From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics choose their favourite reads of the year so far
A posthumous and seamless completion of a volcano thriller that the ‘Jurassic Park’ writer left unfinished after his death in 2008
A hunt for the next Lionel Messi, love on the run in Montana — plus Richard Flanagan’s moving meditation on life, family and chance
FT editors, columnists and specialists share the titles that have inspired them
Gideon Rachman selects his best mid-year reads
Tony Barber selects his best mid-year reads
Books by FT writers
Richard Fairman selects his best mid-year reads
Laura Battle and Andrew Dickson select their best mid-year reads
Carl Wilkinson selects his best mid-year reads
Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his best mid-year reads
Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads
We asked you to share with us your favourite reads of the year so far — and here is what you told us
FT Weekend’s book columnist Nilanjana Roy on what to read if you’re in the dumps about an election near you
Why has the ambitious, multilingual young writer of superlative letters been dismissed as nothing more than the mother of Byron’s child?
Barry Forshaw selects his best mid-year reads
Suzi Feay selects her best mid-year reads
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney selects his best mid-year reads
James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads
Alex Clark selects her best mid-year listens
Tom Robbins selects his best mid-year reads
Simon Kuper selects his best mid-year reads
Harriet Fitch Little selects her best mid-year reads
Pilita Clark selects her best mid-year reads
Maria Crawford selects her best mid-year reads
Edwin Heathcote selects his best mid-year reads
Carola Long selects her best mid-year reads
John Thornhill selects his best mid-year reads
Life advice from a former Teen Vogue editor, supply chain crises, and reportage from the Reddit trading floor
Jackie Wullschläger selects her best mid-year reads
Adam LeBor selects his best mid-year reads
Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads
Clive Cookson selects his best mid-year reads
As the global movement of people prompts hardline approaches by populists and policymakers, four new books explore the west’s struggle to balance domestic pressures with the plight of asylum-seekers
Trouble at the border; dark humour in gothic tale Brat; the radical history of suburban gardening; what the Capetians and Plantagenets did for us; a new novel from Joseph O’Neill; the heroine of the Underground Railroad; social unrest in Chile; a pilgrim in search of Dostoyevsky’s soul — plus the best new environment titles
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