Top Five Books of 2022

Description
The year is coming to an end, and our December List of the Month is dedicated to LibraryThing members' Top Five Books of 2022. Please note that books don't need to have been published in 2022, just read this year. You can see the LT Staff picks on the blog: https://blog.librarything.com/2022/12/top-five-books-of-2022/, and you can join the conversation on Talk: https://www.librarything.com/topic/346468
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1
Gnomon
de Nick Harkaway
774 membres
30 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 136
Member
paradoxosalpha
Explications
paradoxosalpha: a 666-page magical operation thinly disguised as a science-fiction police procedural
2
Le Livre de Monelle
de Marcel Schwob
263 membres
6 critiques
4.2
Rang global 287
Member
paradoxosalpha
Explications
paradoxosalpha: In this "unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement" Schwob constructs a significant mystical text in memory of the lost Beatrice-Polia-Monelle.
3
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
de Donald Hoffman
286 membres
6 critiques
4
Rang global 403
Member
paradoxosalpha
Explications
paradoxosalpha: "No mystery of science offers greater intrigue, or greater perplexity, than the provenance of quotidian experiences"
4
L'arbre-monde
de Richard Powers
5,344 membres
244 critiques
4.1
Rang global 481
Member
paradoxosalpha
Explications
paradoxosalpha: good medicine for those willing to take it
5
Le Fanatisme
de Alberto Toscano
77 membres
1 critique
3
Rang global 702
Member
paradoxosalpha
Explications
paradoxosalpha: delves into a long modern development of paradigms for the fanatic, ranging from the German Peasants' Revolt to Islam to the French Revolution to Marxism