The Books I Read in 2020

January 28, 2021

As last year went on, I kept thinking about this paragraph from The Last Emperox:

But at the end of it, everyone assumed that something or someone would come along to save the civilization that they lived in and could not conceive of actually disappearing. Something or someone would come along to save them. They would be saved, along with everyone else.

With that, the books I read in 2020. Continuing last year’s tradition, bolded books were ones I particularly enjoyed.

CX/Professional Non-Fiction

• Chief Customer Officer 2.0
• A Complaint is a Gift
• The Great Mental Models
• The Product is Docs
• Trillion Dollar Coach

Fiction

• Acceptance (Southern Reach)
• Children of Time (Children of Time)
• Children of Ruin (Children of Time)
• A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers)
• The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past)
• Dark Matter
• Delta-V
• Dune
• This is How You Lose the Time War
• The Last Colony (Old Man’s War)
• The Last Emperox (The Interdependency)
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers)
• Ready Player One
• Redshirts
• Recursion
• Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
• The Sinful Seven
• The Three Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past)
• Wool Omnibus

Non-Fiction

• American Kingpin
• Billion Dollar Loser
• Midnight in Chernobyl
• The Spy and the Traitor