Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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European and world fiction

Modern literary fiction

Fiction from continental Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, most of it in translation, including Calvino, Kundera, Murakami, Eco, Ferrante and Sebald.

Books 21Recommenders 18

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  1. Enemies: A Love StoryIsaac Bashevis Singer, 1972
  2. Invisible CitiesItalo Calvino, 1972
  3. EumeswilErnst Jünger, 1977
  4. If on a Winter's Night a TravelerItalo Calvino, 1982
  5. Tomb for Boris DavidovichDanilo Kiš, 1985
Enemies: A Love StoryEnemies: A Love Story
T4 Enemies: A Love Story
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Invisible CitiesInvisible Cities
T4 Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of Marco Polo describing imagined cities to the emperor Kublai Khan.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 2 others

EumeswilEumeswil
T4 Eumeswil
Ernst Jünger · 1977
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

If on a Winter's Night a TravelerIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler
T4 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino · 1982
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Julie Stevanja

Tomb for Boris Davidovich
T4 Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Danilo Kiš · 1985
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Caterina Fake

The Seasons of Thomas TeboThe Seasons of Thomas Tebo
T4 The Seasons of Thomas Tebo
John Nagenda · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Norwegian WoodNorwegian Wood
T4 Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mario Gabriele, Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Foucault's Pendulum
T4 Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

MiddlesexMiddlesex
T4 Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Joel Connolly, Oprah Winfrey

FlightsFlights
T4 Flights
Olga Tokarczuk · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

Night Train to LisbonNight Train to Lisbon
T4 Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

A Latin teacher roams Lisbon seeking the truth about an author he is obsessed with.

Recommended by: Tim O’Reilly

Open City: A NovelOpen City: A Novel
T4 Open City: A Novel
Teju Cole, Xavier Pàmies Giménez · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

A young Nigerian doctor walks Manhattan, thinking over his relationships.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Three Book Sebald SetThree Book Sebald Set
T4 Three Book Sebald Set
W.G. Sebald · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Caterina Fake

Book from the Ground: from point to pointBook from the Ground: from point to point
T4 Book from the Ground: from point to point
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Wo
T4 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
Goodreads

Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg

My Brilliant FriendMy Brilliant Friend
T4 My Brilliant Friend
Elana Ferrante
Goodreads

Two girls in a poor 1950s Naples neighbourhood form a lifelong, rivalrous friendship.

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

Pyongyang: A Journey in North KoreaPyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
T4 Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Goodreads

A cartoonist's graphic memoir of two months working in North Korea's capital.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
T4 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Goodreads

Recommended by: Tim Ferriss

The Heart
T4 The Heart
Maylis de Kerangal
Goodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
T4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Goodreads

Recommended by: Ev Williams, Evan Spiegel

Under Your Wings
T4 Under Your Wings
Tiffany Tsao
Goodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

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