Book recommendations?

[Carol]

Miles wrote:
>
> Some German recommendations:
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> 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 ;).

Carol responds:

"Werther" greatly influenced the English Romantics and their Victorian
successors. It's a classic Bildungsroman. Wasn't it the first novel in
that genre, Miles?

Carol, who read it in English for a course in Romanticism