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[WIP] The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist

Imported from The Economist without modification

#1

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

2023 • 9 Readers • 336 pages • 5

#2

Kingmaker

2024 • 7 Readers • 545 pages

#3

Cover 7

2024 • 6 Readers • 4

#4

Metamorphoses

2024

#5

Cover 3

2024 • 12 Readers • 4.5

#6

Patriot: A Memoir

2024 • 27 Readers • 496 pages • 4.4

#7

Cover 1

1 Reader

#8

WILD THING

2024 • 2 Readers

#9

The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care

2024 • 4 Readers • 208 pages • 3

#10

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck

2024 • 9 Readers • 310 pages

#11

Co-Intelligence

2024 • 80 Readers • 256 pages • 4.1

#12

Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

2024 • 81 Readers • 352 pages • 4.1

#13

How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity

2024 • 11 Readers • 239 pages • 3.5

#14

Money

2024 • 2 Readers • 416 pages • 3.5

#15

Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World

2024 • 8 Readers • 369 pages • 3

#16

The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry

2024 • 4 Readers

#17

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

2024 • 392 Readers • 256 pages • 3.7

#18

The Whole Story

2024 • 1 Reader • 417 pages

#19

Cover 0

12 Readers • 2.3

#20

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

10 Readers

#21

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

2024 • 61 Readers • 360 pages • 3.8

#22

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

23 Readers • 3.8

#23

Gobsmacked!

2024 • 2 Readers • 288 pages

#24

The Haunted Wood

2024 • 1 Reader

#25

Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology

1 Reader

#26

Reading Genesis

2024 • 12 Readers • 344 pages • 4

#27

Stranger Than Fiction

2024 • 5 Readers • 4

#28

Written in Water

2024 • 1 Reader • 519 pages

#29

Creation Lake

4 • 148 Readers • 311 pages • 3.7

#30

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

2022 • 90 Readers • 302 pages • 3.8

#31

Fire Exit

2024 • 53 Readers • 4.3

#32

Going Home

2024 • 9 Readers • 286 pages • 4

#33

The Granddaughter

2021 • 2 Readers • 324 pages

#34

The Heart in Winter

2024 • 39 Readers • 256 pages • 4.1

#35

Help Wanted

2024 • 35 Readers • 275 pages • 4.1

#36

Hum

2024 • 109 Readers • 272 pages • 3.3

#37

Intermezzo

2024 • 532 Readers • 448 pages • 4

#38

James

2024 • 605 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4

#39

Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel

8 Readers • 5