My Reading in 2020
Good books in 2020
My normal goal is 52 books a year, without a strict week over week schedule, a burst method following my interests as they come.
Like many, 2020 was an atypical and stressful year for me, but reading is an atomic habit, and this year I managed to still read 42 books.
I'll highlight five as particularly good IMHO:
- Solutions and Other Problems
- Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps
- Exhaltation
- The Stench of Honolulu (reread)
- The Nickel Boys
I discovered some authors that I'm reading more of in 2021:
- Ottessa Moshfegh
- Colson Whitehead
- Amy Hempel
- Charles Bukowski (I can't decide if they are garbage or just a guilty pleasure)
Everything else, including many good books:
- Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- Homesick for Another World: Stories
- I Remember Nothing
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- MAKE: A bootstrapper's handbook
- Resilient Management
- Whistleblower
- The Manager's Path
- Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps
- The Motive
- The Manual
- Eileen
- Nine Lies about Work
- Uncanny Valley
- How to Lead When You are Not In Charge
- How Design Makes the World
- The Basics of User Experience Design: A UX Design Book
- The Nickel Boys
- Apple, Tree
- The Art of Leadership
- This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
- Medallion Status
- Company of One
- The Art of Noticing
- The Exploding Detective
- The Squirrel Who Saved Practically Everybody
- The Stench of Honolulu
- The Meditations
- Exhaltation
- Post Office
- Consider This
- Strange Planet
- Stranger Planet
- The Largess of the Sea Maiden
- Sing to It: New Stories
- The Truth about Employee Engagement
- Solutions and Other Problems
- The Founder's Mentality
- The Almanack of Naval
- Debugging Teams
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