Economist Books of the Year 2020

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Books in the annual 'Books of the Year' list from The Economist.
1
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
by Catherine Belton
766 members
16 reviews
4.1
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2
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by Abigail Shrier
790 members
25 reviews
4
2 Members
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3
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
by Sudhir Hazareesingh
269 members
6 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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4
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
by Samanth Subramanian
107 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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5
My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell
3,935 members
174 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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6
Homeland Elegies
by Ayad Akhtar
1,078 members
48 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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7
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
by Tom Burgis
298 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
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8
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
by Barbara Demick
392 members
6 reviews
4.1
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10
Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country
by John Kampfner
238 members
3 reviews
4
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11
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
by Anne Applebaum
1,171 members
36 reviews
3.8
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12
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
6,458 members
155 reviews
½ 4.3
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13
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
by Amy Stanley
271 members
14 reviews
3.9
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14
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
by Hadley Freeman
206 members
5 reviews
4.2
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15
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
by Ferdinand Mount
94 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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16
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
by Tim Harper
100 members
4
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17
Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
by Edward Achorn
159 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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18
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
by Caroline Moorehead
192 members
8 reviews
3.9
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19
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
by Douglas Boin
200 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
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21
The Slaughterman's Daughter
by Yaniv Iczkovits
174 members
7 reviews
4
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22
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
3,713 members
155 reviews
4.2
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23
The Glass Hotel
by Emily St. John Mandel
4,012 members
214 reviews
3.8
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24
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2,402 members
92 reviews
3.8
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25
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi
by Ngugi wa'Thiong'o
157 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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26
Burnt Sugar
by Avni Doshi
765 members
31 reviews
½ 3.3
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27
Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
by Wade Davis
133 members
2 reviews
4.2
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28
Mozart: The Reign of Love
by Jan Swafford
231 members
2 reviews
3.8
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30
Leo Tolstoy (Critical Lives)
by Andrei Zorin
28 members
½ 3.5
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31
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
by Craig Brown
374 members
16 reviews
4.2
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32
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
by Katie Mack
892 members
31 reviews
4.1
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33
The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
by Jo Marchant
216 members
5 reviews
3.9
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34
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
by Carissa Véliz
136 members
4 reviews
3.9
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36
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
by Sarah Frier
265 members
7 reviews
3.9
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37
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
by Erin Meyer
823 members
12 reviews
3.9
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38
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
by Zachary D. Carter
350 members
5 reviews
½ 4.4
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40
Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
by Dietrich Vollrath
44 members
½ 4.5
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41
Open: The Story of Human Progress
by Johan Norberg
86 members
3.8
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