Jimmy’s Comments (group member since Oct 12, 2008)

Jimmy’s comments from the Listomania group.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...

Book Riot: 5 Great Indie Books from 2019

Book Riot: Best Books of 2019

LitHub: Our 50 Favorite Books of the Year

Some more...

KCRW Best of 2019 by Michael Silverblatt

Artsfuse Recommended Books 2019

Thrillist Best books of 2019

The Undefeated's 25 Can't-Miss Books of 2019

Unabridged Bookstore's Best of 2019

Entropy Magazines Best of 2019: Fiction

Entropy Magazines Best of 2019: Poetry

30 Impressive Indie Press Books from 2019

Words Without Borders: Best Translated Books You Missed in 2019

Words Without Borders: Staff Favorites 2019

Indie Booksellers Share Their Favorite Translations of the Decade

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2019

PopMatters: The Best Books of 2019: Fiction

Chicago Review of Books: 11 Books in Translation You May Have Missed This Year

Slate: Best Books of 2019

The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2019

You're welcome, please contribute your own lists or any interesting ones that you find! Thanks,

Any list that tries to encapsulate books released in 2019, or books discovered/first read in 2019:

Paris Review Contributors' favorite books of 2019 (Paris Review)

Best Translated Books you missed in 2019 (Books Without Borders)

A Year in Reading: 2019 (The Millions)

Thanks Catarina! What an awesome list

Guess it got taken down... Oh well

Thanks for posting! Good list, as always

Thanks for posting, Paul! I've not read any of these

This is a weird idea for a list... Our favourite writers on the books every 16-year-old should read. What do y'all think?

If I were asked this, I might choose the following:

On the Road and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - because if they don't read it now, they'll never be able to appreciate these books again at a more mature age

The Complete Persepolis - because it's great and it's important for a teenager to see how teenagers in other parts of the world grow up

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - because it's important for a teenager to see how teenagers in other times, and with other disadvantages, have grown up in the past

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page and Hannah Coulter - because it's good for a 16 year old to see the world through a very old person, and appreciate the old ways of doing things

What would your choices be?

http://www.elle.com/culture/books/a25...

Of course it's okay! Thanks for your contribution!

Right now!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

This thread is for posting lists we find on the web only. If you want to post your own list, please do so on this thread instead.

Please list your top 10 (or more (or less)) books you read this year in this thread! You may do as I like to do and list anything you read this year regardless of publication date. Or you may wish to only list books that came out this year (like some magazines do). It's up to you. You may also include a short (less-than-review-length) sentence or two about WHY each book was so great, if you so please. Looking forward to your answers!

ALSO Feel free to list (and link to) a few of your FAVORITE REVIEWS (either your own or others) from this year! (...or even older reviews that you read for the first time this year)...

NOTE: Anyone and Everyone is welcome to share their lists... I invited a bunch of people personally, but I can't possibly do that for everyone, so please spread the word... the more the merrier, and I want to see EVERYONE's year end lists, please.

Thanks Eva...

The list is actually compiled in one of the comments, so I'm going to re-post it here in case the comment ever gets removed:

Robert Macfarlane’s recommended books and articles:

Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot
David Gessner, Sick of Nature
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark
Rebecca Solnit, Savage Dreams
Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
Callum Roberts, The Ocean of Life: How our Seas Are Changing
Tim Robinson, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage and : Labyrinth
WG Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain
Tim Dee, Four Fields
Gilbert White, A Natural History of Selborne
JA Baker, The Peregrine
JG Ballard, The Drowned World
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation, ed. Curt Meine, Library of America edition (2012)

…and articles:

“No Heaven on Earth” by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Bookforum, 2008
“Super natural: the rise of the new nature writing,” by Tim Dee, The National, Aug 22, 2013

And Rebecca Solnit’s

Thoreau, The Maine Woods & Walden & various essays
Mary Austen, Land of Little Rain
Willa Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop & My Antonia
Peter Freuchen’s Arctic chronicles
Carobeth Laird, Encounters with an Angry God
George Stewart, Names on the Land
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature
Leslie Marmon Silko, Garden in the Dunes & Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Paul Shepard, Man in the Landscape & Nature and Madness
Charles Bowden, Blood Orchid
Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse
Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines (problematic but majestic)
Robyn Davidson, Tracks
TTW, Refuge (Leap?)
Jaime de Angulo’s writings on Native Californians
Jim Harrison, Dalva and The Shape of the Journey
John Haines, The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer [poems]
Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America & Collected Poems
Richard K. Nelson’s writings on subarctic peoples
Piers Vitebsky, The Reindeer People
Gary Paul Nabhan, The Desert Smells Like Rain
Chip Ward, Canaries on the Rim
Jane Tompkins, West of Everything
Jill Fredston, Rowing to Latitude
Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places
Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place & garden essays
William Kittridge, Hole in the Sky & Having It All
Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild (and Tom Killian and Gary Snyder, Tamalpais Walking and The High Sierra of California)
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
Bill McKibben, Eaarth, Deep Economy, Oil and Honey
Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison
Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
Rob MacFarlane, Mountains of the Mind & The Wild Places
Amy Leach, Things That Are

Thanks to Aubrey and her 500 Great Books by Women list for putting this on my radar:

http://flavorwire.com/471139/50-excel...

Listopia version: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

Thanks to Aubrey and her 500 Great Books by Women list for putting this on my radar:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soniah-...

Listopia version: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

A list of works of fiction with translators as protagonists. This is a continually growing list, so I am just going to link to it:

http://booktrek.blogspot.com/2011/12/...

You may suggest more titles that fit the criteria by commenting on this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

OK I've fixed. Thanks :)