Books, published in 2024, recommended by the Economist.
Have bought a couple and all the others were added to the wish list. Hopefully, you can find some for yourself.
Biography and memoir
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man. By Nicholas Shakespeare
Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival. By Sophie Elmhirst.
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka. By Karolina Watroba
Monet: The Restless Vision. By Jackie Wullschläger
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class. By Rob Henderson
Culture and arts
All that Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art. By Orlando Whitfield
Everest, Inc: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World. By Will Cockrell.
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See. By Bianca Bosker
Reading Genesis. By Marilynne Robinson
History
The Eastern Front. By Nick Lloyd
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life. By Jason Roberts
A History of the World in 12 Shipwrecks. By David Gibbins
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History. By Josephine Quinn
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion. By Michael Taylo
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter. By Ian Mortimer
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World. By David Van Reybrouc
Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories. By Amitav Ghosh
Why War? By Richard Overy.
The Wide Wide Sea. By Hampton Sides
Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City. By Dennis Romano
Fiction
Hard by a Great Forest. By Leo Vardiashvili
The Heart in Winter. By Kevin Barry.
Help Wanted. By Adelle Waldman
James. By Percival Everett
Mania. By Lionel Shriver
The Road to the Country. By Chigozie Obioma
Politics and current affairs
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. By Anne Applebaum
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity. By Robert Hannigan
How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. By Marcel Dirsus
World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. By Dmitri Alperovitch
Health, science and technology
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. By Jonathan Haidt
The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health. By Camilla Nord
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. By Ethan Mollick
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever. By Joseph Cox
Tits Up. By Sarah Thornton
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality. By Venki Ramakrishnan. William Morrow
Happy readings
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