The Wall Street Journal

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Book Title Author Reviewer Date
Napoleon: A Life Adam Zamoyski Ruth Scurr
Seven Types of Atheism John Gray Tim Crane
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life Diarmaid MacCulloch Allan Massie
Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward Michael Barone
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt Laura Vanderkam
The Lies That Bind Kwame Anthony Appiah Barton Swaim
The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual Roland Jackson Peter Pesic
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze Marc Levinson
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America Beth Macy Sally Satel
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard Cynthia L. Haven Marilyn Yalom
The Dying of the Light Robert Goolrick Sam Sacks
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe David I. Kertzer Thomas Albert Howard
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis Martha C. Nussbaum Barton Swaim
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age Stephen R. Platt Julian Gewirtz
As Time Goes By Derek Taylor D.J. Taylor
The Order of Time Carlos Rovelli, Trans. by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell Priyamvada Natarajan
How Democracy Ends David Runciman Barton Swaim
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World Samuel Moyn Adam Kirsch
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind Michael Massing Jeffrey Collins
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington Nancy Rommelmann
Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics R. Marie Griffith Barton Swaim
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age David N. Schwartz Jeremy Bernstein
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science Karl Sigmund David Edmonds
How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt Jason Willick
War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century David Patrikarakos L. Gordon Crovitz
The Evolution of Beauty Richard O. Prum Sam Kean
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States James C. Scott Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks Laura J. Snyder
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Stephen Greenblatt A. N. Wilson
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Max Tegmark Frank Rose
Freud: The Making of an Illusion Frederick Crews Adam Kirsch
The World Broke in Two Bill Goldstein Micah Mattix
The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace Alexander Klimburg Stephen Budiansky
Life After Life Kate Atkinson Sam Sacks
Henry David Thoreau: A Life Laura Dassow Walls Randall Fuller
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Sam Sacks
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet Lyndal Roper Richard J. Evans
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times Christopher de Bellaigue Bartle Bull
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform John F. Pfaff Edward P. Stringham
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus Laura Kipnis Cathy Young
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America Frances FitzGerald Terry Eastland
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght Marc Levinson
Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission Barry Friedman Matt Welch
From Bacteria to Bach and Back Daniel C. Dennett Michael S. Gazzaniga
The Book That Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation Randall Fuller David S. Reynolds
Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games Ian Bogost Steven Poole
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion Paul Bloom Shai Held
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith Colin McGinn
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars Dava Sobel Laura J. Snyder
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan Sebastian Mallaby Randall S. Kroszner
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