Top Five Books of 2018

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Description: What are your top five reads for 2018? These books DO NOT need to have been published in 2018. See the annual blog post for staff favorites: [link to come] Join the discussion on Talk [link to come] To add a book to your list, click the "Add work to list" button in the upper-right corner. This will take you to a search box, where you can search by title, author, keyword, etc. Clicking on the title will add the book to your list. You can reorder your list over on the right-hand side, by dragging and dropping titles in the "Your list" section.
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Rutto
tekijä: Albert Camus
18,449 jäsentä
248 arvostelua
4
Global Rank 140
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ahef1963: Possibly my favourite book ever. Breathtaking writing about a plague-stricken city in North Africa; characters never to be forgotten, allegory if you choose to read it that way.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
tekijä: Amor Towles
9,042 jäsentä
513 arvostelua
½ 4.4
Global Rank 1
31 Members
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Selitykset
ahef1963: Vivid, detailed, alive, heartening. The Count is sentenced to permanent house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, and needs to learn how to live in the hotel as passionately as he did in the outside world.
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
tekijä: J. D. Vance
6,851 jäsentä
335 arvostelua
½ 3.7
Global Rank 391
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ahef1963: Although I disagree with Mr. Vance's politics, this exposé of hillbilly culture in the 21st century brings to light masterfully the hope and despair of those people caught in lives beyond our imaginings.
4
O Pioneers!
tekijä: Willa Cather
6,327 jäsentä
164 arvostelua
3.9
Global Rank 86
2 Members
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Selitykset
ahef1963: My introduction to Willa Cather and I was blown away by the story, the prairie, and the amount of determination that can be rustled up in the middle of nowhere.
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Matkan pää
tekijä: Leif G. W. Persson
307 jäsentä
17 arvostelua
3.9
Global Rank 737
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ahef1963: The last book in a series I haven't read yet; the character descriptions were fantastic and the crime being solved interesting and unique. Loved it, cried at the end.