6 best-selling history books like De oppasser by Job van Tol

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De oppasser

By: Job van Tol

3.89

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Wie weet nog hoe de ooit beroemde mensaap op de voorkant van dit boek heet? En wie kent nog de man …

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1. The Spinoza Problem

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.25

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic rema… read more

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"Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"Omul fiind in totalitate parte a naturii, este incorect sa credem ca omul mai degraba tulbura, decat sa respecte ordinea naturii."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"تمام قوم اسرائیل در نگرش محترمانه خود به تورات، در همان گناهی دخیل بودند که خدا به وسیله موسی به آنها هشدار داده بود: بت برستی. در همه جا یهودیان نه بت هایی طلایی بلکه بت هایی از «کاغذ و جوهر» را می …"

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

2. De avonden

By: Gerard Reve

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

De avonden is een van de belangrijkste boeken uit de Nederlandse literatuur; het is klassiek geword… read more

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3. 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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4. Bezonken rood

By: Jeroen Brouwers

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Samen met zijn moeder bracht Jeroen Brouwers zijn kleuterjaren door in het Japanse interneringskamp… read more

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5. Bonita Avenue

By: Peter Buwalda

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"Dazzling...Critics hailed Buwalda as 'The Dutch answer to Jonathan Franzen', but his brilliance is… read more

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6. I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim, #1)

By: Terry Hayes

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run… read more

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7. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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8. De Camino

By: Anya Niewierra

4.00

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

In het nieuwe boek van Hebban Thrillerprijs-winnaar Anya Niewierra komt er een duister geheim naar … read more

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9. A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)

By: John Grisham

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when t… read more

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"I can’t believe you would represent a killer like that Jake. I thought you were one of us. xxx ‘Gotta have a lawyer, Helen. You can’t put the boy in the gas chamber if he doesn’t have a lawyer. Surel…"

-John Grisham, A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)

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10. Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

4.27

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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11. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

By: Jonas Jonasson

3.82

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his la… read more

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"Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"There are undoubtedly advantages to being dead, said Julius."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties,"

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"Les choses sont ce qu'elles sont et elles seront ce qu'elles seront."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

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12. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

By: Steve Brusatte

4.20

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

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13. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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14. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

By: Pat Barker

3.90

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, which conti… read more

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"Achilles shook him. "Just come back."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Sometimes at night I lie awake and quarrel with the voices in my head."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

"Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon."

-Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)

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15. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's The Years book and Job van Tol's De oppasser

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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16. De Hollander (Liewe Cupido, #1)

By: Mathijs Deen

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Een Nederlands patrouilleschip stuit op een verdronken wadloper, aangespoeld op de drooggevallen za… read more

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17. The Salt Path

By: Raynor Winn

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home and… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Give time for what you know you must do and you will have what you desire the most."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"Refugees from western civilisation, cut adrift from life in a boat that rarely finds a harbour."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

"We had lost everything except our children and each other, but we had the wet grass and the rhythm of the sea on the rocks."

-Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

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18. Gezinsverpakking

By: Bart Chabot

3.26

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

De Chabotten ― vier broers, twee ouders en een hond. Alle zeven verhalen ze in Gezinsverpakking ove… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Nirwana

By: Tommy Wieringa

4.07

Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition

De geschiedenis van een grootvader bepaalt het heden van een samen vertellen ze het verhaal van ee… read more

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20. De kolonie mept terug: over witte arrogantie en voortschrijdend inzicht; een denkoefening en leesreis

By: Adriaan van Dis

3.76

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

De wonden geslagen door gedwongen verplaatsing, westerse expansiedrift en de verdeel-en-heerspoliti… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Van Beestenboel tot Hokjesgeest

By: Marjo Hoedemaker

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Marjo Hoedemaker (1946) woont en werkt al zestig jaar in Dierenpark Amersfoort. Als oud-hoofdverzor… read more

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22. Het uur van de olifant

By: Otto de Kat

3.80

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

'Gaat het vergeten worden wat we in Atjeh hebben aangericht, gaan onze kinderen het zich herinneren… read more

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23. Croix de cendre

By: Antoine Sénanque

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

1348. La peste noire déferle sur l’Europe 1367. Deux jeunes frères dominicains se rendent à Toulous… read more

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24. Alle problemen begonnen met Van Riebeeck. Wat Nederlanders niet weten over hun rol in Zuid-Afrika

By: Niels Posthumus

4.28

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

'U moet niet vergeten dat een man met de naam Jan van Riebeeck hier op 6 april 1652 arriveerde; en … read more

Similar categories in Niels Posthumus's Alle problemen begonnen met Van Riebeeck. Wat Nederlanders niet weten over hun rol in Zuid-Afrika book and Job van Tol's De oppasser

  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. De oppasser

By: Job van Tol

3.89

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Wie weet nog hoe de ooit beroemde mensaap op de voorkant van dit boek heet? En wie kent nog de man … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Julian Sancton

4.27

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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Steve Brusatte

4.20

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Annie Ernaux

4.17

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Raynor Winn

4.02

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Sacha Bronwasser

3.95

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Anya Niewierra

4.00

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4.06

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3.75

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