The Economist - Books of the Year 2009 (42 books)

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1	Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel 3.91 avg rating — 236,735 ratings score: 367, and 4 people voted	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
2	Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin 4.16 avg rating — 44,006 ratings score: 295, and 3 people voted	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
3	Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity by Mike Hulme 3.79 avg rating — 256 ratings score: 272, and 3 people voted	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
4	Too Much Happiness: Stories by Alice Munro 3.83 avg rating — 25,211 ratings score: 264, and 3 people voted	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
5	Love and Summer by William Trevor 3.59 avg rating — 4,512 ratings score: 259, and 3 people voted	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
6	The Glass Room by Simon Mawer 3.93 avg rating — 12,764 ratings score: 258, and 3 people voted	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
7	The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels 3.57 avg rating — 2,404 ratings score: 254, and 3 people voted	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
8	The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen 4.02 avg rating — 2,063 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	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
9	Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven 4.14 avg rating — 1,094 ratings score: 193, and 2 people voted	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
10	Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin I. Urofsky 4.03 avg rating — 434 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	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
11	Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter by Martin Gayford 3.80 avg rating — 85 ratings score: 185, and 2 people voted	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
12	The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts 4.19 avg rating — 4,594 ratings score: 180, and 2 people voted	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
13	The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne, #3) by Robert Ludlum 4.08 avg rating — 67,620 ratings score: 165, and 2 people voted	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
14	American Rust by Philipp Meyer (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 13,670 ratings score: 162, and 2 people voted	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
15	Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed 4.04 avg rating — 16,704 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	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
16	Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt 3.92 avg rating — 434 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	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
17	The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan 4.36 avg rating — 4,618 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	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
18	The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali A. Allawi 3.77 avg rating — 132 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	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
19	The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela by Brian Nelson (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 158 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	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
20	It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower by Michela Wrong 4.19 avg rating — 2,081 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	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
21	The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 2,313 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	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
22	Desperate Glory: At War in Helmand with Britain's 16 Air Assault Brigade by kiley-sam 3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	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	The Life and Times of RaúL Prebisch, 1901-1986 by Edgar J. Dosman 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	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
24	Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout 4.15 avg rating — 977 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	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
25	The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography by Selina Shirley Hastings 4.15 avg rating — 599 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	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
26	William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey 4.15 avg rating — 121 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	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
27	The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson 3.68 avg rating — 229 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	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
28	Direct Red by Gabriel Weston 3.71 avg rating — 943 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	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
29	The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (New Approaches to Economic and Social History) by Robert C. Allen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 268 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	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
30	1688: The First Modern Revolution (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Steven C.A. Pincus 3.85 avg rating — 300 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	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
31	How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy 4.06 avg rating — 2,986 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	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
32	Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game by Paul Midler (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 2,466 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	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
33	Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B. Carroll 4.11 avg rating — 1,455 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	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
34	The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo 4.02 avg rating — 7,531 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	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
35	Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard W. Wrangham 3.88 avg rating — 4,145 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	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
36	When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment by Mark A.R. Kleiman 4.09 avg rating — 159 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	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
37	My Paper Chase by Harold Evans 3.92 avg rating — 258 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	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
38	The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett 4.26 avg rating — 147 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	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
39	Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoar by Rick Gekoski 3.27 avg rating — 94 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	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
40	Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer (Goodreads Author) 3.48 avg rating — 3,668 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	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
41	Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (Your Face Tomorrow, #3) by Javier Marías 4.50 avg rating — 1,676 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	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
42	In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin 3.75 avg rating — 7,323 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	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