The Economist - Books of the Year, 2020
1. 
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
by:
Catherine Belton
4.17 avg rating β 9,023 ratings 
4. 
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by:
Abigail Shrier
4.15 avg rating β 13,173 ratings 5. 
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence
by:
John Lloyd
3.83 avg rating β 29 ratings 
7. 
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
by:
Barbara Demick
4.15 avg rating β 6,618 ratings 8. 
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country
by:
John Kampfner
3.95 avg rating β 3,485 ratings 8. 
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
by:
Amy Stanley
3.77 avg rating β 2,298 ratings 
12. 
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
by:
Carissa VΓ©liz
4.03 avg rating β 1,179 ratings 
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
by:
Anne Applebaum
3.90 avg rating β 16,808 ratings 16. 
Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
by:
Edward Achorn
4.29 avg rating β 771 ratings 
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Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live 4.01 avg rating β 2,789 ratings
21. 
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes 4.42 avg rating β 3,203 ratings
22. 
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
by:
Hadley Freeman
4.40 avg rating β 4,843 ratings 23. 
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
by:
Ferdinand Mount
3.88 avg rating β 1,251 ratings 24. 
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Overthrow of Europe's Empires in the East
by:
Tim Harper
3.80 avg rating β 132 ratings 25. 
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
by:
Douglas Boin
3.50 avg rating β 1,025 ratings 26. 
India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy
by:
Madhav Khosla
3.92 avg rating β 118 ratings 
34. 
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy 3.93 avg rating β 2,178 ratings
36. 
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 232 ratings
39. 
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
by:
Reed Hastings
4.27 avg rating β 31,522 ratings 40. 
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World 3.72 avg rating β 265 ratings
