Love the Rotterdam Library. Partial list of Books in it.

[travelbug615]

We were on the Rotterdam in January.  I just wanted to say I loved the library on the Rotterdam.  I am so glad HAL is dedicating the space onboard for a library.  It  is like a small bookstore with multiple copies of books.  I am a big reader and belong to a book club.  I have read quite of few of these selections before hand and I think whomever made the selections did a good job.  So good in fact, that I took photos of the books to make a list of possible new selections for my bookclub at home.  I am "iced in" at the moment due to a storm, so I took the time to make an excel list on this dready day.  Thought I would post this in case it might interest anyone.  I didn't take photos of the Young Adult/ Children  or Poetry Sections.  The list is from the Fiction, Mystery, Non Fiction, Romance and  Featured Sections.  There was also a bookshelf to leave books you brought and finished onboard.  

 

Books in Rotterdam Library January 2022
The Woman in the Window	A. J. Finn
The Girl with the Louding Voice	Abi Dare
A Caribbean Mystery	Agatha Christie
My Italian Bulldozer	Alexander McCall Smith
The Second Worst Restaurant in France	Alexander McCall Smith
You Had Me at Hola	Alexis Daria
The Henna Artist	Alka Joshi
When No One is Watching	Alyssa Cole
An Embarrassment of Magoes	Ann Vanderhoof
Outlawed	Anna North
Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows	Balli Kaur Jaswal
Light Action in the Caribbean	Barry Lopez
The Prophets	Bert Jones Jr
Welcome to the Goddamn IceCube	Blair Braverman
Dark Sky	C. J. Box
Her Last Holiday	C. L. Taylor
Three Hours in Paris	Cara Black
The Metal Heart	Caroline Lea
The House at the Edge of Night	Catherine Banner
Next Year in Havana	Chanel Cleeton
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba	Chanel Cleeton
The Immortalists	Chloe Benjamin
Fast Ice	Clive Cussler
Good Company	Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Artic Storm Rising	Dale Brown
Neighbors	Danielle Steel
A Gambling Man	David Baldacci
An Unexpected Peril	Deanna Raybourn
A Walk Along the Beach	Debbie Macomber
Tulip Fever	Deborah Moggach
The music of Bees	Eileen Garvin
Cinnamon and Gunpowder	Eli Brown
Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth Strout
Beach Read	Emily Henry
The Glass Hotel	Emily St John Mandel
The Business of Lovers	Eric Jerome Dickey
Naïve. Super	Erlend Loe
A Rogue of Ones Own	Evie Dunmore
The Great Gatsby	F Scott Fitzgerlad
Northern Spy	Flynn Berry
A Man Called  Ove	Fredrik Backman
My Family and Other Animals	Gerald Durrell
Ridge Runner	Gil Adamson
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires	Grady Hendrix
Win	Harlan Coben
Bridget Jones Diary	Helen Fielding
The Bride Test	Helen Hoang
The Dinner	Herman Koch
The Widow of Pale Harbor	Hester Fox
Behold the Dreamers	Imbolo Mbue
A Long Petal of the Sea	Isabel Allende
The Best American Food Writing 2020	J Kenji Lopez-Alt
The Greatest Course That Never Was	J Michael Veron
Faithless in Death	J. D. Robb
The Best American Sports Writing 2020	Jackie MacMullan
Deacon King Kong	James McBride
The Red Book	James Patterson
Deadly Cross	James Patterson
21st Birthday	James Patterson
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen
The Survivors	Jane Harper
The Bounty	Janet Evanovich
The Paris Library	Janet Skeslien Charles
All The Colors of Night	Jayne Ann Krentz
Our Italian Summer	Jennifer Probst
Beautiful Ruins	Jess walter
The Cold Millions	Jess Walter
Serpentine	Johathan Kellerman
Sooley	John Grisham
Camino Island	John Grisham
Camino Winds	John Grisham
Whiskey When We're Dry	John Larison
The 100 Year Old Man who climbed out the window	Jonas Jonasson
Bridgerton: The Duke and I	Julia Quinn
Bridgerton: The Viscount who loved me	Julia Quinn
The Chicken Sisters	K. J Dell'Antonia
Libertie	Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend	Katarina Bivald
Cocaine Blues	Kerry *****
Flying too High	Kerry *****
Murder on the Ballarat Train	Kerry *****
Death at Victoria Dock	Kerry *****
Sex and Vanity	Kevin Kwan
Such a Fun Age	Kiley Reid
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek	Kim Michele Richardson
Firefly Lane	Kristin Hannah
The Four Winds	Kristin Hannah
Haunted Hibiscus	Laura Childs
The Last Thing He Told Me	Laura Dave
A Cuban Girl's Guide ot Tea and Tomorrow	Laura Taylor Namey
The Sentinel	Lee and Andrew Child
The Star Crossed Sisters of Tuscany	Lori Nelson Spielman
The Guest List	Lucy Foley
Song of Achilles	Madeline Miller
The Bomber Mafia	Malcom Cladwell
The Testaments	Margaret Atwood
Black Buck	Mateo Askaripour
The Midnight Library	Matt Haig
If I Never Met You	Mhairi McFarlane
Nick	Michael Farris Smith
The Botany of Desire	Michael Pollan
The best American Science and Nature Writing 2020	Michio Kaku
Honey Girl	Morgan Rogers
The Last Story of Mina Lee	Nancy Jooyoun Kim
A Thousand Ships	Natalie Haynes
The Notebook	Nicholas Sparks
Hideaway	Nora Roberts
The Welcoming	Nora Roberts
Parable of the Sower	Octavia E Butler
Circling the Sun	Paula McLain
When the Stars Go Dark	Paula McLain
News of the World	Paulette Jiles
His Only Wife	Peace Adzo Medie
The Dictionary of Lost Words	Pip Williams
To Love a Prince	Rachel Hauck
The Venice Sketchbook	Rhys Bowen
The Best American Travel Writing 2020	Robert Macfarlane
Delicious	Ruth Reichl
The Turn of the Key	Ruth Ware
The Sanatorium	Sarah Pearse
Mexican Gothic	Silvia Moreno Garcia
The Sun Down Motel	Simone St. James
Later	Stephen King
The Devil and the Dark Water	Stuart Turton
You, Me and Italy	Sue Roberts
Between Two Kingdoms	Suleika Jaouad
Dial A for Aunties	Sutanto
The Bad Muslium Discount	Syed M Masood
The House in the Cerulean Sea	T. J. Klune
Take a Hint, Dani Brown	Talia Hibbert
Daisy Jones & The Six	Taylor Jenkins Reid
A History of the World in 6 Glasses	Tom Standage
Beloved	Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison
The Girl with a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier
The Sunrise	Victoria Hislop
Mrs Queen Takes the Train	William Kuhn
Go West, Young Man	William W Johnstone
Homegoing	Yaa Gyasi
The Night Tiger	Yansze Choo
Swing Time	Zadie Smith

Edited February 4, 2022 by travelbug615
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[kazu]

Thank you for sharing this.  It is VERY helpful 🙂 

[FlaMariner]

17 minutes ago, travelbug615 said:

Camino Island John Grisham

Camino Winds John Grisham

 

19 minutes ago, travelbug615 said:

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

 

Thanks for posting the entire list!

 

I loved the Rotterdam library on the TA in October.....Great selections....I highly recommend the three books above that I enjoyed while crossing the pond!

 

The library was a hit with Her Majesty also....she knocked out a few also!

[summercruiser20]

Thanks for the list!  Looking forward to great reads

[ontheweb]

That is truly a wonderful list.

 

What happened to the author's name listed as *****?

[dockman]

57 minutes ago, travelbug615 said:

We were on the Rotterdam in January.  I just wanted to say I loved the library on the Rotterdam.  I am so glad HAL is dedicating the space onboard for a library.  It  is like a small bookstore with multiple copies of books.  I am a big reader and belong to a book club.  I have read quite of few of these selections before hand and I think whomever made the selections did a good job.  So good in fact, that I took photos of the books to make a list of possible new selections for my bookclub at home.  I am "iced in" at the moment due to a storm, so I took the time to make an excel list on this dready day.  Thought I would post this in case it might interest anyone.  I didn't take photos of the Young Adult/ Children  or Poetry Sections.  The list is from the Fiction, Mystery, Non Fiction, Romance and  Featured Sections.  There was also a bookshelf to leave books you brought and finished onboard.  

 

Books in Rotterdam Library January 2022
The Woman in the Window	A. J. Finn
The Girl with the Louding Voice	Abi Dare
A Caribbean Mystery	Agatha Christie
My Italian Bulldozer	Alexander McCall Smith
The Second Worst Restaurant in France	Alexander McCall Smith
You Had Me at Hola	Alexis Daria
The Henna Artist	Alka Joshi
When No One is Watching	Alyssa Cole
An Embarrassment of Magoes	Ann Vanderhoof
Outlawed	Anna North
Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows	Balli Kaur Jaswal
Light Action in the Caribbean	Barry Lopez
The Prophets	Bert Jones Jr
Welcome to the Goddamn IceCube	Blair Braverman
Dark Sky	C. J. Box
Her Last Holiday	C. L. Taylor
Three Hours in Paris	Cara Black
The Metal Heart	Caroline Lea
The House at the Edge of Night	Catherine Banner
Next Year in Havana	Chanel Cleeton
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba	Chanel Cleeton
The Immortalists	Chloe Benjamin
Fast Ice	Clive Cussler
Good Company	Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Artic Storm Rising	Dale Brown
Neighbors	Danielle Steel
A Gambling Man	David Baldacci
An Unexpected Peril	Deanna Raybourn
A Walk Along the Beach	Debbie Macomber
Tulip Fever	Deborah Moggach
The music of Bees	Eileen Garvin
Cinnamon and Gunpowder	Eli Brown
Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth Strout
Beach Read	Emily Henry
The Glass Hotel	Emily St John Mandel
The Business of Lovers	Eric Jerome Dickey
Naïve. Super	Erlend Loe
A Rogue of Ones Own	Evie Dunmore
The Great Gatsby	F Scott Fitzgerlad
Northern Spy	Flynn Berry
A Man Called  Ove	Fredrik Backman
My Family and Other Animals	Gerald Durrell
Ridge Runner	Gil Adamson
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires	Grady Hendrix
Win	Harlan Coben
Bridget Jones Diary	Helen Fielding
The Bride Test	Helen Hoang
The Dinner	Herman Koch
The Widow of Pale Harbor	Hester Fox
Behold the Dreamers	Imbolo Mbue
A Long Petal of the Sea	Isabel Allende
The Best American Food Writing 2020	J Kenji Lopez-Alt
The Greatest Course That Never Was	J Michael Veron
Faithless in Death	J. D. Robb
The Best American Sports Writing 2020	Jackie MacMullan
Deacon King Kong	James McBride
The Red Book	James Patterson
Deadly Cross	James Patterson
21st Birthday	James Patterson
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen
The Survivors	Jane Harper
The Bounty	Janet Evanovich
The Paris Library	Janet Skeslien Charles
All The Colors of Night	Jayne Ann Krentz
Our Italian Summer	Jennifer Probst
Beautiful Ruins	Jess walter
The Cold Millions	Jess Walter
Serpentine	Johathan Kellerman
Sooley	John Grisham
Camino Island	John Grisham
Camino Winds	John Grisham
Whiskey When We're Dry	John Larison
The 100 Year Old Man who climbed out the window	Jonas Jonasson
Bridgerton: The Duke and I	Julia Quinn
Bridgerton: The Viscount who loved me	Julia Quinn
The Chicken Sisters	K. J Dell'Antonia
Libertie	Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend	Katarina Bivald
Cocaine Blues	Kerry *****
Flying too High	Kerry *****
Murder on the Ballarat Train	Kerry *****
Death at Victoria Dock	Kerry *****
Sex and Vanity	Kevin Kwan
Such a Fun Age	Kiley Reid
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek	Kim Michele Richardson
Firefly Lane	Kristin Hannah
The Four Winds	Kristin Hannah
Haunted Hibiscus	Laura Childs
The Last Thing He Told Me	Laura Dave
A Cuban Girl's Guide ot Tea and Tomorrow	Laura Taylor Namey
The Sentinel	Lee and Andrew Child
The Star Crossed Sisters of Tuscany	Lori Nelson Spielman
The Guest List	Lucy Foley
Song of Achilles	Madeline Miller
The Bomber Mafia	Malcom Cladwell
The Testaments	Margaret Atwood
Black Buck	Mateo Askaripour
The Midnight Library	Matt Haig
If I Never Met You	Mhairi McFarlane
Nick	Michael Farris Smith
The Botany of Desire	Michael Pollan
The best American Science and Nature Writing 2020	Michio Kaku
Honey Girl	Morgan Rogers
The Last Story of Mina Lee	Nancy Jooyoun Kim
A Thousand Ships	Natalie Haynes
The Notebook	Nicholas Sparks
Hideaway	Nora Roberts
The Welcoming	Nora Roberts
Parable of the Sower	Octavia E Butler
Circling the Sun	Paula McLain
When the Stars Go Dark	Paula McLain
News of the World	Paulette Jiles
His Only Wife	Peace Adzo Medie
The Dictionary of Lost Words	Pip Williams
To Love a Prince	Rachel Hauck
The Venice Sketchbook	Rhys Bowen
The Best American Travel Writing 2020	Robert Macfarlane
Delicious	Ruth Reichl
The Turn of the Key	Ruth Ware
The Sanatorium	Sarah Pearse
Mexican Gothic	Silvia Moreno Garcia
The Sun Down Motel	Simone St. James
Later	Stephen King
The Devil and the Dark Water	Stuart Turton
You, Me and Italy	Sue Roberts
Between Two Kingdoms	Suleika Jaouad
Dial A for Aunties	Sutanto
The Bad Muslium Discount	Syed M Masood
The House in the Cerulean Sea	T. J. Klune
Take a Hint, Dani Brown	Talia Hibbert
Daisy Jones & The Six	Taylor Jenkins Reid
A History of the World in 6 Glasses	Tom Standage
Beloved	Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye	Toni Morrison
The Girl with a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier
The Sunrise	Victoria Hislop
Mrs Queen Takes the Train	William Kuhn
Go West, Young Man	William W Johnstone
Homegoing	Yaa Gyasi
The Night Tiger	Yansze Choo
Swing Time	Zadie Smith

absolutely wonderful news for those of us who like to have real books rather than kindles.....

[VMax1700]

Thanks for the list.

Really wonder at algorithms that asterisk out   g r e e n w o o d.

Edited February 4, 2022 by VMax1700

[aliaschief]

Quite an undertaking you have done and shared. This will be helpful to many. Thanks.

[lupaglupa]

Is is wonderful that HAL still tries to have a real library on board. Several of the lines we've been on claim a library and instead have a dingy room with some over used computers and a few abandoned books. 

[albingirl]

Thank you for the list.  We'll be sailing soon, and I find it very helpful.  I always have a loaded kindle, but as others have mentioned, it's nice to have a book in hand.

[0106]

Than you.  What a great list of titles, many of them current.  Does anyone know if a similar library is available on the Zuiderdam, we sail 2/13.

[kazu]

1 hour ago, 0106 said:

Than you.  What a great list of titles, many of them current.  Does anyone know if a similar library is available on the Zuiderdam, we sail 2/13.

 

Unless HAL restores it, none of the Vista (of which Zuiderdam is) or Signature ships have a library.

 

the only ones that retained them were the R class - Zaandam & Volendam.

 

Let’s hope the Rotterdam is a sign & the other Pinnacle class ships will follow suit along with the Signature & Vista class.

While it’s a good list, it does not compare to what used to be on board some of the ship’s libraries - especially the Prinsendam (very extensive) and the prior Rotterdam.

[Storylady]

Thanks for the list. One book I read from the Rotterdam during our week onboard was Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. Mystery set in the 1640’s on a sailing ship leaving Batavia (Dutch name for Jakarta) back to Amsterdam.

[rkacruiser]

The placement of these books in the library is a very good sign to me that the complaints about the disappearance of the libraries has been heard in Seattle and someone in charge of the onboard guest experience has some influence to positively respond to the recent shortcomings of that experience that many of us have experienced.  

[grest]

Thanks so much.   Wondering if you noticed any large print books available?

[puppycanducruise]

Wonderful.  Thanks for posting the list.

[Horizon chaser 1957]

20 hours ago, kazu said:

While it’s a good list, it does not compare to what used to be on board some of the ship’s libraries - especially the Prinsendam (very extensive) and the prior Rotterdam.

The first time I walked into the library on the Princendam I thought I’d died and gone to heaven!

[travelbug615]

On 2/5/2022 at 9:34 AM, grest said:

Thanks so much.   Wondering if you noticed any large print books available?

Yes, I did notice at least one book that said it was in large print, sorry I don't remember the title.  Since I wasn't looking for large print editions, there may have been more that I didn't take notice of.

[jeh10641]

I have been in the book business (38 years as a paid employee, 10 years as a volunteer) and was impressed by the depth and breadth of Rotterdam's Library. I believe it is in the space that had been previously Microsoft's lab. That contract I think is expiring soon fleet wide so more libraries may show up. Contact HAL directly to express that desire. I know I will.

 

Jim

[FlaMariner]

Yes, it was where the Microsoft classroom would have been......

 

When on the Rotterdam TA in October, a local bookstore in Seattle was referenced as the source for the books.

 

 

[0106]

So happy that HA is supporting a “local” bookstore!

[jeh10641]

Amen for local bookstores!

Jim

[rkacruiser]

1 hour ago, jeh10641 said:

Amen for local bookstores!

Jim

 

My local Barnes & Noble closes Feb. 12th.  Their lease is up and the owner of the building wants to re-purpose it for something.  Fortunately, another B&N is a few miles away and there is another book store not too far away.  It's good that HAL seems to have "heard" from those of us who are book lovers.  

[ontheweb]

3 hours ago, jeh10641 said:

Amen for local bookstores!

Jim

I wish we still had one!

[Storylady]

On 2/5/2022 at 7:34 AM, grest said:

Thanks so much.   Wondering if you noticed any large print books available?

No, we didn’t.