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Books set in Belgium:


The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus
Hygiene and the Assassin by Amélie Nothomb
The Abyss: A Novel by Marguerite Yourcenar
Camera by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
By a Slow River: A Novel by Philippe Claudel
The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs
Marcel by Erwin Mortier
Problemski Hotel by Dimitri Verhulst
Antichrista by Amélie Nothomb
Bruges-la-morte by Georges Rodenbach
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
The Train by Georges Simenon
Resistance by Anita Shreve
Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason
Water Song: A Retelling of "The Frog Prince" by Suzanne Weyn
Whisper on the Wind by Maureen Lang
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck
On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe
The Courage Consort by Michel Faber
Stealing the Mystic Lamb by Noah Charney
The Master of Bruges by Terence Morgan
The Book of Proper Names: A Novel by Amélie Nothomb
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
Flanders by Patricia Anthony
The Relics of General Chasse: A Tale of Antwerp by Anthony Trollope
In Bruges by Martin McDonagh
A Dog in a Hat by Joe Parkin
A Tall Man in a Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians by Harry Pearson
The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
In the Company of Angels: A Novel by N.M. Kelby
The Secret in the Old Lace by Carolyn Keene
11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944 by Stanley Weintraub
A Storm in Flanders: Triumph and Tragedy on the Western Front by Winston Groom
Lost in the Fog: Memoir of a Bastard by Rachel Van Meers
Gypsies by Jan Yoors
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon

A Tall Man in a Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians by Harry Pearson

A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind by Christien Gholson

Post mortem by Peter Terrin

Invitation to a Voyage by François Emmanuel

Chapel Road by Louis Paul Boon

My Little War by Louis Paul Boon

Summer in Termuren by Louis Paul Boon

The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

The Losing Role

Under False Flags: A Novel

Both partially set in the Ardennes region during WWII.

The Sage of Waterloo: A Tale by Leona Francombe

The Beginning of the End by Ian Parkinson

Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Styx by Bavo Dhooge

The Blue Palace of the Belgian Engineers by Fulgencio Argüelles

War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans

More books set in Belgium:


The Adventures of Tintin: A Novel by Alex Irvine
All That Glitters by Martine Desjardins
The Amulet by Hendrik Conscience
Antwerp by Nicholas Royle
As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rudy Rucker
The Bells of Bruges by Georges Rodenbach
The Bottle at Sea: The Complete Poems by Maurice Gilliams
The Bridge of Years: A Novel by May Sarton

Bottoms Up in Belgium: Seeking the High Points of the Low Land by Alec Le Sueur

More books set in Belgium:


The Adventures of Hergé by José-Louis Bocquet.
At Midnight in a Flaming Town by Lorraine Bateman
The Brontës in Brussels by Helen MacEwan
The Bruges Engagement by Madeleine Ker
Bruss. Brussels in shorts by Frederik Van den Stock
Brussels Noir by Michel Dufranne
The Campaigners by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Canal Bridge by Francis Laveaux
Castle Keep by William Eastlake
Cheese by Willem Elsschot
The Chocolate Lovers' Christmas by Carole Matthews
Christ's Entry into Brussels by Dimitri Verhulst
Christmas in Bruges by Meadow Taylor
The Coburgs of Belgium by Theo Aronson
The Coming of Joachim Stiller by Hubert Lampo
Commando #4747: In Flanders Sky... by George Low
Cross My Heart by Carmen Reid
A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward
The Curse of the Village by Hendrik Conscience
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984 by Henri Michaux
A Day with Mr. Jules by Diane Broeckhoven
The Days Are Wicked by Nakary Williams
The Dead of Winter by Bill Warnock
The Deadbeats by Ward Ruyslinck
DeKok and Murder on Blood Mountain by A.C. Baantjer
The Demons of Ghent by Helen Grant
Desire by Hugo Claus
Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon
Doctor Ox by Jules Verne (AKA A Fantasy of Doctor Ox)
A Dog of Flanders by Ouida
Dreadful Lies by Michele Bailey
Elias, or the Struggle with the Nightingales by Maurice Gilliams
Even Now: Poems by Hugo Claus by Hugo Claus
Ex-drummer by Herman Brusselmans
Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe
The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante
Falling by Anne Provoost
Find Me Gone by Sarah Meuleman
The First Casualty by Ben Elton
Flanders Sky by Nicolas Freeling
The Flaxfield by Stijn Streuvels
The Flemish House by Georges Simenon
Flemish Life in Four Stories by Hendrik Conscience
Four Seasons in Belgium by Fanny Hartanti
The Fourth Figure by Pieter Aspe
Friday by Hugo Claus
The German Army at Ypres 1914: And the Battle for Flanders
Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait
The Glorious Dead by Tim Atkinson
The Golden Basket by Ludwig Bemelmans
A Green Tent in Flanders by Maud Mortimer
Greetings: Selected Poems by Hugo Claus
The Guard by Peter Terrin
The Guarded Heart by Barbara Hazard
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon
Hans Cadzand's Vocation & Other Stories by Georges Rodenbach
Harvest of Journeys by Hammond Innes
The Heretic’s Wife by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
High As the Heavens by Kate Breslin
The House by the Canal by Georges Simenon
Hunting in Bruges by E.J. Stevens (1st book in Hunter's Guild series)
I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne
Illegal Liaisons by Grażyna Plebanek
Imperial Scandal by Tracy Grant
In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign by Leon Wolff
In This Hospitable Land by Lynmar Brock Jr.
Innocence Unveiled by Blythe Gifford
The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
Inverted Delusion by Rosanne Dingli

More books set in Belgium:


Jepp, Who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh.
The Last Compromise by Carl Reevik
The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner
The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders
Letter to My Mother by Georges Simenon
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
The Letters of Peter Paul Rubens by Peter Paul Rubens
Life Class by Pat Barker
The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
Limousine by Patrick Conrad
The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge
Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill by Dimitri Verhulst
Maigret at the Gai-Moulin by Georges Simenon
Maigret Goes Home by Georges Simenon
The Making Of by Brecht Evens
The Man with No Face by Peter May
Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
The Midas Murders by Pieter Aspe
A Midnight Clear by William Wharton
Midnight in Brussels by Rebecca Randolph Buckley
The Misfortunates by Dimitri Verhulst
My Aunt Is a Pilot Whale by Anne Provoost
My Fellow Skin by Erwin Mortier
New Belgian Poems by Tita Brand Cammaerts
Night in the Afternoon and Other Erotica by Caroline Lamarche
No Sale by Patrick Conrad
Nobody Comes Back: A Novel of the Battle of the Bulge
Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman
Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness
Pallieter by Felix Timmermans
The Parable Of The Blind by Gert Hofmann
Passchendaele by Paul Gross
Passchendale: The Fight for the Village: Ypres by Nigel Cave
Passchendaele: A New History by Nick Lloyd
Pedigree by Georges Simenon
Péplum by Amélie Nothomb
Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges by Maryan W. Ainsworth
The Poor Gentleman by Hendrik Conscience
The Postwoman by Michael Kenneth Smith

More books set in Belgium:


Rear Entrance by D.B. Kumar Thomas
A Reckless Beauty by Kasey Michaels
Reunion by Michael B. Oren
Roadworks by Gerard Daniel Alfred Readett
Rubens by Kristin Lohse Belkin
Rubens by Peter Paul Rubens
Sarabande by Rose Gronon
The Sea Beggars by Cecelia Holland
Selected Writings by Henri Michaux
Sharpe's Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
Shattered Rainbows by Mary Jo Putney (5th book in Fallen Angels series)
Shutterspeed by Erwin Mortier
Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914 by Stanley Weintraub
Silent Saturday by Helen Grant (1st book in Forbidden Spaces series)
Sleepless Summer by Bram Dehouck
Slightly Tempted by Mary Balogh (4th book in Bedwyn Saga)
Soldiers of '44 by William P. McGivern
Solo by Pieter Aspe
The Square of Revenge by Pieter Aspe (1st book in Inspector Van In series)
Stammered Songbook: A Mother's Book of Hours by Erwin Mortier
Stories for Life by Dimitri Verhulst
Suggestion by Georges Rodenbach
Sulphuric Acid by Amélie Nothomb
Summer Before the Dark by Volker Weidermann
The Swordfish by Hugo Claus
Tales of Old Flanders by Hendrik Conscience
They Called It Passchendaele by Lyn Macdonald
Thirty Days by Annelies Verbeke
Three Novels: Soft Soap , The Leg , Will O' the Wisp by Willem Elsschot
Three Women in a Mirror by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The Traitor's Bones: A Clara Fitzgerald Mystery by Evelyn James
Treacherous Is the Night by Anna Lee Huber (2nd book in Verity Kent series)
Trial by Gas: The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres
Trouble by Jeroen Olyslaegers
U122: The Diary of a U-Boat Commander by R.N. Etienne
Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja (1st book in series)
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Walker by Patrick Conrad
We & Me by Saskia de Coster
What happens in Brussels stays in Brussels by Ġużè Stagno
When in Bruges by Nic Saint
While the Gods Were Sleeping by Erwin Mortier
Whirligig by Robert L. Fish
Why I Killed Peter by Olivier Ka
William - An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton
The Woman with the Bouquet by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Wonder by Hugo Claus
The Young Doctor by Hendrik Conscience
Ypres: Death of an Army by Anthony Ferrar-Hockley

The Melting by Lize Spit.

A Foolish Virgin by Ida Simons.

33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen.

The Warm Hands of Ghosts