It’s December 1st and time for letters to Santa. My reading for this blog through 2012 has been mildly random, a mixture of books I buy out of interest, and books sent by a range of publishers that were tantalising enough to start reading. The Enlightened Economist Prize for 2012 picked out the best of those (the winner was [amazon_link id=”1906924775″ target=”_blank” ]Economic Fables[/amazon_link] by Ariel Rubinstein). But there are lots of books I haven’t yet read and know I want to, thanks to a combination of inertia and waiting for paperback editions. Just in case Santa is a reader of this blog, here’s my list:

[amazon_link id=”1841154555″ target=”_blank” ]Grand Pursuit [/amazon_link]by Sylvia Nasar

[amazon_image id=”1841154555″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Grand Pursuit: A Story of Economic Genius: Great 20th Century Economic Thinkers and What They Discovered About the Way the World Works[/amazon_image]

[amazon_link id=”1846142520″ target=”_blank” ]Plutocrats[/amazon_link] by Chrystia Freedland

[amazon_link id=”0713998687″ target=”_blank” ]Iron Curtain[/amazon_link] by Anne Applebaum

[amazon_image id=”0713998687″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56[/amazon_image]

[amazon_link id=”019992290X” target=”_blank” ]Misunderstanding Financial Crises[/amazon_link] by Gary Gorton

[amazon_link id=”0713996838″ target=”_blank” ]Governing the World[/amazon_link] by Mark Mazower

[amazon_image id=”0713996838″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Governing the World: The History of an Idea (Allen Lane History)[/amazon_image]

[amazon_link id=”0434017426″ target=”_blank” ]Thinking the 20th Century[/amazon_link] by Tony Judt

[amazon_link id=”125001395X” target=”_blank” ]The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade[/amazon_link] by Andrew Feinstein

[amazon_link id=”1846147522″ target=”_blank” ]The Signal and the Noise[/amazon_link] by Nate Silver

[amazon_link id=”1599869942″ target=”_blank” ]My Inventions[/amazon_link] by Nicola Tesla

[amazon_link id=”1844678571″ target=”_blank” ]A New Kind of Bleak[/amazon_link] by Owen Hatherley

[amazon_image id=”1844678571″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain[/amazon_image]

[amazon_link id=”0465024424″ target=”_blank” ]Consent of the Networked[/amazon_link] by Rebecca McKinnon