Books read in 2020

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2020.

• Nicholson Baker, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
• John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
• Ben Buchanan, The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
• Susannah Cahalan, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
• Michael Cohen, Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
• Myke Cole, Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World
• Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
• Barton Gellman, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
• Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (2012)
• James W. Johnson, Arizona Politicians: The Noble and the Notorious (2002)
• Gene Kim, The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
• Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
• Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
• Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
• Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (2018)
• Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America (2017)
• H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace, with Henry R. Schlesinger, Spy Sites of New York City: A Guide to the Region's Secret History (2020)
• Jefferson Morley, Morley v. CIA: My Unfinished JFK Investigation
• Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier, The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich & Powerful Hide Their Money
• Thomas Rid, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
• Brad Smith and Carol Anne Browne, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and Peril of the Digital Age
• Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
• Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry R. Schesinger, Spy Sites of Washington, DC: A Guide to the Capital Region's Secret History (2017)
• Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
• Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Top for 2020: Copeland, Macintyre, Cahalan, Smith and Browne, Buchanan, Obermayer and Obermaier, Gellman, Rid.

I started the following books I expect to finish in 2021 (yes, I also said that about LeFeber and Wilson last year--I'm well in to LaFeber's book and thought I might finish before the end of the year, but had only read Wilson's intro so it's barely started):

William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (2nd edition)
Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History

I've also pre-ordered and am looking forward to reading:

Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapon Arms Race (due to be published on February 9)

(Previously: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)