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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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Must-read novels of summer 2026: five must-read books from Ben Lerner (@grantabooks), Maggie O’Farrell, Caro Claire Burke, Missouri Williams (@misery_williams) and @RosaRankinGee

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Our interviews and book recommendations pertaining to education cover a diverse range of factors influencing education such as: inequality, globalisation, economic development, gender and information.
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"Al-Qaeda deliberately set out to kill and injure as many innocent people as possible without any warning."
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"You can’t expect to have a lot of unemployed young men living with winner-loser exhortations to get rich and expect things to carry on as normal."
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Whether you're looking for the best biographies of 2025, or outstanding works written decades or even centuries ago, we have some recommendations.
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The judges of the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction recommend The Best Political Novels of 2026: The Orwell Prize for Fiction https://t.co/3Vbtz07c7v via @five_books

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"Both Beerbohm and Woolf are belle-lettrist sort of writers and they connect to that leisurely tradition."
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"A bad picture book would say "this is an apple", a good one "this is not a pipe""
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The best science books, as recommended in our interviews with scientists and science writers.
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“I think Orwell, without ever having gone to the USSR, really did understand it from the outside brilliantly.”
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"I suppose the reason parallel worlds fiction appeals to children is because the child is a bit like a lunatic in some way"
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NEW: Books about Zoroastrianism recommended by Arash Zeini, specialist in pre-Islamic Iranian cultures and languages https://t.co/w8jMIDN3vB

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Are you interested in books about China? The best Australian novels? Are you a fan of Swedish crime fiction? Or is it American politics you'd like to know more about? Our 'world' category divides up all our interviews and book recommendations by geography.
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“It’s so easy to immerse a reader in a fantasy world if you’re able to present it in visuals”
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“In my judgement, the measure of a speech is not merely the text or words, or even the person who delivers the speech, but the context of the speech.”
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We've collected together some of our interviews recommending a range of classic books, from ancient stories to sci-fi—and from places around the world.
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"Sometimes we get books submitted that have great stories, but they are badly written. Sometimes there’s great writing, but a crap story. Sometimes they are simply not funny; we have no idea why they’ve been submitted."
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"The Anabaptists now have the reputation of being the most pacifist people you could possibly meet."
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The best psychology books combine scientific rigour with accessible writing. We turned to some of the most eminent psychologists working today for their book recommendations.
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"Brazil was colonized by the Portuguese and had the largest number of enslaved Africans that were transported to the Americas."
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