Just finished reading pic related, and I absolutely loved it.

The Magic Mountain is good for that. Most bildungsroman is similar.

the razors edge by Somerset maugham

>>7839759
check out the alchemist

>>7839759
ziel im life*

>>7839795
The alchemist was an easy page-turner but the writing was some of the worst I've ever read. And the ending was garbage.

That being said the book was so positive that I certainly don't regret reading it.

>>7839759
thus spoke zarathustra

>>7839799
ziel im leben
better is:
lebensziel

>>7839759
blechtrommel
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I read Siddartha and The Last Temptation of Christ back to back and enjoyed both very much. The pairing was unintentional but worked very well, so that's my rec.

Other books by Hesse, The witch of portobuelo and Veronica decides to die by Paolo Coelho are what you are looking for