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The Economist’s best books of 2022

Their subjects include financial scandals, a witness to the Holocaust and cell theory

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie
ByLucy Worsley

2022 • 9 Readers • 562 pages 4

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

2022 • 362 Readers • 464 pages 4.5

A Pipeline Runs Through It

2022 • 1 Reader • 768 pages

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement

2022 • 46 Readers • 416 pages 3.5

Budapest

Budapest
ByVictor Sebestyen

2022 • 8 Readers • 416 pages 4

Butler to the World

Butler to the World
ByOliver Bullough

2022 • 1 Reader • 275 pages

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

2022 • 276 Readers • 352 pages 4.3

Confidence Man

Confidence Man
ByMaggie Haberman

2022 • 28 Readers • 637 pages 4.4

Dead in the Water

Dead in the Water
ByKit Chellel,Matthew Campbell

2022 • 34 Readers • 289 pages 3.9

For Profit

For Profit
ByWilliam Magnuson

2022 • 14 Readers

Hayek

Hayek
ByBruce Caldwell,Hansjoerg Klausinger

2022 • 3 Readers • 869 pages

Inventor of the Future

Inventor of the Future
ByAlec Nevala-Lee

2022 • 1 Reader • 529 pages

Life Is Hard

Life Is Hard
ByKieran Setiya

2022 • 19 Readers • 188 pages 3.5

Magnificent Rebels

Magnificent Rebels
ByAndrea Wulf

2022 • 24 Readers 3.9

Maror

Maror
ByLavie Tidhar,Conny Lösch(Translator)

2022 • 7 Readers • 639 pages 5

Money Men

Money Men
ByDan McCrum

2022 • 20 Readers • 239 pages 4.1

Of Boys and Men

Of Boys and Men
ByRichard V Reeves

2022 • 4 Readers • 256 pages 4

Papyrus

Papyrus
ByIrene Vallejo,Maria Meinel(Translator),+1 more

2019 • 38 Readers • 640 pages 4.3

Power Failure

Power Failure
ByWilliam D. Cohan

2022 • 17 Readers • 816 pages 4

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

2011 • 55 Readers • 624 pages 3.9

Small Things Like These

2021 • 799 Readers • 70 pages 4.1

Still Born

Still Born
ByGuadalupe Nettel,Rosalind Harvey(Translator)

2020 • 42 Readers • 216 pages 4.4

The Age of the Strongman

The Age of the Strongman
ByGideon Rachman

2022 • 2 Readers • 289 pages

The Candy House

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The Candy House
ByJennifer Egan

2022 • 363 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

The Economic Weapon

The Economic Weapon
ByNicholas Mulder

2022 • 22 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

The Equality Machine

2022 • 1 Reader • 334 pages

The Escape Artist

The Escape Artist
ByJonathan Freedland

2022 • 89 Readers 4.1

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

2022 • 34 Readers • 235 pages 4.2

The Huxleys

The Huxleys
ByAlison Bashford

2022 • 1 Reader • 570 pages

The Impossible City

The Impossible City
ByKaren Cheung

2022 • 26 Readers 4

The Mystery of Mass

The Mystery of Mass
ByFrank Close

2022 • 1 Reader

The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees

2022 • 29 Readers • 352 pages 4.5

The Power Law

The Power Law
BySebastian Mallaby

2022 • 39 Readers • 464 pages 4.5

There Are No Accidents

There Are No Accidents
ByJessie Singer

2022 • 32 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

The Serpent Coiled in Naples

The Serpent Coiled in Naples
ByMarius Kociejowski

2022 • 3 Readers • 464 pages

The Siege of Loyalty House

2023 • 1 Reader • 303 pages

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

2022 • 189 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

The Subplot

The Subplot
ByMegan Walsh

2022 • 4 Readers 4

The Trees

The Trees
ByPercival Everett

2021 • 222 Readers • 288 pages 4.2

The World

The World
BySimon Sebag Montefiore

2023 • 5 Readers

This Mortal Coil

This Mortal Coil
ByAndrew Doig

2022 • 11 Readers • 385 pages 4.3

We Have Tired of Violence

2022 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

When We Were Birds

When We Were Birds
ByAyanna Lloyd Banwo

2022 • 89 Readers • 256 pages 3.3