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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The Sea, the Sea
por Iris Murdoch
3,575 membros
94 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 171
5 Members
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Life: A User's Manual
por Georges Perec
3,792 membros
54 críticas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 69
13 Members
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3
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
por Patrick Leigh Fermor
727 membros
14 críticas
4
Global Rank 689
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The Rings of Saturn
por W. G. Sebald
3,304 membros
82 críticas
4.2
Global Rank 404
2 Members
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5
South Riding
por Winifred Holtby
932 membros
41 críticas
4.1
Global Rank 802
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Die Ursache: Eine Andeutung
por Thomas Bernhard
307 membros
6 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 895
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
por Alfred Döblin
2,712 membros
40 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 919
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The letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846
por Robert Browning
53 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.7
Global Rank 1,042
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The Heart of Mid-Lothian
por Sir Walter Scott
1,076 membros
18 críticas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 1,088
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10
Old People and The Things That Pass
por Louis Couperus
543 membros
16 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 1,215
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God's Playground
por Norman Davies
116 membros
1 crítica
3.8
Global Rank 1,341
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
por Ibn Battuta
336 membros
5 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 1,401
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Independent People
por Halldór Laxness
2,907 membros
102 críticas
4.2
Global Rank 247
3 Members
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Eleven
por Patricia Highsmith
329 membros
10 críticas
4
Global Rank 1,539
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
por Georges Simenon
1,119 membros
31 críticas
½ 3.7
Global Rank 581
2 Members
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At Swim, Two Boys
por Jamie O'Neill
2,112 membros
55 críticas
4.2
Global Rank 474
2 Members
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The Children's Book
por A.S. Byatt
3,804 membros
210 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 465
3 Members
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The Bible in Spain
por George Borrow
253 membros
4 críticas
4.1
Global Rank 1,803
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The Road to Oxiana
por Robert Byron
1,226 membros
13 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 1,843
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The Way of the World
por Nicolas Bouvier
578 membros
10 críticas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,914
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