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

Descrizione
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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Arrivano i Sister
di Patrick deWitt
4,265 utenti
311 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 123
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Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance)
di Jeff VanderMeer
893 utenti
27 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 302
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Spiegazioni
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.
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Stazione undici
di Emily St. John Mandel
11,663 utenti
777 recensioni
4.1
Classifica globale 48
19 Members
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Vita di Pi
di Yann Martel
43,549 utenti
1,013 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 141
6 Members
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Geek Love
di Katherine Dunn
6,138 utenti
162 recensioni
4
Classifica globale 405
2 Members
ShelfMonkey, brianc6
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The Last Policeman
di Ben H. Winters
2,115 utenti
185 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 310
3 Members
ShelfMonkey, RBeffa, dianeham
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Il mago
di Lev Grossman
10,227 utenti
670 recensioni
½ 3.4
Classifica globale 178
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Perle ai porci o Dio la benedica, Mr. Rosewater
di Kurt Vonnegut
6,277 utenti
54 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 325
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Nato fuori legge. Storia di un'infanzia sudafricana
di Trevor Noah
6,110 utenti
360 recensioni
½ 4.4
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Half Blood Blues
di Esi Edugyan
1,447 utenti
85 recensioni
½ 3.7
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L'altro inizio
di Margaret Atwood
3,527 utenti
153 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 492
2 Members
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Sandman Slim
di Richard Kadrey
2,475 utenti
177 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 450
2 Members
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