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
von Bookworm Companions
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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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Was sie trugen
von Tim O'Brien
14,320 Mitglieder
393 Rezensionen
4.2
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Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
von Gillen D'Arcy Wood
153 Mitglieder
7 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
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Schnelles Denken, langsames Denken
von Daniel Kahneman
11,720 Mitglieder
225 Rezensionen
4.1
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Die Wende - Wie die Renaissance begann
von Stephen Greenblatt
3,581 Mitglieder
142 Rezensionen
3.9
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Aristoteles in Oxford. Wie das finstere Mittelalter die moderne Wissenschaft begründete
von John Freely
88 Mitglieder
3.1
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Rosalind Franklin : die Entdeckung der DNA oder der Kampf einer Frau um wissenschaftliche Anerkennung
von Brenda Maddox
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13 Rezensionen
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Die Symmetrie der Welt : Leonardo da Vinci und das Geheimnis seiner berühmtesten Zeichnung
von Toby Lester
309 Mitglieder
12 Rezensionen
½ 3.7
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Fahrenheit 451
von Ray Bradbury
53,817 Mitglieder
994 Rezensionen
4
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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)
von Max Hastings
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The Last Newspaperman
von Mark Di Ionno
19 Mitglieder
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
von Ian Tattersall
268 Mitglieder
34 Rezensionen
4.1
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Nemesis
von Philip Roth
1,640 Mitglieder
81 Rezensionen
3.8
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The Origin of Species / The Descent of Man
von Charles Darwin
695 Mitglieder
5 Rezensionen
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Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
von Claudia Roth Pierpont
142 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
3.9
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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
von Mark Lilla
210 Mitglieder
5 Rezensionen
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
von Clive Thompson
444 Mitglieder
16 Rezensionen
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
von Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,910 Mitglieder
229 Rezensionen
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