The Liberal Globe presents the books that read in 2023 and suggest you read them as well. These proposed books belong to different categories in order to correspond to the different tastes of readers. These book categories are Politics-Government and Current Affairs, History, Biography and memoir, Economics, Culture and Ideas, Non-Fiction, Fiction, Science & Technology, Novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Politics-Government and Current Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Murong Xuecun (Author)<\/em>, Publisher: The New Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, a celebrated Chinese writer interviewed people in Wuhan about their experiences during lockdown. His brave and vital book follows eight people including a doctor at the small hospital an unlicensed driver of a motorcycle taxi and a citizen journalist, whose daring efforts resulted in the prison sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Azam Ahmed<\/em>, Publisher: Hachette Audio UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the early 2000s, the number of Mexicans who have disappeared and not yet been found has risen from a handful to more than 100,000. A journalist for the New York Times tracks Miriam, whose youngest daughter is kidnapped and then killed by the Zeta gang. By focusing on one mother’s extraordinary story, the author evokes the cartels painful toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Hawon Jung<\/em>, Publisher: BenBella Books (March 7, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A brilliant examination of South Korean feminists’ struggle for equality with global resonance. It describes how many South Koreans still see women only as cooks, cleaners and “baby-making machines” and tells tales of misogyny, from spycams in public toilets to bigots in public office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Tim Alberta<\/em>, Publisher: HarperAudio<\/p>\n\n\n\n This Chronicle of the modern evangelical movement in America is a horror story told from the inside. Its author, a staff writer for the Atlantic, is angry and heartbroken as he watches the religious community in which he was brought up being hijacked by power hungry hucksters and right-wing nationalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Patricia Evangelista<\/em>, Publisher: Random House Audio <\/p>\n\n\n\n A rigorious reported look at Rodrigo Duturte’s campaign against illegal drugs from a Filipina journalist. It is also a story of lost Innocence, as she learns that the vast majority of people in the Philippines supported their president’s lawless war on Drugs, in which perhaps 27,000 people were killed extra-judicially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Ian Johnson<\/em>, Publisher: Tantor Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Pulitzer prizewinning journalist describes the valiant efforts of China’s “underground historians”, a motley and persistent group of academics, artists, film-makers and journalists attempting to correct the official record and provide truthful accounts of history. An insight into the risks that some Chinese take to illuminate the darkest episodes of Communist Party rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Business and Economics <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Yepoka Yeebo<\/em>, Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u03a4his is the story of one of the world’s greatest (but least famous) con artists. Ghana’s John Ackah Blay-Miezah bilked investors on several continents by promising he knew where lost gold was hidden. Exhaustive reporting by the author makes this a welcome addition to the canon on great swindlers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Bjorn Lomborg <\/em> Publisher: Copenhagen Consensus Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n A forceful argument to replace the sprawling and vague Sustainable Development Goals from the United Nations with 12 cost-effective policies to help the world’s poor. “Some things are difficult to fix, cost a lot and help little,” the author writes. Others are solved “at low cost, with remarkable outcomes”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By John Cochrane <\/em> Publisher: Princeton University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this book, is presented a new(ish) theory for how government debt, not interest rates, ultimately determines prices. Not for the faint-hearted, this book is provocative to economists and well-timed for an an age of big deficits and high inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Andrew McAfee<\/em> Publisher: McMillan Business <\/p>\n\n\n\n A technology-and-business guru at MIT explains how the mindset that inspires Silicon Valley could be usefully applied in life and in other fields of business, with a focus on teamwork, producing prototypes quickly and avoiding bureaucracy through individual accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner <\/em> Publisher: Random House Audio <\/p>\n\n\n\n Megaprojects often turn into Megasnafus. This entertaining book, co-written by an academic at Oxford University and a journalist, looks at why ambitious schemes so consistently miss deadlines and budgets and what can be done about it. Project management has never been more fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Ed Conway <\/em> Publisher: Penguin Audio <\/p>\n\n\n\n The economics and data editor of Sky News in Britain travels the world in this study of how six crucial materials-copper, iron, lithium, oil, salt, and sand – have altered human history and underpin the modern economy. As countries seek to decarbonise, a battle is raging to control their supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Victor Haghani and James White <\/em> Publisher: Ascent Audio <\/p>\n\n\n\n A compelling book dealing with an important and neglected question in finance: not what to buy or sell, but how much. Even sophisticated professionals tend to answer this question badly, leading to lost fortunes. But Financial Theory provides the answer. Mathematical but not excessively so, this will appear to anyone with an interest in markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Claire Hughes Johnson <\/em> Publisher: Stripe Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good books about the nuts and bolts of management are vanishingly rare. A former executive at Google and Stripe offers a practical guide to everything from giving feedback and delegating to running a meeting and building teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By James Stewart and Rachel Abrams <\/em> Publisher: Penguin Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n A deeply reported and unsparing account of the final years of Sumner Redstone, an American media mogul who died in 2020. Like a lot of reality TV, “Unscripted” is riveting because its cast is so awful. It delves into (sometimes excruciating) detail about his domineering character and extraordinary antics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Biography and memoir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Daniel Finkelstein<\/em> Publisher: William Collins<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both sides of the author’s family were remarkable. His maternal grandfather, Alfred Wiener, was a prominent German Jew who created the most extensive archives documenting the Holocaust; Alfred’s wife and daughters were deported to a concentration camp. The author’s paternal grandmother was transported to a gulag in Siberia. A tale of survival, eloquently told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Nicholas Shakespeare<\/em>, Publisher: Harper Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n Almost everyone on Earth has heard of James Bond. But fewer know the details of how exciting and tormented the life of 007’s Creator, Ian Fleming, was. This biography has flaws, but it will still be remembered as definitive, tracing Fleming’s childhood, military service, Espionage, love office and writing career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Larry Rohter<\/em>, Publisher: Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n Candido Rondon, an orphan from Brazil’s poor hinterland, rose to become a military officer oversaw monumental engineering works in the Amazon and pioneered a non-violent approach to local indigenous groups. A vivid look at a hero whose humanism was ahead of his time, by a journalist for the New York Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By M.W. Rowe<\/em>, Publisher: Oxford University Press <\/p>\n\n\n\n Most people are lucky if they enjoy one distinguished career: J.L. Austin had two. He shook up the study of philosophy at Oxford. And, as this scrupulous and engrossing biography shows, he played a crucial role as an intelligence analyst in the Allied invasion of France in 1944.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jonathan Eig<\/em>, Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK <\/p>\n\n\n\n This Magnificent biography is an overview attempt to grapple with Martin Luther King in all his complexity. The author, an American journalist, makes the civil-rights leader’s courage and moral vision seem all the more exceptional for having come from a man with so many ordinary human flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jennifer Burns<\/em>, Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most complete biography of the Economist who did more than any other to inspire free-market reforms around the world in the 1980s. It documents Fried-man’s role in shaping laissez-faire economic policies and libertarian thought and shows his enduring relevance, despite the world’s protectionist turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jackie Wullschlager<\/em>, Publisher: Penguin UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the first account in English of the much-loved artist’s life and work. Monet was a tempestuous man, whose most lasting relationship – in art as in life – was with water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jackie Wullschlager<\/em>, Publisher: Penguin UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n A kind of posthumus memoir in which a New Yorker writer (who died in 2021 and famously compared journalists to conmen) probes memory, childhood and sto<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Nathan Thrall<\/em>, Publisher: McMillan Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n An American journalist in Jerusalem examines the events that led up to a bus crash in the West Bank in 2012 that killed six Palestinian children and one of their teachers. Part history, journalism, diatribe and lament, the book builds relentless case that this crash and the ensuring trauma must be remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jonathan Healey<\/em>, Publisher: Randome House Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n A page-turning yet erudite history of the 17th century in revolutionary England. This account of a time of religious and political turmoil, intellectual ferment, scientific innovation and media upheaval is accessible and abounds with contemporary resonances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Mary Beard<\/em>, Publisher: Profile Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this book is presented a chariot -oad of extraordinary characters, examining around 30 Emperors over to 250 years. Readers will enjoy learning about the lives of these blood-splashed, technicolour rulers. Prepare to be shocked and entertained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Rachel Hewitt<\/em>, Publisher: Vintage Digital<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Hundreds of years, women have had to fight for space to pursue outdoor sport. This inspiring book interwaves the author’s personal story of loss with the hidden history of trailblazing women who became cyclists, hikers, mountaineers and runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Gary Bass<\/em>, Publisher: Knopf<\/p>\n\n\n\n A meticulously reserached and authorative account of efforts to prosecute and punish Japanese generals and politicians deemed responsible for soma of the horrors of the second world war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Stuart Reid<\/em>, Publisher: Random House Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n This book recounts the rise and demise of Patrice Lumumba, who was prime minister of post-Independence Congo for less than three months in 1960 before he was assassinated, establishing the playbook for future CIA interventions. A shameful story, recounted with verve and thoughtfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Christopher Clark<\/em>, Publisher: Penguin Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n This book traces the events leading up to and following the year 1848 – when revolutions spread to almost every country in Europe. “Hierarchies beat networks. Power prevailed over ideas and arguments.” he writes. This book features a compelling cast of idealists, thinkers, propagandists and cynics and argues that their sacrifices were not wholly in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Caroline Dodds Pennock<\/em>, Publisher: Knopf<\/p>\n\n\n\n An absorbing account of indigenous peoples in 16th-century Europe. using archival documents and oral histories, the study shatters the Eurocentric assumption that, half a millenium ago, people and ideas flowed in only one direction, from the old world to the “new”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By David Grann, Dion Graham<\/em>, Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n A thrilling account of a shipwreck off the coast of Patagonia in 1741 from the author of “Killers of the Flower Moon”. It revolves around three complex figures. Those who love yarns involving cannon fire, sea-chests and mainmasts will find this book both worth plugging into, as will those less intrigued by the age of sail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Paul Murray<\/em>, Publisher: Penguin Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n A story of one unhappy family told from multiple perspectives. The book convincingly evolves a teenage girl’s rage, a boy’s fear, a father’s secrets and a mother’s disappointments and grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Zadie Smith<\/em>, Publisher: Penguin Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n This historical novel centres on a butcher’s claim to be the heir of an English aristocrat. It focuses on an ex-slave who backs his story and on a woman who, fascinated by the case, becomes a writer. Slavery, populism and women’s roles are serious theams in an often funny book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jenny Erpenbeck<\/em>, Publisher: New Directions<\/p>\n\n\n\n A tale of an affair going sour between a middle-aged male academic and a young female student in East Berlin in the dying days of the German Democratic Republic. It brilliantly weaves the personal with politics and history and does a fine job of unsettling the reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Daniel Mason<\/em>, Publisher: Random House Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n Set in a single home in the forests of Massachusetts, the interconnecting stories of this enthralling novel span four centuries. It offers a timely musing on what and who are lost to history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Paul Lynch<\/em>, Publisher: Bolinda Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a cautionary tale of war, parenthood and loss. Tender and terrifying at once, it follows a mother of four trying to keep her family together in any imaginary dystopian Ireland, where the government has succumbed to authoritarianism and is trampling on civil liberties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Culture and Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Gloria Dickie<\/em>, Publisher: Highbridge Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wonder, fear and friction characterize the relationship between bears and people. The author, travelers the world in search of eight surviving species of bruin, including grizzlies and pandas, bringing readers on a unique sort of bear hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Gloria Dickie<\/em>, Publisher: Headline<\/p>\n\n\n\n This gripping travelogue recounts the author’s hike across the Caucasus mountains from Russia’s Black Sea coast to the Caspian. A meditation on the role of memory in a fascinating place with a tumultuous, tragic past, it is liable to instill an unexpected urge to visit Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Richard J. King<\/em>, Publisher: Viking<\/p>\n\n\n\n This book was set to the question what possesses an ever-growing number of people to get into a small boat and sail on their own across the world’s seas. Both wimps and thrill-seekers will delight in this literary voyage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Mark O’Connell<\/em>, Publisher: Random House Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this crime inquiry the author tries to understand the darkness and violence that run beneath the surface of so many lives. He subject is Malcolm Macarthur, who committed an infamous double murder in Ireland in 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Science and Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jeff Goodell<\/em>, Publisher: Little Brown & Company<\/p>\n\n\n\n A thorough, sometimes frightening examination of the many ways that rising temperatures threaten environments and societies. The author, a climate journalist, tells his story through interpid reporting and memorable characters. It is one of the rare books on climate change that anyone can pick up and understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Peter Attia<\/em>, Publisher: Random House Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n A longevity expert shows just how behind the times much of modern medicine is, partly because it so often seeks to cure rather than prevent chronic disease. There are simple things people can do to live longer and more healthily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar<\/em>, Publisher: Random House Audio<\/p>\n\n\n\n A cogent look at the potential of artificial intelligence to transform the economy and Society along with the risk of misuse and surveillance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Liberal Globe presents the books that read in 2023 and suggest you read them as well. 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