The Economist - Books of the Year 2011
2. 
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
by:
Tyler Cowen
3.73 avg rating — 2,363 ratings 
4. 
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
by:
Sonia Faleiro
3.65 avg rating — 1,047 ratings 5. 
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier 3.92 avg rating — 6,285 ratings
6. 
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon 3.96 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
7. 
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
by:
Jason K. Stearns
4.18 avg rating — 5,458 ratings 
9. 
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating — 23,745 ratings
10. 
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
by:
David Abulafia
3.96 avg rating — 2,323 ratings 11. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,271 ratings 
17. 
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
by:
William D. Cohan
3.85 avg rating — 1,799 ratings 18. 
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples
by:
David Gilmour
3.97 avg rating — 2,047 ratings 
20. 
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
by:
David Bellos
3.77 avg rating — 2,760 ratings 21. 
Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise
by:
Carl E. Walter
3.85 avg rating — 453 ratings 
23. 
Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
by:
Ian Goldin
3.90 avg rating — 148 ratings 24. 
Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China
by:
Jianying Zha
3.86 avg rating — 184 ratings 25. 
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign 3.72 avg rating — 205 ratings
27. 
Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934 - 1961
by:
Paul Hendrickson
3.75 avg rating — 2,087 ratings 
30. 
Ghosts by Daylight: A Modern-Day War Correspondent's Memoir of Love, Loss, and Redemption 3.94 avg rating — 421 ratings
31. 
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
by:
Molly Peacock
3.87 avg rating — 1,283 ratings 
33. 
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
by:
Javier Cercas
4.09 avg rating — 3,171 ratings 34. 
The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
by:
Brian Cox
3.76 avg rating — 4,575 ratings 35. 
Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet
by:
David G. Victor
3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings 
37. 
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by:
David Deutsch
4.17 avg rating — 9,239 ratings 
39. 
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America 3.83 avg rating — 116 ratings
40. 
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by:
Elif Batuman
3.71 avg rating — 5,947 ratings 41. 
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial
by:
Janet Malcolm
3.66 avg rating — 1,116 ratings 42. 
The Art of Camping: The History and Practice of Sleeping Under the Stars 3.71 avg rating — 79 ratings
