For those that are impatient, here’s the list:
Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
The Making of a Manager, Julie Zuho
Boom Town, Sam Anderson
How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, Michael Sorkin
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
The Story of More, Hope Jahren
Superlife, Darien Olien
Range, David Epstein – in progress
How to be an Antiracist – Ibram X Kendi – in progress
One book per month was my goal and I’ve come close to meeting that. It wasn’t the pandemic that had me reading more this year. I decided at the end of 2019 that I wanted to get back to reading more frequently and happened across a list of books Alex JD Smith posted on his IG story around this time last year. I figured something from that list would be a good starting point so asked for a few recommendations. The first 4 on my 2020 list above are all from his 2019 list.
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