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Five Books is a book recommendation website where experts pick the five best books in their subject (as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases)
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Joined February 2011
NEW We gathered together a selection of five new and noteworthy self-help and psychology books that advise us on how we might become stronger willed, more creative and better conversationalists https://t.co/vhsxykH2r6
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"Minimalism is big in Denmark, in Iceland there’s a stronger tradition for magical realism, in Sweden you find philosophers of life and existence—and in Norway it’s like a Golden Age for literature right now." https://t.co/zJwzhPrdZ3
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Dorthe Nors, Man Booker International shortlistee, recommends five works of contemporary Scandinavian literature – a Five Books interview
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"They’re all books that are outstanding audio—that really shine in audio form. It’s when the audio really brings something unique or exciting or different to the book." https://t.co/lJlylLJC3G
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AudioFile magazine is one of the best places on the web for audiobook reviews. At the end of every year, its editors compile lists that highlight the best audiobooks across a range of genres,...
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"For most of its history Sudan has been locked into a civil war between the North and the South, which defined conflict in the country." https://t.co/2cv9cFKGbP
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The Economist’s Africa editor chooses histories of Sudan, Africa’s biggest country, as well as the very personal stories of a child slave and a child soldier who was committing atrocities only a...
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Rebecca Earle recommends The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 British Academy Book Prize https://t.co/WAlGR7bX64 via @five_books
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To be shortlisted for the annual British Academy Book Prize, books have to be both rigorously researched and highly readable. Historian Rebecca Earle, chair of the 2025 judging panel, talks us...
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"Last year there were twenty million refugees and forty million people displaced within their own countries, as a result of violence—that’s sixty million people, in sum." https://t.co/c6gG6PPWOx
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One out of every 122 people in the world today is displaced by conflict. David Miliband, president of the IRC, chooses five books to help us think constructively about refugees and the causes of the...
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"She [Julia Child] teaches you how to make a basic leek and potato soup and tells you how to convert it into a this soup and a that soup." https://t.co/5Bh4BDMZpQ
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Five wonderful cookbooks, recommended by Madhur Jaffrey.
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"The President was not meant to be the most important figure in American politics; Congress was created to be the dominant source of political decision-making." https://t.co/UsSCz47j3T
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The best books on the United States Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate, recommended by Princeton University Professor and American historian Julian Zelizer.
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"This is the time of year when books by the biggest names tend to be released, in time to build up momentum for the commercial extravaganza that is Christmas." https://t.co/91uixKziEo
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The most notable novels of fall 2023, as recommended by Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn: Zadie Smith, Olga Ravn, David Diop, and more.
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"They [viruses] are literally just a piece of genetic material inside a protein shell. So they’re obligate parasites. They can’t exist on their own." https://t.co/gZ8b1kLWDt
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The best books on viruses, selected by Dorothy Crawford, professor of medical microbiology and the author of Viruses: A Very Short Introduction.
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"It’s a dictionary that aims to tell the whole history of the English language by telling the story of each word. It’s called a dictionary ‘on historical principles.’" https://t.co/jy9WUHoXT8
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Lexicographer Peter Gilliver chooses books to help understand the enormous undertaking that is the Oxford English Dictionary.
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"There is this idea of people struggling towards the light, which is what they were doing in the Revolution of 1917, a light that was very soon snuffed out." https://t.co/WiRbFeR8KM
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Best-selling author Thomas Keneally recommends the best introductions to Russia in the revolutionary period and the necessary cultural background
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"It [Money: A User’s Guide by Laura Whateley] gives you the journey from student loans all the way through to pensions and investments...I would recommend it to anyone from 16 upwards." https://t.co/r4ZSJ7wIo7
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The best finance books for teens and young adults, recommended by award-winning high school teacher Darren Collins
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"We’re interested more broadly in how people make sense of a world in which they may feel increasingly connected, albeit by abiding injustices as well as by things held in common more equitably." https://t.co/n9r7TKuNS5
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Through careful research and compelling argument, the books shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding cast light on globally significant problems, says Patrick...
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"I was always interested in how things worked, and so moving on from how a piece of clockwork worked to how the universe worked was a natural step." https://t.co/0Pfam2tFY1
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British chemist and prominent atheist, Peter Atkins, discusses why he thinks science is the only way to make sense of the world
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"There is the issue of sustainability, and creating your own cool thing is brilliant for the environment." https://t.co/2iwdYe0vx1
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Fashion model and author Eunice Olumide recommends books for kids about fashion and discusses beauty standards and environmental impact
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Congratulations to Joel Mokyr, who today was awarded a Nobel prize in economics “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress.” Two of his books have been recommended on our site: https://t.co/bqiSXchdgH
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Books by economic historian Joel Mokyr, who looks at the key issue of what's needed for there to be sustained economic growth
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"In Amnesty International’s fiftieth year, it is important to remember how much we can change, if millions stand together, putting pressure where it is needed." https://t.co/kn8ZJMeXit
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Amnesty International’s director of international advocacy chooses books that illuminate historical and contemporary human rights issues.
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"Wittgenstein was an Austrian, born in 1889 to a family of converted Jews. His father, Karl Wittgenstein, had been the head of the Austrian steel industry and possessed great wealth." https://t.co/DiVBog1Ojs
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The best books about Ludwig Wittgenstein, as recommended by British philosopher and Oxford emeritus professor Peter Hacker.
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