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Books set in the Netherlands (Holland) & Belgium

Netherlands & Belgium

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I Am You

by Victoria Redel

Hardcover: Sep 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A "captivating" lesbian romance set in the "wonderfully atmospheric" art world of 1600s Amsterdam (Sarah Jessica Parker, SJP Lit).

Song of a Blackbird

by Marie van Lieshout

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Jan 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Fictionalized but based on true events, Song of a Blackbird has two intertwined timelines: one is a modern-day family drama, the other a thrilling tale of a WWII-era bank heist carried out by Dutch resistance fighters.

In Memoriam

A Novel

by Alice Winn

Hardcover: Mar 2023 | Paperback: Mar 2024

Critics' Consensus:

Winner: BookBrowse Debut Book Award 2023

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I.

The White Lady

A Novel

by Jacqueline Winspear

Hardcover: Mar 2023 | Paperback: Mar 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former ...

The Capital

A Novel

by Robert Menasse

Hardcover: Jun 2019 | Paperback: Apr 2020

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the German Book Prize, The Capital is an "omniscient, almost Balzac-ian" (Steven Erlanger, New York Times) panorama of splintered Europe.

Midwinter Break

by Bernard MacLaverty

Hardcover: Aug 2017 | Paperback: Sep 2018

Critics' Consensus:

For readers of Colm Toíbín, a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis and a couple's search for salvation.

The Goldfinch

A Novel

by Donna Tartt

Hardcover: Oct 2013 | Paperback: Apr 2015

Critics' Consensus:

Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America; a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art.

The Dinner

by Herman Koch

Hardcover: Feb 2013 | Paperback: Oct 2013

Critics' Consensus:

An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives - all over the course of one meal.

Joop: A Novel of Anne Frank (A Hatred for Tulips)

by Richard Lourie

Hardcover: Aug 2007 | Paperback: Oct 2008

Critics' Consensus:

A gripping fictionalized account of the man who betrayed Anne Frank will not soon be forgotten. Richard Lourie takes us into not only a person’s mind, a time, and a place, but into the treacherous currents of history that sweep lives away.

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My Enemy's Cradle

by Sara Young (Pennypacker)

Hardcover: Jan 2008 | Paperback: Oct 2008

Critics' Consensus:

Mining a lost piece of history, Sara Young takes us deep into the lives of women living in the worst of times. Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, My Enemy's Cradle keens for what we lose in ...

Tamar

A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal

by Mal Peet

Hardcover: Jan 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008

Critics' Consensus:

When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before.

At Some Disputed Barricade

A Novel

by Anne Perry

Hardcover: Mar 2007 | Paperback: Mar 2008

Critics' Consensus:

Anne Perry’s gift for illuminating the heart’s deepest secrets shines through in her bestselling series of World War I novels. With compelling immediacy, she depicts the struggles of men and women torn by their convictions and challenged by...

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