Patricia Rubin, Chair of The Lionel Gelber Prize Board, announced the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize shortlist on January 29, 2019.
This year’s shortlisted books are:
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid, published by W.W. Norton & Company
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State by Elizabeth C. Economy, published by Oxford University Press
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, published by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder, published by Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Read more about these selections on the Lionel Gelber Prize website.
