Type: Recommendations
All the posts of type "Recommendations".
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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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A Repository of Cool Stuff For People Who Are Somewhat Like Us
Trying to appeal to everyone at once is the death knell for writing, art, business, even dating. And it goes both ways: if you put bland, generic things into the world, that's what you get back.
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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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Quake Books That Shake Up Your Brain
Gray matter lurches and heaves, while my few remaining brain cells huddle under the kitchen table. When the tremors finally stop, nothing looks the same.
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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.