To-Read Book List for 2020

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As 2020 approaches, I hope I can inspire more people to read, even if it is just one more book than they read this year. And it is for these people that I publish this book list, so the excuse of not having a book to pick up can be eliminated.

Below are a list of 52 books from which I plan to read most of my books for the new year. Enjoy.

HISTORY

1. A History of Christianity — Dairmaid MacCulloch
2. Discrimination and Disparities — Thomas Sowell
3. Billionaire Raj — James Crabtree
4. Dawn of Eurasia — Bruno Macaes
5. Rise and Kill First — Ronen Bergman
6. Triumph of the City — Edward Glaeser
7. Fifty Things That Made the Modern World — Tim Harford
8. The Templar — Dan Jones
9. Mafia Life — Federico Varese

AMERICA

1. Dignity — Chris Arnade
2. Capitalism in America — Alan Greenspan
3. The Age of Reform — Richard Hofstadter
4. Cheap Sex — Mark Regnerus
5. Hit Makers — Derek Thompson

AFRICA

1. The Looting Machine — Tom Burgis
2. Fighting Corruption is Dangerous — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
3. Afonja — Tunde Leye
4. Love Does Not Win Elections — Ayisha Osori
5. Barracoon — Zora Hurston
6. Dictatorland — Paul Kenyon
7. This Present Darkness — Stephen Ellis
8. The President’s Keeper — Jacques Pauw

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

1. Grit — Angela Duckworth
2. The Laws of Human Nature — Robert Greene
3. The Subtle Art of not Giving a Fuck — Mark Manson
4. Secrets of the Ages by Robert Collier
5. Deep Work — Cal Newport
6. What Are We Doing Here? — Marilynne Robinson
7. Entrepreneurial You — Dorie Clark

FICTION

1. ISHMAEL — Daniel Quinn
2. Arrow of God — Chinua Achebe
3. Pachinko — Min Jin Lin
4. Disgrace — J. M. Coetzee

BIOGRAPHY

1. Hit Refresh -Satya Nadella
2. When Breath becomes Air — Paul Kavanithi
3. David — Rabbi Wolpe
4. Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson

BRITAIN

1. Gladstone — Roy Jenkins
2. Rise and Fall of the British Empire — David Edgerton
3. The Secret Barrister — Unknown Author
4. Victorious Century — David Cannadine

CHINA

1. CEO, China — Kerry Brown
2. Prisoner of the State — Zhao Ziyang
3. China’s Great Wall of Debt — Dinny McMahon

ECONOMICS

1. Economics In One Lesson — Henry Hazlitt
2. The Complacent Class — Tyler Cowen

SUBJECT BOOKS

1. Attention Merchants — Tim Wu
2. Black Skin, White Masks — Frantz Fanon
3. Fundamentals of Aerodynamics — John D. Anderson
4. The Away Game — Sebastián Abbot
5. How to Love Wine — Eric Asimov
6. Concentrated Parenting — Cristina Odone