Paschal Donohoe, Managing Director of the World Bank and journalist Lise Hand return to give their non-fiction recommendations of the year. Their choices are below.

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Lise's choices

1. Careless People: Sarah Wynn-Williams

2. The Secret Life of Leinster House: Gavan Reilly

3. I’m Glad You Asked Me That: Terry Prone 

4. When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines: Graydon Carter

5. Kitchen Confidential: Anthony Bourdain (25th anniversary ed.)

 Paschal's choices

1 A Short History of America by Simon Jenkins.

2 The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong.

3 Breakneck by Dan Wang

4 The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt

5 Speaking My Mind by Leo Varadkar

6. Love in a Time of Politics by Katherine Zaponne