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
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:
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