We had a list of books, with multiple books per era, where we had to pick two or three books from, per era. I hated it. I actually never read most of the books I had to read and read the books I wanted...
Van den vos Reynaerde
Mariken van Nieumeghen
that was from the early period.
Then from the 1800 to 1940 series I read
Erik of het klein insectenboek by Godfried Bomans
Max Havelaar by Multatuli (read half of it)
Kleine Johannes by
Frederik van Eeden. I actually read this book, and liked it.
Het verboden rijk by J. Slauerhoff. I've always loved historic novels and especially if they take place in the Far East.
After the war, the literature books become depressing and I don't even remember the ones I had said I had read. I think I'd have become so depressed as the main characters in those books that I'd have, like the main characters in those books, killed myself...
There's only one book I do remember:
De verwoesting van Hyperion by Hugo Raes, the only SF book I've ever found that qualifies as a Dutch literature book... Also very depressing (big war, most of humanity is destroyed, only one small enclave survives, but the rats, who have evolved and want to destroy those last humans for their knowledge)
Having said that, I did love the Dutch literature classes (that wasn't so much about the books, but rather about the entire history of the Dutch language). I just hated reading those Dutch literature books. In general, boring, depressing and/or impossible to read due to severe language changes...