Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek translated by Gitta Honegger 

Buy the book here :

https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780300142150

Part 1 

Dustin Illingworth 

https://www.dustinillingworth.com/

Other books mentioned - 

The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso 

Adam Erlich Sachs - Gretel and the Great War 

Paul Celan And The Trans-Tibetan Angel Yoko Tawada

Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions 

Herscht 07769

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/herscht-07769/

Part 2 

Gitta Honegger 

Gateway books/authors

Albert Camus 

Simone de Beauvoir

Arundhati Roy

Colson Whitehead - Harlem Shuffle, Underground Railway

James - Percival Everett 

Thomas Bernhard - Correction 

Wittgenstein 

Mark Twain - The Awful German Language 

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

Desert Island books 

Thomas Bernhard - Correction

Toni Morrison - Beloved 

Louise Erdrich