The Economist - Books of the Year, 2019
1. 
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems 4.22 avg rating β 14,334 ratings
2. 
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating β 149,037 ratings
4. 
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating β 25,713 ratings 
7. 
No Visible Bruises: What We Donβt Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us 4.50 avg rating β 8,099 ratings
10. 
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World 4.11 avg rating β 1,065 ratings
15. 
Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
by:
Kim A. Wagner
4.24 avg rating β 196 ratings 16. 
Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
by:
Sam Dagher
4.32 avg rating β 1,278 ratings 17. 
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
by:
Frank DikΓΆtter
3.69 avg rating β 2,636 ratings 18. 
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
by:
Robert Morrison
3.91 avg rating β 865 ratings 18. 
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalinβs Master Agent
by:
Owen Matthews
4.14 avg rating β 1,040 ratings 20. 
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
by:
Bryan Caplan
4.10 avg rating β 3,382 ratings 21. 
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events 3.62 avg rating β 2,599 ratings
24. 
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry 3.94 avg rating β 2,317 ratings
28. 
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century 4.07 avg rating β 342 ratings
30. 
Schism: China, America, and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System
by:
Paul Blustein
4.40 avg rating β 120 ratings 31. 
Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
by:
Benjamin Balint
3.87 avg rating β 345 ratings 
39. 
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
by:
Sean McFate
3.95 avg rating β 1,453 ratings 