Best book you’ve read in the past 10 years?
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The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. I think every American should read it. I can’t wait to read Caste although I understand it is grueling.
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Anonymous
Love that book! |
Anonymous
| The Power Broker. Best political biography ever. |
Anonymous
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The Clan of the Cave Bear and the next two sequels.
It is a series of six books, all with a whole lotta pages. The first three books were fascinating to me. The next three just kind of dragged on. It is fiction about the cave man days. The author very thoroughly researched the lifestyle and culture of early humans. |
Anonymous
Ugh. So formulaic--same plot as The Wife Between Us and others. Also, writing was mediocre. |
Anonymous
Still Alice gets my vote as the most depressing book of the last 10 years. I'll take What Alice Forgot any day over that one! |
Anonymous
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Fiction:
The Signature of All Things Cutting For Stone Non-Fiction: Nothing to Envy |
Anonymous
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Hands down, Unbelievable, which later became a Netflix series starring Toni Collette. I never read books involving rape etc. and I couldn't put it down. It was so compelling, and the fact that it was true, floored me. It is also really hopeful in terms of the fact that we are slowly and gradually making change about how we treat rape, and women, in this country.
Also really enjoyed A Woman is No Man. |
Anonymous
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Non-fiction - Hunger by Martin Caparros. Haunting.
Novels - The Black Sheep by Balzac My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaussgard Short Stories - Contes Carnivores by Bernard Quiriny Poetry - Marianne Moore Terrance Hayes |
Anonymous
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Forgot to add Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World and Rachel Cusk's On Becoming a Mother.
Part of the reason I love this thread is that I have never heard of 80 percent of the books mentioned. Must be the expat gap. |
Anonymous
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NPR's book concierge came out today, which always has great suggestions:
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2020 |
Anonymous
Loved this book. |
Anonymous
| These lists always leave me feeling like the only person who did not love Educated. |
Anonymous
I liked it a lot too. |
Anonymous
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If we are speaking about the lists:
Amercanah (I mentioned it upthread, it's #1 for me). Others, in no particular order: The Namesake Olive Kitteridge A Tale for the Time Being The Winter of Our Discontent Nowhere near the top, but I actually liked Michelle Obama' book. |