The New York Times Book Review

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Book Title Author Reviewer Date
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Joseph Henrich Daniel C. Dennett
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration Shane O'Mara David L. Ulin
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life Hervé Guibert Parul Sehgal
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life John Kaag John Williams
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Anne Case Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Death of Jesus J. M Coetzee Judith Shulevitz
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear Patrick Boucheron Jennifer Szalai
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success Ross Douthat Mark Lilla
Capital and Ideology Thomas Piketty Paul Krugman
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America Candacy Taylor Bridgett M. Davis
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson Ted Conover
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Jim Holt
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond Daniel Susskind Alana Semuels
Great Society: A New History Amity Shlaes Binyamin Appelbaum
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century Sarah Abrevaya Stein Matti Friedman
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Deirdre Bair Parul Sehgal
The Meursault Investigation Kamel Daoud Laila Lalami
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work Edwidge Danticat Amy Wilentz
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America Nicholas Buccola Thomas Meaney
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis Michiko Kakutani
On Immunity: An Inoculation Eula Biss Parul Sehgal
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation Andrew Marantz Kara Swisher
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society Binyamin Appelbaum Justin Fox
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Eric Foner Lincoln Caplan
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal Naomi Klein Jeff Goodell
The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town Edward Berenson Judith Shulevitz
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite Daniel Markovits Thomas Frank
A Life in the Twentieth Century Arthur M Schlesinger MAX FRANKEL
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality Peter Pomerantsev Rebecca Reich
W. E. B. Du Bois David Levering Lewis Waldo E. Martin Jr.
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas Corey Robin Orlando Patterson
The Metaphysical Club Louis Menand Jean Strouse
Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West John Taliaferro Timothy Egan
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition Patricia Churchland Olivia Goldhill
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein Joseph E. Stiglitz
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens Michael Kinsley
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of Americ Daniel Okrent Linda Gordon
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell Jonah Engel Bromwich
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates Nell Irvin Painter
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief Lawrence Wright Michael Kinsley
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee Jonathan Weiner
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond JAMES SHREEVE
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago Alex Kotlowitz Eric Klinenberg
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts Joan Biskupic Adam Cohen
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind Raghuram Rajan Oren Cass
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells John Lanchester
The Empathy Exams: Essays Leslie Jamison Olivia Laing
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present David Treuer Ned Blackhawk
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff Jacob Silverman
Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires Juan Cole Mustafa Akyol
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