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Discussion on: [Year End] What was the best book you read this year?

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Doaa Mahely

I’ve read so many great books this year! It’s especially hard to narrow it down to one, but here’s a few recent mentions:

  • Twelfth Night - Shakespeare, my favorite play so far, so funny and romantic
  • Insight - Dr Tasha Eurich, this is a personal development book that aims to explain what self-insight is and does a really great job at helping the reader develop more of it
  • Girl Decoded - Dr Rana El Kaliouby, part memoir and part tech, it’s an honest story of an amazing AI expert and leader who’s teaching computers to recognize emotions
  • The Library Book - Susan Orlean, this is a non-fiction that’s all about libraries, extremely well researched with a lot of awesome stories and facts
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Saloni Goyal

Awesome, I also have a hard time picking just one most years.
Thanks for the book suggestions for 2021, love that there are several genres covered.

What are you looking forward to reading in 2021?

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Doaa Mahely

Part of my successful reading choices this year was because I decided to read whatever I'm into at that moment and not try to follow a plan I made weeks/months ago.
So now whenever I feel I'm in the mood for a certain genre I go to my TBR or ask for recs. This way I also got to dip my toes into genres I wouldn't have glanced at!

Here is my Goodreads if anyone's interested in connecting :)

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Saloni Goyal

Sent you a request.