Daniël van der Winden

A voracious reader myself, I started this website and newsletter late 2022, as an exercise to write briefly about the books I love reading.

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The New York Trilogy

By Paul Auster

If Baumgartner was his latest effort, I wondered, what had the polished diamond looked like when it still was rough?

By Miranda July

Peculiar, hilarious, disturbing and even ridiculous—but, incredibly engrossing.

By Paul Lynch

Relentless and unforgiving; a whirlwind of a novel about a country on the brink of totalitarianism.

By Nan Shepherd

Spellbinding descriptions of walking the hills of the Cairngorms.

By Jo Ann Beard

An elegant yet devastating novella in which Beard, somehow, makes the weight of it all feel bearable.

By Deborah Levy

A beautiful and atmospheric novel about a contemplative concert pianist.

By Joan Didion

Didion's powerful book on grief, injected with remarkable brevity, in which she guides readers through her experience with a striking sense of calm.

By Anne Lamott

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”