Biographies

1. Amity Shales Calvin Coolidge

2. David Coal - Isaac & Isaiah
3. Commandante Hugo Chavezs Venezuela
4. Johnny Cash The Life
5. Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
6. Music at Midnight The life of George Herbert
7. Into exile - The life story of war & peace
History
1. Frank Decotta - The tragedy of liberty 1945 1957
2. Maos Great Famine
3. Year zero A history of 1945
4. The blood telegram Garry Gass (Pakistan and Bangladesh)
5. The war that ended peace; The road to 1914 Margaret
6. The bully pulpit; Theodore Roosevelt
7. The return of a kind; the battle for Afghanistan William Dowrimple
8. Silence A Christian history
9. Red fortress; History and illusion in the Kremlin
10. Europe; the struggles for supremacy
11. Command & control; Nuclear weapon and the demand
12. Fast food nation
13. Gettysburg; the last invasion
Economics & Business
1. Stephen King(Chief economist HSBC) - The end of western affluence
2. Sandburg Lean in; women, work and the will lead
3. Nick Bilton Hatching Twitter
4. Brad Stone - The everything store
Science & Technology
1. Lee Bilons 5 billion years of solitude
2. Smarter than you think how tech is
3. Rosalind Williams - Triumph of human empire
4. Gavin Francis - Empire Antarctica; Ice Silence & Emperor Penguins
Culture, Society & Travel
1. The book of my life
2. John Elliot Back; music in the castle of heaven
3. The smartest kids in the world and how they got that way
4. The trip to echo spring, why writers drink
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Eleanor Coaten - The luminaires

Kate Atkinson Life after life
Taye Salassie Ghana must go
Dana Tart The fold finch
Derek Norweigian by night
The love affairs of Daniel Peal

Economist Authors
1. The great Tamasha; Cricket corruption and the
2. Emy Andrea Hidden lens
3. The last vote; The threat to western democracy
4. Big data A revolution that would transform how we work and think
5. Asha Price The great texas windrush
6. Mike Jakeman - Saving the test
7. Bosnian million bones; Solving the worlds greatest forensic puzzle
8. Adam Lebour - Tower of basel
9. 21st Century Scientification
10. Roy Wilkens The quiet revolution
11. Writing in the wall Social Media the 1st 2000 years

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Politics and current affairs
1. The Peoples Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. By Louisa Lim
2. The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the
Future of Free Speech. By Flemming Rose
3. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the
Globalisation of Democracy. By Francis Fukuyama
4. The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall. By Mary Elise
Sarotte
5. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China. By
Evan Osnos
6. Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923. By Roy
Foster
7. The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia. By Bill Hayton
8. Indonesia Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation. By Elizabeth Pisani
9. Chinas Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New
Empire in Africa. By Howard French
Biography and memoir
1. Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Concise Life. By John Rhl
2. Napoleon: A Life. By Andrew Roberts
3. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery. By Henry Marsh
4. H is for Hawk. By Helen Macdonald. Jonathan Cape
5. Faisal I of Iraq. By Ali A. Allawi
6. E.E. Cummings: A Life. By Susan Cheever
7. Little Failure: A Memoir. By Gary Shteyngart
8. Bryan Christopher's memoir, "Hiding from Myself."
History
1. The English and Their History. By Robert Tombs
2. Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648. By Mark Greengrass
3. The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyces Ulysses. By Kevin
Birmingham
4. Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David. By
Lawrence Wright. Knopf
5. Why Homer Matters. By Adam Nicolson
6. The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land. By Patrick Bishop
Economics and business
1. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. By Thomas Piketty
2. The Forgotten Depression, 1921: The Crash that Cured Itself. By James Grant.
Simon & Schuster
Science and technology
1. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. By Elizabeth Kolbert
2. Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology. By Jim Al-Khalili
and Johnjoe McFadden
3. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.
By Nina Teicholz

4. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. By Atul Gawande
Culture, society and travel
1. Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family. By
June Carbone and Naomi Cahn
2. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Persons Guide to Writing in the 21st
Century. By Steven Pinker
3. Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools. By Joel Klein
4. Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism and Road Revolt in Saudi Arabia. By
Pascal Menoret
5. The Reef, A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to
Climate Change. By Iain McCalman
6. Germany: Memories of a Nation. By Neil MacGregor
Fiction
1. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. By Richard Flanagan
2. Lila. By Marilynne Robinson
3. Decoded. By Mai Jia
4. Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
5. Orfeo. By Richard Powers
6. No Mans Land: Fiction from a World at War. Edited by Peter Ayrton
7. Thirty Girls: A Novel. By Susan Minot
8. Family Life: A Novel. By Akhil Sharma
9. Fourth of July Creek. By Smith Henderson
10. Uncertain Glory. By Joan Sales
Economist Authors
1. Gutenbergs Apprentice: A Novel. By Alix Christie
2. Learning with Big Data: The Future of Education. By Viktor MayerSchnberger and Kenneth Cukier
3. The Chief Financial Officer. By Jason Karaian
4. Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon. By David Landau
5. The New Cold War: Putins Russia and the Threat to the West (Updated). By
Edward Lucas
6. The Snowden Operation: Inside the Wests Greatest Intelligence Disaster. By
Edward Lucas
7. The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State. By John
Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
8. Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisisand EuropeCan Be Fixed. By John
Peet and Anton La Guardia
9. Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power. By Michael Reid
10. Dont Start from Here: We Need a Banking Revolution. By David Shirreff
11. 33 Artists in 3 Acts. By Sarah Thornton
12. Once Upon a Timepiece. By Starr Wood
13. Guide to Country Risk. By Mina Toksoz

Politics and current affairs

1. Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence. By
Jonathan Haslam
2. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. By Robert Putnam.
3. North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps,
Dissenters and Defectors. By Daniel Tudor and James Pearson.
4. Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic. By Jill Leovy.
5. Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story. By David Maraniss.
History
1. Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War. By Susan Southard.
2. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles. By
Bernard Cornwell
3. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East. By Eugene
Rogan
4. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. By Timothy Snyder
5. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. By Mary Beard.
6. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. By Sven Beckert.
7. What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing. By Brian Seibert
8. Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia. By Dominic
Lieven.
Biography and memoir
1. Kissinger: The Idealist, 1923-1968. By Niall Ferguson.
2. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot. By Mark Vanhoenacker.
3. Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life. By Jonathan Bate.
4. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldts New World. By Andrea
Wulf.
Economics and business
1. The Public Wealth of Nations: How Management of Public Assets Can Boost
or Bust Economic Growth. By Dag Detter and Stefan Flster.
2. Other Peoples Money: The Real Business of Finance.
3. Inequality: What Can Be Done? By Anthony Atkinson.
4. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics. By Richard Thaler
5. Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science. By Dani
Rodrik.
6. Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and
the World Cup. By Andrew Zimbalist
Culture, society and travel
1. The Road to Character. By David Brooks
2. Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family. By Anne-Marie Slaughter
3. Between the World and Me. By Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. Schuberts Winter Journey: An Anatomy of an Obsession. By Ian Bostridge
5. Plucked: A History of Hair Removal. By Rebecca Herzig.
6. Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio. By Misha Glenny.

Science and technology

1. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. By Philip Tetlock and
Dan Gardner.
2. Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. By
Steve Silberman
3. The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? By Nick Lane.
4. Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial
Intelligence. By Jerry Kaplan
5. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension. By Matt Parker.
6. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. By Carlo Rovelli. Translated by Simon
Carnell and Erica Segre.
7. The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Natures Salvation. By Fred
Pearce.
8. Adventures in Human Being. By Gavin Francis.
9. Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells. By Helen
Scales.
10. How to Talk about Videogames. By Ian Bogost.
Fiction
1. A Brief History of Seven Killings. By Marlon James
2. The Fishermen. By Chigozie Obioma
3. Seiobo There Below. By Laszlo Krasznahorkai
4. Submission. By Michel Houellebecq.
5. A Little Life. By Hanya Yanagihara.
6. An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It.
By Jessie Greengrass
7. The Story of the Lost Child. By Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein.
Economist Authors
1. Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma. By Richard Cockett.
2. The Italians. By John Hooper.
3. Gifted. By Donald Hounam.
4. Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe.
By Greg Ip.
5. In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine. By Tim Judah.
6. Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers.
By Matt Kaplan.
7. Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet. By Edward Lucas.
8. The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World. By Oliver
Morton.
9. The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachevs Freedom to Putins
War. By Arkady Ostrovsky.
10. Smart Money: How High-Stakes Financial Innovation is Reshaping our World
For the Better. By Andrew Palmer.
11. The euro Experiment. By Paul Wallace
12. Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of
Empires. By Dominic Ziegler.