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
por Bookworm Companions
2 miembros
3
Ranking Global 570
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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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Las cosas que llevaban los hombres que lucharon
por Tim O'Brien
14,320 miembros
393 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 191
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4
Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
por Gillen D'Arcy Wood
153 miembros
7 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 761
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Pensar rápido, pensar despacio
por Daniel Kahneman
11,720 miembros
225 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 390
2 Members
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El giro : de cómo un manuscrito olvidado contribuyó a crear el mundo moderno
por Stephen Greenblatt
3,581 miembros
142 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 862
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Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe
por John Freely
88 miembros
3.1
Ranking Global 967
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
por Brenda Maddox
570 miembros
13 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 1,019
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Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
por Toby Lester
309 miembros
12 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 1,106
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Fahrenheit 451 (Ave Fenix)
por Ray Bradbury
53,814 miembros
994 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 75
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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)
por Max Hastings
2 miembros
Ranking Global 1,352
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The Last Newspaperman
por Mark Di Ionno
19 miembros
3
Ranking Global 1,414
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Los señores de la tierra : la búsqueda de nuestros orígenes humanos
por Ian Tattersall
268 miembros
34 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 1,479
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Némesis
por Philip Roth
1,640 miembros
81 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 1,512
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The Origin of Species / The Descent of Man
por Charles Darwin
695 miembros
5 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 1,589
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Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
por Claudia Roth Pierpont
142 miembros
4 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 1,686
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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
por Mark Lilla
210 miembros
5 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 1,743
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
por Clive Thompson
444 miembros
16 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 1,795
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Inquebrantable
por Laura Hillenbrand
12,197 miembros
594 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 50
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
por Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,910 miembros
229 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 1,882
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