The Economist - Books of the Year 2010

1.
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 4.07 avg rating — 4,974 ratings
2.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin 4.39 avg rating — 18,860 ratings
3.
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future 4.11 avg rating — 5,829 ratings
4.
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime 4.13 avg rating — 22,714 ratings
5.
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation 3.99 avg rating — 15,388 ratings
6.
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,278 ratings
7.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 4.30 avg rating — 168,096 ratings
8.
Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream 4.07 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
9.
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers 4.01 avg rating — 3,203 ratings
10.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves 3.97 avg rating — 13,178 ratings
11.
The Rule of Law
The Rule of Law 4.10 avg rating — 3,181 ratings
12.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,145 ratings
13.
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages 3.91 avg rating — 7,177 ratings
14.
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama 4.10 avg rating — 4,654 ratings
15.
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory 4.26 avg rating — 8,012 ratings
16.
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History 3.48 avg rating — 483 ratings
17.
Curfewed Night
Curfewed Night 4.07 avg rating — 4,370 ratings
18.
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe 4.06 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
19.
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State 3.83 avg rating — 239 ratings
20.
Pinch
Pinch 3.67 avg rating — 187 ratings
21.
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss 3.95 avg rating — 61,684 ratings
22.
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds 3.85 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
23.
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes 4.54 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
24.
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece 4.02 avg rating — 2,514 ratings
25.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,286 ratings
26.
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth 3.82 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
27.
A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects 4.19 avg rating — 9,174 ratings
28.
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite 4.11 avg rating — 9,434 ratings
29.
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg 3.70 avg rating — 241 ratings
30.
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming 4.02 avg rating — 117 ratings
31.
Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life
Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life 3.67 avg rating — 75 ratings
32.
What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants 3.73 avg rating — 7,175 ratings
33.
Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results
Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results 3.69 avg rating — 107 ratings
34.
Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater
Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater 4.02 avg rating — 155 ratings
35.
Mcgilchrist's Greek Islands: Complete Set
Mcgilchrist's Greek Islands: Complete Set really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
36.
Freedom
Freedom 3.79 avg rating — 173,392 ratings
37.
To the End of the Land
To the End of the Land 4.01 avg rating — 8,155 ratings
38.
Parrot and Olivier in America
Parrot and Olivier in America 3.44 avg rating — 7,567 ratings
39.
The Unnamed
The Unnamed 3.33 avg rating — 9,035 ratings
40.
Mr. Peanut
Mr. Peanut
by: Adam Ross
3.25 avg rating — 5,600 ratings
41.
The Imperfectionists
The Imperfectionists 3.55 avg rating — 50,178 ratings
42.
Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.30 avg rating — 549 ratings
43.
Human Chain
Human Chain 3.94 avg rating — 1,415 ratings
44.
White Egrets
White Egrets 4.07 avg rating — 616 ratings