2020 Reading List

Books Read in 2020:

• The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself - Sean Carroll
• The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
• Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (audio) - Nir Eyal, Julie Li
• Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms - Hannah Fry
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics - Richard Thaler
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds - Michael Lewis
• Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction - Derek Thompson
• The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life - Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t - Nate Silver
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
• Raise Your Game: High-Performance Secrets from the Best of the Best - Alan Stein
• K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches - Tyler Kepner
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing - Daniel H. Pink
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction - Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
• The Shift - Colby Martin
• Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose - Joe Biden
• The Sin of Certainty - Peter Enns
• How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much - Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
• The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets - Graham Farmelo
• The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition: Your Journey to Mastery - David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

Textbooks Completed:

• Statistical Rethinking - Richard McElreath

The Great Courses Lectures Completed:

• Understanding Complexity - Scott E. Page
• The Learning Brain - Thad A. Polk

Audible Originals:

• Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World - Michael Pollan
• The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen

Last Update - December 22, 2020