What to read next year?

[nwhyte]

In the last couple of years I've been tremendously helped by the start-of-year poll asking which books from my unread shelf you all have read. I guess my logic for this is that I basically trust the literary judgement of my friends and other readers, and am interested to know what in particular from my sagging shelves I might look at next. (I also

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[londonkds]

I usually like the Onion but hated their Our Dumb World to the point that I actually put it out for recycling instead of giving it to the charity shop. There could have been a good idea there if they'd spent time doing the research needed to actually comment on American's ideas of various nations versus what they actually are like, but instead it's a truly despicable piece of "ironically racist" humour that is indistinguishable from actual racist and xenophobic humour (everyone in Southern Africa is dying of AIDS - repeat for every single country, Thailand is a brothel on a national scale).