Economist Books of the Year 2020

Beschrijving
Books in the annual 'Books of the Year' list from The Economist.
1
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
door Catherine Belton
560 leden
15 besprekingen
4.1
3 Members
geocroc, kara.shamy, pburtco
2
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
door Abigail Shrier
566 leden
19 besprekingen
4.2
2 Members
KVictoria, geocroc
3
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
door Sudhir Hazareesingh
195 leden
5 besprekingen
3.8
2 Members
geocroc, kara.shamy
4
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
door Samanth Subramanian
83 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 4.7
2 Members
geocroc, KCOJ
5
My Dark Vanessa
door Kate Elizabeth Russell
2,534 leden
139 besprekingen
4.1
2 Members
geocroc, kara.shamy
6
Homeland Elegies
door Ayad Akhtar
844 leden
39 besprekingen
4.1
2 Members
geocroc, kara.shamy
7
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
door Tom Burgis
222 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
geocroc
8
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
door Barbara Demick
292 leden
4 besprekingen
4.2
Member
geocroc
9
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence
door John Lloyd
12 leden
3
Member
geocroc
10
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country
door John Kampfner
158 leden
3 besprekingen
4
Member
geocroc
11
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
door Anne Applebaum
782 leden
27 besprekingen
3.8
Member
geocroc
12
Een beloofd land
door Barack Obama
4,566 leden
131 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Member
geocroc
13
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
door Amy Stanley
218 leden
12 besprekingen
3.8
Member
geocroc
14
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
door Hadley Freeman
170 leden
3 besprekingen
4.1
Member
geocroc
15
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
door Ferdinand Mount
74 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.6
Member
geocroc
16
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
door Tim Harper
69 leden
4
Member
geocroc
17
Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
door Edward Achorn
129 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 4.5
Member
geocroc
18
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
door Caroline Moorehead
131 leden
4 besprekingen
3.8
Member
geocroc
19
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
door Douglas Boin
137 leden
9 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Member
geocroc
20
India'S Founding Moment
door Madhav Khosla
17 leden
Member
geocroc
21
De slachtersdochter
door Yaniv Iczkovits
130 leden
4 besprekingen
4.1
Member
geocroc
22
Shuggie Bain
door Douglas Stuart
2,464 leden
126 besprekingen
4.2
Member
geocroc
23
The Glass Hotel
door Emily St. John Mandel
3,030 leden
174 besprekingen
3.8
Member
geocroc
24
The Ministry for the Future
door Kim Stanley Robinson
1,551 leden
68 besprekingen
3.8
Member
geocroc
25
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi
door Ngugi wa'Thiong'o
119 leden
9 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
geocroc
26
Burnt Sugar
door Avni Doshi
554 leden
25 besprekingen
3.2
Member
geocroc
27
Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
door Wade Davis
83 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.4
Member
geocroc
28
Mozart: The Reign of Love
door Jan Swafford
145 leden
½ 3.7
Member
geocroc
30
Leo Tolstoy (Critical Lives)
door Andrei Zorin
17 leden
½ 3.5
Member
geocroc
31
150 Glimpses of the Beatles
door Craig Brown
84 leden
6 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Member
geocroc
32
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
door Katie Mack
609 leden
25 besprekingen
4.1
Member
geocroc
33
The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
door Jo Marchant
169 leden
5 besprekingen
3.9
Member
geocroc
34
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
door Carissa Véliz
91 leden
3 besprekingen
3.8
Member
geocroc
35
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
door Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD
231 leden
9 besprekingen
3.8
Member
geocroc
36
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
door Sarah Frier
192 leden
5 besprekingen
3.8
Member
geocroc
37
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
door Erin Meyer
528 leden
8 besprekingen
4
Member
geocroc
38
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
door Zachary D. Carter
265 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Member
geocroc
40
Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
door Dietrich Vollrath
30 leden
½ 4.5
Member
geocroc
41
Open: The Story of Human Progress
door Johan Norberg
56 leden
½ 3.7
Member
geocroc