Netherlands


The Diary of a Young Girl
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Dinner
The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)
The Safekeep
The Discomfort of Evening
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Goldfinch
The Discovery of Heaven
Infidel
Tulip Fever
De Aanslag
De avonden
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
The Fault in Our Stars
Russell Shorto
As happens so often in history at the dying of one age and the birth of another, an era of phenomenal ugliness, strife, and chaos was about to unfold.
Russell Shorto, Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

The rivalry was so intense that English pamphleteers competed with one another to come up with ever more lurid headlines about the Dutch. (My favourite of these: "The Dutch-mens Pedigree; Or, A Relation Shewing How They Were First Bred and Descended froma Horse-Turd Which Was Enclosed in a Butter-Box.) ...more
Russel Shorto

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