/lit/ - Literature

could you make a list of books and films, say, an anglo expat should get acquainted to so that you don't consider him a bydloid britbong anymore? (for anglos: let the expat be German or Japanese.)

To Germany it's pretty simple:
HISTORY
1.ZDF - Die Deutschen: German historical docu series from the early middle ages aired on state television
2.Golo Mann - Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts: What the name says (Book).
POPULAR LITERATURE
3.Michael Ende - the Neverending Story
4.Walter Moers - the City of Dreaming Books
5.Karl May - Winnetou; Durch's Wilde Kurdistan
POETRY
0.fucking Rilke; random pretencious but humorous parody poetry from the 20th century
PHILOSOPHY
6.Nietzsche; maybe Schopenhauer; maybe Freud
UNPOPULAR LITERATURE
7.Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
8.Remark - Im Westen nichts Neues
VASTLY UNPOPULAR LITERATURE
9.Grass - die Blechtrommel
MUSIK
A.Have a favourite "Liedermacher"
B.Have an opinion about assorted "Deutschrock" bands
C.you gotta be able to humm Richard Strauss and Schumann and Schubert
FILMS
D.informed love-hate relationship to all the 1960s-1980s great German directors (Fassbinder, Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog etc.)
E.love 1920s-50s comedies ironically; sames for the Schnodderdeutsch mistranslations of foreign B-class Cinema
F.Tarantino copypasta cinema from the 1990s and naughts (by Till Schweiger, Thomas Jahn, Fatih Akin)