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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Moby Dick
de Herman Melville
35,562 membres
541 critiques
3.8
Rang global 90
11 Members
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Explications
donutage: It's a "classic" for a reason. Ambitious, profound, playful, at times bizarre. Like many, I read this back in high school and was somewhat flummoxed by the "boring" "digressions" about whale anatomy and sailing ships. When I re-read it a couple years ago, I was more willing to take the sprawling narrative on its own terms and found it infinitely enjoyable.
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Le maire de casterbridge / histoire d'un homme de caractere
de Thomas Hardy
8,308 membres
113 critiques
3.9
Rang global 246
3 Members
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Le Conte de deux cités
de Charles Dickens
36,629 membres
456 critiques
3.9
Rang global 158
5 Members
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4
Anna Karénine
de Leo Tolstoy
38,449 membres
627 critiques
4.1
Rang global 60
17 Members
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La Taupe
de John le Carré
8,441 membres
232 critiques
4
Rang global 269
3 Members
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Une affaire de moralité
de Barry Unsworth
1,307 membres
42 critiques
3.8
Rang global 351
2 Members
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The Ox-Bow Incident
de Walter Van Tilburg Clark
1,609 membres
39 critiques
3.9
Rang global 1,185
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Réflexions sur la Révolution de France
de Edmund Burke
2,840 membres
26 critiques
½ 3.6
Rang global 1,168
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Cathedral: Stories
de Raymond Carver
3,084 membres
96 critiques
4.2
Rang global 1,162
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Winesburg-en-Ohio
de Sherwood Anderson
5,927 membres
120 critiques
3.8
Rang global 212
4 Members
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Hygiène de l'assassin
de Amélie Nothomb
1,151 membres
25 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 486
2 Members
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12
Les âmes grises
de Philippe Claudel
1,179 membres
47 critiques
3.8
Rang global 1,200
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The English Gentleman
de Simon Raven
34 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 1,265
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Non, ce pays n'est pas pour le vieil homme
de Cormac McCarthy
11,074 membres
292 critiques
4
Rang global 281
3 Members
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15
La haine et la honte. Journal d'un aristocrate allemand, 1936-1944
de Friedrich Reck
357 membres
6 critiques
4.2
Rang global 1,220
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L'homme tombé du ciel
de Walter Tevis
1,591 membres
44 critiques
3.8
Rang global 1,186
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Random Acts of Senseless Violence
de Jack Womack
634 membres
10 critiques
3.9
Rang global 1,212
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There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
de Claire Berlinski
89 membres
5 critiques
½ 4.4
Rang global 1,256
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The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
de David Mamet
268 membres
11 critiques
3.2
Rang global 1,229
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Bone: One Volume Edition
de Jeff Smith
2,838 membres
54 critiques
½ 4.4
Rang global 1,169
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