Dive into a curated collection of 2023's most compelling reads, handpicked by The Economist's editors. For the full list and insights from The Economist, you can visit the original webpage here:
https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/12/01/the-best-books-of-2023-as-chosen-by-the-economist
 What an Owl Knows What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
| 4.5 | 6 reads | |
 Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
| 4.36 | 37 reads | |
 Time to Think
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
| 4.29 | 120 reads | |
 The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
| 4 | 12 reads | |
 The Coming Wave
| 3.71 | 16 reads | |
 A Thread of Violence
| 3.67 | 3 reads | |
 Sailing Alone Sailing Alone
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Pandora’s Box
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Magisteria
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
| 4.75 | 4 reads | |
 High Caucasus High Caucasus
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
| 4.21 | 10 reads | |
 Western Lane
| 3.45 | 24 reads | |
 Soldier Sailor
| 4.36 | 8 reads | |
 Prophet Song
| 4.17 | 91 reads | |
 North Woods
| 4.28 | 69 reads | |
 Kairos
| 3.5 | 17 reads | |
 The Fraud
| 3.34 | 31 reads | |
 The Bee Sting
| 4.3 | 79 reads | |
 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
| 4.12 | 264 reads | |
 On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
 Revolutionary Spring Revolutionary Spring
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
| 5 | 2 reads | |
 In Her Nature In Her Nature
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Emperor of Rome
| 3.85 | 13 reads | |
 The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
| 4.1 | 12 reads | |
 Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
| 2.5 | 2 reads | |
 Waiting to Be Arrested at Night Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
| 0 | 1 read | |
 Still Pictures
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Monet
| 0 | 0 reads | |
Milton Friedman Milton Friedman
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 King: A Life
| 4.44 | 10 reads | |
 J. L. Austin J. L. Austin
| 0 | 0 reads | |
Into the Amazon Into the Amazon
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Ian Fleming
| 5 | 1 read | |
Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
| 3.9 | 9 reads | |
 Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
| 4 | 5 reads | |
 The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
| 4.29 | 8 reads | |
 How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between
| 4.14 | 25 reads | |
 The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results
| 3 | 1 read | |
The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
| 0 | 0 reads | |
Best Things First Best Things First
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Sparks
| 5 | 1 read | |
Some People Need Killing Some People Need Killing
| 5 | 1 read | |
 The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
| 4.18 | 21 reads | |
 Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
| 3.5 | 1 read | |
 Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
| 3.75 | 2 reads | |
 Deadly Quiet City: True Stories from Wuhan
| 0 | 0 reads |
