| | Fareed's 2019 Books of the Week | | Note: The Global Briefing is on a two-week hiatus, but we'll bring you a few updates during that time, including what you can expect to see on Fareed Zakaria GPS on the next few Sundays. As 2019 comes to a close, here's a list of Fareed's books of the week from this year, recommended at the end of each show. (They weren't all books in 2019: The list includes podcasts, TV shows, and the January/February 2020 issue of Foreign Affairs, e.g.) For your holiday reading, viewing, and last-minute gift-list-making: 12/22/2019 Impeachment: A Handbook by Charles Black and Philip Bobbitt 12/15/2019 the January/February 2020 issue of Foreign Affairs 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, and Jeffrey A. Engel 10/13/2019 Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos 10/06/2019 The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits 09/29/2019 The 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, an HBO series 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 Will 06/16/2019 The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, Longitude by Dava Sobel, and 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 02/17/2019 Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope 02/10/2019 A Foreign Policy for the Left by Michael Walzer 02/03/2019 Crude Nation by Raúl Gallegos 01/27/2019 The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani 01/13/2019 Roma, a film by Alfonso Cuarón To keep up with Fareed's books of the week, and to see some from years past, you can find a running list here. | | | | | |