Books of the Week

Updated 1611 GMT (0011 HKT) February 21, 2021

(CNN)02/21/2021 "The Wake Up Call" by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge

02/14/2021 "Losing the Long Game" by Philip H. Gordon
    02/07/2021 "Homeland Elegies" by Ayad Akhtar
      12/20/2020 This week Fareed offered up not one book of the week, but five drawn from his books of the week this year, which might make for good presents this holiday season. They are:
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      12/06/2020 "The Weirdest People in the World" by Joseph Henrich
      11/22/2020 "A Promised Land" by Barack Obama
      10/04/2020 "Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World" by Fareed Zakaria
      09/27/2020 "Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?" by Ezekiel Emanuel
      08/23/2020 "The Great Leveler" by Walter Scheidel
      07/12/2020 "The Precipice" by Toby Ord
      07/05/2020 "Humankind" by Rutger Bregman
      06/28/2020 "The Inevitability of Tragedy" by Barry Gewen
      06/07/2020 "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
      05/17/2020 "The World: A Brief Introduction" by Richard Haass & "The New Class War" by Michael Lind
      05/03/2020 "Has China Won?" by Kishore Mahbubani
      04/26/2020 "The Plot Against America" on HBO
      04/05/2020 "The Defining Moment" by Jonathan Alter
      03/29/2020 "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer & "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
      03/08/2020 "The Great Reversal" by Thomas Philippon
      02/23/2020 "Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word" by Fred P. Hochberg
      02/16/2020 "The Decadent Society" by Ross Douthat
      02/09/2020 "Erdogan's Empire" by Soner Cagaptay
      01/26/2020 "City of Thieves" by David Benioff
      01/12/2020 "All the Shah's Men" by Stephen Kinzer
      01/05/2020 "A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves" by Jason DeParle
      12/22/2019 "Impeachment: A Handbook" by Charles Black
      12/15/2019 January 2020 issue of Foreign Affairs Magazine
      12/08/2019 "Prisoners of Geography" by Tim Marshall
      12/01/2019 "The American Story" by David Rubenstein
      11/24/2019 "American Elections: Wicked Game" a podcast hosted by Lindsay Graham
      11/17/2019 "The Invisible Bridge" by Rick Perlstein
      11/10/2019 "Don't Be Evil" by Rana Foroohar
      11/03/2019 "Succession" an HBO series
      10/27/2019 "Safe Enough Spaces" by Michael Roth
      10/20/2019 "Impeachment" by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker & Jeffrey A. Engel
      10/13/2019 "Age of Ambition" by Evan Osnos
      10/06/2019 "The Meritocracy Trap" by Daniel Markovits
      09/29/2019 "Education of an Idealist" by Samantha Power
      09/22/2019 "Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell
      09/15/2019 "On Writing" by Stephen King
      09/08/2019 "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
      08/25/2019 "Our Boys" a new series on HBO
      08/11/2019 "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester
      07/28/2019 "Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe" by Sheri Berman
      07/21/2019 "The Guarded Gate" by Daniel Okrent
      07/14/2019 "Leadership" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
      06/30/2019 "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles
      06/23/2019 "The Conservative Sensibility" by George F. Will
      06/16/2019 "The Island of the Day Before" by Umberto Eco, "Longitude" by Dava Sobel, "Circe" by Madeline Miller
      06/09/2019 "War and Peace" by Nigel Hamilton
      06/02/2019 "The Shadow War" by Jim Sciutto
      05/26/2019 "Against the Rules" a podcast by Michael Lewis
      05/19/2019 "A Thousand Small Sanities" by Adam Gopnik
      05/12/2019 "World Without Mind" by Franklin Foer
      05/05/2019 "Our Man" by George Packer
      04/28/2019 "Working" by Robert Caro
      04/14/2019 "Accidental Presidents" by Jared Cohen
      04/07/2019 "Open" by Kimberly Clausing
      03/31/2019 "Melting Pot or Civil War?" by Reihan Salam
      03/10/2019 "The Third Pillar" by Raghuram Rajan's
      02/17/2019 "Billion Dollar Whale" by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
      02/10/2019 "A Foreign Policy for the Left" by Michael Walzer
      02/03/2019 "Crude Nation" by Raul Gallegos
      01/27/2019 "The Death of Truth" by Michiko Kakutani
      01/13/2019 "Roma" a film by Alfonso Cuaron
      12/16/2018 "Cultural Evolution" by Ronald Inglehart
      2/09/2018 "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Harari
      12/04/2018 "Presidents Under Fire: The History of Impeachment" (CNN documentary)
      11/18/2018 "Revolution Française" by Sophie Pedder
      10/07/2018 "Capitalism in America: A History" by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
      09/30/2018 "Identity" by Francis Fukuyama
      09/16/2018 "Detroit" (2017) directed by Kathryn Bigelow