Create an Amazon wish list of non technical books to buy and read
TODO - start with some books that were referred in The Economist December 2009 as the best books of 2009.
- Politics and current affairs
- The Crisis of Islamic Civilisation – by Ali A. Allawi, ed. Yale University Press.
- The Idea of Justice – by Amartya Sen, ed. Allen Lane.
- It's our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower – by Michela Wrong, ed. Fourth Estate.
- Desperate Glory: At War in Helmand with Britain's 16 Air Assault Brigade – by Sam Kiley, ed. Bloomsbury.
- Biography and memoirs
- Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels – by Tristram Hunt, ed. Allen Lane.
- Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong – by Terry Teachout, ed. J.R. Books.
- History
- The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War – by Andrew Roberts, ed. Allen Lane.
- Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 – by Dominic Lieven, ed. Allen Lane.
- The Arabs: A History – by Eugene Rogan, ed. Allen Lane.
- Economics and business
- Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game – by Paul Midler, ed. Wiley.
- Science and technology
- The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom – by Graham Farmelo, ed. Faber and Faber.
- Fiction
- Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow and Farewell – by Javier Marías, ed. Chatto & Windus.
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