Newsweek's Fifty Books for Our Times

1. 1. ? The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope Drag me to re-order

2. 2. The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by Lawrence Wright Drag me to re-order

3. 3. Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang by Zhao Ziyang Drag me to re-order

4. 4. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr Drag me to re-order

5. 5. ? The Bear by WIlliam Faulkner Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler Drag me to re-order

7. 7. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Drag me to re-order

8. 8. Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid Drag me to re-order

9. 9. ? Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely Drag me to re-order

10. 10. God: A Biography by Jack Miles Drag me to re-order

11. 11. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry Drag me to re-order

12. 12. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor Drag me to re-order

13. 13. ? Underground by Haruki Murakami Drag me to re-order

14. 14. ? Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen Drag me to re-order

15. 15. Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics) by Walt Whitman Drag me to re-order

17. 17. The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin Drag me to re-order

18. 18. City: Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte Drag me to re-order

19. 19. ? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Drag me to re-order

20. 20. ? Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan Drag me to re-order

21. 21. ? The Mississippi Books by Mark Twain Drag me to re-order

22. 22. Among the Thugs by Bill Buford Drag me to re-order

23. 23. Brooklyn by Colm Tóbín Drag me to re-order

24. 24. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley Drag me to re-order

25. 25. Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman Drag me to re-order

26. 26. Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden Drag me to re-order

27. 27. Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Sam Tanenhaus Drag me to re-order

28. 28. Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie Drag me to re-order

29. 29. American Prometheus by Kai Bird Drag me to re-order

30. 30. ? The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn Drag me to re-order

31. 31. Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson Drag me to re-order

32. 32. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris Drag me to re-order

33. 33. Kim (Oxford World's Classics) by Rudyard Kipling Drag me to re-order

34. 34. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis Drag me to re-order

35. 35. The Line of Beauty: A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst Drag me to re-order

36. 36. The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper Drag me to re-order

37. 37. The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture by Marjane Satrapi Drag me to re-order

38. 38. Underworld by Don DeLillo Drag me to re-order

39. 39. Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne Drag me to re-order

40. 40. American Pastoral by Philip Roth Drag me to re-order

41. 41. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Drag me to re-order

42. 42. Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker Drag me to re-order

43. 43. Senator Joe McCarthy by Richard H. Rovere Drag me to re-order

44. 44. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Drag me to re-order

45. 45. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Drag me to re-order

46. 46. Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13) by Lee Child Drag me to re-order

47. 47. ? Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions) by Chinua Achebe Drag me to re-order

48. 48. ? American Journeys by Don Watson Drag me to re-order

49. 49. ? Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes Drag me to re-order

50. 50. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated by David Thomson Drag me to re-order