Recommend the 20 best books you've read in the last five years
- Descripción
- 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?
1
por Ann Leckie
5,937 miembros
365 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 78
Puntuacion 32.43
Añadido 2014-03-28, 05:00 PM
- 12 Members
- Shrike58, Aquila, Euryale, ArieJvdP, dhm, SusiLibrarian, RobinMG, Dilara86, zjakkelien, gypsysmom, lorannen, jpahl,ayaeckel
- Explicaciones
- Shrike58: Another current example of the best state of the art of modern SF that builds on the traditions of the field (imagine what a collaboration between Le Guin & Cherryh would look like) while trying to extend the state of the art. Some people think this is a bad thing, and I'm not sure that Leckie's tricks of language always work, but this is ultimately a very individual story of how one comes by personal dignity.
2
por Jeff VanderMeer
895 miembros
27 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 302
Puntuacion 6.73
Añadido 2016-06-28, 09:27 AM
- 2 Members
- Shrike58, ShelfMonkey
- Explicaciones
- Shrike58: I recommend the collected set of short novels as in the process of reading these books one is often unsure as to whether VanderMeer is either the smartest guy in the room, or whether he loses control of his material early in the game; with caveats, the former is the truer condition. Besides anything else, you read this book because VanderMeer attempts the hardest thing that you can do in a genre novel, accept that the Universe is more inscrutable than the Human mind can comprehend and still deliver a convincing story with that reality in mind. Besides that the dominant ethical theme is a consideration of what is the cost of true expiation for one's mistakes.
3
779 miembros
64 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 687
Puntuacion 3.04
Añadido 2022-08-04, 01:52 PM
4
por Madeline Miller
12,414 miembros
479 reseñas
½ 4.3
Ranking Global 138
Puntuacion 14.26
Añadido 2020-01-13, 05:11 AM
- 5 Members
- Shrike58, Minthe, DAGray08, shefferstroke, Brandy1411
5
2,172 miembros
77 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 788
Puntuacion 2.68
Añadido 2022-08-04, 01:58 PM
- Member
- Shrike58
6
por Naomi Novik
3,842 miembros
200 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 861
Puntuacion 2.56
Añadido 2022-08-04, 02:09 PM
- Member
- Shrike58
7
por Benjamin E. Park
109 miembros
8 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 964
Puntuacion 2.46
Añadido 2022-08-04, 02:00 PM
- Member
- Shrike58
8
456 miembros
13 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 1,020
Puntuacion 2.38
Añadido 2022-08-04, 02:06 PM
- Member
- Shrike58
9
por Jeffrey Ostler
100 miembros
1 reseña
½ 4.7
Ranking Global 1,112
Puntuacion 2.31
Añadido 2022-08-04, 02:01 PM
- Member
- Shrike58
10
por David Stevenson
156 miembros
5 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 1,241
Puntuacion 2.25
Añadido 2016-06-28, 09:23 AM
- Member
- Shrike58
- Explicaciones
- Shrike58: Is this book a brick? Yes. However, the answer as to why World War I finished as it did is complicated and the author tackles all those issues with both clarity and completeness. If Stephenson doesn't know something about 1918 then you probably don't have to know it either.
11
por Alexander Watson
114 miembros
3 reseñas
½ 4.7
Ranking Global 1,342
Puntuacion 2.2
Añadido 2022-08-04, 01:56 PM
- Member
- Shrike58
- Explicaciones
- Shrike58: I still think that "With Our Back to the Wall" is probably the best book about World War I of the last few years. This is the second best in my opinion, particularly if you want to have an understanding of the military failure of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Also, pretty much everything Watson has written is worth reading.
12
por Jill Lepore
383 miembros
15 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 1,398
Puntuacion 2.15
Añadido 2022-08-04, 01:55 PM
- Member
- Shrike58
13
por N. K. Jemisin
4,159 miembros
290 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 427
Puntuacion 4.57
Añadido 2016-07-25, 12:25 PM
14
por Mary Stockwell
39 miembros
1 reseña
5
Ranking Global 1,550
Puntuacion 2.07
Añadido 2022-08-04, 02:03 PM
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- Shrike58
15
por Peter Heather
228 miembros
5 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 1,603
Puntuacion 2.03
Añadido 2016-06-28, 09:25 AM
- Member
- Shrike58
- Explicaciones
- Shrike58: Written by an academician who has rather more sympathy for the barbarian successors to Rome than is typical, this is a lively examination of why a sustainable recreation of the Western Empire was not attainable, leading some very clever people to essentially create Christendom.
16
por R.F. Kuang
4,495 miembros
140 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 1,633
Puntuacion 2
Añadido 2022-08-04, 02:05 PM
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- Shrike58
17
por David W. Anthony
935 miembros
28 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 1,725
Puntuacion 1.97
Añadido 2016-06-28, 09:21 AM
- Member
- Shrike58
- Explicaciones
- Shrike58: I like books that make me think and this is the current best synthesis of what we know of one of the major branches of humanity. Besides the authors doing a good job of communicating their enthusiasm for their studies, there is also a poignant aspect as it charts what will be looked back upon as a golden age of Russo-Western scientific cooperation.
18
por Ben Aaronovitch
6,020 miembros
372 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 204
Puntuacion 10.16
Añadido 2016-05-22, 04:42 PM
- 4 Members
- Shrike58, hildretha, Dehinde, christin.schroeder
- Explicaciones
- Shrike58: The first book in an ongoing series of paranormal police procedural novels set in London. This is almost becoming a British specialty (see "The Laundry" series of Charles Stross) but I suggest this one to the reader due to the author's almost cinematic vision and having a nice balance between the human and the fantastic. This is not to mention that there is real character development as the series advances.
19
39 miembros
2 reseñas
½ 4.3
Ranking Global 1,879
Puntuacion 1.92
Añadido 2022-08-04, 02:07 PM
20
por David L. Preston
131 miembros
2 reseñas
½ 4.3
Ranking Global 1,927
Puntuacion 1.89
Añadido 2016-06-28, 09:27 AM
- Member
- Shrike58
- Explicaciones
- Shrike58: Just a really excellent work of history, as the author puts Braddock's ill-fated expedition into context. The key point is to emphasize just how much this was a victory of the First Nations, as had it simply come down to a Anglo-French battle the French would have found their position untenable. It also doesn't hurt that the evidence suggests that David Preston has hiked the whole length of Braddock's trail, adding insight into the general's travails.