Below, books read this year.

Originally, my intention was to devote the year to current titles only. This lasted until September when I found newly released titles lacking and cracked open Michael Lewis’ The Fifth Risk which had been laying around unread for a couple of years. Looking back, I feel the experiment was worthwhile and I would recommend it, even though I do not intend to repeat it in 2021.

Not quite in order, and with hyperlinks for those I am most enamored of.

• The Education of an Idealist (Samantha Power)
• Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker, Ph.D)
• Why We’re Polarized (Ezra Klein)
• The Heap (Sean Adams)
• Agency (William Gibson)
• A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America (Phillip Rucker and Carol Leonnig)
• The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (Tony Ord)
• Surviving Autocracy (Masha Gessen)
• Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality (Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson)
• The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency (John Dickerson)
• Capital and Ideology (Thomas Piketty, translation by Arthur Goldhammer)
• Freedom: An Unruly History (Annelien De Dijn)
• The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis)
• The Sourdough School: The Ground-Breaking Guide to… (Richard Hart, Vanessa Kimbell
• You’re Not Listening (Kate Murphy)
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
• Give People Money (Annie Lowry)
• One Billion Americans: The Case For Thinking Bigger (Matthew Yglesias)
• Washington: A Life (Ron Chernow)
• Urban Jungle: Living and Styling With Plants (Igor Josifovic and Judith De Graaff)
• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Nicholas Carr)

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