Top Five Books of 2015

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What are your top five reads for 2015? These books DO NOT need to have been published in 2015. See the annual blog post for staff favorites: TBA To add a book to your list, click the "Add work to list" button in the upper-right corner. This will take you to a search box, where you can search by title, author, keyword, etc. Clicking on the title will add the book to your list. You can reorder your list over on the right-hand side, by dragging and dropping titles in the "Your list" section.
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Een soldaat uit de grote oorlog
door Mark Helprin
1,783 leden
37 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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a_forester: Reread it this year and it still sings. Powerful, intense, magical and, like All the Light We Cannot See, shows human struggle against the insanity of war through transformation.
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Als je het licht niet kunt zien
door Anthony Doerr
18,769 leden
880 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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a_forester: Inspiring creativity in the use of language, time, plot, and in making everyday observations transform into poetry. This was a story of two people whose lives were torn apart by World War II but who found their way to meaning in living. This is what great writing can do.
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Het parfum
door Patrick Süskind
18,099 leden
447 besprekingen
3.9
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a_forester: A novel that opens the mind through the sense of smell. Skillful writing that takes you on a journey through history and creates suspense in unusual ways.
5
Boetekleed
door Ian McEwan
26,457 leden
626 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 93
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a_forester: Writing that takes you into character, place and time and presents us with that rare treat- an individual psyche, with just the right balance of what we can relate to as human beings and what makes us different from one another.