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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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When Species Meet
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Donna J Haraway
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, April 17, 2017
Technically a scholarly book -- or at least written by a Very Important Professor -- When Species Meet is also outstandingly thought-provoking and readable for anyone who wants more tools for thinking about how humans and other animals live together. Instead of overwhelming with theory or new words, Haraway lets stories about her life with agility dogs do a lot of the work here. I devoured this over a Saturday, then went for a walk in the park and looked at the two- and four-footed companions playing there in a totally new and wonderful way.
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Visual Explanations Images & Quantities
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Edward R Tufte
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, October 26, 2014
This book may look academic -- and it is, a bit -- but it's far more than that and worthy of pleasure-reading time from anyone at all interested in visual information design, or who wants to make better presentations, or be more conscious about reading the news. Tufte's writing is lucid and forceful. He'll make you look at everyday information in ways you never saw before. And the book itself is just a delight, with beautiful layout and illustrations.
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The Art of Fermentation: An In Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World
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Sandor Ellix Katz and Michael Pollan
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, January 02, 2013
Absolutely essential for anyone interested in fermented foods -- a more complete and easy to read compendium than you'll find anywhere else -- but also a fantastically enjoyable story about the cultural roles of fermented foods. One of those rare cookbooks that is both eminently readable and eminently useful.
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Baudolino
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Umberto Eco
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, January 09, 2012
Umberto Eco at it again, for those who already love him. For those who don't, this is a relatively fast way to meet the author for the first time and enjoy all of the wonderful things about his writing: historical periodicity, fantastical twists, super-engaging story lines, mysterious surprises, and linguistic fun and games. If you have any interest in the early middle ages in particular, you need to read this book.
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Widow Clicquot The Story of a Champagne Empire & the Woman Who Ruled It
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Tilar J Mazzeo
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, February 25, 2010
Imagine reading a biography of a 19th century European queen, add wine, maybe a splash of Julia Child but wearing much higher heels and very expensive jewelry, and you have something approximating this book. Ergo, be you a lover of biographies, a lover of wine, and/or a lover of highly-impressive and pioneering and slightly crazy women, you will probably enjoy this book.
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Grail A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World
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Brian Doyle
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, February 25, 2010
Winemaking is SOOOOO romantic...until you make wine yourself or read this book. Doyle may not have actually made the pinot over his year at an Oregon winery, but that seems to have meant that he had time to write stories about the people who did make the wine and who probably would have liked to write stories but didn't have time because they were making the wine. Doyle's super-informal semi-stream-of-consciousness style takes a little acclimation, but then makes you feel ever so much more immersed in the whole process. Plus, as a literary geek genius, the man has as much good taste in words as he does in wine.
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View from a Monastery The Vowed Live & Its Cast of Many Characters
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Benet Tvedten
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, January 15, 2010
Be you Catholic or not, this book provides an entirely worthwhile and entirely unique window into silence and what drives men to pursue it. Begone any myths you may have held regarding monks, for you will never look at a man or woman in a habit the same way again. Yes, monks, too, are human!
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Solitaire Mystery A Novel about Family & Destiny
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Jostein Gaarder
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, January 15, 2010
Should you ever give into the temptation to pretend to write a book, pretend to write this one. It's intellectual enough to boost your reputation, enough fun to boost your reputation with your friends, improbable enough that no one will imagine you made it up, and obscure enough that no one should catch on too quickly.
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