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By Lília We might be approaching the end of Pride month, but we're here to let everybody know that there's no limit to when we should read about gay love, asexuality, LGBTQ+ struggles, romantic love and any other form of loving. Love is love, no matter which form it takes. If [...]
Here at ABC our experts always strive to bring the best to our customers and let you know what we love. We also get an inkling at what books you love through our monthly(ish) Bestseller lists, compiled from the lists of our three stores. We love to share this with you, [...]
By Lauren and Lília It’s Pride Month, celebrated every June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York, when the gay community protested against its treatment by police. These days, June is a month of celebration and awareness about the LGBTQ+ community worldwide, but it’s especially marked in the US. [...]
R.I.P. Alice Munro, who died on May 13th. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. For Independent Bookstore Day in the US (sadly no longer celebrated here on account of King's Day/Memorial Day/Liberation Day all happening then too), the president of children's book publisher Nosy Crow decided to visit [...]
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann. Born in East Berlin in 1967, Erpenbeck, in addition to being an award-winning novelist, is also an opera director and playwright who trained as bookbinder (endearing her to us even more). Her novel, published by Granta books, is described by [...]
By Naomi A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Amor Towles’ novel A Gentleman in Moscow has been made into a tv series that started airing in March. The book follows Count Rostov, who was sentenced to house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922. He [...]
The ever-generous David and Kathryn Allen seeing the new book for the first time in our warehouse. I remember business book buyer Hans Huisman walking past the shelves and pointing to a book titled Getting Things Done by David Allen and asking: “Who IS this guy? We’ve sold thousands [...]
By Lília Continuing with the celebration of our 52 years of existence, ABC’s Iris and Luke asked colleagues their book choices for the occasion. Most of them revolved around the lives of normal people in somewhat exceptional settings (reminiscent of ABC!), with overcoming adversity a prominent theme. No one chose it, [...]
Happy Mother’s Day! We have to say, our call out to staff for mother-reading photos did not yield the prolific results our dad-reading photo shout out did. No, we don’t think moms are sleeping on the job. We just think they’re the ones taking the photos! So happy Mother’s Day from [...]
We are celebrating the launch of BookBuzz today! Friday, May 10th 17:00-18:30 ABC Amsterdam, Spui 12 1012XA Come join us and Stefaan, one of the brains behind BookBuzz, to get to know the app, ask questions, and talk books. During our birthday weekend, you might have [...]
