Top Five Books of 2018

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Description: What are your top five reads for 2018? These books DO NOT need to have been published in 2018. See the annual blog post for staff favorites: [link to come] Join the discussion on Talk [link to come] To add a book to your list, click the "Add work to list" button in the upper-right corner. This will take you to a search box, where you can search by title, author, keyword, etc. Clicking on the title will add the book to your list. You can reorder your list over on the right-hand side, by dragging and dropping titles in the "Your list" section.
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La Peste
por Albert Camus
18,473 miembros
249 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 140
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Explicaciones
ahef1963: Possibly my favourite book ever. Breathtaking writing about a plague-stricken city in North Africa; characters never to be forgotten, allegory if you choose to read it that way.
2
A Gentleman in Moscow
por Amor Towles
9,083 miembros
515 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 1
31 Members
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Explicaciones
ahef1963: Vivid, detailed, alive, heartening. The Count is sentenced to permanent house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, and needs to learn how to live in the hotel as passionately as he did in the outside world.
3
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
por J. D. Vance
6,865 miembros
337 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 391
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Explicaciones
ahef1963: Although I disagree with Mr. Vance's politics, this exposé of hillbilly culture in the 21st century brings to light masterfully the hope and despair of those people caught in lives beyond our imaginings.
4
Pioneros
por Willa Cather
6,339 miembros
164 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 86
2 Members
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Explicaciones
ahef1963: My introduction to Willa Cather and I was blown away by the story, the prairie, and the amount of determination that can be rustled up in the middle of nowhere.
5
The Dying Detective
por Leif G. W. Persson
307 miembros
17 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 737
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Explicaciones
ahef1963: The last book in a series I haven't read yet; the character descriptions were fantastic and the crime being solved interesting and unique. Loved it, cried at the end.