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2020 books read

These were books given as gifts and those I wanted to read. It can be quite fun to read a book and discuss it with others. Note, I am someone who likes reading a variety of ideas, including those that contradict each other, as was the case in these books.

The Books

  • Beyond Sight by Gayle Sommerfeld
  • Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christenson, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan
  • The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
  • The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
  • I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Athiest by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek
  • The Ruthless Elimination Of Hurry by John Mark Comer
  • Mackinac, An Island Famous in These Regions by Phil Porter
  • Disrupting Class by Clayton M. Christenson, Michael B. Horn, Curtis W. Johnson
  • Restoring Civility by Kent R. Hunter with Tracee J. Swank
  • Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success In A Distracted World by Cal Newport
  • Shop Class As Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
  • The Innovators Prescription by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman, Jason Hwang
  • Calm Technology by Amber Case
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker

Some Notes

  • One book by and about a woman founder
  • 10 books (62.5%) written by PhDs
  • The oldest of these was published in 1945
  • One book that is strictly on history (I do this at least once a year)
  • Just two fiction books
  • Two books on healthcare and disease (what better to read about in a pandemic, right?)
  • 11 of the books (68.75%) were given to me as a gift
  • 15 (93.75%) were read in dead tree format. Just one was electronic
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