2019 Reading

A listing of the 81 books read in 2019. 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.

Stubborn Attachments — A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals by Tyler Cowen	The Ashtray — (Or the Man Who Denied Reality) by Errol Morris	The Perfectionists — How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester	Overcharged — Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care by Charles Silver and David A. Hyman	The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton	How Language Began — The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett
Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore	The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein	Them — Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal by Ben Sasse	The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy	Network Propaganda — Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts	Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
Endangered by C. J. Box	Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard	Mother American Night — My Life in Crazy Times by John Perry Barlow	A Think Tank for Liberty — A Personal History of Reason Foundation by Robert W. Poole	Identity — The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama	Unjust — Social Justice and the Unmaking of America by Noah Rothman
Melting Pot or Civil War? — A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders by Reihan Salam	Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry	Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny	Past Tense by Lee Child	Governing Least — A New England Libertarianism by Dan Moller	Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
Nothing Stays Buried by P. J. Tracy	Love Your Enemies — How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks	Badlands by C. J. Box	Misery Bay by Steve Hamilton	The Social Media Upheaval by Glenn Harlan Reynolds	An Economist Walks into a Brothel — And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk by Allison Schrager
The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein	Complexity — A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell	When All Else Fails — The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice by Jason Brennan	Fall — or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson	Between Two Scorpions by Jim Geraghty	The Second World Wars — How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
The Likeness by Tana French	Blueprint — The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis	The Day After Tomorrow by Robert A. Heinlein	The Coddling of the American Mind — How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff	Why Free Will Is Real by Christian List	The Mark of the Assassin by Daniel Silva
The Smallest Minority — Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics by Kevin D. Williamson	A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais	The Inclusive Economy — How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor by Michael D. Tanner	Alienated America — Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse by Timothy P. Carney	The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke	Big Business — A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero by Tyler Cowen
Die A Stranger by Steve Hamilton	Simple Dreams — A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt	The Rule of Nobody — Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government by Philip K. Howard	Openness to Creative Destruction — Sustaining Innovative Dynamism by Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.	Raylan by Elmore Leonard	The Doomsday Calculation — How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe by William Poundstone
The Great Debate — Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin	Semicolon — The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark by Cecelia Watson	Cracks in the Ivory Tower — The Moral Mess of Higher Education by Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness	Bad Blood — Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou	The Idealist — Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty by Nina Munk	The Conservative Sensibility by George F. Will
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson	Panic Attack — Young Radicals in the Age of Trump by Robby Soave	Socialism Sucks — Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell	Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite — My Story by Roger Daltrey	Case Histories by Kate Atkinson	Faithful Place by Tana French
Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace	A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin	The Political Spectrum — The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone by Thomas Winslow Hazlett	Shall We Wake the President? — Two Centuries of Disaster Management from the Oval Office by Tevi Troy	Off the Grid by C. J. Box	Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
1920 — The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza	Lost in Math — How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder	How Charts Lie — Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo	Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane	Waldo and Magic Inc. by Robert A. Heinlein	Prince of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
The Birth of Loud — Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll by Ian S. Port	The End Is Always Near — Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin	Lessons From Lucy — The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog by Dave Barry