Category: Bookish Hall of Fame
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2025, Part III: 28-1
This week, I’ve been updating my Bookish Hall of Fame to account for the books I read in 2024. (I redid the Hall of Fame in February and March, but never got around to posting the updates until now!) Part I discussed the Hall of Fame Emeritus books (i.e., those books that fell out of…
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2025, Part II: 72-29
Last time, I started my (long delayed) accounting of my updated Bookish Hall of Fame by talking about the Hall of Fame Emeritus books (i.e., those books that fell out of the top 100 but remain much beloved) and the ‘ground floor’ Hall books (100-73). Today I will go through the next two ‘floors’, accounting…
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2025, Part I: Emeritus and Books 100-75
One of the things that I didn’t do this year when this blog was dormant was update my Bookish Hall of Fame posts. For those who haven’t followed the blog from the beginning, this is my evolving list of my 100 favourite books of all time. So, with 2025’s reads knocking at the door, it’s…
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2024: New Additions
So far these posts on my 2024 Bookish Hall of Fame have focused on what’s happened to books that were in the original list: which ones dropped out to make room for new titles, and which ones saw the biggest drops or bumps compared to last year. But the whole reason for the reassessment is…
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2024: Biggest Falls and Rises
As I was looking at my Bookish Hall of Fame this year, what was more interesting to me than how my 2023 reads would fare was what kind of changes I’d discover amongst the books already in the Hall. Here’s a quick recap of the titles with the biggest jumps or falls in the list.…
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Bookish Hall of Fame 2024: Overview and Emeritus Titles
When I came up with my ‘Bookish Hall of Fame’ last year, I put a lot of thought into what it would mean for me to celebrate the ‘best’ one hundred novels for me. I gave less thought to what it would mean to keep it up to date. But, as we’re well into a…
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Final Thoughts on my Bookish Olympus
Before I dug into my top one hundred ‘best’ novels, I wrote a post examining some overall themes in the list, particularly around issues of representation, genre, and recency bias. Today, before leaving the project, I thought I’d take a bit of time to reflect on my top twelve, and what they say about me…
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Bookish Hall of Fame, Olympus (Nos. 1-12)
This Spring I’m working through my ‘Bookish Hall of Fame’ pyramid — what are for me, the ‘best’ one hundred books I’ve read through the end of 2022: Introduction and Criteria Statistical Overview of the List Ground Floor, Nos. 73-100 Second Floor, Nos. 49-72 Third Floor, Nos. 29-48 Fourth Floor, Nos. 13-28 Today I’ll unveil…
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Bookish Hall of Fame, Fourth Floor (Nos. 13-28)
This Spring I’m working through my ‘Bookish Hall of Fame’ pyramid — what are for me, the ‘best’ one hundred books I’ve read through the end of 2022: Introduction and Criteria Statistical Overview of the List Ground Floor, Nos. 73-100 Second Floor, Nos. 49-72 Third Floor, Nos. 29-48 Today I’ll unveil the fourth — next…
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Bookish Hall of Fame, Third Floor (Nos. 29-48)
This Spring I’m working through my ‘Bookish Hall of Fame’ pyramid — what are for me, the ‘best’ one hundred books I’ve read through the end of 2022: Introduction and Criteria Statistical Overview of the List Ground Floor, Nos. 73-100 Second Floor, Nos. 49-72 Today I’ll unveil the third tier of the pyramid, covering numbers…
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