Recommend the 20 best books you've read in the last five years

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A casual acquaintance is looking for ideas about books to read, but you don't know much about their tastes. Thinking back over your last five years of reading, which books would you recommend?
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates: Sidekick
de Bookworm Companions
2 membres
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applemcg: According to Toni Morrison: "Required Reading" Read it in a day. Come prepared to accept all Coates assertions, for starters: "Race is a child of racism, not its father"
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The Things They Carried
de Tim O'Brien
14,321 membres
393 ressenyes
4.2
Classificació global 191
4 Members
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Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
de Gillen D'Arcy Wood
153 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 761
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
de Daniel Kahneman
11,722 membres
225 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 390
2 Members
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
de Stephen Greenblatt
3,582 membres
142 ressenyes
3.9
Classificació global 862
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Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe
de John Freely
88 membres
3.1
Classificació global 967
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
de Brenda Maddox
570 membres
13 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 1,019
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Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
de Toby Lester
309 membres
12 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 1,106
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Fahrenheit 451
de Ray Bradbury
53,807 membres
994 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 75
13 Members
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lordcharles: Opened my eyes to a number of things - and possibilities. Frightening. On pet.
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Part 2 of 2)(Library Edition)
de Max Hastings
2 membres
Classificació global 1,352
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The Last Newspaperman
de Mark Di Ionno
19 membres
3
Classificació global 1,414
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
de Ian Tattersall
268 membres
34 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 1,479
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Nèmesi
de Philip Roth
1,640 membres
81 ressenyes
3.8
Classificació global 1,512
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The Origin of Species / The Descent of Man
de Charles Darwin
695 membres
5 ressenyes
4.2
Classificació global 1,589
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Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
de Claudia Roth Pierpont
142 membres
4 ressenyes
3.9
Classificació global 1,686
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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
de Mark Lilla
210 membres
5 ressenyes
3.9
Classificació global 1,743
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
de Clive Thompson
444 membres
16 ressenyes
4
Classificació global 1,795
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
de Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,912 membres
229 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Classificació global 1,882
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