Book recommendations?

[Miles]

Some German recommendations:

the old one: Heinrich Heine: Deutschland. Ein Wintermrchen (Germany. A 
Winter's tale) - an ironical verse-epic on Germany of about 1840

the new one: Patrick Sskind: Das Parfum - Die Geschichte eines Mrders 
(Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) - if 1985 counts as new.

the influential one: Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers 
(The Sorrows of Young Werther) - a must-have-read for German literature. 
Most important for the Sturm und Drang period of German literature, and an 
extremely popular book in the 18th/19th century. It still is widely known, 
quoted and used in modern literature.

I checked, all these books are available in English ;).