My 2020 Reading List
I set as a goal in 2020 the ambitious aim to complete 50 books over 52 weeks. I didn't quite get there, but I did manage to complete 26. In addition, I read parts of four others and read probably a 100 or more journal and long-form magazine articles from a variety of sources. The four that I did not complete simply failed to sustain my interest. In general, I try to muddle through a book out of respect to the author's efforts. But, I have come to realize that sometimes the best use of my time is not to spend time on an endeavor that I found not interesting or relevant to my interests. A couple of others, chiefly on electronics, I'm still working on, as they are detailed, and time-consuming.
For 2021 I have set a goal of 30 books (pushing up just a bit from 2020). We'll see how I fare.
Here, though, are the books that I completed in 2020:
| Title | Authors | Finished Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Make It Stick | Brown, Peter C.; (III), Henry L. Roediger; McDaniel, Mark A. | 2020-01-03 |
| The Lost Valley | Scoullar, Jennifer | 2020-01-04 |
| The Meaning of it All | Feynman, Richard Phillips | 2020-01-08 |
| Payoff | Ariely, Dan | 2020-02-11 |
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom | Lawrence, T. E. | 2020-02-15 |
| Nightfall | Asimov, Isaac; Silverberg, Robert | 2020-02-18 |
| Prelude to Foundation | Asimov, Isaac; DiFate, Vincent | 2020-02-22 |
| Foundation | Asimov, Isaac | 2020-02-24 |
| What Money Can't Buy | Sandel, Michael J. | 2020-03-02 |
| Integrity | Carter, Stephen L. | 2020-03-14 |
| The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke | Clarke, Arthur C. | 2020-04-21 |
| Social Intelligence | Goleman, Daniel | 2020-04-21 |
| Consider Phlebas | Banks, Iain M. | 2020-04-30 |
| House of Spies | Silva, Daniel | 2020-05-09 |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | Toole, John Kennedy | 2020-05-18 |
| Enola Gay | Thomas, Gordon; Morgan-Witts, Max | 2020-06-21 |
| The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | Richardson, Kim Michele | 2020-06-28 |
| Where the Crawdads Sing | Owens, Delia | 2020-07-01 |
| Powers | Guin, Ursula K. Le | 2020-07-05 |
| The English Spy | Silva, Daniel | 2020-07-10 |
| Lonely Vigil | Lord, Walter | 2020-07-14 |
| Typee | Melville, Herman | 2020-07-21 |
| Expecting Jeeves | Wodehouse, P. G. | 2020-07-24 |
| Seizing the Enigma | Kahn, David | 2020-08-05 |
| Enlightenment Now | Pinker, Steven | 2020-08-12 |
| A Handful of Men | Duncan, Dave | 2020-08-12 |
| Thinking | Brockman, John | 2020-11-06 |