The Best Books of 2022

by The Economist
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43 books
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See the source list and commentary at www.economist.com

Politics and current affairs

The Impossible City

A Hong Kong Memoir
Karen Cheung, 2022

There Are No Accidents

The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
Jessie Singer, 2022

Confidence Man

The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Maggie Haberman, 2022

We Have Tired of Violence

A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia
Matt Easton, 2022

The Naked Don't Fear the Water

An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
Matthieu Aikins, 2022

The Age of the Strongman

How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
Gideon Rachman, 2022

The Economic Weapon

The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
Nicholas Mulder, 2022
Business and economics

Money Men

A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
Dan McCrum, 2022

Chip War

The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller, 2022

Dead in the Water

A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel, 2022

The Power Law

Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Sebastian Mallaby, 2022

For Profit

A History of Corporations
William Magnuson, 2022

Butler to the World

The Book the Oligarchs Don't Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
Oliver Bullough, 2022

Slouching Towards Utopia

An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
J. Bradford DeLong, 2022

Power Failure

The Rise and Fall of General Electric
William D. Cohan, 2022
Biography and memoir

The Escape Artist

The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Jonathan Freedland, 2022

The Facemaker

A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Lindsey Fitzharris, 2022

Agatha Christie

An Elusive Woman
Lucy Worsley, 2022

The Huxleys

An Intimate History of Evolution
Alison Bashford, 2022

Inventor of the Future

The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Alec Nevala-Lee, 2022

Hayek

A Life, 1899–1950
Bruce Caldwell, Hansjoerg Klausinger, 2022
History
Fiction
Culture and ideas

Of Boys and Men

Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
Richard Reeves, 2022

Life Is Hard

How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
Kieran Setiya, 2022

The Subplot

What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
Megan Walsh, 2022

Papyrus

The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Irene Vallejo, 2022

Magnificent Rebels

The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea Wulf, 2022
Science and technology

The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2022

Elusive

How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
Frank Close, 2022

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong, 2022

Beyond Measure

James Vincent, 2022

The Equality Machine

Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
Orly Lobel, 2022

This Mortal Coil

A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year
Andrew Doig, 2022