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Winter Reading
What better way to spend these dark winter months than with a book? Do you like to read a story to dream away? Do you prefer a chilling tale or would you rather travel back in time? The UB collection specialists have got you covered! We have made a selection for the Christmas holidays (and beyond).
By the way, did you know that you can find comic books at the UB as well? Just scroll through the lists below. All books can be either borrowed or read online.
Happy reading!
Winter
Winter
Smith, Ali. Winter: A Novel. New York: Anchor Books, 2018.

De avonden
Gerard Reve
The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare. Edited by Mario DiGangi.

A Girl in Winter
Philip Larkin

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

Ethan Frome and Summer
Edith Wharton
The Gap of Time
Jeanette Winterson
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

Winterlicht
Jeroen Brouwers

Sneeuw
J. Bernlef
Graphic Novels
Nimona
ND Stevenson
Rise of the Black Panther
Evan Narcisse with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol
Marvel 1602
Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert
The Night Wanderer
Drew Hayden Taylor
Ducks
Kate Beaton
The Heartstopper Collection
Alice Oseman
1984: the Graphic Novel
Fido Nesti

The Handmaid's Tale
Renee Nault
Robot Dreams
Sara Varon
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Steve Barlow, Steve Skidmore, Jason Millet, Edu Rubio
Bone
Jeff Smith
Smile
Raina Telgemeier and Stephanie Yue
Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel
Aimée de Jongh
Gender Queer
Maia Kobabe and Phoebe Kobabe
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo
Red
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Personal Stories

De jacobsladder
Maarten 't Hart
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak

De mierenkaravaan
Mariken Heitman
There There
Tommy Orange

De lotgevallen
Sacha Bronwasser
I Remember Nothing
Nora Ephron
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
Manifesto
Bernardine Evaristo
Cannibal
Safiya Sinclair

Het archief
Thomas Heerma van Voss
Flights
Olga Tokarczuk

Mijn vader zegt entropie mijn moeder logica
Sasja Janssen
(poëzie)

Autobiografie van mijn lichaam
Lize Spit

Camping
Maartje Wortel
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

De wind vindt altijd zijn weg
Sholeh Rezazadeh

Metamorfoze
Louis Couperus

Gevolgen: Roman
Koos van Zomeren

De toverberg
Thomas Mann

Das Liebespaar des Jahrhunderts
Julia Schoch
(Deutsch)
Strangers on a Pier
Tash Aw
Fanfiction
The Case for Fanfiction
Ashley J. Barner
Twilight Saga
Stephenie Meyer
Much Ado about Nada
Uzma Jalaluddin
Austenistan
Laaleen Sukhera

House of Daughters
Engin Inel Holmstrom
Unmarriageable
Soniah Kamal
The Spanish Love Deception
Elena Armas
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet
Bernie Su and Kate Rorick
Pemberley Ranch
Jack Caldwell
The Other Bennet Sister
Janice Hadlow

Northanger Abbey
Val McDermid
The Clergyman's Wife
Molly Greeley

Veni Vidi Vicious
Elin Eriksen

Midshipman Elizabeth Bennet
D.L. Carter
Family

Noodlot
Louis Couperus
Run
Ann Patchett

The Russian album
Michael Ignatieff

Een ander leven
Bart Moeyaert
Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen

Rivieren keren nooit terug
Joke J. Hermsen
Cannibal
Safiya Sinclair
(poetry)
The Snow Queen
Michael Cunningham
The stranger's child
Alan Hollinghurst
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
Nonfiction
Julie Myerson
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue
Mystery, gothic, suspense
The vegetarian
Han Kang
Rosewater
Tade Thompson

De stille kracht
Louis Couperus
The Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
Dracula, Dracula’s Guest, and Other Stories
Bram Stoker and David Stuart Davies

Tosca
Maud Vanhauwaert

De duiker
Mathijs Deen
The Word Is Murder
Anthony Horowitz
You've Been Summoned
Lindsey Lamar
Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov
S.
J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst

The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
Historical Novels

Willem die Madoc maakte
Nico Dros
The Fraud
Zadie Smith
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri
Lessons
McEwan, Ian. Lessons. London: Vintage, 2023.

The Master of Petersburg
J.M. Coetzee

Tulip Fever
Deborah Moggach

Stoute schoenen
Bart van Loo

Hogere machten
Joost de Vries

Bloedlijn
Simone van der Vlugt
Fantasy
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
House of Flame and Shadow
Sarah J. Maas
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Brothers Lionheart
Astrid Lindgren
The Dark Lady
Akala
The Jumbies
Tracey Baptiste
The Fall of Gondolin
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion's Skin
Sabatini, Rafael. The Lion’s Skin. Chicago: Otbebookpublishing, 2022
The Lord of the Rings (Illustrated Edition)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Midnight Library
Haig, Matt. The Midnight Library. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2020.

In reis nei de moanne
Jules Verne
The World of Dew and Other Stories
Julian Mortimer Smith
Biography
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Agatha Christie
Lucy Worsley
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig

Patriot
Aleksey Navalnyi
Red Comet
Heather L. Clark
Paul Simon
Robert Hilburn
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
David Waldstreicher
The Stoic Educator
Emir Cruz Fernández
Machiavelli
Robert Black
Hilma Af Klint
Julia Voss

Ruud Lubbers
Johan van Merriënboer and Lennart Steenbergen

Een vrije geest. Het uitzonderlijke leven van Betje Wolf
Marita Mathijsen

Etty Hillesum
Judith Koelemeijer

Theo Thijssen (1879 -1943)
Peter Paul de Baar

De levens van Claus
Mark Schaevers

De koopman van Kanton
Roelof van Gelder

Louis Couperus, een verwende wagebond
Caroline de Westenholz
Unleashed
Johnson, Boris. Unleashed. London: William Collins, 2024.