Book recommendations?

[geekchick]

I've got a reasonably large TBR pile going on right now, but that's never stopped me from wanting to add to it. What have you read this year that you think I absolutely need to add to that stack? Fiction, nonfiction, whatever. To get some sort of idea of what I've been reading, you can run through my LibraryThing profile. I admit it's been heavy on the paranormal romance/adventure lately because I've been in a real escapist mood, but I will read essentially anything in any genre. Also, ebook availability (epub, preferably) for the Sony Reader is awesome since I'm pretty much out of storage space for physical books.

I'm currently watching the clock because just before I left for work, UPS left me a copy of N.K. Jemisin's The Broken Kingdoms at my door; the first book in the trilogy, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, is currently top of my "favorite things I've read this year" list <plug>and you should all go buy it and read it if you haven't already</plug>.

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[catya.livejournal.com]

Feel free to check out my librarything account :)

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

Your icon. *swoon*

There's a recent, fairly massive biography of Theodore Roosevelt that's quite good. It's an interesting look into the times when he was the biggest conservationist ever, and just assumed that part of conserving a species was to shoot and stuff as many examples of it as possible.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

The two I've enjoyed recently are "The Forger's Spell" (about the greatest art hoax of the 20th century and why hoaxes work more generally), and "The Secret Life of Words." I am sitting at Starbucks and cannot remember who wrote either of them.