A listing of the 90 books read in 2020. Clicking on the image will take you to the Amazon (paid link) page for the book; clicking on the title will take you to my blog entry for the book.
Romance of the Rails — Why the Passenger Trains We Love Are Not the Transportation We Need
by Randal O'Toole
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The Guilty Dead
by P. J. Tracy
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The Darwin Affair
by Tim Mason
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Something Deeply Hidden — Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
by Sean Carroll
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Vicious Circle
by C. J. Box
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Let It Burn
by Steve Hamilton
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Your House Will Pay
by Steph Cha
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Great Society — A New History
by Amity Shlaes
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Why Liberalism Works — How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
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The Sentence is Death
by Anthony Horowitz
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Frederick Douglass — Self-Made Man
by Timothy Sandefur
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To Say Nothing of the Dog — or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump At Last
by Connie Willis
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Lady in the Lake
by Laura Lippman
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More from Less — The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources―and What Happens Next
by Andrew McAfee
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The Bomb — Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
by Fred Kaplan
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Angel Eyes
by Ace Atkins
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One Good Turn
by Kate Atkinson
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The Contact Paradox — Challenging our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
by Keith Cooper
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Dark Sacred Night
by Michael Connelly
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A Trick of Light
by Stan Lee and Kat Rosenfield
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Heaven, My Home
by Attica Locke
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Humble Pi — When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
by Matt Parker
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10% Less Democracy — Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
by Garett Jones
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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Broken Harbor
by Tana French
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The Second Life of Nick Mason
by Steve Hamilton
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The American Dream Is Not Dead — (But Populism Could Kill It)
by Michael R. Strain
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The Number of the Beast
by Robert A. Heinlein
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Paradise Valley
by C. J. Box
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Noir
by Christopher Moore
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The Diamond Age — Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
by Neal Stephenson
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Blue Moon
by Lee Child
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The GOAT
by Roger L. Simon
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The Disappeared
by C. J. Box
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The Pursuit of the Pankera — A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes
by Robert A. Heinlein
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The Big Book of the Continental Op
by Dashiell Hammett
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How To — Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
by Randall Munroe
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The Secret Place
by Tana French
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Open Borders — The Science and Ethics of Immigration
by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith
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Exit Strategy
by Steve Hamilton
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The Origins of Virtue — Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
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Friday
by Robert A. Heinlein
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The Monkey's Raincoat
by Robert Crais
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
by Joe Posnanski
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Confessions of an Innocent Man
by David R. Dow
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The Price We Pay — What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It
by Marty Makary, MD
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The Good Cop
by Peter Steiner
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Willful — How We Choose What We Do
by Richard Robb
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Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson
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Space Cadet
by Robert A. Heinlein
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Conviction
by Denise Mina
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands — Thinkers of the New Left
by Roger Scruton
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Historical Impromptus — Notes, Reviews, and Responses on the British Experience and the Great Enrichment
by Deirdre McCloskey
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Shakespeare for Squirrels
by Christopher Moore
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The Decadent Society — How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by Ross Douthat
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In Sunlight and in Shadow
by Mark Helprin
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The Trespasser
by Tana French
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The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols — Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.
by Nicholas Meyer
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How Innovation Works — And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
by Matt Ridley
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Ice Cold Heart
by P. J. Tracy
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The Hot Hand — The Mystery and Science of Streaks
by Ben Cohen
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When Will There Be Good News?
by Kate Atkinson
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The Long Fix — Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone
by Vivian Lee
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The Confusion
by Neal Stephenson
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The Star Beast
by Robert A. Heinlein
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Science Fictions — How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
by Stuart Ritchie
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A Song for a New Day
by Sarah Pinsker
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
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The Good Killer
by Harry Dolan
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The Dream Universe — How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way
by David Lindley
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Squeeze Me
by Carl Hiaasen
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Dear Committee Members
by Julie Schumacher
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Gentle on My Mind — In Sickness and in Health with Glen Campbell
by Kim Campbell
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear — The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
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Human Diversity — The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
by Charles Murray
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Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
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Fake Like Me
by Barbara Bourland
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Apocalypse Never — Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
by Michael Shellenberger
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Stalking the Angel
by Robert Crais
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Big White Ghetto — Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America"
by Kevin D. Williamson
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The Power of Bad — How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
by John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister
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The Stranger Diaries
by Elly Griffiths
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The Witch Elm
by Tana French
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The River
by Peter Heller
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself — A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
by David Lipsky
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Cynical Theories — How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity and Why This Harms Everybody
by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
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Countdown 1945 — The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
by Chris Wallace
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Smoke and Ashes
by Abir Mukherjee
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