The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen (Anwar Ibrahim, 32)

In Xanadu by William Darlymple (Esther Duflo, 41)

Innovation Nation by John Kao (John Holdren, 34)

Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky (Fareed Zakaria, 37)

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Law, Legislation, and Liberty by Friedrich Hayek (Francis Fukuyama, 65)

Le Japon n'existe pas by Alberto Torres Blandina (Jacques Attali, 86)

A Life Decoded by J. Craig Venter (John Holdren, 34)

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (Richard Haass, 75)

Macroeconomics of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies by Roger Farmer (Robert Shiller, 22)

Makers by Cory Doctrow (Chris Anderson, 24)

Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz (Esther Dyson, 70)

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Karen Armstrong, 87: "I try to reread at least one Austen novel every year as a challenge, because she is a stark reminder in what is involved in writing a good book. I am unusual in thinking that this is one of her most interesting works. It is a celebration of integrity, the holding to a standard of morality and behavior through thick and thin, even in an inimical environment; it reminds us that charm, seductive as it is, is not enough; and that the sentimental past one imagines may be a delusion. It is a difficult book but a masterpiece.")

Marx's General by Tristam Hunt (Enrique Krauze, 95)

Military Nanotechnology by Jurgen Altmann (Nick Bostrom, 73)

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Clare Lockhart, 20)

The Mystery of Economic Growth by Elhanan Helpman (Nicholas Christakis, 50)

Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox (Richard Thaler, 7)

New Guinea: What I did and what I saw by Luigi d'Albertis (Jared Diamond, 42)

No Enchanted Palace by Mark Mazower (Bill Easterley, 39)

Nonzero by Robert Wright (Bill Clinton, 6: "[This book] had a huge effect on me as the president.... [H]is argument in Nonzero [is] essentially that the world is growing together, not apart. And as you have wider and wider circles of interconnection -- that is, wider geographically, encompassing more people, and wider in bandwidth, encompassing more subject areas -- you begin with conflict and you end with some resolution, some merging.... In Nonzero he argues that ever since people came out of caves and formed clans, people have been bumping up against each other, requiring expansion of identity, subconscious identity.")

Not by Genes Alone by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd (Nicholas Christakis, 50)

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