Top Five Books of 2015

Description
What are your top five reads for 2015? These books DO NOT need to have been published in 2015. See the annual blog post for staff favorites: TBA 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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La fille du roi des Elfes
de Lord Dunsany
2,297 membres
54 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 140
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Explications
elenchus: Sublime language, it's a prose poem and worthy of its status as a classic in high fantasy.
2
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
de Garry Wills
465 membres
6 critiques
4
Rang global 300
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Explications
elenchus: A re-read, and it captures both the enthusiasm for the American project, and the wealth of ideas influencing it -- many not what we think they are today, despite the familiar terms.
3
The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript
de Umberto Eco
9,006 membres
143 critiques
4.1
Rang global 370
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Explications
elenchus: Familiar with the film and with Eco's fiction, but not with [The Name of the Rose] until this year. As much fun as I'd hoped.
4
Jellaby
de Kean Soo
267 membres
22 critiques
3.9
Rang global 619
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Explications
elenchus: Read aloud with my son, but I noticed my partner and daughter also read it before it had to be returned. Charming but not saccharine, earnest but not joyless, and the panels live up to the words.
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Last Stand on Bataan: The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942
de Christopher L. Kolakowski
27 membres
12 critiques
4
Rang global 793
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Explications
elenchus: Well-researched but not boring, it brought a clearer understanding of the campaign that kicked of WWII for the U.S. military.