2023 Update: The Best Twenty Books You've Read in the Past Five Years

Descrição
There is a list like this, but it was started over a decade ago. Here's a chance to recommend a completely different set of favoured books!
1
The House of the Spirits
de Isabel Allende
13,944 membros
246 resenhas
4.1
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: Beautiful, multi-generational family story. Hard to believe that this polished piece was Allende's debut novel!
2
Gideon the Ninth
de Tamsyn Muir
4,472 membros
181 resenhas
4.1
Member
Aquila
3
A Gentleman in Moscow
de Amor Towles
9,118 membros
517 resenhas
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
4
Menewood
de Nicola Griffith
135 membros
6 resenhas
½ 4.4
Member
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5
The Golem and the Jinni
de Helene Wecker
5,425 membros
361 resenhas
4.1
Member
ahef1963
6
Soulstar
de C. L. Polk
176 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Aquila
7
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
de Isabel Wilkerson
5,247 membros
183 resenhas
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
8
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
de Moniquill Blackgoose
286 membros
12 resenhas
4.2
Member
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9
The Absolute Book
de Elizabeth Knox
560 membros
17 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
Aquila
10
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo
de Birute M. F. Galdikas
201 membros
6 resenhas
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
11
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
de Jung Chang
8,336 membros
160 resenhas
4.1
Member
ahef1963
12
Middlegame
de Seanan McGuire
1,480 membros
70 resenhas
4
Member
Aquila
13
The Plague
de Albert Camus
18,509 membros
249 resenhas
4
Member
ahef1963
14
The Relentless Moon
de Mary Robinette Kowal
575 membros
39 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
Aquila
15
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition
de Stephen King
19,827 membros
369 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: I had resisted reading this book as it's so long, but I savoured every moment of King's mythos.
16
A Song for a New Day
de Sarah Pinsker
396 membros
20 resenhas
3.9
Member
Aquila
17
A House for Mr Biswas
de V. S. Naipaul
3,453 membros
68 resenhas
3.8
Member
ahef1963
18
A Memory Called Empire
de Arkady Martine
2,802 membros
120 resenhas
4.1
Member
Aquila
19
The House in the Cerulean Sea
de TJ Klune
6,209 membros
325 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
20
The City in the Middle of the Night
de Charlie Jane Anders
1,194 membros
38 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
Aquila
21
The Jane Austen Project
de Kathleen A. Flynn
472 membros
47 resenhas
3.9
Member
ahef1963
22
A Half-Built Garden
de Ruthanna Emrys
275 membros
12 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Aquila
23
Servant Mage
de Kate Elliott
146 membros
8 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Aquila
24
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
de Emily Ruete
133 membros
6 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: I was fascinated by the details of daily life in a sultan's harem.
25
Katherine
de Anya Seton
2,956 membros
89 resenhas
4.2
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: Hands-down the best historical fiction I've ever read.
26
Unconquerable Sun
de Kate Elliott
371 membros
15 resenhas
4
Member
Aquila
27
Homegoing
de Yaa Gyasi
5,592 membros
277 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
28
Kurangaituku
de Whiti Hereaka
20 membros
3 resenhas
½ 4.5
Member
Aquila
29
This Is How You Lose the Time War
de Amal El-Mohtar
4,111 membros
212 resenhas
3.9
Member
Aquila
30
Lucy
de Jamaica Kincaid
1,108 membros
8 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
31
A Death in the Family
de James Agee
3,049 membros
67 resenhas
3.9
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: It's been a long time since I read a book where every word had been carefully selected by the author. It was like poetry.
32
She Who Became the Sun
de Shelley Parker-Chan
1,839 membros
52 resenhas
4
Member
Aquila
33
Hench
de Natalie Zina Walschots
905 membros
75 resenhas
4
Member
ahef1963
34
The Unbroken
de C.L. Clark
607 membros
20 resenhas
3.8
Member
Aquila
35
Cloud Cuckoo Land
de Anthony Doerr
3,747 membros
171 resenhas
4.2
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: This was a magical book, like a fairy tale, only better.
36
Those Who Wait
de Haley Cass
64 membros
6 resenhas
½ 4.5
Member
Aquila
37
The Girl With the Louding Voice
de Abi Daré
1,539 membros
50 resenhas
4.2
Member
ahef1963
38
Perhaps the Stars
de Ada Palmer
257 membros
10 resenhas
4.2
Member
Aquila
39
The Housekeeper and the Professor
de Yoko Ogawa
3,226 membros
219 resenhas
4
Member
ahef1963
Explicações
ahef1963: Love as a mathematical equation - this book makes that possible.
40
The Space Between Worlds
de Micaiah Johnson
1,320 membros
58 resenhas
3.9
Member
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