19 Top fiction books like Nog pas gisteren by Maria Dermoût

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Nog pas gisteren

By: Maria Dermoût

3.86

Format: None pages, None

In this bewitching story-memoir, Maria Dermout recollects the moods, the colors, the emotions, the …

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1. Het pauperparadijs

By: Suzanna Jansen

3.75

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Amsterdam-Noord tijdens de crisisjaren: Roza Dingemans, moeder van een door schulden en alcoholisme… read more

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  • roman
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2. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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3. Wij slaven van Suriname

By: Anton de Kom

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Over de rol van Anton de Kom in het bewustzijn van Suriname is het laatste woord nog niet geschreve… read more

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4. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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  • fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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5. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)

By: Douglas Adams

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea.… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Congo: een geschiedenis

By: David Van Reybrouck

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Er is aan het begin van de eenentwintigste eeuw nauwelijks een roeriger natie dan Congo, het reusac… read more

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7. 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

8. 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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9. The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

By: Mario Puzo , Peter Bart , Robert Thompson

4.39

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Godfather—the epic tale of crime and betrayal that became a global phenomenon. Almost fifty … read more

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  • fiction
"Life is so beautiful"

-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."

-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

"Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes."

-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

10. Ýmislegt um risafurur og tímann

By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Zehn Jahre ist er jung und steht vor dem ersten Abenteuer seines Lebens: einer Flugreise zu den Gro… read more

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11. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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12. Tegen verkiezingen

By: David Van Reybrouck

3.55

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Onze representatieve democratie raakt steeds meer in het slop. De legitimiteit ervan wordt aangetas… read more

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13. We Had to Remove This Post

By: Hanna Bervoets

2.93

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more

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  • fiction
"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

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14. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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15. Luister

By: Sacha Bronwasser

3.95

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Het nieuws reisde snel, zoals dat soort nieuws doet. Ik wist dat het ook over jou ging zodra het ee… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
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16. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • asia
  • fiction
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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17. The Overstory

By: Richard Powers

4.12

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more

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  • fiction
"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."

-Richard Powers, The Overstory

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18. De eerlijke vinder

By: Lize Spit

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
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19. Ik kom hier nog op terug

By: Rob van Essen

3.78

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"

-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug

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20. Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris

By: Anjet Daanje

4.38

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

Eliza May Drayden, het hoofdpersonage van Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris, is al dood als de ro… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
"De berg heeft zijn duistere kant verloren, het is een vriend geworden, zijn enige, want hij durft niemand meer te vertrouwen."

-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris

"Alles verliest zijn waarde als het er altijd is, alsof je langzaam blind wordt. Dat hij van Sally hield, begreep hij ook pas toen ze langer de zijne was."

-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris

"Een uur is een object, zo lijkt het, waarvan ze de omvang inschat aan de hand van wat haar ogen zien, en hier is niets dan duisternis, als een nachtkaars is de tijd gedoofd."

-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris

"Alleen vanaf de drempel kijkend naar onze versimpelde, geordende wereld der grote dingen, ervaren we verandering, en dus Tijd. Die Tijd is het gevolg van ons onvermogen om de wereld te zien zoals hij…"

-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris

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21. Humankind: A Hopeful History

By: Rutger Bregman

4.32

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more

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"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

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22. At Night All Blood is Black

By: David Diop

3.82

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting a… read more

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  • fiction
"La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"Laughter brings laughter and smiles bring smiles."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

"God's truth, each thing carries its opposite within."

-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

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23. 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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24. Tussentijds

By: Peter Zantingh

3.83

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Een jonge vader gaat met de trein naar zijn vrouw, die voor haar werk in Zuid-Duitsland is. De reis… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
"Ik probeerde bomen te redden, zij maakte er boeken van."

-Peter Zantingh, Tussentijds

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25. The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

By: Roxane van Iperen

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper … read more

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  • roman
"But, above all, the people I met there had an urgent message for me: tell this story, because it is different from the many stories the world knows. The Jews did not go to their deaths willingly -- i…"

-Roxane van Iperen, The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

Cover of The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees by Matthieu Aikins

26. The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees

By: Matthieu Aikins

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the s… read more

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27. Gebied 19

By: Esther Gerritsen

3.35

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

De dag na zijn bruiloft wordt Tomas alleen wakker. Zijn vrouw is nergens te bekennen, terwijl haar … read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
Cover of Moederstad: Jakarta, een familiegeschiedenis by Philip Dröge

28. Moederstad: Jakarta, een familiegeschiedenis

By: Philip Dröge

4.11

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In Moederstad gaat Philip Dröge in het moderne Jakarta op zoek naar sporen van het oude Batavia. Me… read more

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29. Winarta

By: Basuki Gunawan

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

'De oude cipier is weggegaan,' zo begint deze meeslepende en puntgave novelle die Basuki Gunawan sc… read more

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30. Nog pas gisteren

By: Maria Dermoût

3.86

Format: None pages, None

In this bewitching story-memoir, Maria Dermout recollects the moods, the colors, the emotions, the … read more

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  • indonesian literature
  • asia
  • roman
  • fiction
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31. Bandoeng-Bandung (Dutch Edition)

By: F. Springer

3.69

Format: 155 pages, None

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  • fiction

10 best-selling roman books like Nog pas gisteren by Maria Dermoût

Transform Your Habits

Het pauperparadijs

Suzanna Jansen

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Oblomov

Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Luister

Sacha Bronwasser

3.95

Transform Your Habits

De eerlijke vinder

Lize Spit

3.61

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Luister

Sacha Bronwasser

3.95

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Ik kom hier nog op terug

Rob van Essen

3.78

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Tosca

Maud Vanhauwaert

3.96

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De onzichtbaren

Frank Nellen

3.88

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