The Economist - Books of the Year, 2017

1.
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone 4.20 avg rating β€” 7,743 ratings
2.
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine 4.39 avg rating β€” 8,869 ratings
3.
Janesville: An American Story
Janesville: An American Story 4.09 avg rating β€” 7,525 ratings
4.
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
The Retreat of Western Liberalism 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,942 ratings
5.
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds 3.99 avg rating β€” 62,917 ratings
6.
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States 4.13 avg rating β€” 4,577 ratings
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Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy 3.78 avg rating β€” 2,400 ratings
8.
Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism 4.17 avg rating β€” 3,098 ratings
9.
Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo 3.75 avg rating β€” 169,924 ratings
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are 3.90 avg rating β€” 42,040 ratings
11.
Exit West
Exit West 3.74 avg rating β€” 148,017 ratings
12.
Fever Dream
Fever Dream 3.72 avg rating β€” 48,080 ratings
13.
Grant
Grant 4.50 avg rating β€” 42,010 ratings
14.
Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge 3.98 avg rating β€” 175 ratings
15.
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World 4.30 avg rating β€” 601 ratings
16.
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,039 ratings
17.
Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy (Markets and Governments in Economic History)
Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy (Markets and Governments in Economic History) 4.59 avg rating β€” 143 ratings
18.
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,582 ratings
19.
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street 4.20 avg rating β€” 16,389 ratings
20.
Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World
Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,638 ratings
21.
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism 4.39 avg rating β€” 1,939 ratings
22.
The Seventh Function of Language
The Seventh Function of Language 3.76 avg rating β€” 6,631 ratings
23.
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It 3.72 avg rating β€” 2,516 ratings
23.
Stay with Me
Stay with Me 4.06 avg rating β€” 63,585 ratings
25.
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao 4.08 avg rating β€” 608 ratings
26.
White Tears
White Tears 3.67 avg rating β€” 10,261 ratings
27.
The Golden Legend
The Golden Legend 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,669 ratings
28.
Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System 4.16 avg rating β€” 474 ratings
29.
The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics
The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics 3.85 avg rating β€” 1,047 ratings
30.
Ali: A Life
Ali: A Life 4.46 avg rating β€” 3,893 ratings
31.
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,055 ratings
32.
Toscanini
Toscanini 4.28 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
33.
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time 4.16 avg rating β€” 164 ratings
34.
The Hate Race
The Hate Race 4.30 avg rating β€” 3,628 ratings
35.
War's Unwomanly Face
War's Unwomanly Face 4.51 avg rating β€” 37,430 ratings
36.
Six Minutes In May
Six Minutes In May 4.03 avg rating β€” 555 ratings
37.
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
by: Ian Black
4.19 avg rating β€” 1,398 ratings
38.
The Story of the Jews: When Words Fail, 1492-1900
The Story of the Jews: When Words Fail, 1492-1900 4.26 avg rating β€” 728 ratings
39.
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,390 ratings
40.
Nicotine
Nicotine 3.71 avg rating β€” 507 ratings
41.
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les MisΓ©rables
The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les MisΓ©rables 4.04 avg rating β€” 493 ratings
42.
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction 3.90 avg rating β€” 619 ratings
43.
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,138 ratings
44.
Austral
Austral 3.53 avg rating β€” 658 ratings
45.
Compass
Compass 3.79 avg rating β€” 2,761 ratings