15 must-read fiction books like De sneeuwslaper by Marlene van Niekerk

Cover of De sneeuwslaper by Marlene van Niekerk

De sneeuwslaper

By: Marlene van Niekerk

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Hoe ontstaan stories, en waarom? Dít is die vrae wat die skeppende skrywer besig hou. Wat is die vo…

If you liked the fiction plot in De sneeuwslaper by Marlene van Niekerk , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Het smelt by Lize Spit

1. Het smelt

By: Lize Spit

3.67

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for 9789082410617 Wat als je wraak kunt nemen op een heel do… read more

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  • fiction
"Spijt moet je niet hebben’, zegt hij. Ik knik. ‘Heb je me wel gehoord, Eva?’ Ik knik opnieuw. ‘Wat zei ik dan?’ ‘Dat je nooit spijt moet hebben,’ zeg ik. ‘Ik versta je niet.’ ‘Spijt moet je nooit heb…"

-Lize Spit, Het smelt

Cover of De historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart by Betje Wolff, Aagje Deken

2. De historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart

By: Betje Wolff , Aagje Deken

3.03

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

Ruim 200 jaar geleden verscheen de eerste editie van de roman in brieven De historie van Mejuffrouw… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ons Is Nie Almal So Nie by Jeanne Goosen

3. Ons Is Nie Almal So Nie

By: Jeanne Goosen

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Wat het 'n mooi Afrikanervrou in die 1950's gedoen as die lewe begin druk? As haar man 'n verbitter… read more

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  • fiction

4. Carry On

By: Rainbow Rowell

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A #1 New York Times-bestseller Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's wh… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

5. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

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  • fiction

6. Le otto montagne

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Pietro e un ragazzino di citta, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di … read more

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7. Turks Fruit

By: Jan Wolkers

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Turks Fruit, het hartverscheurende verhaal van de gepassioneerde maar onmogelijke liefde tussen Olg… read more

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8. De Uitvreter

By: Nescio

3.00

Format: None pages,

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9. Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

By: Multatuli , Eduard Douwes Dekker , None , None

4.06

Format: 255 pages,

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treat… read more

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10. The Door-to-Door Bookstore

By: Carsten Henn

4.14

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

The charming international bestseller about an elderly bookseller who delivers his recommendations … read more

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  • fiction
"If you can tell when a book is good, why don’t you write one yourself?"

-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

"You need to read more. It makes the brain flexible, so that anything can fit into it."

-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

"She didn't need to believe in God; it was entirely sufficient that God believed in her."

-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

"It has been said that books find their own readers—but sometimes they need someone to show them the way."

-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

Cover of The Boy Between Worlds by Annejet van der Zijl

11. The Boy Between Worlds

By: Annejet van der Zijl

3.94

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the emotionally stirring story of unlikely lovers who brave the bigotry of their era, only … read more

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12. Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

4.38

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more

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  • fiction
"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

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13. Listanje kupusa

By: Igor Beleš

4.85

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Pet jedanaestogodišnjaka, nerazdvojnih članova An družine, u Borovu je naselju 1991. krenulo istraž… read more

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14. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

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  • fiction
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

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15. The Travelling Cat Chronicles

By: Hiro Arikawa

4.34

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old a… read more

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  • fiction
"Guddo rakku!"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Because it was only natural to feel sad."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Realmente, o ser humano é um bicho esquisito. - Nana"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"- A relação entre pais e filhos é diferente em cada família."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

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16. Mijn lieve gunsteling

By: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Mijn lieve gunsteling is de nieuwe roman van Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Het verhaal van de veearts en… read more

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  • fiction
"Een dode kan niet kapot zijn, een dode is dood, niet meer dan dat. Diegene die achterblijft is kapot. In wel duizend stukjes."

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Mijn lieve gunsteling

"Sommige mensen staat de eenzaamheid zo goed dat we vergeten dat zij zich eronder lelijk en ongezien voelen, dat ze iedere ochtend een stofroller over hun kleding halen om niet zo grauw voor de dag te…"

-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Mijn lieve gunsteling

Cover of Confrontaties by Simone Atangana Bekono

17. Confrontaties

By: Simone Atangana Bekono

3.57

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling.Sa… read more

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  • fiction
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18. The Binding

By: Bridget Collins

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-cen… read more

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  • fiction
"Memories,"

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"I ran through air that held me back."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"We make books - we make beautiful books - out of love."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"the fear with elderly characters is the high likelihood of their death..."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

Cover of De geschiedenis van mijn seksualiteit by Sofie Lakmaker

19. De geschiedenis van mijn seksualiteit

By: Sofie Lakmaker

3.77

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

'De geschiedenis van mijn seksualiteit luidt: dat ik altijd op zoek ben geweest naar iemand die de … read more

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"fucking hetero's, gotta teach them everything."

-Sofie Lakmaker, De geschiedenis van mijn seksualiteit

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20. The Corset

By: Laura Purcell

4.15

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visit… read more

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  • fiction
"Notoriety is by no means a death sentence in the world of art."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"You'll call me heartless for thinking such thoughts. Maybe I was: a cavity yawned in my ribs, where once I'd felt a heart beat back."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

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21. Vrijedna čekanja

By: Inna Moore

4.65

Format: None pages, wattpad

Ugledan odvjetnik, uzoran sin i privlačan muškarac, Max Blake je, baš kao i njegova braća, dobar mo… read more

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22. Die teenoorgestelde is net so waar

By: Azille Coetzee

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lien, Katryn en Charlotte was jare lank beste vriendinne. Die vriendskap was van die begin af onwaa… read more

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23. Dennie is een star

By: Maartje Wortel

3.53

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

'Op de Rietveld Academie kreeg ik les van Wim Brands. Tijdens een van de eerste lessen gaf hij ons … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of De sneeuwslaper by Marlene van Niekerk

24. De sneeuwslaper

By: Marlene van Niekerk

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Hoe ontstaan stories, en waarom? Dít is die vrae wat die skeppende skrywer besig hou. Wat is die vo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of As in die mond by Nicole Jaekel Strauss

25. As in die mond

By: Nicole Jaekel Strauss

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

’n Kinderlose ma op ’n Griekse eiland, die helder kleure vir haar oe grys. ’n Tuisnywerheid-bakker … read more

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Cover of Soekenjin by Bibi Slippers

26. Soekenjin

By: Bibi Slippers

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Soekenjin (Search Engine) is a collection of contemporary poems about desire and life in the time o… read more

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27. Ek stamel ek sterwe

By: Eben Venter

4.20

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Konstant Wasserman se pad loop dood. Sy mense met hul verstarde lewens en hul aansprake dryf hom to… read more

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28. pienk ceramic-hondjies

By: Ryan Pedro

4.42

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

In Ryan Pedro se debuutbundel kom 'n sterk nuwe stem aan die woord in roerende gedigte wat dikwels … read more

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Cover of Skepsel (Afrikaans Edition) by Willem Anker

29. Skepsel (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Willem Anker

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Aan die Kaapse Weskus versorg Rebecca Maas haar sterwende pa in ’n tegnologies gevorderde slimhuis,… read more

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Cover of Ti, moja prekrasna djevojčice by Nataša Ozmec

30. Ti, moja prekrasna djevojčice

By: Nataša Ozmec

4.53

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

Svaka je djevojka, žena i starica najprije bila prekrasna djevojčica. Ovo je oda svim tim djevojčic… read more

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Cover of Tayna Chronicles: The Secret City by Sara Škrobo

31. Tayna Chronicles: The Secret City

By: Sara Škrobo

4.35

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Sofija lives in a totalitarian state with her grandparents and works as a clerk in the city hall. H… read more

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4.00

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