Top Five Books of 2021

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The year is coming to an end, and our December List of the Month is dedicated to your Top Five Books of 2021. Please note that books don't need to have been published in 2021, just read this year. You can see the LT Staffer picks at the LT Blog: https://blog.librarything.com/2021/12/top-five-books-of-2021/ And participate in the conversation on Talk: https://www.librarything.com/topic/337286
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De derde politieman
door Flann O'Brien
4,234 leden
123 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 78
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paradoxosalpha: A darkly funny novel of cosmic justice writ very small. I hate it when that happens.
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Een reis naar Arcturus
door David Lindsay
1,279 leden
34 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Algemene Rangorde 188
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paradoxosalpha: The level of enigma and exotic adventure in this numinous fantasy is off the charts, and it features a pessimistic gnosis, in which the wrong of the beginning is continually expressed in conflicts and obscurities.
3
Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World
door Jonathan Beecher
42 leden
1 bespreking
5
Algemene Rangorde 55
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paradoxosalpha: A magisterial intellectual biography of a precocious and neglected social theorist.
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A Critique of Pure Tolerance
door Robert Paul Wolff
249 leden
2 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 447
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paradoxosalpha: This book has been around as long as I have, but the social and political trends that it diagnoses and cautions against have mostly just gone from bad to worse.
5
Tales of Nevèrÿon
door Samuel R. Delany
1,085 leden
10 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 520
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paradoxosalpha: Delany reinvents the Hyborian-age sort of sword and sorcery yarn and creates a new alloy by adding social criticism, anthropology, and postmodern textualism.