Books to be read
These are books I plan to read, either in English or Dutch (depending on availability in either the library or bookshop).
Last updated on October 20. 2025.
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti
- Het intieme leven by Niccolò Ammaniti (not translated into English)
- Ik haal je op, neem je mee (English title: Steal You Away) by Niccolò Ammaniti
- On violence by Hannah Arendt (non-fiction)
- De kat die bleef (English title: The Goodbye Cat) by Hiro Arikawa
- The Handmaids tale by Margaret Atwood
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (non-fiction)
- Lady Susan by Jane Austen
- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (reread)
- Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen
- Inseperables by Simone de Beauvoir
- Decamerone by Giovanni Boccacio
- A streetcat named Bob by James Bowen (non-fiction)
- Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Don Quichot by Miguel De Cervantes
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fjodor Dostojevski
- Crime and Punishment by Fjodor Dostojevski
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
- In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- How to read literature like a professor by Thomas C. Foster (non-fiction)
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (reread)
- Lord of the Flies by William Goulding
- De Ilias by Homer
- De Odyssee by Homer
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- To Kill a Mockingbid by Harper Lee
- The Word for World is Forest by Ursula Le Guin
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (non-fiction)
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Easy reading by Cristina Morales
- De ontdekking van de hemel (English title: the Discovery of Heaven) by Harry Mulisch
- Norwegian Wood by Harumi Murakami
- The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sosuke Nastukawa
- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (reread)
- The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
- Everything is illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Expury
- The Wall and other stories by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (reread)
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj
- The Memoirs of a Madman by Leo Tolstoj
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoj
- Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde