The Economist - Books of the year 2015

Best books of 2015, by the Economist

These are the best books of 2015 according to the Economist.


Politics and current affairs

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History

[amazon template=custom_thumbnail&asin=0375713964&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Empire of Cotton: A Global History Sven Beckert]
[amazon text=Empire of Cotton: A Global History&template=custom_title&asin=0375713964&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Empire of Cotton: A Global History Sven Beckert]
[amazon text=Sven Beckert&template=custom_search&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Sven Beckert]
Knopf; Allen Lane
[amazon text=Amazon&template=custom_text_price&asin=0375713964&multi_cc=1&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Empire of Cotton: A Global History Sven Beckert]

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Biography and memoir

[amazon template=custom_thumbnail&asin=038535066X&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Andrea Wulf]
[amazon text=The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World&template=custom_title&asin=038535066X&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Andrea Wulf]
[amazon text=Andrea Wulf&template=custom_search&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Andrea Wulf]
Knopf; John Murray
[amazon text=Amazon&template=custom_text_price&asin=038535066X&multi_cc=1&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Andrea Wulf]

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Economics and business

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Culture, society and travel

[amazon template=custom_thumbnail&asin=0812993543&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates]
[amazon text=Between the World and Me&template=custom_title&asin=0812993543&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates]
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Random House
[amazon text=Amazon&template=custom_text_price&asin=0812993543&multi_cc=1&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates]

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Science and technology

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension Matt Parker

Matt Parker
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Particular Books

How to Talk about Videogames Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost
University of Minnesota Press

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Fiction

Seiobo There Below Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
New Directions; Tuskar Rock

Submission Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; William Heinemann

[amazon template=custom_thumbnail&asin=1609452860&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Story of the Lost Child The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante]
[amazon text=The Story of the Lost Child&template=custom_title&asin=1609452860&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Story of the Lost Child The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante] (Neapolitan Novels, Book Four)
[amazon text=Elena Ferrante&template=custom_search&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Elena Ferrante] Translated by [amazon text=Ann Goldstein&template=custom_search&search_text=%TITLE%&title=Ann Goldstein]
Europa
[amazon text=Amazon&template=custom_text_price&asin=1609452860&multi_cc=1&search_text=%TITLE%&title=The Story of the Lost Child The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante]

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Source: The Economist
Last checked on: 16 December 2015
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