Daniël van der Winden

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Books I’ve recommended in Trema, my monthly newsletter on books worth reading, link to that issue; the rest link to The Storygraph.

Currently reading

Electrify Saul Griffith
Endling Maria Reva
Ash Before Oak Jeremy Cooper
Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill Alan Sepinwall

2026

Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
OCT
Dead and Alive Zadie Smith
SEP
Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead
SEP
The Cruelest Game Matthew Futterman
SEP
Morning and Evening ★
Jon Fosse
SEP
City Like Water Dorothy Tse
SEP
Beginning Middle End ★
Valeria Luiselli
SEP
Transcription ★
Ben Lerner
SEP
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader ★
Anne Fadiman
SEP
Harlem Shuffle ★
Colson Whitehead
AUG
The Bee Sting ★
Paul Murray
AUG
The Silver Book ★
Olivia Laing
AUG
Gewone Hollandse jongens ★
Mira Feticu
JUL
Alles lekt ★
Luuk Vulkers
JUL
Mensen van de dag
Emma Doude van Troostwijk
JUL
Frog and Other Essays ★
Anne Fadiman
JUL
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews
JUL
Als Rusland wint
Carlo Masala
JUN
Zwarte zomer ★
Tea Tupajić
JUN
De dichter en de duivel ★
Lieke Marsman
JUN
A Visit from the Goon Squad ★
Jennifer Egan
JUN
How Fiction Works ★
James Wood
MAY
All That Man Is ★
David Szalay
MAY
Overgave op commando
Nadia de Vries
MAY
Flesh ★
David Szalay
MAY
Mauk
Jan Vantoortelboom
MAY
The Wild Birds ★
Wendell Berry
APR
The Overstory ★
Richard Powers
APR
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis ★
David Foster Wallace
APR
Greyhound ★
Joanna Pocock
APR
Ganzentijd ★
Mirjam van Hengel
MAR
The Memory Police ★
Yōko Ogawa
MAR
Levels of the Game
John McPhee
MAR
Ik zou uw dochter kunnen zijn
Doortje Smithuijsen
MAR
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
MAR
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ★
Omar El Akkad
MAR
Oroppa ★
Safae el Khannoussi
FEB
Stil de Tijd ★
Joke J. Hermsen
FEB
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye ★
Claire-Louise Bennett
FEB
Power After Carbon: Building a Clean, Resilient Grid
Peter Fox-Penner
FEB
Near to the Wild Heart ★
Clarice Lispector
JAN
Parade
Rachel Cusk
JAN
Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang
JAN
Colony
Annika Norlin
JAN

2025

Bird by Bird ★
Anne Lamott
DEC
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
Gretchen Bakke
DEC
Any Person Is the Only Self ★
Elisa Gabbert
DEC
Tremor
Teju Cole
DEC
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil ★
Hannah Arendt
DEC
War and Turpentine ★
Stefan Hertmans
NOV
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative ★
Vivian Gornick
OCT
Hogere Machten
Joost de Vries
OCT
Human Acts ★
Han Kang
SEP
Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico
SEP
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha ★
Roddy Doyle
SEP
No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain ★
Rebecca Solnit
SEP
Scaffolding ★
Lauren Elkin
AUG
Burning the Days ★
James Salter
AUG
Ik Ga Naar de Schapen ★
Marieke de Maré
AUG
Het Lied van Ooievaar en Dromedaris
Anjet Daanje
AUG
The Story of Art ★
E.H. Gombrich
JUL
Open City ★
Teju Cole
JUL
Achtertuinen
Robin Kramer
JUL
Kiezels
Judith Hermann
JUL
Headshot
Rita Bullwinkel
JUL
It Lasts Forever and then It's Over ★
Anne de Marcken
JUL
Collected Works ★
Jo Ann Beard
JUN
The Alternatives ★
Caoilinn Hughes
MAY
Op een andere planeet kunnen ze me redden ★
Lieke Marsman
MAY
Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
APR
Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Mary Norris
APR
Een Kern van Waarheid
Peter Buurman
APR
The Safekeep ★
Yael van der Wouden
APR
Nuclear War: A Scenario ★
Annie Jacobsen
MAR
Ik kom hier nog op terug
Rob van Essen
MAR
All Things Are Too Small
Becca Rothfeld
MAR
Het Archief ★
Thomas Heerma van Voss
FEB
Focus Marc Hijink
FEB
The Repeat Room ★
Jesse Ball
FEB
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
JAN
Een kleine geschiedenis van Amsterdam Geert Mak
JAN

2024

Intervals ★
Marianne Brooker
DEC
De eerste 100 dagen van Arne Slot James Worthy
DEC
The Chronicles of DOOM ★
S.H. Fernando Jr.
DEC
Creation Lake ★
Rachel Kushner
DEC
Bloedsinaasappel Alma Mathijsen
DEC
Aleksandra Lisa Weeda
DEC
That Which Appears Thomas A. Clark
DEC
Orbital ★
Samantha Harvey
NOV
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces Georges Perec
NOV
Pond ★
Claire-Louise Bennett
OCT
Beton Fleur Pierets
SEP
All Fours ★
Miranda July
SEP
Pure Colour Sheila Heti
SEP
Na de zon Jonas Eika
AUG
Every Man for Himself and God Against All ★
Werner Herzog
AUG
Mr. Potter Jamaica Kincaid
JUL
Continuous Discovery Habits Teresa Torres
JUN
Tegen verkiezingen David Van Reybrouck
JUN
Teaching a Stone to Talk Annie Dillard
JUN
Totaal witte kamer Gerrit Kouwenaar
MAY
The First Bad Man ★
Miranda July
MAY
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
MAY
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World Jason Hickel
MAY
The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin
MAY
Baumgartner ★
Paul Auster
MAY
The Long-Winded Lady Maeve Brennan
APR
My Mother Laughs ★
Chantal Akerman
MAR
The Chancellor Kati Marton
MAR
Pose Basje Boer
MAR
A Sport and a Pastime ★
James Salter
MAR
The Living Mountain ★
Nan Shepherd
FEB
The Sick Bag Song Nick Cave
FEB
Exteriors ★
Annie Ernaux
FEB
Abody, Abode Jenny Grettve
JAN
Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Glück
JAN
Luister ★
Sacha Bronwasser
JAN
Cheri ★
Jo Ann Beard
JAN
Het Dwaallicht Willem Elsschot
JAN

2023

August Blue ★
Deborah Levy
DEC
Prophet Song ★
Paul Lynch
DEC
architect, verb. Reinier De Graaf
DEC
Oersoep Bregje Hofstede
DEC
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
DEC
The Writing Life ★
Annie Dillard
NOV
The Year of Magical Thinking ★
Joan Didion
NOV
The Bell Jar ★
Sylvia Plath
NOV
Dune Messiah Frank Herbert
NOV
Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
OCT
Bird by Bird ★
Anne Lamott
OCT
Age of Cage Keith Phipps
OCT
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead ★
Olga Tokarczuk
OCT
What We See When We Read Peter Mendelsund
SEP
Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman
SEP
What's Our Problem? Tim Urban
SEP
Winning Ugly Brad Gilbert
SEP
Hiroshima ★
John Hersey
AUG
Mating in Captivity Esther Perel
AUG
Philip Roth ★
Blake Bailey
JUL
How Much House? Urs Peter Flueckiger
JUN
Faith, Hope and Carnage ★
Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
JUN
Work Less, Do More ★
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
JUN
The Human Stain Philip Roth
MAY
The Dry Heart ★
Natalia Ginzburg
MAY
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Bill Gates
APR
All the Lovers in the Night ★
Mieko Kawakami
APR
Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
APR
De eerlijke vinder Lize Spit
MAR
An Immense World ★
Ed Yong
MAR
Deuntje Eduardo Halfon
MAR
Ik ben er niet ★
Lize Spit
MAR
The Inner Game of Tennis W Timothy Gallwey
FEB
Cinema Speculation Quentin Tarantino
FEB
The Creative Act Rick Rubin
FEB
The Twittering Machine Richard Seymour
FEB
Getting Lost ★
Annie Ernaux
JAN
Landmarks ★
Robert Macfarlane
JAN

2022

Grey Bees ★
Andrey Kurkov
DEC
Sontag: Her Life ★
Benjamin Moser
DEC
Grip Rick Pastoor
NOV
Brave New Work Aaron Dignan
NOV
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis ★
David Foster Wallace
NOV
Paul McCartney Philip Norman
OCT
Draft No. 4 ★
John McPhee
OCT
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes ★
Claire Wilcox
SEP
Black Paper ★
Teju Cole
SEP
Bluets ★
Maggie Nelson
SEP
A Little Devil in America ★
Hanif Abdurraqib
SEP
The Silent Woman Janet Malcolm
SEP
Free Love And Other Stories Ali Smith
AUG
De Bomen Albert Alberts
AUG
Recitatif Toni Morrison
AUG
The Shortest History of Europe John Hirst
AUG
Wonen Andrea Prins
JUL
Suppose a Sentence ★
Brian Dillon
JUL
Time is a Mother ★
Ocean Vuong
JUN
Dependency ★
Tove Ditlevsen
JUN
Cliënt E. Busken Jeroen Brouwers
JUN
Heaven Mieko Kawakami
JUN
In mijn mand ★
Lieke Marsman
MAY
Essayism ★
Brian Dillon
MAY
Exit West ★
Mohsin Hamid
APR
Architects on Dwelling Christopher Platt
APR
A Lonely Man Chris Power
APR
Monterosso mon amour Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
APR
Het warmtefort Lucas Rijneveld
APR
Liverpool James Worthy
APR
Het tegenovergestelde van een mens Lieke Marsman
MAR
Liefde in de grote stad Sang Young Park
MAR
Dilla Time ★
Dan Charnas
MAR
Uitgewoond Cody Hochstenbach
MAR
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
FEB
De gelukzalige jaren van tucht Fleur Jaeggy
FEB
Boy on Fire ★
Mark Mordue
FEB
At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop
FEB
Long Live the Post Horn! ★
Vigdis Hjorth
FEB
Hot Milk Deborah Levy
JAN
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ★
Ocean Vuong
JAN
Breasts and Eggs ★
Mieko Kawakami
JAN

2021

Everybody Olivia Laing
DEC
The Manual Epictetus
DEC
Out of Office Anne Helen Petersen, Charlie Warzel
DEC
The Devil and Sonny Liston ★
Nick Tosches
NOV
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street ★
Barbara Demick
NOV
Afterlives ★
Abdulrazak Gurnah
NOV
Forty-one False Starts Janet Malcolm
OCT
Lost in Thought Zena Hitz
OCT
Revolusi ★
David Van Reybrouck
OCT
Second Place Rachel Cusk
SEP
Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert
SEP
The Hour of the Star ★
Clarice Lispector
SEP
Real Estate ★
Deborah Levy
SEP
De afwijking Dries Muus
SEP
Countdown to Zero Day Kim Zetter
SEP
Living Rooms Sam Johnson-Schlee
AUG
The Good Enough Job Simone Stolzoff
AUG
Austerlitz ★
W.G. Sebald
JUL
Invisible Women Caroline Criado Perez
JUL
Too Much and Not the Mood ★
Durga Chew-Bose
JUL
Wij zijn licht Gerda Blees
JUL
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
JUL
De geschiedenis van mijn seksualiteit Tobi Lakmaker
JUN
Youth ★
Tove Ditlevsen
JUN
Anna ★
Annejet van der Zijl
JUN
Wat wij zagen Hanna Bervoets
JUN
De groef: een wandeling Maartje Wortel
JUN
Lentetuin Tomoka Shibasaki
MAY
Childhood ★
Tove Ditlevsen
MAY
Luster ★
Raven Leilani
MAY
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
MAY
No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood
APR
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
APR
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain ★
George Saunders
APR
De avond is ongemak Lucas Rijneveld
APR
Weather Jenny Offill
APR
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods Otegha Uwagba
MAR
The Years ★
Annie Ernaux
MAR
De God denkbaar, denkbaar de God Willem Frederik Hermans
MAR
The Invention of Nature ★
Andrea Wulf
MAR
You Think It, I'll Say It Curtis Sittenfeld
MAR
Foundation Isaac Asimov
MAR
Alle verhalen Isaak Babel
FEB
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
FEB
Chernobyl Prayer ★
Svetlana Alexievich
FEB
The Little Virtues Natalia Ginzburg
FEB
The Memory Police ★
Yōko Ogawa
JAN
The Plot Against America Philip Roth
JAN
Autobiography of Red ★
Anne Carson
JAN
A Promised Land ★
Barack Obama
JAN

2020

The Mars Room ★
Rachel Kushner
DEC
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
DEC
De Correspondent in Amerika Leendert van der Valk
DEC
Antkind ★
Charlie Kaufman
NOV
Year of the Monkey ★
Patti Smith
NOV
The Situation and the Story ★
Vivian Gornick
NOV
Dune ★
Frank Herbert
OCT
Intimations ★
Zadie Smith
OCT
Attached Rachel Heller, Amir Levine
SEP
Coventry Rachel Cusk
AUG
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Lori Gottlieb
AUG
How To Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi
JUL
Beloved Toni Morrison
JUL
The Secret History ★
Donna Tartt
JUL
Hallo witte mensen Anousha Nzume
JUL
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir Anna Wiener
JUN
James Baldwin: Living In Fire Bill V. Mullen
JUN
On the Shortness of Life Seneca
JUN
The Goldfinch ★
Donna Tartt
JUN
The Gifts of Reading Robert Macfarlane
MAY
Because Internet Gretchen McCulloch
MAY
The Snow Leopard ★
Peter Matthiessen
APR
Kudos ★
Rachel Cusk
MAY
Transit ★
Rachel Cusk
APR
Outline ★
Rachel Cusk
MAY
What If This Were Enough? Heather Havrilesky
APR
Underland ★
Robert Macfarlane
MAR
Changing My Mind ★
Zadie Smith
APR
Jazz Toni Morrison
MAR
The Cost of Living ★
Deborah Levy
MAR
Grand Hotel Europa ★
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
FEB
Tokyo Ueno Station Yu Miri
FEB
Another Country James Baldwin
FEB
The Nickel Boys ★
Colson Whitehead
JAN
Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino
JAN

2019

The Water Dancer ★
Ta-Nehisi Coates
NOV
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs ★
Steve Brusatte
NOV
Play It as It Lays ★
Joan Didion
OCT
The Argonauts ★
Maggie Nelson
OCT

This page was last updated on November 1, 2026. The library holds 288 books — 138 fiction, 143 non-fiction and 7 poetry — written by 233 writers, of whom 112 are women, 120 are men and 1 is non-binary. I’ve read 63 of them in Dutch and 225 in English.