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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Henrietta Lacks' udødelige liv
af Rebecca Skloot
14,596 medlemmer
739 anmeldelser
4.2
Global Rank 53
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Op i det blå
af Jon Krakauer
14,065 medlemmer
313 anmeldelser
4.2
Global Rank 94
9 Members
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
af Erik Larson
4,065 medlemmer
136 anmeldelser
4
Global Rank 217
4 Members
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
af Sheri Fink
1,523 medlemmer
168 anmeldelser
4.1
Global Rank 96
11 Members
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Store forventninger
af Charles Dickens
38,427 medlemmer
432 anmeldelser
3.9
Global Rank 183
5 Members
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Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917
af Laura M. Mac Donald
443 medlemmer
21 anmeldelser
4.1
Global Rank 368
2 Members
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
af Erik Larson
5,081 medlemmer
278 anmeldelser
4.1
Global Rank 112
7 Members
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Truman
af David McCullough
5,893 medlemmer
82 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Global Rank 424
2 Members
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
af Timothy Egan
4,334 medlemmer
197 anmeldelser
4.2
Global Rank 323
3 Members
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The Worst Journey in the World
af Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1,902 medlemmer
55 anmeldelser
4.2
Global Rank 490
2 Members
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Endurance
af Alfred Lansing
5,064 medlemmer
124 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Global Rank 263
3 Members
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Shackletons sidste ekspedition
af Caroline Alexander
1,765 medlemmer
40 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,451
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
af Gary Krist
319 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4
Global Rank 1,540
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
af David McCullough
2,708 medlemmer
58 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,573
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Angle of Repose
af Wallace Stegner
5,455 medlemmer
182 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Global Rank 229
4 Members
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
af David Cowan
236 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Global Rank 1,738
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Behind the Story - The Undisclosed Story Behind the Curtains (A Background Information Book Companion)
af Behind the Story Team
1 medlem
Global Rank 82
15 Members
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Cecrow : This is not "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", which I think most people meant to vote for.
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Olive Kitteridge : roman
af Elizabeth Strout
9,890 medlemmer
618 anmeldelser
3.9
Global Rank 117
9 Members
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oregonobsessionz : Tried to read this because it was getting great reviews, but found it to be depressing and annoying.
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Wild : en fortælling om at fare vild og finde sig selv igen
af Cheryl Strayed
8,678 medlemmer
517 anmeldelser
3.9
Global Rank 278
4 Members
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oregonobsessionz : I wanted to read about the PCT, but this is all about the author's personal problems