2022 has been a remarkable year for Romance books. Here Guest Editor (a bookseller) guides us through the highlights and what to look out for in 2023. f/t
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Søren Kierkegaard died #OnThisDay 1855. ‘Kierkegaard identifies anxiety as a fundamental human experience...It’s not a psychological phenomenon for Kierkegaard, but something that belongs to the structure of being human.’ Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard
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I felt like Tyra Banks, choosing just five (!) romance novels that I consider the best of 2022 for . Thank you, , , , , and for writing happily ever afters 💜💜💜
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Diana: Her True Story — In Her Own Words As featured in the Crown Series 5. "Essentially an old-fashioned, massive, book-length scoop. It changed the British monarchy and, arguably, Britain." #TheCrown5
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Daniel Dennett, is immersed in contemporary neuroscience with a superb knack for finding memorable images to communicate his theories. He is a lively writer and really crafts his books, a reason they are recommended many times on Five Books.
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Thank you for including Vanessa Jared’s Got A Man in such great company.
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2022 has been a remarkable year for Romance books. Here Guest Editor @blktinabelcher (a @powells bookseller) guides us through the highlights and what to look out for in 2023. f/t @MeganBannen @LaQuetteWrites @ashleyhblake @nicwillwrites @ChandraBlumberg fivebooks.com/best-books/bes
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“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.” Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.
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The Best Romance Books of 2022, recommended by Katherine D. Morgan fivebooks.com/best-books/bes #books
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“Its value is only determined by—as its adherents would say—the power of mathematics. I would say by the power of popular delusion.”
The best books on Cryptocurrency recommended by David Birch
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"War is a maturing process and there is nothing quite like it in the world...You discover yourself in a situation in which people really are trying to get you" —Sir Michael Howard, military historian & veteran with book recommendations on war:
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John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher, a towering figure of the 17th century and an early liberal thinker.
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
#ArmisticeDay2022
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"What is writing for, if not to try to understand the human condition a little better? How will we solve anything, in the world of people, if all we can do is point, sneer and ostracise?"
takes us on a tour of the best immersive nonfiction. fivebooks.com/best-books/imm …
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“The First World War is a trees-and-forests war. There is so much of it, it’s very easy to get lost in the detail and lose sight of the bigger picture.” The best books on World War I
recommended by Jonathan Boff #RemembranceDay
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“Anarchism isn’t just a phenomenon of the past … it continues to resonate in the present.”
Political theorist Ruth Kinna talks us through the best books to read to get a better understanding of anarchism
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The best books on The Vienna Circle.
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“‘Sadism’ was first coined as a literary term but then adopted, towards the end of the nineteenth century, by the sexologists”
The Marquis de Sade: a #readinglist by Will McMorran
Every year, we approach experts and ask them to recommend the best books that have been published in their field in the last year. Here are the answers, for fiction, nonfiction, history, sci-fi memoir and more.
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Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than just Sherlock Holmes books. Expert recommendations here:
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"Minalima....created the graphic style of the Harry Potter films. Their books reimagine the stories afresh, with scenes that have not been illustrated elsewhere, and beautiful details that bring out the magic." The Best Illustrated Harry Potter Books
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"What we want is for it to be very accessible and easy to read, but scientifically correct." The Best Popular Science Books of 2022: The Royal Society Book Prize
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Happy Birthday to Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.
"I have studied all these texts in the original Old Norse, but Gaiman has done something superb with them: he was woven them into compelling narratives for a Marvel-book comic-loving generation"@DrJaninaRamirez fivebooks.com/people/neil-ga
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Happy Birthday to Neil Gaiman .
"I have studied all these texts in the original Old Norse, but Gaiman has done something superb with them: he was woven them into compelling narratives for a Marvel-book comic-loving generation"
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"When you read a good piece of philosophy, the world seems different to you after you put it down." Expert recommended philosophy books curated by
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"It’s a pretty good balance between ‘big ideas’ books about economics and geoeconomics and, as you say, some of these deep dives into individual companies or sectors." The Best Business Books of 2022: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
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The best books on Abraham Lincoln. There are more than 16,000 books about Abraham #Lincoln, America’s 16th president. Professor Ted Widmer picked five of the best:
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This time two years ago we spoke to Neil Gaiman about Comfort Reading.
"We love these stories when we first encounter them. We hear them over and over and we start looking for other things." fivebooks.com/best-books/com …
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While Stephen King is probably the greatest living writer in the horror genre and his new novels, in a variety of genres, continue to entertain and absorb readers, it’s his memoir, On Writing, that is absolutely unmissable.
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A lot of authors are starting to narrate their own audiobooks. Opinion is divided on whether this is a good idea, or best to leave it to professional narrators. Here's some of the books recommended on , read in the author's own voice:
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“Tintin is a mirror not only of the 20th century – his adventures always mirror contemporary events – but also of life”
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