Best Book of Ideas Prize Winners

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Winners

	Artful by Ali Smith 4.06 avg rating — 3,152 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edgelands by Paul Farley 3.89 avg rating — 448 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of the Public by Dan Hind really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard G. Wilkinson 4.13 avg rating — 6,432 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies 4.13 avg rating — 1,849 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser 3.91 avg rating — 5,660 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 27,332 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 4.18 avg rating — 447,314 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 4,419 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen 3.78 avg rating — 5,606 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Are We And Should It Matter In The 21st Century? by Gary Younge 4.06 avg rating — 174 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong by David Shenk (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 2,086 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang 3.96 avg rating — 10,651 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women And Men Today by Kat Banyard really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 782 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine 4.08 avg rating — 10,675 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo 3.70 avg rating — 7,394 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen 4.01 avg rating — 1,841 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 2,594 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques 3.79 avg rating — 1,797 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Face to the World: On Self Portraits by Laura Cumming 4.13 avg rating — 162 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 3.97 avg rating — 9,299 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Does China Think? by Mark Leonard 3.67 avg rating — 404 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Book Of Silence by Sara Maitland 3.77 avg rating — 1,270 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 4,400 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi 3.81 avg rating — 842 ratings Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars