2020 Bookshelf

Historical Fiction

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles*

The Reader - Bernhard Schlink*

Up Country - Nelson DeMille*

The Given Day - Dennis LeHane*

Personal Development/Health

The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson*

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

Think Like A Monk - Jay Shetty*

The Climb - Anatoli Boukreev

Fiction

The Last Trial - Scott Turow*

The Guardians - John Grishman

Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow

Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer

Non-Fiction

Catch and Kill - Ronan Farrow*

Travel Light Move Fast - Alexandra Fuller*

The Fish That Ate the Whale - Rich Cohen*

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World - Bradley Hope

Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape: The Remarkable Life of Jacques Anquetil, The First Five Times Winner of the Tour de France - Paul Howard

The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes From A Mud Hut - Nigel Barley

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Business

The Four - Scott Galloway*

Food/Food Systems

Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time, Mark Hyman, MD*

Key Takeaways: This book, first read in 2020, marks the beginning of my journey to understanding the impacts that the food system and food policies have on our health. Prior to reading this book (and subsequently The Omnivores Dilemma), I never considered how things like subsidizing grain farmers and the prevalence of food deserts contribute to the growing health epidemic. Food Fix is a good primer for anyone interested in learning more about these topics and how the system is designed (intentionally or not) to keep people sick.

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