Novels

 * Engelstalig

Richard Powers: The time of our singing  5/5

David Mitchell: Black Swan Green 4/5

David Mitchell: Ghostwritten  4/5

David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Soete 3,5/5

Steve Toltz: A fraction of the whole  5/5 (grappigste boek ooit gelezen)

Gregory David Roberts : Shantaram  4,5/5

Michael Chabon: The amazing adventures of Cavalier & Klay  4,5/5

Junot Diaz: The short, but wondrous story of Oskar Wao  4,5/5

Don Chaon : You remind me of me  4/5

Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandria quartet 4/5

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex  5/5

Nicole Krauss: Man walks into a room  3,5/5

Nicole Krauss: The history of love  4/5

Nicole Krauss: Great House 5/5

John Irving: A prayer for Owen Meany  4/5

Vikas Swarup: Q & A   3,5/5

Jonathan Franzen: Freedom  5/5

Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger 4/5

Jennifer Egan: A Visit From the Goon Squad  5/5

Jennifer Egan: The invisible circus 5/5

Jennifer Egan: Look at me 4/5

Jeffrey Moore: Red-Rose Chain   4/5

Jeffrey Moore: The memory artists  4,5/5

Jeffrey Moore: The Extinction Club  4/5

Glen David Gold: Carter Beats the Devil  4,5/5

Tea Obreht: The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel   3,75/5

Paul Murray: Skippy Dies 5/5

Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could be happy 4/5

Sarah Winman: When God Was a Rabbit 3,5/5

Chad Harbach:  The art of fielding  4/5

Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending 4,5/5

Julian Barnes: Levels of life 4/5

Martin Amis: Time’s arrow  3,5/5

Jonathan Coe:  The house of sleep  5/5

Jonathan Coe: The terrible privacy of Maxwell Slim  3,5/5

Jonathan Coe: The rain before it falls 3,5/5

Bruno Schultz: The street of crocodiles 4,5/5   combi met Jonathan Safran Foer -Tree of codes  5/5

Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely loud, incredibly close  4/5

Hanif Kureishi: Intimacy 4/5

Ben Lerner: Leaving Atocha station 4,5/5

DF Wallace: This is water 4/5

David Nicholls:  One day 4,5/5

Louis de Bernieres: Captain Correlli’s mandoline  4/5

Spike Milligan: Puckoon  3,5/5

Yann Martell: Life of Pi  4/5

Philip Roth:  The plot against America  4/5

Harper Lee:  To kill a mockingbird  4/5

Kevin Brockmeier:  The illumination  4,5/5

Kevin Brockmeier:  A brief history of the dead   4/5

Flann O’ Brian: The third policeman  4/5

Ralph Allison:  The invisible man   4/5

John Williams:  Stoner     4,5/5

Ray Bradbury:  Fahrenheit 451    4/5

Kevin Powers: The yellow birds  4,5/5

Paul Auster: Brooklyn follies  3,5/5

Paul Auster: Moon palace  3,5/5

Paul Auster: The Music of chance  3,5/5

Paul Auster: The book of illusions  4/5

Paul Auster: New york trilogy  5/5

Paul Auster:  Leviathan   4,5/5

Paul Auster: Invisible  3,5/5

Paul Auster: Oracle night  3,5/5

Paul Auster: Travels in the scriptorium 3,5/5

Ayn Rand: The fountainhead  5/5

Ian McEwan:  Black dogs   4,5/5

Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach 4/5

Ian McEwan: The cement garden  4/5

Ian McEwan:  Saturday 4/5

Ian McEwan:  The comfort of strangers   4/5

Ian McEwan: Enduring love  4/5

Sheila Heti: How should a person be?    4/5

Manu Joseph: The illicit happiness of other people   4/5

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never let me go   3,5/5

Richard Yates:  Revolutionary road    4/5

Colum McCann: Let The Great World Spin 3,5/5

Damon Galgut: In a Strange Room 3/5

Chloe Aridjis: Book of Clouds 3/5

Samantha Hunt:  The Seas: A Novel 3,5/5

William Sutcliffe: Are you experienced  3,5/5

Franscisco Goldman: Say her name  3,5/5

Richard Ford: Independence Day 3,5/5

Bohumil Hrabel: Too loud a solitude 3/5

F Scott Fitzgerald: The great Gatsby 3,5/5

Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore    3,5/5

JM Coetzee: Disgrace  3,5/5

Margaret Atwood: The blind assassin   3,5/5

Denis Johnson: Train dreams  3/5

Zadie Smith: White teeth   3,5/5

J.D. Salinger: Franny & Zooeh  3,5/5

Louis Erdrich:  The round house  3/5

Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake  3,5/5

Jonathan Tropper:  How to talk to a widower   4,75/5

Eleanor Henderson:  Ten thousand saints   4/5

Siri Hustvedt: What I loved   3,5/5

Scarlett Thomas: Popco  3,75/5

Dave Eggers:  The circle   4,5/5

Dave Eggers:  What is the What  4,5/5

Dave Eggers:  Zeitoun 4/5

Silvia Plath: The bell jar    3,75/5

Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray    3,75/5

Ruth Ozeki: A tale for the time being   4,5/5

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah   5/5

Tom Perrotta: Little children  4,75/5

Wallace Stegner:  Crossing to safety    5/5

Wallace Stegner: Angle of repose  4,25/5

Walter Jess: Beautiful ruins   4/5

Vesna Goldsworthy: Gorsky    4,25/5   (nog niet verschenen)

Charles Jackson: Het verloren weekend  4/5

Karl Marlantes: Matterhorn  4,5/5

Karen Joy Fowles: We are completely besides ourselves    4,25/5

Jeanette Walls: The glass castle   4/5

Mark Slouka: Brewster   4/5

James Baldwin: Giovanni’s room   4,75/5

Emma Cline: The girls  5/5  (nog niet verschenen)

Rabih Alameddine: An unnecessary woman  4,25/5

Emily St. John Mandel – Station Eleven  5/5

Smith Henderson – Fourth of July Creek   5/5

Sunil Yapa – Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist   4,5/5

Alfred Hayes – In love  4/5

Affinity Konar – Mischling   5/5

Steve Toltz – Quicksand   4,25/5

Erica Jong – Fear of dying  4,25/5

Hunter S. Thompson – The rum diary   4/5

Helen MacDonald – H is for hawk   4,25/5

Atticus Lish – Preparation for the next 4/5

Sunjeev Sahota – The Year of the Runaways  4/5

Bill Clegg – Did you ever have a family  4/5

Richard Yates – Disturbing the peace  4/5

Tom McCarthy – Satin island  4/5

Greg Hrbek – Not on fire, but burning  4/5

Jenny Offill – Dept of speculation  3,75/5

Alfred Hayes – In love  4/5

Affinity Konar – Mischling   5/5

Steve Toltz – Quicksand   4,25/5

Erica Jong – Fear of dying  4,5/5

Matthew Thomas – We are not ourselves   4,5/5

Hanya Yanagihara – The people in the trees  4,5/5

Garth Greenwell – What belongs to you  4,5/5

Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories 5/5

Donna Tartt – The goldfinch  4,25/5

Jesse Ball – A cure for suicide 5/5

Lauren Groff – Fates and furies  5/5

Hanya Yanagihara – A little life  5/5

Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me  5/5

Eka Kurniawan – Beauty is a wound 5/5

Affinity Konar – Mischling   5/5

Valeria Luiselli – The story of my teeth  4,25/5

Donald Ray Pollock – The Devil All the Time  4/5

M.T. Anderson – Feed   3,75/5

 

* Spaanstalig

Roberto Bolaño:  The savage detectives   4/5

Julio Cortazár:  Rayuela, een hinkelspel   4/5

Carlos Ruis Zafon: De schaduw van de wind   4,5/5

Jorge Volpi: De zoektocht naar Klingsor  4,5/5

Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Invention of Morel  3,5/5

G.G. Marques: Honderd jaar eenzaamheid 4/5

 

* Frans

Raymond Queneau:  Blauwe bloemen  3,5/5

George Perec:  La vie, mode d’emploi   4/5

Voltaire: Zadig   4/5

Tahar Ben Jelloun: Le Rascisme expliqué à ma fille   3,5/5

Marceline Loridan-Ivens avec Judith Perrignon – Et tu n’es pas revenu  3,5/5

 

* Italiaans

Italo Calvino: Als op een winternacht een reiziger  4,5/5

Italo Calvino: Onzichtbare steden 4/5

Italo Calvino: Palomar 4/5

Italo Calvino: De baron in de bomen 4/5

Sandro Veronesi: Kalme chaos  4/5

 

* Portugees

Fernando Pessoa: Het boek der rusteloosheid  3,5/5

José Saramago: De stad der blinden 3,5/5

 

* Duitstalig

Thomas Mann: De toverberg  4,5/5

Herman Hesse: Steppenwolf 4/5

Robert Musil: Man zonder eigenschappen 5/5

Stefan Zweig – Schaaknovelle  4,5/5

Stefan Zweig – Reis naar het verleden  4/5

Stefan Zweig – De wereld van gisteren  5/5

Stefan Zweig – Shooting stars  5/5

 

* Nederlandstalig

Harry Mulisch: De ontdekking van de hemel  5/5

Harry Mulisch: Archibald Strohalm   4/5

Peter Verhelst: Tongkat  4/5

Peter Verhelst: De kleurenvanger  3,75/5

Arthur Japin: Een schitterend gebrek  3,5/5

Stefan Hertmans: Oorlog en terpentijn  3,75/5

Eva Kelder: Het leek stiller dan het was   4/5

Maartje Wortel – IJstijd    4,25/5

Eric jan Harmens – Hallo Muur   4,5/5

Ab Visser – De buurt   4/5

 

* Japans

Banana Yoshimoto:  Kitchen 3/5

Haruki Murakami: De opwindvogelkronieken  5/5

Haruki Murakami: Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the World  4,25/5

Haruki Murakami: Wild sheep chase  4/5

Haruki Murakami: Spoetnikliefde  3,5/5

Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the shore  4/5

 

* Russisch

Gajto Gazdanov:  Het fantoom van Alexander Wolf   4/5

Nicolai Gogol:  Dagboek van een krankzinnige  4/5

Michail Bulgakov: De meester & Margarita  3/5

Lev Tolstoj: Anna Karenina   3/5

Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita   4,5/5

Fjodor Dostojewski – Misdaad en straf  4,5/5

 

 

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