2020 Reading List

This year was hard for me, and also everyone else I know. Sometimes I used reading for escapism, and other times I wanted to learn more about basically… why are things so bad right now. Not the most fun, but I did learn a lot.

Books That Rocked My Worldview

• This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West (top book for my 2020)
• Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History (Kurt Anderson double-header, oh yeahhhhh)
• Debt — Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

Capitalism, Basically

• Uses of Decorating (oh no this appears to be an art book with no internet presence… shoot, it’s really good!!)
• Lurking
• Bad Blood
• Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
• Uncanny Valley
• The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism
• Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime

Some Nice Fiction

• The Pisces
• So Sad Today
• New Waves
• Ghost Hardware
• Dune (a re-read :) )

Thinking About How I Think

• The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity-and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
• Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

2021

I’m on a heavy earth-sciences kick, so I’m hoping to read more books on geology and/or the geologic history of the American west. I’m kicking off the year by starting Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World ❤