2020 Reading

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