A list of Fareed's GPS book recommendations

2020 and 2021

The Wake Up Call by John Micklethwait (02/21/2021)

Losing the Long Game : The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East by Philip H. Gordon (02/14/2021)

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar (02/07/2021)

New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year

The Weirdest People in the World by Joseph Henrich (12/06/2020)

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A Promised Land by Barack Obama (11/22/2020)

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World-ISBN-10-0393542130_ISBN13-9780393542134

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria (10/04/2020)

The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer.

Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? by Ezekiel Emanuel (09/27/2020)

The Great Leveler : Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Shortlisted for the 2017 Cundill History Prize, McGill University

The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel (08/23/2020)

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time.

The Precipice by Toby Ord (07/12/2020)

One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Nonfiction Works in 2020

Humankind by Rutger Bregman (07/05/2020)

One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2020

The Inevitability of Tragedy by Barry Gewen (06/28/2020)

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Esquire • Time

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (06/07/2020)

“This book is a superb introduction to the world and global issues. Richard Haass has been able to write something that is brief, readable and yet comprehensive —marked throughout by his trademark intelligence and common sense.” —Fareed Zakaria

The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass (05/17/2020)

The New Class War by Michael Lind (05/17/2020)

The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?

Has China Won? by Kishore Mahbubani (05/03/2020)

The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter (04/05/2020

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

Less by Andrew Sean Greer (03/29/2020)

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors

East of Eden by John Steinbeck (03/29/2020)

The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon (03/08/2020)

Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Fred P. Hochberg
(02/23/2020)

The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat (02/16/2020)

Erdogan's Empire by Soner Cagaptay (02/09/2020 )

City of Thieves by David Benioff (01/26/2020)

All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer (January 12, 2020

A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle (January 5, 2020)

2019

Impeachment: A Handbook by Charles Black (December 22, 2019)

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall (December 8, 2019)

The American Story by David Rubenstein (December 1, 2019)

The New York Times bestselling dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s.

The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein (November 17, 2019)

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND EVENING STANDARD

Don't Be Evil by Rana Foroohar (November 10, 2019)

Safe Enough Spaces by Michael Roth (October 27, 2019)

Impeachment by Jon Meacham... (October 20, 2019)

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist

Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos (October 13, 2019)

A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy

The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits (October 6, 2019)

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2019 • ONE OF TIME’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2019 • AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2019

Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power (September 29, 2019)

A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (September 22, 2019)

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME

On Writing by Stephen King (September 15, 2019)

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (September 8, 2019)

A New York Times Notable Book

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (August 11, 2019)

Provides a new understanding of the development of democracy and dictatorship in Europe

Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman (July 28, 2019)

NAMED ONE OF THE “100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR” BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent (July 21, 2019)

In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.

Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin (July 14, 2019)

“If you’re looking for a summer novel, this is it. Beautifully written, a story of a Russian aristocrat trapped in Moscow during the tumult of the 1930s. It brims with intelligence, erudition, and insight, an old-fashioned novel in the best sense of the term.” —Fareed Zakaria

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (June 30, 2019)

The Conservative Sensibility by George F. Will (June 23, 2019)

The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco (June 16, 2019)

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.

Longitude by Dava Sobel (June 16, 2019)

#1 New York Times Bestseller — named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post...

Circe by Madeline Miller (June 16, 2019)

“Superb.” —Fareed Zakaria

War and Peace by Nigel Hamilton (June 9, 2019)

“We are all vaguely aware that America and the West have been challenged recently in new and unusual ways—from tampering with elections to misinformation to cyberattacks. Jim Sciutto puts it all together and helps us understand the new ‘Shadow War.’ This is a timely book, defining for us the nature of international conflict in the foreseeable future. Sciutto is a highly intelligent, determined, and hardworking reporter, and it shows. The book is deeply reported, crisply written, and thoroughly engaging.” -Fareed Zakaria

The Shadow War by Jim Sciutto (June 2, 2019)

Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought.

A Thousand Small Sanities by Adam Gopnik (May 19, 2019)

Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence.

World Without Mind by Franklin Foer (May 12, 2019)

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography*

Our Man by George Packer (May 5, 2019)

Working by Robert Caro (April 28, 2019)

"This is a fascinating prism through which to look at American history ... It is a well written fast-paced book that is filled with interesting facts and insights. Anyone who is interested in American history will delight in it." —Fareed Zakaria

Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen (April 14, 2019)

Open by Kimberly Clausing (April 7, 2019)

Melting Pot or Civil War? by Reihan Salam (March 31, 2019)

The Third Pillar by Raghuram Rajan's (March 10, 2019)

Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope (February 17, 2019)

A Foreign Policy for the Left by Michael Walzer (February 10, 2019)

Crude Nation by Raul Gallegos (February 3, 2019)

The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani (January 27, 2019)

2018

Cultural Evolution by Ronald Inglehart (December 16, 2018)

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Harari (December 9, 2018)

Revolution Française by Sophie Pedder (November 18, 2018)

Capitalism in America: A History by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge (October 7, 2018)

Identity by Francis Fukuyama (September 30, 2018)

Uncivil Agreement by Lilliana Mason (August 19, 2018)

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson (August 12, 2018)

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling (August 5, 2018)

Our Towns: A 100,000 mile journey into the Heart of America by James & Deborah Fallows (July 15, 2018)

East of Eden by John Steinbeck (July 1, 2018)

American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction by David Gerber (June 24, 2018)

Origin Story by David Christian (June 17, 2018)

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (May 27, 2018)

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Global Capitalism by Ian Bremmer (May 13, 2018)

Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How we Earn. by Chris Hughes (May 6, 2018)

How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler (April 22, 2018)

Post Truth by Lee McIntyre (April 15, 2018)

The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett (April 8, 2018)

The Ordinary Virtues by Michael Ignatieff (April 1, 2018)

Five Days in London May 1940 by John Lukacs (March 11, 2018)

How to Think by Alan Jacobs (March 4, 2018)

The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman (February 25, 2018)

Trumpocracy by David Frum (February 18, 2018)

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (February 11, 2018)

White Working Class by Joan C. Williams (February 4, 2018)

Twilight of the Elites by Christopher Hayes (January 28, 2018)
The Road not Taken by Max Boot (January 21, 2018)
Devil's Bargain by Joshua Green (January 14, 2018)
Kings and Presidents by Bruce Riedel (January 7, 2018)

2017

Rescue by David Miliband (December 10, 2017)
The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown (December 3, 2017)
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum (November 19, 2017)
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (October 22, 2017)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (October 8, 2017)
27 Articles by T. E. Lawrence (September 24, 2017)
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (September 17, 2017)
The Once and Future Liberal by Mark Lilla (August 20, 2017)
Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation by Adam Roberts (July 23, 2017)
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli (July 9, 2017)
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce (June 25, 2017)
Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks (June 18, 2017)
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? by Graham Allison (June 11, 2017)
Can't We All Disagree More Constructively? by Jonathan Haidt (May 28, 2017)
Do I make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters by Harold Evans (May 14, 2017)
The Islamic Enlightenment by Christopher de Bellaigue (May 7, 2017)
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (April 23, 2017)
Hit Maker: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson (April 16, 2017)
Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline by Gideon Rachman (April 9, 2017)
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (April 2, 2017)
The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human by Adam Piore (March 19, 2017)
War in European History by Michael Howard (March 12, 2017)
Commander in Chief: FDR's Batle with Churchill1943 (February 26, 2017)
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam (February 12, 2017)
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis (February 5, 2017)
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard Haass (January 15, 2017)

2016

In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria (December 18, 2016)
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (December 11, 2016)
Thank You for Being Late: an Optimist's Guide to Excelling in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman (December 4, 2016)
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel Huntington (November 27, 2016)
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby (November 20, 2016)
Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt by George Packer in the New Yorker (November 13, 2016)
The Conservative Heart by Arthur Brooks (October 30, 2016)
The Populist Explosion by John Judas (October 16, 2016)
His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt by Joseph Lelyveld (October 2, 2016)
The Fix by Jonathan Tepperman (September 25, 2016)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (September 4, 2016)
Sapiens by Yuval Harari (September 4, 2016)
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (August 14, 2016)
ISIS: A History by Fawaz Gerges (August 7, 2016)
Midnight at the Pera Palace: the Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King (January 3, 2016)

2015

Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think by John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed (December 13, 2015)
Little Rice: Smartphones Xiaomi and the Chinese Dream by Claire Sharkey (November 22, 2015)
Killing a King: the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron (November 1, 2015)
Destiny and Power by John Meacham (November 8, 2015)
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock (October 18, 2015)
Unfinished Business Anne-Marie Slaughter (October 11, 2015)
Kissinger, the Idealist by Neil Ferguson (October 4, 2015)
Silo Effect by Gillian Tett (September 20, 2015)
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow (September 13, 2015)
The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan ( August 30, 2015)
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins (August 23, 2015)
The Business of America Is Lobbying by Lee Drutman ( August 16, 2015)
Understanding Iran, everything you need to know from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Ahmadinejad by William Polk (July 19, 2015)
Being Nixon, a Man Divided by Evan Thomas (July 12, 2015)
Everything Changes by Jonathan Tropper (June 28, 2015)
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy (June 21, 2015)
Midnight's Furies: the Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari (June 7, 2015)
The Upright Thinkers by Leonard Mlodinow (May 31, 2015)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (May 17, 2015 | Bill Gates made this week book recommendation)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown (May 3, 2015)
Is the American Century Over by Joseph S. Nye (April 26, 2015)
The Road to Character by David Brooks (April 19, 2015)
The Death of Caesar, the Story of History's Most Famous Assassination by Barry Strauss (March 23, 2015)
Bold : How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler (March 8, 2015)
Disgraced: A Play by Ayad Akhtar (March 1, 2015)
The Libertarian Mind : A Manifesto for Freedom by David Boaz (February 22, 2015)
A Path Appears by Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (February 15, 2015)
Red Notice by Bill Browder (February 8, 2015)
Redeployment by Phil Klay (February 1, 2015 | Barack Obama made the selection this week)
@War by Shane Harris (January 18, 2015)

2014

The Terror Presidency by Jack Goldsmith (December 14, 2014)
National Insecurity by David Rothkopf (December 7, 2014)
The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan (November 23, 2014)
America in Retreat by Bret Stephens (November 16, 2014)
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte (November 9, 2014)
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson (November 2, 2014)
Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters (October 26, 2014)
The System Worked by Daniel Drezner (October 19, 2014)
Crazy Is a Compliment by Linda Rottenberg (October 12, 2014)
China's Trapped Transition by Minxin Pei (October 5, 2014)
Cosby by Mark Whitaker (September 28, 2014)
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson (September 19, 2014)
Abundance by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler (September 20, 2014)
World Order by Henry Kissinger (September 14, 2014)
The Intel Trinity by Michael Malone (September 7, 2014)
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War 1941-1942 by Nigel Hamilton (August 31, 2014)
Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East by Shadi Hamid (August 17, 2014)
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz (August 10, 2014)
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman Ben Casnocha Chris Yeh (August 3, 2014)
First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President (July 27, 2014)
Higher Education in the Digital Age by William Bowen (July 20, 2014)
The Universe edited by John Brockman (July 13, 2014)
Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn (July 6, 2014)
The Director by David Ignatius (June 29, 2014)
Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story by Jack Devine with Vernon Loeb (June 22, 2014)
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins (June 15, 2014)
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos (June 8, 2014)
Maximalist by Stephen Sestanovich (June 1, 2014)
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War 1941-1942 by Nigel Hamilton (May 25, 2014)
Stress Test by Timothy Geithner (May 18, 2014)
The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge (May 11, 2014)
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (May 4, 2014)
The Rule of Nobody by Philip K. Howard (April 27, 2014)
The Story of the Jews by Simon Schama (April 20, 2014)
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (April 13, 2014)
The Confidence Trap by David Runciman (April 6, 2014)
Stringer by Anjan Sundaram (March 23, 2014)
The Leading Indicators by Zachary Karabell (March 16, 2014)
The Limits of Partnership by Angela Stent (March 9, 2014)
The Up Side of Down by Megan McArdle (March 2, 2014)
The Steps Across the Water by Adam Gopnik (February 23, 2014)
War Front to Store Front by Paul Brinkley (February 16, 2014)
The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (February 9, 2014)
Amsterdam by Russell Shorto (January 26, 2014)
India Grows at Night by Gurcharan Das (January 19, 2014)
If Mayors Ruled the World by Benjamin Barber (January 12, 2014)
The Kennan Diaries by George Kennan (January 5, 2014)

2013

The Great War by Mark Holborn and Hilary Roberts (December 22, 2013)
Reimagining India edited by McKinsey & Company (December 15, 2013)
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit (December 8, 2013)
Islam without Extremes by Mustafa Akyol (December 1, 2013)
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin (November 17, 2013)
If Kennedy Lived by Jeff Greenfield (November 3, 2013)
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter (October 27, 2013)
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson (October 20, 2013)
It's Even Worse Than It Looks by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein (October 13, 2013)
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (October 6, 2013)
Unthinkable by Kenneth Pollack (September 29, 2013)
Innocent Abroad by Martin Indyk (September 22, 2013)
A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin (September 15, 2013)
The Age of Edison by Ernest Freeberg (September 8, 2013)
Harvesting the Biosphere by Vaclav Smil (September 1, 2013)
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark (August 24, 2013)
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century by Orville Schell and John Delury (August 25, 2013)
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (August 18, 2013)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black (August 11, 2013)
This Town by Mark Leibovich (August 4, 2013)
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century by Orville Schell and John Delury (July 28, 2013)
Museums Matter by James Cuno (July 21, 2013)
The Metropolitan Revolution by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley (July 14, 2013)
The Idea of America by Gordon Wood (July 7, 2013)
Sleepless in Hollywood by Lynda Obst (June 30, 2013)
Talibanistan by Peter Bergen (June 23, 2013)
Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era by Joseph Nye (June 16, 2013)
Strange Rebels by Christian Caryl (June 9, 2013)
Strange Stones by Peter Hessler (June 2, 2013)
The Annals of Unsolved Crime by Edward Jay Epstein (May 26, 2013)
Return of a King by William Dalrymple (May 19, 2013)
Foreign Policy Begins at Home by Richard Haass (May 5, 2013)
The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen (April 28, 2013)
The Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti (April 21, 2013)
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark (April 14, 2013)
This Explains Everything by John Brockman (April 7, 2013)
The End of Power by Moises Naim (March 31, 2013)
Catastrophic Care by David Goldhill (March 24, 2013)
Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White (March 17, 2013)
China Goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh (March 10, 2013)
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights by Graham Allison & Robert Blackwill (March 3, 2013)
Here's the Deal by David Leonhardt (February 24, 2013)
Engineers of Victory by Paul Kennedy (February 17, 2013)
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerilla Warfare by Max Boot (February 10, 2013)
After the Music Stopped by Alan Blinder (February 3, 2013)
The Idea Factory: Bells Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner (January 27, 2013)
Why Romney Lost by David Frum (January 13, 2013)

2012

Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget by David Wessel (December 9, 2012)
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (December 2, 2012)
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham (November 25, 2012)
A Nation of Takers by Nicholas Eberstadt (November 18, 2012)
The Revenge of Geography by Robert Kaplan (November 11, 2012)
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum (November 4, 2012)
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland (October 28, 2012)
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail but Some Don't by Nate Silver (October 21, 2012)
The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era by Michael Grunwald (October 14, 2012)
The Parties Versus The People by Mickey Edwards (October 7, 2012)
The Oath: the Obama White House and the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin (September 30, 2012)
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil by Warby Drew Faust (September 16, 2012)
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan (September 9, 2012)
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are by Sebastian Seung (September 2, 2012)
Einstein: His Life And Universe by Walter Isaacson (August 26, 2012)
The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper (August 5, 2012)
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (July 29, 2012)
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (July 22, 2012)
The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran (July 15, 2012)
The Increment by David Ignatius (July 5, 2012)
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White (July 6, 2012)
Franklin and Winston an Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by John Meacham (July 7, 2012)
Adapt by Tim Harford (July 8, 2012)
Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States by Michael Lind (July 1, 2012)
Fate of the Species by Fred Guterl (June 24, 2012)
The Dictator's Learning Curve by William Dobson (June 17, 2012)
The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson (June 3, 2012)
China Airborne by James Fallows (May 27, 2012)
The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart (May 13, 2012)
The Passage of Power by Robert Caro (May 6, 2012)
End This Depression Now by Paul Krugman (April 29, 2012)
Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (April 22, 2012)
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis (April 15, 2012)
Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma (April 8, 2012)
Franklin and Winston An Intimate Portrait of An Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham (April 1, 2012)
Paper Promises: Debt Money and the New World Order by Philip Coggan (March 25, 2012)
Republic Lost How Money Corrupts Congress and A Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig (March 18, 2012)
The Benefit And The Burden Tax Reform Why We Need It And What It Will Take by Bruce Bartlett (March 11, 2012)
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White (March 4, 2012)
Behind The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (February 26, 2012)
How to Win an Election by Quintus Tullius Cicero (February 19, 2012)
Coming Apart by Charles Murray (February 12, 2012)
The Unquiet American edited by Samantha Power and Derek Chollet (February 5, 2012)
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power by Zbigniew Brzezinski (January 22, 2012)
War Made New by Max Boot (January 15, 2012)
A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich (January 8, 2012)

2011

Don’t Get Me Wrong! by Julia Grosse (December 25, 2011)
Struggle For Egypt by Steven Cook (December 18, 2011)
The Ayatollah’s Democracy by Hooman Majd (December 11, 2011)
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (December 4, 2011)
The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs (November 27, 2011)
The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith (November 20, 2011)
My Long Trip Home by Mark Whitaker (November 13, 2011)
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (November 6, 2011)
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson (October 30, 2011)
The Quest: Energy Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin (October 16, 2011)
That Used to be Us by Tom Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum (October 2, 2011)
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (September 25, 2011)
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love Friendship and the Things that Really Matter by William Deresiewicz (September 18, 2011)
Half the Sky by Nick Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn (September 4, 2011)
Don’t Get Me Wrong!: The Global Gestures Guide by Julia Grosse (August 28, 2011)
Can Intervention Work by Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus (August 21, 2011)
Among the Thugs By Bill Buford by (August 14, 2011)
Getting Bin Laden by Nicholas Schmidle (August 7, 2011)
The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multi-Speed World by Michael Spence (July 31, 2011)
Truman by David McCullough (July 24, 2011)
Berlin 1961 by Frederick Kempe (July 17, 2011)
The Last Narco by Malcolm Beith (July 10, 2011)
Founding Brothers” by Joseph Ellis (July 3, 2011)
The Fear by Peter Godwin (June 26, 2011)
Aftershock: The Next Economy & America's Future by Robert Reich (June 19, 2011)
Bloodmoney by David Ignatius (May 29, 2011)
Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharoahs on the Brink of a Revolution by John R. Bradley (May 22, 2011)
On China by Henry Kissinger (May 15, 2011)
The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll (May 8, 2011)
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama (May 1, 2011)
The Best Advice I Ever Got by Katie Couric (April 24, 2011)
Innovation Nation: How America is losing its innovation edge why it matters and what we can do to get it back by John Kao (April 17, 2011)
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (April 10, 2011)
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyved (April 3, 2011)
Don’t Get Me Wrong: The Global Gestures Guide by Grosse Reker and Bong-Kil (March 27, 2011)
The Social Animal by David Brooks (March 13, 2011)
The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World by Jonathan Powell (March 6, 2011)
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years by Bernard Lewis (February 27, 2011)
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East by Neil MacFarquhar (February 20, 2011)
Decision Points by George W. Bush (February 13, 2011)
Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism Islam and Democracy in the Arab World by Bruce Rutherford (February 6, 2011)
The Future of Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr. (January 23, 2011)
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor (January 16, 2011)
The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters by Thomas Hurka (January 9, 2011)

2010

To End a War by Richard Holbrooke (December 19, 2010)
Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson (December 12, 2010)
Secrecy: The American Experience by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (December 5, 2010)
Bounce: Mozart Federer Picasso Beckham and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed (November 28, 2010)
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques (November 21, 2010)
Superpower?: The Amazing Race between China's Hare and India's Tortoise by Raghav Bahl (November 14, 2010)
The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge (November 7, 2010)
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert Kaplan (October 24, 2010)
How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle by Gideon Rose (October 17, 2010)
Recommended by Chinese Premier Wen Jaibao: Meditations (October 3, 2010)
Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy by Michael Soussan (September 26, 2010)
A Journey: My Political Life by Tony Blair (September 19, 2010)
Numbers Rule Your World : The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung (September 12, 2010)
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd (September 5, 2010)
War Is Boring: Bored Stiff Scared to Death in the World's Worst War Zones by David Axe and Matt Bors (August 29, 2010)
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created by William Bernstein (August 22, 2010)
Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt (August 15, 2010)
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert Rubin with Jacob Weisberg (August 8, 2010)
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam Industry and Invention by William Rosen (August 1, 2010)
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley (July 25, 2010)
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (July 18, 2010)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (July 11, 2010)
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford (July 4, 2010)
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution by Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu (June 27, 2010)
Reset: Iran Turkey and America's Future by Steven Kinsler (June 20, 2010)
More Money than God by Sebastian Mallaby (June 13, 2010)
The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter Beinart (June 6, 2010)
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester (May 30, 2010)
The Promise by Jonathan Alter (May 23, 2010)
The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War between States and Corporations by Ian Bremmer (May 16, 2010)
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Hussain Haqqani (May 9, 2010)
The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-CrashProsperity by Richard Florida (May 2, 2010)
Elements of Investing by Burton Malkiel and Charles Ellis (April 25, 2010)
The Bridge by David Remnick (April 18, 2010)
Mandela's Way: 15 Lessons on Life Love and Courage by Rick Stengel (April 11, 2010)
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande (April 4, 2010)
The Great Inflation and its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence by Robert Samuelson (March 28, 2010)
The Big Short by Michael Lewis (March 21, 2010)
Things I've Been Silent about: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter by Azar Nafisi (March 14, 2010)
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (March 7, 2010)
The Soros Lectures at the Central European University by George Soros (February 28, 2010)
Into the Story by David Maraniss (February 14, 2010)
Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility by David Walker (February 7, 2010)
Capitalism and the Jews by Jerry Muller (January 31, 2010)
The Death of Conservatism by Sam Tanenhaus (January 24, 2010)
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder (January 17, 2010)
India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha (January 10, 2010)

2009

In Other Rooms Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (December 20, 2009)
Superfreakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt (December 13, 2009)
How Markets Fail by John Cassidy (December 6, 2009)
The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army by Greg Jaffe and David Cloud (November 27, 2009)
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin (November 22, 2009)
Nation Under Contract by Allison Stanger (November 15, 2009)
Startup Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor (November 8, 2009)
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller (November 1, 2009)
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor (October 25, 2009)
Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It by Zachary Karabell (October 18, 2009)
Keynes: Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky (October 11, 2009)
Free World: America Europe and the Surprising Future of the West by Timothy Garton Ash (October 4, 2009)
Forces of Fortune by Vali Nasr (September 27, 2009)
The New Cold War by Edward Lucas (September 20, 2009)
Movies of the Week: “The Hurt Locker” & “In The Loop” by (September 6, 2009)
Work Hard Study and Keep Out of Politics by James Baker (August 30, 2009)
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright (August 23, 2009)
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle Eastby Michael Oren by (August 16, 2009)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (August 9, 2009)
Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson (August 2, 2009)
The Increment by David Ignatius (July 26, 2009)
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch (July 19, 2009)
The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Fear Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moisi (July 12, 2009)
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph Ellis (July 5, 2009)
Education of an American Dreamer by Pete Peterson (June 28, 2009)
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd (June 21, 2009)
The Soul of Iran by Afshin Molavi (June 22, 2009)
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis (June 14, 2009)
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis Home Game (June 7, 2009)
Home Game by Michael Lewis (June 7, 2009)
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado (May 31, 2009)
Engaging the Muslim World by Juan Cole (May 24, 2009)
War of Necessity War of Choice by Richard Haass (May 17, 2009)
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria (May 3, 2009)
The Fat Tail by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat (April 26, 2009)
God Is Back by John Micklethwait (April 12, 2009)
The Age of the Unthinkable by Joshua Cooper Ramo (April 5, 2009)
Power Rules by Les Gelb (March 29, 2009)
Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani (March 22, 2009)
The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars In The Midst Of A Big One by David Kilcullen (March 15, 2009)
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (March 8, 2009)
John Maynard Keynes: Economist Philosopher Statesman by Robert Skidelsky (March 1, 2009)
Postcards From Tomorrow Square by James Fallows (February 22, 2009)
The Inheritance by David Sanger (February 15, 2009)
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (February 8, 2009)
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Freidman (February 1, 2009)
The Origin of the Financial Crises by George Cooper (January 25, 2009)
What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan (January 18, 2009)
The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington (January 11, 2009)

2008

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman (December 28, 2008)
The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter (December 21, 2008)
The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (December 14, 2008)
The Idea of Pakistan by Stephen Cohen (December 7, 2008)
Maximum City by Suketu Mehta (November 30, 2008)
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (November 23, 2008)
Ghost Wars: The Secret History Of The CIA Afghanistan And Bin Laden From The Soviet Invasion To September 10 2001 by Steve Coll (November 16, 2008)
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (November 9, 2008)
The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson (November 2, 2008)
What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer (October 26, 2008)
A Piece of the Action by Joe Nocera (October 19, 2008)
One Minute To Midnight by Michael Dobbs (October 12, 2008)
The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier (October 5, 2008)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (September 28, 2008)

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Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an American journalist, political scientist, and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time. Wikipedia

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