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2024 was a year in which I managed to read and review 38 books. What follows is my personal top 5 of the most impactful, most beautiful, and most thought-provoking books I read this year.
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Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2023
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2023 was a year in which I managed to read and review only 42 books. Yes, there were some really big books, but mostly this has been a year of intensification: reviews are becoming longer and I am taking many more notes while preparing them. A course correction seems in order as I would like to increase that number next year. Another development you might have noticed was several double-reviews, triptychs, and even a quartet. Increasingly often I find that new titles complement earlier books that I have on my shelves, unread. I am keen to learn more, dig deeper, and in the process hopefully provide useful context, so I plan to continue this habit next year.
What follows is my personal top 5 of the most impactful, most beautiful, and most thought-provoking books I read during 2023.
Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2022
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2022 was a year in which I went down a few rabbit holes with really big books that took a lot of my time. As such, I read and reviewed 52 books this year.
What follows is my personal top 5 of the most impactful, most beautiful, and most thought-provoking books I read during 2022.
Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2021
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Despite, or perhaps because of, the ongoing pandemic, 2021 was a phenomenal year for publishing. Though I did not get to nearly as many books as I would have liked, I read and reviewed 67 books this year.
What follows is my personal top 5 of the most impactful, most beautiful, and most thought-provoking books I read during 2021.
Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2020
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This year will probably go down in history as the one we would all rather forget. Fortunately, there were many amazing books being published to take your mind off things for a moment. As I expected, this was a somewhat less productive year, where I read and reviewed 74 books.
For those who do not feel like trawling through that many reviews, here is my personal top 5 of the most impactful, most beautiful, and most thought-provoking books I read during 2020.
Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2019
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Let me first welcome all my readers to 2020. Casting my gaze back over last year, 2019 was an exceptionally productive year where I managed to read and review 107 books. Although I fully intend to bring you many more book reviews this year, I am not sure whether I will match that output again.
For those who do not feel like trawling through that many reviews, here is my personal top 5 of the most impactful, most beautiful and most thought-provoking books I read during 2019.
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