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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Netherlands & Belgium

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  • In Memoriam
    In Memoriam: A Novel
    Alice Winn
    Paperback: 03/19/2024
     
    Winner: BookBrowse Debut Book Award 2023

    A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in ...
  • The White Lady
    Jacqueline Winspear
    Paperback: 03/12/2024
     
    The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-...
  • The Capital
    The Capital: A Novel
    Robert Menasse
    Paperback: 04/07/2020
     
    Winner of the German Book Prize, The Capital is an "omniscient, almost Balzac-ian" (Steven Erlanger, New York ...
  • Midwinter Break
    Bernard MacLaverty
    Paperback: 09/04/2018
     
    For readers of Colm Toíbín, a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis and a couple's search for ...
  • The Goldfinch
    The Goldfinch: A Novel
    Donna Tartt
    Paperback: 04/07/2015
     
    Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America; a story ...
  • The Dinner
    Herman Koch
    Paperback: 10/29/2013
     
    An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families ...
  • Joop: A Novel of Anne Frank (A Hatred for Tulips)
    Richard Lourie
    Paperback: 10/14/2008
     
    A gripping fictionalized account of the man who betrayed Anne Frank will not soon be forgotten. Richard ...

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