Books read in 2020

I see what you did there. You're trying to make it look longer and more impressive by listing "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens twice.

Here's mine mostly non-fiction I have put an asterisk next to recommended ones, wish I could read more-

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey*

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi*

The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey

A time to keep silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand*

So you've been publicly shamed by John Ronson

The Irrational Ape by David Robert Grimes*

On Fire by Naomi Klein

Leaving the Saints by Martha Beck

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Man's Search for meaning by Viktor Frankl*

Chauvet Cave by Jean-Marie Chauvet*

Stop reading the news by Rolf Dobelli*

Encyclical on Climate Change by Pope Francis

The Emperor's Last Island by Julia Blackburn

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In the middle of now-

The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski

Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne

One, two, three, four The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

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@totalsurv Ha, I'm not the only one who is in the middle of several books at a time.

There's definitely more, these were the easy ones to export.?ÿ (FWIW, I don't have a TV anymore, so reading is about it for the evenings)?ÿ?ÿ

• A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth - Chris Smaje
• The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History - Alexander Mikaberidze
• American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman - F. O. Matthiessen
• The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building - Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, Misha Talavera
• CEO Tools 2.0: A System to Think, Manage, and Lead Like a CEO - Jim Canfield, Kraig Kramers
• A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America - James Horn
• The Lore of Scotland: A guide to Scottish legends - Jennifer Westwood, Sophia Kingshill
• Oak: The Frame of Civilization - William Bryant Logan
• Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain - Peter Fiennes
• Out of the Deep: And Other Supernatural Tales - Walter de la Mare
• To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne - Alistair Moffat
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz
• Nature's Chaos - James Gleick, Eliot Porter
• Bourbon Curious - Fred Minnick
• Appalachia: A History - John Alexander Williams
• The Forest Passage - Ernst J?¬nger
• Thinkers Against Modernity - Keith Preston
• The History of Jazz - Ted Gioia
• The Storm of Steel?ÿ - Ernst J?¬nge
• Winged Victory - V M Yeates
• H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction - H. P. Lovecraft (duh)
• Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills - Neil Ansell
• Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin - Joseph Plumb Martin (once again, duh)
• The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America - Walter R. Borneman
• Tools for Conviviality - Ivan Illich
• White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 - Donald Hall
• Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist - Julius Evola
• Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi - Mark Boyle
• The Quest of the Simple Life - William J. Dawson
• Northern Lights - George Mackay Brown
• Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville - David S. Reynolds
• A Little History Of The English Country Church - Roy Strong
• A Christian Theology of Place (Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology) - John Inge
• The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism?ÿ - Nicholas Saul
• The Psalter, or the Psalms of David: Translated by Miles Coverdale and arranged according to the 1928 use
• The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage - David Culp
• Poetic Meter and Poetic Form - Paul Fussell
• The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking - James Matthew Wilson
• Collected Poems?ÿ - Michael Longley

John Grisham (my favorite author) isnƒ??t on Gutenberg is he?

Yƒ??all got me beat by a wide margin I have only read 32, mostly old NYT bestsellers that ƒ??Bookbubƒ? letƒ??s me know when they are on sale fo $0.99-1.99. ?????ÿ

@bruce-small?ÿ My wife said to tell you that if you wanted to read some other good books, then find anything by Greg Iles, Phillip Margolin and David Baldacci.?ÿ She is retired now and read 118 books this year.

I feel so unworthy. All I've read this year are a few "Perry Mason" novels and one metric 'F ton of SurveyorConnect postings.?ÿ

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A time to keep silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Regardless of what the recent Dos Equis beer advertising campaign may have implied; Patrick Leigh Fermor was the most interesting man in the world.

A BBC journalist once described him as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leigh_Fermor

@ekillo My wife is a big fan of Baldacci. The problem, as you know, is so many books and so little time.

@flga-2-2 No, but he is in the library system which is how cheap me gets his books to read on my Kindle.

?ÿHe is a cross between those three and Charlie Harper of Two and a Half Men.

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Great, I've spent a fortune on Grisham books, one that you might like is "Ford County", it's short stories that I think could be turned into full novel bestsellers. ?????ÿ

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Books read in 2020, mostly old ones from Project Gutenberg, some good, some stinkers, but I especially recommend a recent autobiography: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi.

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I've read that one. In my line of work, it's a must read!!!!! ???

I am part of a book group called "A Year of Reading Dangerously; Exploring Death and the Afterlife Through Books". They have some good ones that we read. I wasn't able to keep up as much this year, but the ones they did recommend, most I had already read and own in my personal collection. I sometimes use my books as reference manuals when I am dealing with a certain type of dying patient that the book will help me with. ?????ÿ

@noodles Have you read Being Mortal by Atul Gawande and The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski?

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I have Being Mortal in my collection. The Five Invitations...I don't think so. I'll have to look into it. ????

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Abridged with author's permission by?ÿ Edward Ericson, mandatory reading in Russia and should be worldwide)

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire-Volume I by Edward Gibbon (Dry, but informative.?ÿ One of the most influential histories at the time of America's founding)

Biocentrism by Robert Lanza?ÿ ( an argument for the inclusion of consciousness in our ongoing attempt to unify General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics.?ÿ Delves into the odd phenomenon of quantum superpositions)?ÿ

On Writing by Stephen King ( a quasi biography with concise advise and instruction for would be writers)

American Serengeti by Dan Flores (If only time machines were real)

The Boer War by Winston Churchill (I'm not rushing out to read more of Winston Churchill's work)

The Forager's Harvest by Samuel Thayer (Best foraging book I've read to date.?ÿ Thayer selects a handful of choice edibles and details how to turn them into delicious meals.?ÿ I particularly liked the immature milk-weed pods)

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The Forager's Harvest by Samuel Thayer (Best foraging book I've read to date. Thayer selects a handful of choice edibles and details how to turn them into delicious meals. I particularly liked the immature milk-weed pods)

That sounds like one to check out.?ÿ I was a big fan of Euell Gibbons' Stalking the Wild Asparagus series until I realized you may be able to eat it, but the reason it is not in the stores is it tastes like crap!

"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Numeroff

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The first book my father gave me was the operations manual for the IBM CB 360. Oddly enough I enjoyed reading it. I would still rather read a technical or reference book than a novel.?ÿ

2021 I will start with the 1930 manual. After that I have a collection of case studies to plow though. To each his own...