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Has US economic stagnation destroyed the myth of an ever-better life for its citizens? David Leonhardt argues that it has
Memoirs of the socialites and swells of an earlier era offer perfect festive reading — without today’s celebrity spin
The chilling Booker Prize-winner by Paul Lynch — plus a dystopian thriller, a Christmas panto whodunnit and a Poirot adventure
Set in her native land, Liliana Corobca’s novel uses a child’s perspective to paint a vivid picture of cruelty and poverty
The author on how his dystopian vision of Ireland ‘Prophet Song’ holds warnings for us all
Guy Standing’s new book makes a powerful if utopian case for time as an emancipatory measure of inequality
A terrible crime forms the backdrop for an exploration of French class anxiety in a strange, magnificent novel
Where the subcontinent should go next, the value of time and a generational transfer of wealth — all in our round-up of the best new economics titles
The unravelling of the American dream; why home ownership is in crisis; what links the Luddites with Big Tech; the story of Francis Ford Coppola; why time is a political issue; a poignant tale of Moldova’s abandoned children; the assassination of an icon of post-colonial Africa — plus Tej Parikh’s round-up of economics titles and our interview with Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch
Why ‘best books’ round-ups provide seasonal score-keeping fun — and a timely reminder of the benefits of venturing outside your usual genres
From economics, politics and history to science, art, food and, of course, fiction — our annual round-up brings you top titles picked by FT writers and critics
Ever been called a ‘Luddite’? Brian Merchant finds timely parallels between the 19th-century movement and insecure workers at the likes of Uber or Amazon
Management title ‘Right Kind of Wrong’ praised as ‘highly readable and relevant’
Boss of the UK’s biggest books chain and of Barnes & Noble in the US argues listing would be ‘sensible’ for revitalised industry
The band’s guitarist has resurrected an ambitious failed project from 1970 — but as a graphic novel
This first English-language edition captures a postwar society caught between idealised past and traumatised present
The Path to Paradise digs deep into a man whose achievements are almost too much for one life — never mind one book
Stuart A Reid’s thriller-like investigation stitches together the evidence for CIA involvement in the killing of the Congolese leader
An ambitious book that examines our global obsession with home ownership
A new exhibit in Rome was born out of the enthusiasm of the Italian far-right for the fantasy epic
Richard Langlois reframes the economic, institutional and intellectual development of the managerial era
Judges hail dystopian portrait of an imagined Ireland descending into totalitarianism
The actor on Hollywood’s AI dilemma, resisting his nice-guy reputation — and why Jeff Bezos couldn’t tempt him into space
The German author’s coming-of-age novel is preoccupied with innocence and complicity
The award-winning author evokes a world of chaos and instability, with a multi-dimensional protagonist at its centre
The media lawyer shows how surveillance and intimidation are used to silence critics
A personal and philosophical introduction to the Golden Age of painting that is fascinating but frustrating
Two books on sensible risk-taking urge innovators to learn from ‘intelligent failures’
Two books — Is It Ever Sex? and The Joy of Consent — explore love, lust and the body politic
A mystery narrative meets a chronicle of criminality with a cast of characters living in the now gentrified New York borough
Learning from geeks, crowdsourcing knowledge and supporting the next generation
Human, subjective factors rather than data are the key to understanding many significant events, argues Morgan Housel
The Canadian author wins the non-fiction prize for his urgent insights in ‘Fire Weather’, based on 2016’s Fort McMurray disaster
Action-packed stories from Russia to Nigeria — plus a new Nurse Ratched and the latest from former astronaut Chris Hadfield
She left academia behind to establish herself as a leading writer of highbrow fiction
Suzi Feay selects her must-read titles
FT writers and editors select their must-read titles
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