I Read 52 Books in 2020: This is the full list

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I read 2 books in 2019. By making a small change and creating a good system, I increased that number by 50 in 2020. That’s one book a week, on average. I update my top 10 books of the year each month. Here is the full reading list in order of finish date (first to last) and sorted by non-fiction and fiction.

[Completed December 6th, 2020]

Non-Fiction

1. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel — Alexander Chee
2. Me Talk Pretty One Day — David Sedaris
3. Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry — Neil DeGrasse Tyson
5. David and Goliath — Malcolm Gladwell
6. The Uninhabitable Earth — David Wallace-Wells
7. 10% Happier — Dan Harris
8. Originals — Adam Grant
9. But What if We’re Wrong? — Chuck Klosterman
10. War on Peace — Ronan Farrow
11. Start With Why — Simon Sinek
12. Digital Minimalism — Cal Newport
13. Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics — Dan Harris, Jeff Warren, Carlye Adler
14. When — Daniel H. Pink
15. ‏‏‎ ‎The $100 Startup — Chris Guillebeau
16. Talking to Strangers — Malcolm Gladwell
17. The Gene — Siddhartha Mukherjee
18. Side Hustle — Chris Guillebeau
19. The Fifth Risk — Michael Lewis
20. The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
21. Into Thin Air — Jon Krakauer
22. The 4-Hour Workweek — Tim Ferriss
23. How to Do Nothing — Jenny Odell
24. Born a Crime — Trevor Noah
25. Range — David Epstein
26. Hillbilly Elegy — J.D. Vance
27. Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
28. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — David Sedaris
29. White Fragility — Robin DiAngelo
30. Atomic Habits — James Clear
31. Zero to One — Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
32. What the Dog Saw — Malcolm Gladwell
33. Deep Work — Cal Newport
34. The Art of Non-Conformity — Chris Guillebeau
35. Bad Blood — John Carreyrou
36. Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek
37. The New Human Revolution: Volume 1 — Daisaku Ikeda
38. The Power of Ritual — Casper ter Kuile
39. Dead Wake — Erik Larson
40. Essentialism — Greg McKeown
41. When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi

Fiction

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon
2. Artemis — Andy Weir
3. Cherry — Nico Walker
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz
5. Trust Exercise — Susan Choi
6. The Water Dancer — Ta-Nehisi Coates
7. Jitterbug Perfume — Tom Robbins
8. The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
9. Sleeping Giants —Sylvian Neuvel
10. Dune — Frank Herbert
11. Dark Matter — Blake Crouch

I accessed every one of these books for FREE with my U.S. library card and the app Libby. I can’t recommend this app highly enough.