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
de 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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The Things They Carried
de Tim O'Brien
14,323 membros
393 resenhas
4.2
Global Rank 191
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Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
de Gillen D'Arcy Wood
153 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.7
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
de Daniel Kahneman
11,726 membros
225 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 390
2 Members
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
de Stephen Greenblatt
3,585 membros
142 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 862
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Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe
de John Freely
88 membros
3.1
Global Rank 967
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
de Brenda Maddox
571 membros
13 resenhas
4
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Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
de Toby Lester
309 membros
12 resenhas
½ 3.7
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Fahrenheit 451
de Ray Bradbury
53,815 membros
994 resenhas
4
Global Rank 75
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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)
de Max Hastings
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Global Rank 1,352
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The Last Newspaperman
de Mark Di Ionno
19 membros
3
Global Rank 1,414
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
de Ian Tattersall
268 membros
34 resenhas
4.1
Global Rank 1,479
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Nemesis
de Philip Roth
1,640 membros
81 resenhas
3.8
Global Rank 1,512
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The Origin of Species / The Descent of Man
de Charles Darwin
695 membros
5 resenhas
4.2
Global Rank 1,589
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Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
de Claudia Roth Pierpont
142 membros
4 resenhas
3.9
Global Rank 1,686
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The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction
de Mark Lilla
210 membros
5 resenhas
3.9
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
de Clive Thompson
444 membros
16 resenhas
4
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
de Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,916 membros
229 resenhas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 1,882
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