10 best-selling nonfiction books like Macht zonder grenzen: Rome en zijn imperium by Fik Meijer

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Macht zonder grenzen: Rome en zijn imperium

By: Fik Meijer

3.79

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

In de eerste eeuw van onze jaartelling werd het Romeinse rijk omsloten door de Atlantische Oceaan i…

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1. The Solitude of Prime Numbers

By: Paolo Giordano , Shaun Whiteside

3.64

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connec… read more

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"She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"No tenían nada en común, salvo el no querer estar allí ese día."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"إن شعور المرء بكونه مميزا هو أسوأ أنواع الأقفاص التى يمكن للمرء أن يبنيه."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

"Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent."

-Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

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2. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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3. The Discovery of Heaven

By: Harry Mulisch , Paul Vincent

4.01

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Discovery of Heavenbegins with the meeting of Onno and Max, two complicated individuals whom fa… read more

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4. Wil

By: Jeroen Olyslaegers

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Het is oorlog. Antwerpen wordt bezet door geweld en wantrouwen. Wilfried Wils acht zichzelf een dic… read more

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5. Imperium (Cicero, #1)

By: Robert Harris

4.13

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified… read more

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"What a terrible audit Death lays upon a man."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Few subjects make more tedious reading than happiness."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?"

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

"Tak usah cemas, akan banyak waktu untuk tidur setelah kita mati."

-Robert Harris, Imperium (Cicero, #1)

6. Rampjaar 1672: hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte

By: Luc Panhuysen

3.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Het jaar 1672 staat in de Nederlandse geschiedenis gegrift als het Rampjaar. In dat jaar werd de Re… read more

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7. The World of Yesterday

By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more

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8. De helaasheid der dingen

By: Dimitri Verhulst

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

In De helaasheid der dingenkeert de schrijver terug naar zijn geboortegrond in Reetveerdegem. We ma… read more

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9. Conspirata (Cicero, #2)

By: Robert Harris

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

- Internationally bestselling author: "Imperium" was hailed as "quite possibly Harris's most accomp… read more

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10. De donkere kamer van Damokles

By: Willem Frederik Hermans

3.80

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

De donkere kamer van Damokles vertelt het verhaal van Henri Osewoudt, sigarenhandelaar te Voorschot… read more

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"Waarom zal ik mij moreel gedragen, als ik toch in ieder geval de doodstraf krijg? Iedereen krijgt nou eenmaal de doodstraf en iedereen weet het."

-Willem Frederik Hermans, De donkere kamer van Damokles

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11. The Eighth Life

By: Nino Haratischwili

4.52

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. 'That night Stasia took an oath, swearin… read more

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"And if you don’t know who you are, then look at all the possible versions of you, find the most impossible one, and become that."

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

"and you asked me where people keep their childhood, and I remember telling you that we keep it hidden, between our ribs, in little liver spots and moles, in the roots of our hair, above our heart, in…"

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

"Love was slow, creeping poison, loge was treacherous and insincere, love was a veil thrown over the misery of the world, love was sticky and indigestible, it was a mirror in which one could be what o…"

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

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12. De kat en de generaal

By: Nino Haratischwili

3.97

Format: 676 pages, Hardcover

Een psychologisch zeer geladen, duistere schuld-en-boeteroman van bestsellerauteur Nino Haratischwi… read more

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13. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

By: Bart Van Loo

4.31

Format: 607 pages, Hardcover

Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Hoe overleef ik alles wat ik niemand vertel? (Generatie Hoi - Hoe overleef ik..., #1)

By: Francine Oomen

3.39

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Francine Oomen is terug (van nooit weggeweest)! Na 25 jaar Hoe overleef ik is er nu het eerste dee… read more

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"Ik voel me soms net een laf glaasje cola, uit een fles die te lang heeft opengestaan. (...) Mijn voornemen voor deze reis is om mijn hart te volgen, en mijn missie is mijn prik terug te vinden."

-Francine Oomen, Hoe overleef ik alles wat ik niemand vertel? (Generatie Hoi - Hoe overleef ik..., #1)

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15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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16. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

By: Irene Vallejo

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

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18. Elektra

By: Jennifer Saint

3.68

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeanc… read more

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"I had not dreamed I would bring my children into a world that could drain their blood in the light of dawn before they’d had a chance to live at all."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"The wine tasted like dirt to me. I could shriek out my warnings, claw at my flesh, hurl my goblet right into Paris' face, but they would still carry on as though I did not exist."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me…"

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

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19. Ik ga leven

By: Lale Gül

3.42

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

‘Muziek mag niet, daten is verboden, het hebben van vrienden van het andere geslacht is onwettig, j… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Fysieke arbeid is immers voor hen die voor denken te lui zijn."

-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

"Gelukkig is vrijheid van meningsuiting iets anders dan het recht op een podium."

-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

"Zoals Victor Hugo zei Kent elk dorp een docent Die de boel verlicht En een paus Die dat licht weer dooft Maar wat als er meer docenten waren dan pausen?"

-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

"In onze cultuur moet je immers spreken met lichaamstaal, niet louter met woorden, dat is nooit overtuigend genoeg, daarom moest ik wel bijtend reageren — en daar vooral vurig bij kijken — op dit om d…"

-Lale Gül, Ik ga leven

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20. Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

By: Stephen Fry

4.35

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty,… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"His reward is the eternal fame that is both priceless and worthless"

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

"Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)"

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

"Forget him. What is treasure? Or Briseis, or honor, or anything? Next to the life of the one I loved best and dearest? My beloved, my only Patroclus."

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

"Zelfs de onsterfelijke goden waren niet bij machte zich te verhouden tot, mee te leven met, nakomelingen te verwekken bij en het lot te bepalen van zo'n aanzwellende schare eerzuchtige, vernuftige en…"

-Stephen Fry, Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)

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21. Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

By: Stephen Fry

4.32

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will."

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"Wicked men never learn, for wicked men have no interest in myths, legends, and stories. If they had they would learn from them and triumph, so we must be glad of their ignorance and dullness of wits."

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept …"

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

"A fine statue of a naked Theseus stands proudly today in Athens' central place of assembly, the city's hub, Syntagma Square. Even today he is a focus of Athenian identity and pride. The ship he broug…"

-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)

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22. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

By: Stephen Fry

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and come… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Green fingers are better than gold."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Goodness me. You don’t ask for the moon, do you?"

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

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23. The Lying Room

By: Nicci French

3.61

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weat… read more

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24. Fantoomgroei

By: Sander Heijne

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Sander Heijne en Hendrik Noten laten in ‘Fantoomgroei’ zien dat onze economie al ver voor de corona… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Macht zonder grenzen: Rome en zijn imperium

By: Fik Meijer

3.79

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

In de eerste eeuw van onze jaartelling werd het Romeinse rijk omsloten door de Atlantische Oceaan i… read more

Similar categories in Fik Meijer's Macht zonder grenzen: Rome en zijn imperium book and Fik Meijer's Macht zonder grenzen: Rome en zijn imperium

  • history
  • nonfiction

8 Top history books like Macht zonder grenzen: Rome en zijn imperium by Fik Meijer

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Bart Van Loo

4.31

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David Graeber

4.20

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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Sarah Bakewell

4.03

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Irene Vallejo

4.26

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