| Politics and current affairs Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. By David Remnick The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers. By Richard McGregor Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory. By Peter Hessler Molotovâs Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History. By Rachel Polonsky Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalistâs Frontline Account of Life, Love and War in his Homeland. By Basharat Peer The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe. By Peter Godwin The Watchers: The Rise of Americaâs Surveillance State. By Shane Harris The Rule of Law. By Tom Bingham The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Childrenâs Futureâand Why They Should Give it Back By David Willetts Biography and memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance. By Edmund de Waal Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Familyâs Feuds. By Lyndall Gordon Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes. By Stephen Sondheim The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece.By Eric Siblin History Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. By Timothy Snyder Why the West RulesâFor Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future. By Ian Morris Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962. By Frank Dikotter Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream. By Francis Spufford A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided. By Amanda Foreman The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of Americaâs Great Migration. By Isabel Wilkerson Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth. By Hilary Spurling A History of the World in 100 Objects. By Neil MacGregor Economics and business The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. By Michael Lewis More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite. By Sebastian Mallaby High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg. By Niall Ferguson Science and technology A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. By Paul Edwards Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life. By Rob Carlson The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. By Matt Ridley Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. By Steven Johnson What Technology Wants. By Kevin Kelly The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. By Siddhartha Mukherjee Culture, society and travel Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. By Guy Deutscher Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, With Some Unexpected Results. By Michael Scott Moore Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre. By Larry Stempel McGilchristâs Greek Islands. By Nigel McGilchrist Fiction Freedom. By Jonathan Franzen To the End of the Land. By David Grossman Parrot and Olivier in America. By Peter Carey The Unnamed. By Joshua Ferris Mr Peanut. By Adam Ross The Imperfectionists. By Tom Rachman Selected Stories. By William Trevor Poetry Human chain. By Seamus Heaney White Egrets: Poems. By Derek Walcott (lets hear it for perl one-liners.) |