Jay’s Revised Modern Canon 2020 Edition
World Literature: the Netherlands
History
The Dutch Golden Age: gateway to our modern world, Hans Goedkoop
An Embarrassment of Riches, Rembrant’s Eyes, Simon Schama
Amsterdam, Russell Shorto
The Autumn of the Middle ages, Erasmus and the age of Reformation, John Huizinga
Van Gogh, Steven Naifeh & Gregory White-Smith
Literature
The Erasmus Reader
The Assault, Harry Mulisch
Rituals, In the Dutch Mountains, The Following Story, All Souls Day, Lost Paradise, Cees Nootebaum
Turkish Delight, Jan Wolkers
The Angel Maker, Stefan Brijs
The Vanishing, The Cabe, Tim Krabbe
Threshold of Fire, In the Dark Wood Wandering, The Scarlet City, The Tea Lords, Hella S. Haase
In Lucia’s Eyes, Arthur Japin
Beyond Sleep, William Frederick Hemans
The Ten Thousand Things, Maria Dermot
The Book of Everything, Guus Kuiger
Eline Verse: a novel of The Hague, Louis Couperous
Public Secret, J. Bernlef
No Sale, Patrick Conrad
A Heart of Stone, Without Mercy, The Darkness that Divides Us, Renate Dorrestein
The Storm, The Virtuoso, The Kreutzer Sonata, Margriet de Moor
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut