Tuesday 24 December 2019

Fareed's 2019 Books of the Week

Insights, analysis and must reads from CNN's Fareed Zakaria and the Global Public Square team, compiled by Global Briefing editor Chris Good
 
Dec. 24, 2019

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.
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