It’s a mistake to read the review sections of the weekend papers, as there are always more new books that I want to read than time available to read them. My in-pile is already teetering.

Still, several reviews today have aroused my interest, albeit none directly about economics and business. The FT reviews Margaret Macmillan’s new history of the First World War,

, which might be the only one of the torrent of books published for the next four years of anniversaries that I want to read. Otherwise, I might rest on having read  Alan Moorehead on , Paul Fussell’s , and Pat Barker’s  trilogy (her latest, Toby’s Room, is good but not classic).

[amazon_image id=”184668272X” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War[/amazon_image]

Robert Harris has a new novel out on the fantastically important and interesting Dreyfus Affair,

. And I’d quite like to read Jonathan Franzen’s . Most of what I know of Kraus comes from having read Clive James’s superb . And The Economist reviewed very favourably David Runciman’s .

[amazon_image id=”0691148686″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present[/amazon_image]