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Topical Tips: Happy Birthday ABC!

by Damla This year, we have the pleasure of celebrating our 53 years of bookselling and being a part of the book community in the Netherlands. As we celebrate our long legacy as a fiercely independent bookstore this weekend with events featuring local authors and a specially curated ABC’s top 100 [...]

Damla2025-06-04T21:18:26+02:00Tags: ABC, Birthday books, Children's Fiction, Damla, Fantasy, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Topical Tips, YA, YA fiction|

YA Fiction with Ace Representation

By Naomi Happy Cake Day! April 6th is International Asexuality Day, an effort to recognize the asexual community and promote the spectrum of asexuality. The asexual or ace spectrum includes asexuality, where a person doesn’t experience sexual attraction; graysexuality, which is when someone experiences little to no sexual attraction; and demisexuality, [...]

Naomi2025-04-04T15:51:22+02:00Tags: Alice Oseman, Bea Fitzgerald, C.G. Drews, International Asexuality Day, Iris, Naomi, Wendy Zhao, YA|

ABC Bestsellers – March 2025

By Lília March brought with it the sun, and we are all invested in enjoying it reading as many books as possible. We can see that by all the different titles that you, our customers, choose to buy. Our bestsellers this month include many different genres, from serious issues to some [...]

Lilia2025-04-03T18:26:53+02:00Tags: A.T. Qureshi, Abby Jimenez, ABC Bestsellers, ABC Bestsellers 2025, ABC Favorites, Ali Hazelwood, Autobiography, Biography, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Classics, Creativity, Current Affairs, Dav Pilkey, Dungeons & Dragons, Eiichiro Oda, Fantasy, Fiction, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Games, Gege Akutami, General Fiction, George Orwell, Han Kang, Health, History, Jacqueline Harpman, James Clear, Japanese Fiction, John Green, Julia Cameron, Junko Takase, Kaveh Akbar, Kids, Kids 5-8, Lauren Roberts, Laurie Gilmore, Lília, Manga, Maria Lima, Mel Robbins, Nobel Prize Winner, Political Science, Psychology, Rebecca F. Kuang, Rebecca Yarros, Robert E. Howard, Romance, Romantasy, Samantha Harvey, Sarah Wynn-Williams, Self-Help, Social Science, Staff Choices, Suzanne Collins, Timothy Snyder, Translated Fiction, Writing, Young Adult|

’tism the season: recommendations for Autism Acceptance Month

By Naomi & Iris April is Autism Acceptance Month! This is the perfect moment to highlight some fiction titles featuring neurodivergent characters and autistic authors. If you're looking for some non-fiction books to better understand yourself, a loved one, or just learn more about autism, check out this blogpost. [...]

Naomi2025-04-04T15:03:48+02:00Tags: Alice Franklin, Autism, Autism Acceptance Month, General Fiction, India Holton, IrisW, Malka Older, Martha Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Naomi, Romantasy, Sayaka Murata, Science Fiction, Sophie|

Bookbits for 1 April 2025

Written by Sophie Happy (?) April Fool's Day! Our Jouke's favorite day of the year, so good luck to everyone who has to work in the The Hague store today... - One of the biggest literary news stories to break over the past month was The Atlantic's article about Meta's pirating [...]

Sophie2025-04-01T11:54:02+02:00Tags: Awards, Banned Books, Bookbits, Damla, Interviews, Jane Austen, Jouke, lists, literary villains, podcast, Simone, Sophie|

Book review: The Dance of Shadows

The Dance of Shadows by Rogba Payne High fantasy inspired by West African spirituality that follows a young musician drawn into a battle between gods. Perfect for fans of S. A. Chakraborty, Joe Abercrombie and Marlon James's Black Leopard, Red Wolf. By Else This book is [...]

Lilia2025-05-18T17:12:01+02:00Tags: African Mythology inspired Fantasy, Book review, Book Reviews, Else, Fantasy, Rogba Payne, Staff Choice, West African Mythology|

Book review: Ready or Not

Ready or Not by Cara Bastone A surprise pregnancy leads to even more life-changing revelations in this heartfelt, slow-burn, friends-to-lovers romance of found family and unexpected love. Eve Hatch is pretty content with her life. Her apartment in Brooklyn is cozy and close to her childhood best friend Willa, but [...]

Lilia2025-04-03T16:50:40+02:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Cara Bastone, Enemies-to-Lovers, Naomi, Romance, Romantic Fiction|

Topical Tips: Whistleblowers

by Damla “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott [...]

Damla2025-03-27T10:39:47+01:00Tags: Business, Damla, Non-Fiction, Nonfiction, Politics, Social Media, Technology, Topical Tips|

Book review: The Story of Art Without Men

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers [...]

Lilia2025-03-16T18:32:09+01:00Tags: Art, Feminist Writer, Feminist Writing, Katy Hessel, Sophie|

Reading along with the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize shortlist

Written by Sophie. Last year I wrote about reading along with the 2023 Ursula K. le Guin Prize shortlist. Reading along has become something of an annual literary pilgrimage for me since the prize's inception in 2022, so I'm writing about it again (and again as long as the ABC Blog [...]

Sophie2025-03-24T19:00:11+01:00Tags: alaya dawn johnson, alissa hattman, anne de marcken, Book review, Book Reviews, Emily Tesh, Fantasy, Fiction, micaiah johnson, Nghi Vo, premee mohamed, Prize winners, Readalong, Samantha Harvey, sarah cypher, Science Fiction, Sophie, Ursula K. Le Guin, vajra chandrasekera, Young Adult|

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