2022 Guardian Top 10s

Top 10 Books About the Iron Curtain

30/12/2022

28 December 2022
Top 10 Books About the Iron Curtain
1. Eight Days at Yalta by Diana Preston
2. The Third Man by Graham Greene
3. Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis That Shook the World by Alex von Tunzelmann
4. Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe
5. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
6. Red Love: The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo
7. Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
8. Along the Edge of the Forest: An Iron Curtain Journey by Anthony Bailey
9. Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Blendi Fevziu
10. Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny by Witold Szabłowski

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Top 10 Books About Hellraisers

21/12/2022

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21 December 2022
Top 10 Books About Hellraisers
1. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
2. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
4. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
5. The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
6. Junky by William Lee
7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
8. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
9. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
10. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman

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Top 10 Books About Freedom

14/12/2022

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14 December 2022
Top 10 Books About Freedom
1. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
2. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
4. The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter by Albie Sachs
5. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
6. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
7. East West Street by Philippe Sands
8. Maus by Art Spiegelman
9. A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
10. The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler

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Top 10 Polar Photobooks

7/12/2022

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07 December 2022
Top 10 Polar Photobooks
1. Born to Ice by Paul Nicklen
2. Under Antarctic Ice by Norbert Wu
3. Adélie, Terre & Mer by Laurent Ballesta and Vincent Munier
4. Penguin: A Story of Survival by Stefan Christmann
5. Arctic Pearl by Sergey Gorshkov
6. Genesis by Sebastião Salgado
7. Antarctic Oasis by Tim and Pauline Carr
8. Arctica: The Vanishing North by Sebastian Copeland
9. The Last Ocean by John Weller
10. Ice: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers by James Balog

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Top 10 Books About Tycoons

23/11/2022

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23 November 2022
Top 10 Books About Tycoons
1. The First Tycoon, the Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by TJ Stiles
2. The Last Tycoon by F Scott Fitzgerald
3. We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
4. Abraham Lincoln by Godfrey Benson
5. Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
6. Tycoon by Harold Robbins
7. The King of Content by Keach Hagey
8. The Chief by Andrew Roberts
9. A Rebel Tycoon by Tom Bower
10. Hugo by Arnold Bennett

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Top 10 Books About Unlikely Revolutionaries

16/11/2022

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16 November 2022
Top 10 Books About Unlikely Revolutionaries
1. The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
2. The Overstory by Richard Powers
3. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
4. This Is the Hour by Lion Feuchtwanger
5. Hymns to the Night by Novalis
6. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
7. Views of Nature by Alexander von Humboldt
8. Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
9. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
10. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

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Top 10 Books About Losing Faith

9/11/2022

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09 November 2022
Top 10 Books About Losing Faith
1. The Book of Job
2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
3. Father and Son by Edmund Gosse
4. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
5. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
6. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
7. The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère
8. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
9. All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
10. The God That Failed, edited by Richard Crossman

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Top 10 Books About Fathers and Sons

2/11/2022

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02 November 2022
Top 10 Books About Fathers and Sons
1. Patrimony by Philip Roth
2. Father and Son by Edmund Gosse
3. My Father and Myself by JR Ackerley
4. The Return by Hisham Matar
5. Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka
6. A Clip of Steel by Thomas Blackburn
7. My Father’s Fortune by Michael Frayn
8. Fathers by Sam Miller
9. Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
10. Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour

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Top 10 Books About the Iron Curtain

Top 10 Books About Hellraisers

Top 10 Books About Freedom

Top 10 Polar Photobooks

Top 10 Dissenting Life Stories

Top 10 Books About Tycoons

Top 10 Books About Unlikely Revolutionaries

Top 10 Books About Losing Faith

Top 10 Books About Fathers and Sons

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