corrupt.

Fortunatus is a German proto-novel or chapbook about a legendary hero popular in 15th- and 16th-century Europe and usually associated with a magical inexhaustible purse.

Memoirs of an Anti-Semite is a novel by Gregor von Rezzori. Originally published in Germany in 1979, and translated into English by Joachim Neugroschel in 1981.

Simplicius Simplicissimus is a picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in 1668 by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and probably published the same year. Inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War which devastated Germany from 1618 to 1648, it is regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece.

Till Eulenspiegel is the protagonist of a German chapbook published in 1515 with a possible background in earlier Middle Low German folklore.

Willibald Alexis, the pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring, was a German historical novelist, considered part of the Young Germany movement.

Willibald Alexis, the pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring, was a German historical novelist, considered part of the Young Germany movement.