I just finished Picketty's Capital in the 21st Century.
First, I can hardly believe I finished this book. At least a dozen times I gave up on it, and only came back out of sheer stubborn mindedness.
Second, this book has a tremendous number of extremely good insights, and if one can subject themselves to it, they will come out better informed about the world.
I found it particularly useful, whilst making my way through the jungle of Picketty's thought, to have a non-technical audience to try and regurgitate the ideas to. In this regard, my partner is a blessing, because they have a deep well of curiosity and tremendous patience with me trying to work out the best way to explain things in real time.
I'll have to reserve further comments on the book itself for later, because right now I'm ready to think about literally anything but the intersection of politics and economics.