Best Books by Year Published

This page is continually under contruction due to my bad memory and books that were not returned or were borrowed.

2010
  1. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  2. Econned by Yves Smith
  3. The Relentless Revolution; A History of Capitalism by Joyce Appleby
  4. 13 Bankers by Simon Johnson and James Kwak 
 2009 
  1.   How Markets Fail by John Cassidy
  2.  The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
  3.  Lords of Finance by Liaquet Ahamed
  4. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
  5. Create Your Own Economy by Tyler Cowen
  6. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
  7. The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You A Happy Birthday by Neil MacFarquhar
  8. The Healing of America by T.R. Reid
  9. Guardians of the Revolution by Ray Takeyh
  10. Dangerous Games by Margaret MacMillan
  11. Spain, Europe and the Wider World by J.H. Elliott
  12. Justice by Michael Sandel
  13. In Fed We Trust by David Wessel
  14. Animal Sprits by Robert Shiller and George Akerlof 
 2008 
  1. Fixing Climate by Wallace Broecker and Robert Kunzig
  2. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  3. The Purpose of the Past by Gordon Wood
  4. Nixonland by Rick Pearlstein
  5. The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
  6. On Being Certain by Robert A. Burton
  7. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles Morris
  8. Reappraisals by Tony Judtt
  9. The Great Warming by Brian Fagan
  10. The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
  11. The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
  12. The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd
  13. Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
  14. The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
  15. While America Aged by Roger Lowenstein 
 2007 
  1. The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
  2. The Pursuit of Glory; The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning
  3. The Philosophy of the Social Sciences by Robert C. Bishop
  4. A More Perfect Constitution by Larry Sabato
  5. The Forgotten Man by Amity Schlaes
  6. Supercapitalism by Robert Reich 
 2006
  1. War of the World by Niall Ferguson
  2. Revolutionary Characters by Gordon Wood
  3. Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
  4. The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart
  5. Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill
  6. The Blind Side by Michael Lewis 
 2005
  1. Postwar by Tony Judt
  2. Collapse by Jared Diamond
  3. My Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  4. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  5. The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
  6. The Tycoons by Charles Morris 
 2004
  1. Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
  2. The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
  3. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
  4. The Americanization of Ben Franklin by Gordon Wood
  5. The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton
  6. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
  7. The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb
  8. Dancing with Cuba by Alma Guillermoprieto
  9. The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
  10. Colossus by Nial Ferguson 
 2003
  1. Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
  2. Theory and Reality by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  3. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafasi
  4. Sailing the Wine Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill
  5. Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
  6. Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
  7. April Blood by Lauro Martines
  8. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
  9. The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria
  10. The Dust of Empire by Karl Meyer
2002
  1.  Strangers to Ourselves; Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy Burton
  2. Empire by Niall Ferguson
  3. The American Revolution by Gordon Wood
  4. What Kind of Nation by James F. Simon
2001
  1. Looking for History by Alma Guillermoprieto
  2. The Graves are Not Yet Full by Bill Berkeley
  3. How the Scots Saved Civilization by Arthur Herman
2000
  1. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  2. Irrational Exhuberance by Robert Shiller (second expanded edition published in 2005)
  3. Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe
  4. The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan
  5. The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto
  6. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
  7. The Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis 
 Expanded Republications
  1. The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman (1999, 2009)
  2. Imperial Spain by J.H. Elliot (1963, 2002) 
They Will Always be Great:  John McPhee, Barbara Tuchman, Richard Sennett, Tom Wolfe, Barbara Kinsolver, Jim Harrison, Louise Erdrich, Thomas Ogden, Joan Didion, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Top Ten 2000-2007
  1. The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
  2. The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
  3. Postwar by Tony Judt
  4. Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
  5. War of the World by Niall Ferguson
  6. Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
  7. The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
  8. Strangers to Ourselves by Timothy Burton
  9. Irrational Exhuberance by Robert Shiller
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