I read 33 books this year, some astonishingly good, with a very clear winner in the "Fiction" list, Olga Tokarczuk's "The Books Of Jacob", an absolute masterpiece of modern literature, one that is beyond category and a must-read. The winner in the non-fiction list Joseph Henrich's "The Secret Of Our Success", a fascinating book about the interaction between nature and culture, and how the distinction has become irrelevant in humans because of their mutual influence. The fiction list contains for once some more French books, but that is the result of the holidays in France.
Not all the books on the list date from this year, of course, as we did some catch-up reading too.
Fiction
- Olga Tokarczuk - The Books Of Jacob *****
- Benjamin Labatut - When We Cease To Understand The World *****
- Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain ****½
- Damon Galgut - The Promise ****
- Fernanda Melchior - Paradais ****
- HP Lovecraft - At The Mountains Of Madness ****
- Mohamed Mbougar Sarr - La Plus Secrète Mémoire Des Hommes ****
- Jean-Baptiste Del Amo - Le Fils De L'Homme ****
- Hervé Le Tellier - L'Anomalie ****
- Georges Perec - Les Revenentes ***½
Non-Fiction
- Joseph Henrich - The Secret Of Our Success *****
- Nicholas A. Christakis - Blueprint - The Evolutionary Origins Of A Good Society ****½
- Daren Acemoglu & James A. Robinson - Why Nations Fail ****½
- David Graeber & David Wengrow - The Dawn Of Everything ****½
- Bart D. Ehrman - Heaven And Hell - A History Of The Afterlife ****
- Christopher Hitchens - The Portable Atheist ****
- Steven Pinker - Rationality ***½
- Oded Galor - The Journey Of Humanity ***½
- Philip Matyszak - Vergeten Volkeren ***
- Russell Blackford - The Tyranny Of Opinion ***
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