The Economist - book reviews 2013 Q1-2
2. 
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
by:
Wendy Moore
3.65 avg rating — 977 ratings 
5. 
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
by:
Lynne Olson
4.17 avg rating — 2,186 ratings 6. 
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by:
Evgeny Morozov
3.67 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 
8. 
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
by:
Eric Schmidt
3.33 avg rating — 2,583 ratings 
11. 
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
by:
Neil Irwin
4.05 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 12. 
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War
by:
Paul Kennedy
3.84 avg rating — 1,734 ratings 
17. 
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
by:
Christian Caryl
3.85 avg rating — 518 ratings 18. 
The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism
by:
A.C. Grayling
3.78 avg rating — 1,851 ratings 
20. 
Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
by:
Jeffrey Frank
3.89 avg rating — 555 ratings 21. 
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes - the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists 3.91 avg rating — 499 ratings
22. 
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
by:
Eric Klinenberg
3.38 avg rating — 2,919 ratings 23. 
1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
by:
Charles Emmerson
3.87 avg rating — 1,194 ratings 24. 
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: From Grantham to the Falklands
by:
Charles Moore
4.17 avg rating — 1,211 ratings 25. 
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Brooking Focus Books)
by:
Fiona Hill
4.24 avg rating — 1,076 ratings 
27. 
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin
by:
Ben Judah
4.09 avg rating — 455 ratings 28. 
Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War
by:
Robert Gellately
3.84 avg rating — 223 ratings 29. 
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (The American Revolution Series) 4.06 avg rating — 10,148 ratings
30. 
The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
by:
Marci Shore
3.60 avg rating — 267 ratings 31. 
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
by:
Andrei Lankov
4.11 avg rating — 1,979 ratings 
34. 
Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
by:
William R. Leach
3.61 avg rating — 98 ratings 35. 
American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA 3.86 avg rating — 229 ratings
36. 
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
by:
Mark Mazzetti
3.85 avg rating — 3,932 ratings 36. 
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
by:
Frans de Waal
4.15 avg rating — 5,522 ratings 
40. 
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,512 ratings 41. 
The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
by:
John Sweeney
3.85 avg rating — 1,639 ratings 
44. 
All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
by:
John Taliaferro
4.10 avg rating — 769 ratings 45. 
Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South
by:
Gavin Wright
3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings 46. 
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present
by:
Brendan Simms
3.95 avg rating — 746 ratings 
48. 
China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image 3.96 avg rating — 261 ratings
50. 
The British Dream: Success and Failure in Immigration Since the War
by:
David Goodhart
3.81 avg rating — 96 ratings 51. 
Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back (Brookings FOCUS Book)
by:
Bruce Riedel
3.97 avg rating — 110 ratings 
56. 
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,345 ratings
57. 
Can Russia Modernise?: Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance 4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings
59. 
England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines
by:
David Edgerton
3.82 avg rating — 57 ratings 60. 
When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence
by:
Stephen D. King
3.63 avg rating — 204 ratings 
62. 
How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization
by:
Mary Eberstadt
3.93 avg rating — 291 ratings 63. 
Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries 3.77 avg rating — 478 ratings
67. 
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
by:
Shereen El Feki
3.86 avg rating — 1,387 ratings 
71. 
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
by:
Charles Wheelan
3.96 avg rating — 14,832 ratings 
73. 
Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied
by:
Alexander Etkind
4.31 avg rating — 89 ratings 
75. 
Iraq: From War To A New Authoritarianism (Adelphi Series)
by:
Toby Dodge
3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings 
77. 
78. 
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
by:
Andrew Wilson
3.87 avg rating — 1,144 ratings 
80. 
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
by:
Michael Axworthy
4.11 avg rating — 1,151 ratings 
84. 
Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church
by:
George Weigel
4.05 avg rating — 344 ratings 85. 
To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
86. 
Work Like a Spy: Business Tips from a Former CIA Officer
by:
J.C. Carleson
3.37 avg rating — 235 ratings 87. 
Trading Secrets: Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror
by:
Mark Huband
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 
90. 
Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change
by:
Aaditya Mattoo
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 91. 
Believing in Russia - Religious Policy After Communism
by:
Geraldine Fagan
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
93. 
94. 
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia: Personality, Faith and Times
by:
Alexei Vassiliev
4.36 avg rating — 228 ratings 95. 
A Kingdom’s Future: Saudi Arabia Through the Eyes of its Twentysomethings
by:
Caryle Murphy
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings