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Friday, December 09, 2011

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5:42 PM

Books of the Year Page-turners Economist Dec 10th 2011 | from the print edition

Politics and current affairs
Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign
The 9/11 Wars
Pakistan: A Hard Country
Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China’s Extraordinary Rise

Biography and memoir
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
Blue Nights
Van Gogh: The Life
Charles Dickens: A Life
Ghosts by Daylight: A Memoir of Love, War and Redemption
The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins her Life’s Work at 72

Economics and business
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

History
Jerusalem: The Biography
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples
The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies

Science and technology
The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet
The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Revolutions that Made the Earth

Culture, society and travel
The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars

Fiction
1Q84. By Haruki Murakami. Books 1 and 2
Other People’s Money
Open City
The Marriage Plot
The Tiger’s Wife
The Cat’s Table
The Afrika Reich

Poetry
Memorial. By Alice Oswald
Clavics. By Geoffrey Hill

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