Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919. Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won. Sujatha Gidla, Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India. William Taubmann, Gorbachev: His Life and Times.ĭiane Coffey and Dean Spears, Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development, and the Costs of Caste. Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought. Tim Harford, Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy.ĭennis C. Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy. It is one book that has changed how I frame 2017 and beyond. It is my pick for “best of the year,” if I am allowed to count it. Technically this doesn’t come out until January, but I read it smack in the middle of 2017 to blurb it. Twenge, iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy - and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood.īruno Maçães, The Dawn of Eurasia. Wilson, Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire.īrian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone. Ken Gormley, editor, The Presidents and the Constitution.
Roberts, Qatar: Securing the Global Ambitions of a City-State. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us.ĭavid B. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States.ĭavid Der-Wei Wang, editor. Rob Sheffield, Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World.ĭavid Garrow, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. Mary Gaitskill, Somebody with a Little Hammer, Essays. Pfaff, Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform.
Drezner, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas. Maher, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius.ĭaniel W. The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective AgencyĮnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Here is my list, more or less in the order I read them, and the links typically bring you to my lengthier comments:
Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide When I looked back on my favourite books of 2017, there were just too many to choose from, so I decided to separate them by genre: Non-Fiction, Graphic Novels, Adult Fiction, and Young Adult Fiction.
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