Economist.com | Books of the year 2004

Economist.com | Books of the year 2004:


Fiction and memoirs

The Plot Against America. By Philip Roth.
The Master. By Colm Toibin. Scribner
Snow. By Orhan Pamuk. Knopf
I’ll Go to Bed at Noon. By Gerard Woodward
The Amateur Marriage. By Anne Tyler
The Line of Beauty. By Alan Hollinghurst
Cloud Atlas. By David Mitchell
About Love and Other Stories. By Anton Chekhov
The Lambs of London. By Peter Ackroyd
A Tale of Love and Darkness. By Amos Oz



History

The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815. By N.A.M. Rodger
The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam. By Martin Windrow
In Tasmania. By Nicholas Shakespeare
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. By Suketu Mehta.
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London. By Sarah Wise



Science and technology

The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World. By Jim Shreeve
The End of the Line: How Over-Fishing is Changing the World and What We Eat. By Charles Clover
Jacquard’s Web: How a Hand Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age. By James Essinger
Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin. By Francis Spufford
Earth: An Intimate History. By Richard Fortey



Politics and current affairs

Plan of Attack. By Bob Woodward
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. By Seymour M. Hersh
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Norton
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience. By John Lewis Gaddis
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare. By Jason DeParle



Biography

Ulysses S. Grant. By Josiah Bunting. Times Books
The Architect King: George III and the Culture of the Enlightenment. By David Watkin. The Royal Collection
Alexander Hamilton. By Ron Chernow
Wodehouse: A Life. By Robert McCrum


Economics and business

Why Globalisation Works. By Martin Wolf
Global Crises, Global Solutions. Edited by Bjorn Lomborg
Mr China: A Wall Street Banker, an Englishman, an ex-Red Guard and $418,000,000 Disappearing Day by Day. By Tim Clissold
The King of Sunlight: How William Lever Cleaned Up the World. By Adam Macqueen
The Modern Firm: Organisational Design for Performance and Growth. By John Roberts
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits. By C.K. Prahalad
Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It. By Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner. Princeton University Press
Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America. By Nomi Prins. The New Press


Culture and digressions

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. By Stephen Greenblatt. Norton
The Stories of English. By David Crystal
How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher. By Simon Barnes
Chronicles: Volume One. By Bob Dylan
Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington. By Nadine Cohodas
Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son. By John Jeremiah Sullivan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A Little History of British Gardening. By Jenny Uglow