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?
1
di John Allison
64 utenti
4 recensioni
4.1
Classifica globale 1,259
Punteggio 2.25
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 01:53 PM
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- donutage
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- donutage: A brilliant webcomic series concerning 6 school-aged "mystery kids" investigating vaguely supernatural events in the town of Tackleford, England. This case, along with volume 7 (The Case of the Forked Road), is one of the high points, but it is well worth reading the series from the beginning. Although each case is fairly self-contained, they take place chronologically (in consecutive school terms), so there is longer-term character development going on as well.
2
61 utenti
3 recensioni
½ 4.4
Classifica globale 1,260
Punteggio 2.25
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 01:54 PM
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- donutage
- Spiegazioni
- donutage: Another webcomic series collection, also involving British school kids. GC Is more solidly in the fantasy genre, but mixes in elements of science-fiction, mild horror, humor, and mystery. This volume is the culmination of several long-term dramatic arcs: it definitely helps to start from the beginning.
3
di Umberto Eco
17,479 utenti
257 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 447
Punteggio 4.36
Aggiunto 2016-07-22, 03:56 AM
- 2 Members
- donutage, Tinuvia
- Spiegazioni
- donutage: Begins confusingly in media res, but once I got going I had trouble putting this down. The central plot concerning occult conspiracy theories has become increasingly and distressingly relevant, but the novel is also an examination of intellectual integrity and the duties of fiction.
4
35,564 utenti
541 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 90
Punteggio 25.35
Aggiunto 2013-07-04, 12:39 AM
- 11 Members
- aprille, donutage, unspuncapricorn, dmsteyn, smasler, tjsween, AmourFou, pseudoeden, CharlesTheB, NidiaMR86, CLMor,KerryMcGuire ,booksbooks63
- Spiegazioni
- donutage: It's a "classic" for a reason. Ambitious, profound, playful, at times bizarre. Like many, I read this back in high school and was somewhat flummoxed by the "boring" "digressions" about whale anatomy and sailing ships. When I re-read it a couple years ago, I was more willing to take the sprawling narrative on its own terms and found it infinitely enjoyable.
5
di Ryan North
814 utenti
19 recensioni
4
Classifica globale 1,208
Punteggio 2.25
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 01:56 PM
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- donutage
- Spiegazioni
- donutage: An informative book on practical science cleverly disguised by a veneer of science fiction and Ryan North's signature brand of wry humor. Do you know how and why soap works? I didn't until reading this book, and that's just one of hundreds of actually useful bits of knowledge it contains.
6
13,842 utenti
232 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 847
Punteggio 2.56
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:03 PM
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- donutage
- Spiegazioni
- donutage: I read (and loved) the Hitchhiker's Guide books ages ago, but didn't bother with the Dirk Gentley novels until my teen son and I decided to read them together, and I was very pleasantly surprised to find them delightful. Of the two, the first (this one) is probably has the more coherent plot, but both are full of Adams's unique brand of oddball humor.
7
di Jane Austen
21,622 utenti
419 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 345
Punteggio 5.82
Aggiunto 2015-10-25, 01:44 PM
- 2 Members
- donutage, Tafadhali
- Spiegazioni
- donutage: I made a point of completing my reading of Austen's novels recently. Pride and Prejudice remains my favorite, and there's much to be said for all the others, but this one stood out to me because it is so different from its siblings. Essentially a parody of the popular gothic novel, it is full of delightful narratorial asides about what *ought* to happen according to the genre's conventions and how this novel will fail to deliver them.
8
di Box Brown
251 utenti
17 recensioni
½ 3.6
Classifica globale 1,031
Punteggio 2.38
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:04 PM
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- donutage
- Spiegazioni
- donutage: A history of the video game in graphic novel format. The story itself is fascinating enough, involving as it does the intersection of the nascent gaming industry and late Cold War-era international business, and it is served well by Brown's spare art and deft storytelling.
9
2,007 utenti
20 recensioni
½ 4.5
Classifica globale 1,078
Punteggio 2.31
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:04 PM
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- donutage
10
15,326 utenti
300 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 475
Punteggio 4.19
Aggiunto 2016-07-22, 09:32 AM
11
di Neil Gaiman
22,179 utenti
1,263 recensioni
4.2
Classifica globale 61
Punteggio 40.27
Aggiunto 2014-07-28, 01:43 AM
- 15 Members
- donutage, fifthbusy, kootibkiteer, RobinMG, briarhills, smasler, rozymary, Risbom, WhatUsername, HelenGress, Peace2, richard_c, ParanoidMaryMarvel, Jelissa88, SundayN
- Spiegazioni
- donutage: An inventive and, by the end, surprisingly moving story of an orphan raised in and by a graveyard. Categorized as a YA title, which is understandable, but I consider it also a meditation on parenthood.
12
8,878 utenti
173 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 501
Punteggio 4.07
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:06 PM
13
di James Gleick
3,339 utenti
114 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 1,435
Punteggio 2.11
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:06 PM
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- donutage
14
954 utenti
8 recensioni
3.9
Classifica globale 1,520
Punteggio 2.07
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:07 PM
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- donutage
15
di Abby Howard
68 utenti
8 recensioni
4.1
Classifica globale 1,613
Punteggio 2.03
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:07 PM
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- donutage
16
di Dave Kellett
44 utenti
½ 4.3
Classifica globale 1,688
Punteggio 2
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:07 PM
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- donutage
17
di Chip Kidd
301 utenti
19 recensioni
½ 3.6
Classifica globale 1,737
Punteggio 1.97
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:08 PM
18
di John McPhee
821 utenti
20 recensioni
4.1
Classifica globale 1,787
Punteggio 1.94
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:08 PM
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- donutage
19
di Ryan North
276 utenti
16 recensioni
4.1
Classifica globale 1,865
Punteggio 1.92
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:09 PM
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- donutage
20
1,823 utenti
29 recensioni
4.2
Classifica globale 1,897
Punteggio 1.89
Aggiunto 2020-12-14, 02:10 PM
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- donutage