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

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[catya]

Feel free to check out my librarything account :)

[just_the_ash]

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]

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.