2020 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2020.
- Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World’s Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson
- Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) by Jeffrey Kluger
- Future Noir by Paul M. Sammon
- Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead by Robert Brockway
- The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece by Vernon Silver
- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
- Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann
- The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America’s To by Svetlana Lokhova
- Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
- Deep Writing: 7 Principles That Bring Ideas to Life by Eric Maisel
- Vidas Secas by Graciliano Ramos
- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
- 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know about Math and the Arts by John D. Barrow
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
- Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World by Steve Brusatte
- Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
- The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
- Fred Hoyle: A Life in Science by Simon Mitton
- Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System by Ray Jayawardhana
- Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?: The Munk Debates by Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton, Malcom Gladwell