Economist Books of the Year 2010

A Listmania! list by W. Reeve "wreeve" (London, UK)
(REAL NAME)   
 
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
1.  Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
The list author says:
  "How Stalin and Hitler enabled each others' crimes...."
£16.25   Used & New from: £12.00
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
2.  Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann
The list author says:
  ""Sleazy, personal, intrusive, shocking and horribly compulsive""
£9.76   Used & New from: £3.56
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Bridge
3.  The Bridge by David Remnick
The list author says:
  ""Beautifully written, artfully constructed and full of new detail about the US president""
£6.64
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers: 1.3 Billion People, 1 Secret Regime
4.  The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers: 1.3 Billion People, 1 Secret Regime by Richard McGregor
The list author says:
  "The paradox of China's threat from and support for corruption"
£7.99
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
5.  Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
The list author says:
  "a bestselling American journalist gets behind the wheel to explore how roads, and with them cars, are changing China"
£6.64
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History
6.  Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky
The list author says:
  "A modern classic, inspired by Stalin’s violent henchman and the library he built"
£4.93
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir
7.  Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer
The list author says:
  "An Indian Kashmiri journalist’s account of growing up during the insurgency"
£6.49
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe
8.  The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe by Peter Godwin
The list author says:
  "This sharp observer of modern Africa is aghast at the horror, yet still hopeful about Zimbabwe"
£6.29   Used & New from: £0.54
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
9.  The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State by Shane Harris
The list author says:
  ""A vivid, well-reported and intellectually sophisticated account of the surveillance state in the wake of the attacks on September 11th 2001""
£9.43   Used & New from: £2.54
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Rule of Law
10.  The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham
The list author says:
  "A cool but deadly dissection of the assault on the rule of law that was launched by the “war on terror”, by one of England's pre-eminent lawyers"
£6.57   Used & New from: £2.10
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Pinch
11.  The Pinch by David Willetts
The list author says:
  "How Britain will be split, not by class warfare, but by a generational divide"
£4.80
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
12.  The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
The list author says:
  "A magical study of how objects get handled, used and handed on, by a British ceramicist who inherited a vitrine of 264 Japanese netsuke"
£4.28
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (205 customer reviews) | 2 customer discussions
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
13.  Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
The list author says:
  ""The secrets and quarrels that made a great American poet. Emily Dickinson’s life was certainly stranger than fiction. Compulsive reading""
£5.99
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim (Volume 1) with attendant comments, principles, heresies, grudges, whines and anecdotes
14.  Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim (Volume 1) with attendant comments, principles, heresies, grudges, whines and anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim
The list author says:
  ""A superior assessment of the art of the musical theatre, avade mecum of the genre, with piercing dismissals of Gilbert and Sullivan and Noel Coward, by the 80-year-old composer and lyricist"
£19.50   Used & New from: £14.40
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Cello Suites
15.  The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin
The list author says:
  ""After 12 years of daily practising, Pablo Casals was ready to play Bach’s cello suites in public""
£6.07
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Why The West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future
16.  Why The West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris
The list author says:
  ""An entertaining and plausible book by a British historian at Stanford University that shows how debates about the rise of China or the fall of the West are ultimately a sideshow""
£7.40
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
17.  Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter
The list author says:
  ""A heroic piece of research", which "focuses on how 55m died because of one man’s folly""
£4.49
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
18.  The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
The list author says:
  ""The author of a 1989 bestseller, “Liar’s Poker”, exposes the greed and double-dealing that helped ignite the financial meltdown""
Out of stock
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (106 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite
19.  More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
The list author says:
  ""A superbly researched history of hedge-fund heroes stretching back to the 1950s""
£7.31
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
20.  High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
The list author says:
  ""The story of the scrappy refugee from Hitler’s Germany who changed the City and did more than most to boost London’s standing""
Used & New from: £8.47
2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
21.  The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
The list author says:
  ""A well-known British science writer challenges the nabobs of negativity who argue, among other things, that the world cannot possibly feed 9 billion mouths" and [that we head for a climate disaster]"
£3.99
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Freedom
22.  Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The list author says:
  "A modern “Paradise Lost”"
£4.99
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (141 customer reviews) | 2 customer discussions
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
To The End of the Land
23.  To The End of the Land by David Grossman
The list author says:
  ""Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel’s most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair""
£5.84
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
Mr. Peanut
24.  Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
The list author says:
  ""Nutty love. A deliciously clever first novel about marriage and how love’s honey glow dims with time, full of dark insight and even a touch of hope.""
£5.84
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
See buying options
Create your own Listmania! with this product
White Egrets
25.  White Egrets by Derek Walcott
The list author says:
  ""Luxuriates in description and the use of extended metaphor, as Homer did himself. A magnificent late achievement.""
£6.99   Used & New from: £2.40
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
Create your own Listmania! with this product

More Actions

Discover more about this author
› See all of their Listmania! lists
Make your own list
› Create a Listmania! list
View your page on Amazon.co.uk
› Go to Your Profile page

Customer Discussions about products in this list  
   

About this Listmania!

 

Author
W. Reeve "wreeve" (London, UK)
(REAL NAME)   
Qualifications: Company Director
Last updated: 05/12/2010
Report abuse
    

More Listmania!

 

Recent/Not Yet Published History Highlights Recent/Not Yet Published History Highlights

Recent/Not Yet Published History Highlights: A list of 25 items by coldwarm "hans"

"Destiny is a fickle beeeaatcchh " "Destiny is a fickle beeeaatcchh "

"Destiny is a fickle beeeaatcchh ": A list of 25 items by russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger"