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Philosophy on Five Books is curated by nigelwarburton.bsky.social, author of our favourite introductory book "A Little History of Philosophy" @yalebooks.bsky.social (now out in a new edition) fivebooks.com/category/phi...

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TAKE 2: We scoured our past interviews to create a list of 11 classic novels that every horror fan should read before they die. How many have you read?

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Which was the best nonfiction/history book of 2024? The judges of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize (@duffcooperprize.bsky.social) will announce their winner tonight:

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NEW We scoured our past interviews to create a list of 11 classic novels that every horror fan should read before they die. How many have you read?

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#OTD in 1996 the French novelist and screenwriter Marguerite Duras died. Her books have been recommended many times on Five Books:

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Do you have children age 6-8 in your life who need some good book recommendations? We can help:

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Audiobooks on Five Books:

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“A big part of politics is trying to get people to behave the way you want them to behave.”

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Classic English Literature on Five Books:

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“Although the crème de la crème, Bordeaux’s top wines, are completely, ridiculously expensive, the region produces such a range of wines that the bottom layer, the petits chateaux, are some of the best value."

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"I never enjoyed reading in high school or even in college" Maneetpaul Singh talks us through the Kindles currently available and explains how he became an avid reader:

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Science Fiction on Five Books:

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Retreat to the 1980s with the best Dick Francis books, recommended by his son, Felix:

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Interested in philosophy? Drama? History? Within a year you too could be reading seminal texts in their original language. #AncientGreek

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The Best Historical Novels set in Italy, recommended by bestselling author, Tracy Chevalier:

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The best AI books, recommended by scholars, philosophers and ChatGPT:

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NEW: Favourite medieval fantasy novels, recommended by @robinhobb.bsky.social, author of the Realm of the Elderlings series: fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

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What’s everyone #reading this weekend? #books

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“The epigraph for the Inferno reads: ‘A Florentine by birth but not by disposition’”

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"I loved the look of all the books in your selection - it feels so hand-curated, which is rare" - reader comment on our best books for kids 2024 list:

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"The Anthropocene means “the geological age of humans”, and what it’s saying is that something dramatic is happening at the moment involving planetary change"

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"Paleofantasy...explains how while it may have been a great idea to eat a lot of lean meat when we were essentially tree shrews, that's not what we've adapted to do today"

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"It is the oxygen of all other freedoms" Timothy Garton Ash recommends books on free speech (from 2017):

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True Crime on Five Books:

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American economist Paul Krugman was born #OTD in 1953: “My purpose is not to find better ways of making money, although I have no problem with people doing that. My purpose is actually to make a better world"

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"For a great introductory book to the subject, we recommend History: A Very Short Introduction by John Arnold" fivebooks.com/category/his... @OUPAcademic, @yalebooks

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NEW INTERVIEW: "The core element I wanted to get out was, ‘Look at all this stuff! Isn’t it interesting?’ Historian Owen Rees recommends books on the 'wider ancient world':

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A roundup of some of the nonfiction books that won awards last year:

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What was your favourite book of last year? Our editor, Sophie Roell, chose "Patriot" by Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who Putin finally managed to finish off a year ago this month:

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"It’s the Bible for screenwriters. I think it’s the best book on how to write a screenplay ever written. It helped me get through so many roadblocks as a writer" Darren Aronofsky on Making Movies (from 2011):

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"It turns out that already, at age four, you can predict with about 77 per cent accuracy who is going to graduate from high school"

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Science on Five Books:

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"The criteria for picking them was I felt they were important books that people really need to read"

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American literature on Five Books:

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"Goethe’s literary work cuts across all genres. He was a great dramatist, a great lyric poet, and he wrote four important novels”

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"His argument is not that Ukraine should have kept nuclear weapons, but that Ukrainians were forced to give them up without getting proper guarantees of the country’s independence or adequate financial compensation"—Serhii Plokhy

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"It starts in classic ghost story territory. Like W. W. Jacobs’ The Monkey’s Paw, we start with a happy family, so you know it’s not going to go well"

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"As with most of the Russian classics, there are several translations of Tolstoy’s immortal War and Peace for the anglophone reader to choose from" Advice on which War and Peace translation to read from Tolstoy biographer Rosamund Bartlett:

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#OTD in 1815 Napoleon escaped from Elba and marched to Paris to regain power (the 'Route Napoleon' is still very much celebrated in France). Our interview about him is with biographer Andrew Roberts:

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"Science fiction has always been relevant":

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#台灣 #短篇小說集 ── 我推薦的五部傑作。🀄📚 @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/best-books/s...

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道可道, 非常道 "The dao that can be spoken of as dao is not the constant dao". Nonetheless, we offer you an interview on Taoism and its history:

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“The Harlem Renaissance was the rare avant-garde movement comfortable with formal variety”

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“When you’re writing about Rembrandt, you have to be a detective”—Onno Blom, author of a highly recommended biography of the young Rembrandt:

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"Nowadays, to read a novel is political" The best political novels, recommended by Joshua Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Netanyahus":

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Historical Fiction on Five Books:

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"I think they’re a pretty round portrait of the problems of the law, the kind of human mess that it tries unsuccessfully to make sense of"—Scott Turow https://fivebooks.com/best-books/legal-novels-scott-turow/

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