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This goes with the suitcase...

That life is too beautiful to sit inside is, of course, no longer news. We've all blatantly witnessed that. So hup, get out there. Now that we can. Where we can. Because we can. Because of that standing still, or better: sitting still, we have developed a common guilty pleasure . Namely, scrolling through insignificant social media posts for hours on end. To break through that, reading is a good alternative and a healthy distraction. Provided it is exciting, educational or unique. MASTERS likes to help you pack your bags with these books. Reviewed and chosen by the editors. These are the favorites for on a towel, under the tree or at the beach.Text: editors MASTERS

The President's Daughter | Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Fancy a little challenge on your vacation? You have to want to read English, but trust us: after a few pages you won't want anything else. This super exciting story is one to bite your nails from the very first page. Especially also thanks to the details that only a former president can know and thus write down. Along with the suspense and action that author Patterson has won many awards for, this book is one of a kind. All presidents have nightmares. But this one is about to come true....

't Hooge Nest | Roxane van Iperen

It begins as a history book, it ends as a heroic epic. A book about good and evil, about your conscience and about what humanity is capable of. A story about autonomous thinking, about fighting for the good. A story about love, about standards and values and about being strong. This is the book we should all read. Because it makes you aware of your own potential, which is to make the world a little better.

If I'm being completely honest | Tamara Gijrath

What is this enormous impact of a mother on her daughter, after all? And vice versa? Are there conditions for a balanced mother-daughter relationship? How does the time in which women grow up affect this unique bond? In a personal search for the context of this often beautiful, sometimes complicated relationship, journalist Tamara Gijrath spoke with 60 well-known mothers and daughters and had them portrayed together. A read, watch and think book: for long, late nights or early mornings. Every day a story (30 in all!) teaches you something new every day.

Get used to it | Maike Meijer

This is really one of those books that you read in one breath and laugh at. Laugh out loud. And sometimes makes you cry. A feast of recognition: getting older, that damn transition and all the macabees that come with it. Writer and actress (yes, the one from Toren C and the Jumbo commercial) Maike Meijer is considered one of the funniest women in the Netherlands. Dear ladies, please let's not take ourselves too seriously. It is a way of seeing, a way of life if you will that makes your heart beat faster and makes life a lot more fun.

Derksen | Michiel van Egmond and Antoinnette Scheulderman

You love him or you hate him. Either way, he remains thought-provoking. Whether you agree with him or not: the man with the eternal mustache, cigar and big mouth has an opinion about everything and enough life experience to - indeed - fill a book. The book that has just come out and was written by top duo and love couple Michel van Egmond and Antoinnette Scheulderman is beautifully constructed and full of unique anecdotes. Read with amazement and a smile.

The Voice | Jessica Durlacher

Jessica Durlacher's latest novel is set against the backdrop of the great events that ushered in this millennium. The book opens with a scene that immediately makes your breath catch. When the most brutal, terrorist attack in history causes the Twin Towers to collapse and the streets of New York to fill with dark clouds of dust and pure fear, you get to know Zelda and Bor.