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2026 Olympic Gold Winners: A Reading List

by Damla The 2026 Winter Olympics might be over, but we are still riding the high from witnessing all the wildly impressive human feats and the feeling of international cooperation and friendly competition in the air. And as a tribute to these fantastic athletes and the countries they represent, we have [...]

Damla2026-03-09T14:20:13+01:00Tags: Best of Lists, Damla, Fiction, General Fiction, Olympic Games, Translated Fiction, winter olympics|

From screen to books: the Star Wars success story

By Lília We think nothing of making a film or a series based on a book -all the material is already there to be used as we'd like- but having books written about a series of films? And becoming a successful cartoon series as well? There might not be many, but [...]

Lilia2026-03-05T12:55:58+01:00Tags: Art, Lília, Science Fiction, Screen to Book, Star Wars|

ABC Bestsellers – February 2026

by Damla February might be a short month, but it was packed with some strong bestsellers. At the top of the list in all our stores once again, we have both installations of Rachel Reid’s hockey romance about Hollander and Rozanov, Heated Rivalry and The Long Game. This is certainly no [...]

Damla2026-03-06T12:19:32+01:00Tags: ABC Bestsellers, Art, Classics, Damla, Dystopian, Fantasy, film and TV tie-ins, General Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Memoirs, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller|

Bookbits for March 2026

by Damla and Sophie Spring is springing! The world may be going crazy, but the sun is reminding us that she is still here, ready to warm our fortunate faces in this peaceful country after a long and dreary winter. - First off, happy Women's History Month! And where would the [...]

Damla2026-03-04T16:02:26+01:00Tags: ABC Amsterdam, Awards, beautiful bookstores, Bookbits, Damla, Dutch Fiction, Fashion, Interviews, RIP, Sophie, wandering librarian, Women's History Month|

Book Review: In Ascension

In Ascension by Martin MacInnes Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic [...]

Damla2026-01-19T11:20:25+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Fiction, Martin MacInnes, Molly Quell|

Book-to-screen: Heated Rivalry

By Naomi Heated Rivalry has been everywhere. The book was published in 2019, and while it has been a steady recommendation in gay sports romance, it didn't really make its way to wider readership until a few months ago. It took almost everyone by surprise. While fans of the book had high [...]

Naomi2026-02-13T16:55:17+01:00Tags: Book to Screen, LGBTQIA+, Rachel Reid, Romance, Sports Romance|

Author Spotlight: Ada Limón

by Sophie Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, and the first Latina to hold the position, will be visiting Amsterdam in March. Our partners the John Adams Institute will host her for an evening, exploring how poetry can hold space for both love and critique, and how words can [...]

Sophie2026-02-23T12:48:35+01:00Tags: ada limon, amanda gorman, Audre Lorde, John Adams Institute, mary oliver, Poetry, Sophie|

Book Review: High-Rise

High-Rise - J.G. Ballard When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on "enemy" floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled [...]

Damla2026-01-19T11:17:48+01:00Tags: Book review, Damla, Dystopian, Fiction, J.G. Ballard|

Book-to-screen: Dune by Frank Herbert

By Lília We love our books, and we also love to see them turn into blockbusters, tv movies and series, but most of the times the book is better than whichever screen format it receives to be shown to the world. As an avid reader, I was enchanted by Dune, with [...]

Lilia2026-02-11T18:05:42+01:00Tags: Book is better, Book x Screen, Frank Herbert, Lília, Science Fiction|

Series Spotlight: Under The Oak Tree

Under The Oak Tree by Suji Kim Lady Maximilian is the daughter of the powerful Duke Croyso, but she is rarely allowed outside her family’s sprawling castle for fear that her stutter will tarnish their noble name. When she is forced to marry Sir Riftan, a lowborn knight caught in [...]

Damla2026-02-11T17:55:15+01:00Tags: Book review, Graphic Novel, Romantasy, Series Spotlight, Suji Kim|

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