The Economist - Books of the Year, 2024
2. 
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by:
Jonathan Haidt
4.34 avg rating — 134,754 ratings 3. 
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
by:
Josephine Quinn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 850 ratings 
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by:
Hampton Sides
4.46 avg rating — 15,128 ratings 
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
by:
Sonia Purnell
4.20 avg rating — 3,698 ratings 
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
by:
Adam Smyth
3.78 avg rating — 361 ratings 
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by:
Jason Roberts
4.20 avg rating — 874 ratings 16. 
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI 4.17 avg rating — 34,255 ratings
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The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
by:
A.J. Jacobs
4.02 avg rating — 2,363 ratings 20. 
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The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
by:
Thomas R. Cech
4.30 avg rating — 556 ratings 22. 
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
by:
Steve Coll
4.37 avg rating — 2,540 ratings 23. 
The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
by:
Sara B. Franklin
4.20 avg rating — 1,390 ratings 24. 
Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival
by:
Sophie Elmhirst
3.97 avg rating — 4,946 ratings 
27. 
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
by:
Rob Henderson
4.17 avg rating — 5,427 ratings 
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The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
by:
Carl Öhman
3.70 avg rating — 89 ratings 30. 
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck 3.80 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Co-Intelligence: The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI
by:
Ethan Mollick
3.97 avg rating — 11,521 ratings 32. 
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
by:
Joseph Cox
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,669 ratings 33. 
How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
by:
Andrew Leigh
3.95 avg rating — 944 ratings 
35. 
Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
by:
Kelly Clancy
3.78 avg rating — 377 ratings 36. 
The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry
by:
Tevi Troy
3.58 avg rating — 60 ratings 37. 
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
by:
Cal Newport
3.68 avg rating — 20,829 ratings 38. 
The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism
by:
John Mackey
4.17 avg rating — 481 ratings 
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Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
by:
Bianca Bosker
4.11 avg rating — 3,373 ratings 41. 
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Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology
by:
Anatoly Liberman
2.68 avg rating — 25 ratings 44. 
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
by:
Edwin Frank
4.04 avg rating — 171 ratings 45. 
Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
by:
Simon Parkin
4.22 avg rating — 347 ratings 61. 
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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
by:
Michael Taylor
4.08 avg rating — 539 ratings 63. 
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
by:
Hanno Sauer
3.84 avg rating — 448 ratings 64. 
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
by:
David Chaffetz
4.08 avg rating — 203 ratings 65. 
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
by:
Amitav Ghosh
4.06 avg rating — 1,410 ratings 66. 
Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration
by:
Nadine Akkerman
3.73 avg rating — 67 ratings 67. 
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.38 avg rating — 5,348 ratings 68. 
70. 
Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
by:
Aaron Reeves
3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings 71. 
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity
by:
Robert Hannigan
3.58 avg rating — 118 ratings 72. 
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Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence 4.40 avg rating — 947 ratings
77. 
World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century 4.23 avg rating — 681 ratings
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Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
by:
Eric Berger
4.50 avg rating — 1,094 ratings 82. 
Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
by:
Sarah Thornton
3.69 avg rating — 1,508 ratings 
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85. 
The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia
by:
Tom Gardner
4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings 86. 
At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets (New York Review Books Poets)
by:
Antoine Caro
3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings 87. 
88. 
New Answers to Old Questions: Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d’État (Adelphi series)
by:
Aaron Connelly
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings