Recommend the 20 best books you've read in the last five years
- Beschreibung
- 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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von John Allison
64 Mitglieder
4 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 1,260
Bewertung 2.25
Hinzugefügt 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.
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von Thomas Siddell
61 Mitglieder
3 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 1,261
Bewertung 2.25
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 01:54 PM
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- donutage
- Erklärungen
- 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
von Umberto Eco
17,503 Mitglieder
258 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 447
Bewertung 4.36
Hinzugefügt 2016-07-22, 03:56 AM
- 2 Members
- donutage, Tinuvia
- Erklärungen
- 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
von Herman Melville
35,595 Mitglieder
542 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 90
Bewertung 25.35
Hinzugefügt 2013-07-04, 12:39 AM
- 11 Members
- aprille, donutage, unspuncapricorn, dmsteyn, smasler, tjsween, AmourFou, pseudoeden, CharlesTheB, NidiaMR86, CLMor,KerryMcGuire ,booksbooks63
- Erklärungen
- 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.
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von Ryan North
817 Mitglieder
19 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 1,208
Bewertung 2.25
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 01:56 PM
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- donutage
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- 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.
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von Douglas Adams
13,854 Mitglieder
232 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 849
Bewertung 2.56
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:03 PM
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- donutage
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- 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.
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von Jane Austen
21,637 Mitglieder
419 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 345
Bewertung 5.82
Hinzugefügt 2015-10-25, 01:44 PM
- 2 Members
- donutage, Tafadhali
- Erklärungen
- 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.
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von Box Brown
251 Mitglieder
17 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Globaler Rang 1,033
Bewertung 2.38
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:04 PM
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- donutage
- Erklärungen
- 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
2,006 Mitglieder
20 Rezensionen
½ 4.5
Globaler Rang 1,080
Bewertung 2.31
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:04 PM
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- donutage
10
15,354 Mitglieder
301 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 476
Bewertung 4.19
Hinzugefügt 2016-07-22, 09:32 AM
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von Neil Gaiman
22,207 Mitglieder
1,264 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 61
Bewertung 40.27
Hinzugefügt 2014-07-28, 01:43 AM
- 15 Members
- donutage, fifthbusy, kootibkiteer, RobinMG, briarhills, smasler, rozymary, Risbom, WhatUsername, HelenGress, Peace2, richard_c, ParanoidMaryMarvel, Jelissa88, SundayN
- Erklärungen
- 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.
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von William Gibson
8,880 Mitglieder
173 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 502
Bewertung 4.07
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:06 PM
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von James Gleick
3,340 Mitglieder
114 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 1,435
Bewertung 2.11
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:06 PM
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- donutage
14
956 Mitglieder
8 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 1,520
Bewertung 2.07
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:07 PM
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- donutage
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von Abby Howard
68 Mitglieder
8 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 1,613
Bewertung 2.03
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:07 PM
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- donutage
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von Dave Kellett
44 Mitglieder
½ 4.3
Globaler Rang 1,688
Bewertung 2
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:07 PM
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- donutage
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von Chip Kidd
301 Mitglieder
19 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Globaler Rang 1,737
Bewertung 1.97
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:08 PM
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von John McPhee
821 Mitglieder
20 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 1,787
Bewertung 1.94
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:08 PM
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- donutage
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von Ryan North
279 Mitglieder
16 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 1,865
Bewertung 1.92
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:09 PM
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- donutage
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von Lemony Snicket
1,826 Mitglieder
29 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 1,897
Bewertung 1.89
Hinzugefügt 2020-12-14, 02:10 PM
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- donutage