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_hdkion Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

A few of this year's highlights for me and my notes on the books, where available.

Fiction -

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/2ab29d16-0cb1-4ef8-8cde...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/65214629-29ac-45a6-b474...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/bd090cb4-bc9a-41cb-9833...

Nonfiction -

The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine (my luckiest find of the year)

Stalin: The Court of The Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/13ebec0d-0859-4858-864a...

Vienna by Richard Cockett - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/c0e1d1fb-dea7-456b-a95e...

The House That Madigan Built by Ray Long (an interesting history of a legendary figure in Illinois state politics)

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

_hdkion Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers

At the expense of the school system itself, and students therefore. Illinois has to diminish services and sell the school system’s assets in order to fund the underfunded pensions, which cannot be diminished, as per the Illinois constitution.