Tag: book recommendations
7 posts tagged "book recommendations".
Suggested reading — the books worth your scarce attention, gathered and annotated as a kind of curated map through a subject. On this blog recommendations are a recurring genre because reading well is treated as one of the highest-leverage uses of time, a theme that runs through the posts on reading and the search for quake books that rearrange how you see the world. Recommendations span fiction & literature and dense nonfiction alike, and they connect to knowledge management — the practice of capturing and compounding what you read rather than letting it evaporate. The implicit argument is that a thoughtfully chosen shelf is itself a form of optionality, seeding ideas you can draw on for decades.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2023-2024
IT'S BEEN A COUPLE YEARS since I did one of these roundups, during which time book club has really lifted my reading game, and so the pool of contenders has a lot of depth this year.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2022
I read exactly one generalist nonfiction book all year, and fell in love with the short story instead. Here are my favourite reads.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2020
Over the last couple of years, my reading time has mostly been chewed up by research for my own book.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2019
Of all the books I read this year - curated by Deep Dish readers and other people of impeccable taste - these are the cream of the crop.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2018
Of the 100+ books I read this year - curated by Deep Dish readers and other people of impeccable taste - these are the cream of the crop.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2017
It’s been another self-indulgent year of funemployment, which means I’ve had time to read to my heart's content. Here's the best of the best.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2016
I knocked 65 books off my reading list this year. Most of them were great, but I've picked out the absolute crème de la crème to recommend to you.