Our annual review of the site’s most popular book stories puts Paul Mason’s utopian futurology ahead of perenially popular authors
The living room carpet is covered in needles, the potato salad covered in mould: as we heave ourselves up out of the year that’s gone and prepare to belly-flop our way into the year that is to come, it’s time to pause a while and look at what we’ve all been reading. So in our traditional spirit of openness , with only the briefest mention of the traditional caveats, let’s take a look at the top 10 stories of 2015 on the Books site.
Except maybe we should be rushing to the barricades instead, because here comes the revolution. Right there at the top of this year’s list is Paul Mason’s ringing declaration that the end of capitalism has begun. The signs of its imminent demise may be difficult to spot during the festive season’s orgy of consumerism, but according to Mason, the old order is already under threat from technologies that allow new ways of working.
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