2020 Book List

A list of what I read in 2020, split between Fiction/Non-Fiction. Click here for my favorite books of the year.

Non-Fiction

  1. The Most Good You Can Do – Peter Singer
  2. Originals – Adam Grant (Research Bible)
  3. So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport (Research Bible)
  4. Trick Mirror – Jia Tolentino
  5. Grit – Angela Duckworth (Research Bible)
  6. Daring Greatly – Brené Brown (Research Bible)
  7. Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
  8. War of Art – Steven Pressfield (Research Bible)
  9. Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker (Research Bible)
  10. Stop Worrying and Start Living – Dale Carnegie (Research Bible)
  11. Range – David Epstein (Research Bible)
  12. Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me – Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson (Research Bible)
  13. Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keefe
  14. The Lonely City – Olivia Laing
  15. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami (Research Bible)
  16. I Don’t Want to Talk About It – Terrence Real (Research Bible)
  17. On Writing Well – William Zinger (Research Bible)
  18. The Beautiful Struggle – Ta-Nehisi Coates
  19. Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture & Identity – Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi (Research Bible)
  20. The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt
  21. Set For Life – Scott Trench
  22. David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell
  23. The Coddling of the American Mind – Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff (Research Bible)
  24. Essentialism – Greg McKeown
  25. Miami and the Siege of Chicago – Norman Mailer
  26. Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl
  27. Give and Take – Adam Grant
  28. Getting to Yes – Roger Fischer, William Ury, Bruce Patton
  29. The 80/20 Principle – Richard Koch
  30. Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
  31. The 4-Hour Workweek – Tim Ferriss
  32. It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership – Colin Powell
  33. Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed – Alexis Ohanian
  34. Billion Dollar Whale – Tom Wright, Bradley Hope
  35. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
  36. Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
  37. The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
  38. Uncanny Valley – Anna Wiener
  39. How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free – Ernie Zelinski
  40. When Time Stopped – Ariana Neumann
  41. Your Money Or Your Life – Vicki Robin
  42. High Achiever – Tiffany Jenkins
  43. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 – Stephen Kotkin
  44. Unorthodox – Deborah Feldman
  45. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life – William Finnegan
  46. The Adventurer’s Son – Roman Dial
  47. The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett

Fiction

  1. Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett
  2. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  3. Sum – David Eagelman
  4. Bone: The Complete Edition – Jeff Smith
  5. Fall of Giants – Ken Follett
  6. Where The Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
  7. Killing Floor – Lee Child
  8. Winter of the World – Ken Follett
  9. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
  10. The Rhineman Exchange – Robert Ludlum
  11. The Scarlatti Inheritance – Robert Ludlum
  12. Edge of Eternity – Ken Follett
  13. Artemis – Andy Weir
  14. The Bat – Jo Nesbo
  15. The Devil Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger
  16. Lean On Pete – Willy Vlautin
  17. Beartown – Fredrik Backman
  18. The Intuitionist – Colson Whitehead
  19. Hollywood Nocturnes – James Ellroy
  20. Normal People – Sally Rooney
  21. Conversations With Friends – Sally Rooney
  22. Exhalations – Ted Chiang
  23. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman