9 must-read fiction books like Jip en Janneke 4 (Jip en Janneke, #4) by Annie M.G. Schmidt

Cover of Jip en Janneke 4 (Jip en Janneke, #4) by Annie M.G. Schmidt

Jip en Janneke 4 (Jip en Janneke, #4)

By: Annie M.G. Schmidt

4.08

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Bij de samenstelling van deze bundel is geput uit: "De groeten van Jip en Janneke, 1954; "Een zoent…

If you liked the fiction plot in Jip en Janneke 4 (Jip en Janneke, #4) by Annie M.G. Schmidt , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Ministry of Moral Panic

By: Amanda Lee Koe

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women hold… read more

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  • fiction
"A relationship means exhaustion. Entrapment. I haven’t the energy for the eventuality of it. Love is no big truth."

-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

"But I love Sir long time, she'd said repeatedly, blubbering, but I love Sir long time. The wife got up and slapped her smartly across the face. Love? The wife gave a bark of laughter. What do you thi…"

-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

"The truth was probably that my mother had been so defined by the existence of my father that when he died, she couldn’t see anything else before her. He’d closed his fist around her, she’d let him, a…"

-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic

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2. Lampje

By: Annet Schaap

4.41

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Dit is een verhaal over de zee. Over geheimzinnige zeewezens en woeste piraten. Over het Zwarte Hu… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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3. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

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5. 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

6. The Children of Noisy Village

By: Astrid Lindgren , Ilon Wikland , Florence Lamborn

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Noisy Village! Go crayfishing in the summer at Nocken, "dipping in the pot" at Christmas… read more

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7. The Blind Assassin

By: Margaret Atwood

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer… read more

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8. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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9. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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10. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

By: Matt Parker

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more

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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"

-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

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11. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • fiction
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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12. Notes on Grief

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.22

Format: 86 pages, Hardcover

Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more

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"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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13. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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  • fiction
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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14. The Dinner

By: Herman Koch

3.21

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition can be found here An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly … read more

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  • fiction
"Non bisogna sempre sapere tutto l’uno dell’altro. I segreti non ostacolano la felicità"

-Herman Koch, The Dinner

"When people get a chance to come close to death without having it touch them personally, they never miss the opportunity."

-Herman Koch, The Dinner

"Ik dacht aan de tijd, de verstrijkende tijd om precies te zijn, hoe onmetelijk, hoe onafzienbaar, hoe lang en donker en leeg één uur kan zijn. Wie zo denkt heeft helemaal geen lichtjaren nodig."

-Herman Koch, The Dinner

"You sometimes hear about people who have lost their sense of smell and taste: for those people, a plate of the most delicious food means nothing at all. That was how I looked at life sometimes, as a …"

-Herman Koch, The Dinner

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15. Basia. Wielka ksiega o uczuciach

By: Zofia Stanecka

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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16. Jip en Janneke 4 (Jip en Janneke, #4)

By: Annie M.G. Schmidt

4.08

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Bij de samenstelling van deze bundel is geput uit: "De groeten van Jip en Janneke, 1954; "Een zoent… read more

Similar categories in Annie M.G. Schmidt's Jip en Janneke 4 (Jip en Janneke, #4) book and Annie M.G. Schmidt's Jip en Janneke 4 (Jip en Janneke, #4)

  • dutch literature
  • childrens
  • fiction
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17. En agosto nos vemos

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez   Cada mes de a… read more

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  • fiction
"Do you know how old I am?"

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

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Susan Abulhawa

4.10

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Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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