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1. Autumn, by Ali Smith
2. Run Me to Earth, by Paul Yoon
3. Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
4. Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu
5. The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng
6. Babel, by RF Kuang
7. The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
8. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barberry
9. The Circle, by Dave Eggers
10. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest, by Amos Oz
OMG this was hard. No wonder the books in the New York Times best books list are mostly rather recent, cause there have been sooooo many good ones. Picking just 10 is rough. :)
I'll be gathering everyone's lists and will post on our sadly neglected Dewey's blog site what our top 100ish books are so far. We may do this once every readathon, too, so we can see how the answers shift over time.
2. Run Me to Earth, by Paul Yoon
3. Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
4. Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu
5. The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng
6. Babel, by RF Kuang
7. The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
8. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barberry
9. The Circle, by Dave Eggers
10. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest, by Amos Oz
OMG this was hard. No wonder the books in the New York Times best books list are mostly rather recent, cause there have been sooooo many good ones. Picking just 10 is rough. :)
I'll be gathering everyone's lists and will post on our sadly neglected Dewey's blog site what our top 100ish books are so far. We may do this once every readathon, too, so we can see how the answers shift over time.
This is such a big question that I find it hard to think about so I'm just going to list a few: On Beauty, Zadie Smith; Crossroads, Jonathon Franzen; The Overstory, Richard Powers; Outline, Rachel Cusk; Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro.
Some of my picks:Дом, в котором... by Mariam Petrosyan - middle-grade/fantasy
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin - sci-fi
Покорность by Michel Houellebecq - literary fiction
Аномалия by Hervé Le Tellier - sci-fi/literary
Географ глобус пропил by Alexei Ivanov - contemporary
Тоннель by Tove Alsterdal - historical fiction/mystery
Когда причиняют добро by 정이현 - short stories/contemporary
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