The Economist: The Best Books of the Year So Far
From a fresh look at Kafka as literary icon to a remarkable history of Venice to Kevin Barry's wildly popular new love story, the culture desk at The Economist does a number on your TBR with this new list of books to read on your summer vacation.
34 books
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Venki RamakrishnanA Nobel-prizewinning biologist explores strategies to arrest the decay of body and mind.
Hardcover, 2024
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
Sarah ThorntonThe author’s experience of a double mastectomy and reconstruction set off a four-year quest to seek “the multifarious meanings and uses of breasts”.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
Joseph CoxThe tale of the largest law-enforcement sting operation in history.
Hardcover, 2024
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Ethan MollickGenerative ai will dramatically change white-collar jobs. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School explains how—and provides useful tips on how to harness it.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health
Camilla NordAn enlightening round-up of what scientists know about the workings of the brain, and how they know it.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan HaidtAt once compassionate in tone and data-rich in approach, this makes for a gripping read for parents of adolescents.
RainnWilson & Julie ScelfoHardcover, 2024
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World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
Dmitri AlperovitchThis book is both a useful layman’s introduction to the world’s most pressing geopolitical issue and a collection of sensible recommendations.
Hardcover, 2024
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive
Marcel DirsusBetween 1946 and 2010 69% of autocrats were jailed, killed or forced into exile when they lost power. A political scientist considers how other dictators seek to avoid such a fate.
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne ApplebaumToday’s strongmen typically crave little besides power itself and the loot it brings. They have spun a network of mutual support.
Paperback, Large Print, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Road to the Country
Chigozie ObiomaThis novel sheds light on a dark period in Nigeria’s history: the civil war of 1967-70.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book