The books I read in 2019
This list is a bit more sparse than I would have liked, but a lot happened in 2019 (both personally and professionally) that got in the way of my favorite pastime. Hell, even my Pocket numbers were way down from last year (though, and let’s be clear, I think I probably was still the #1 reader overall 🤪).
It didn’t feel like there was a big theme this cycle, apart from the usual science, technology, and history stuff. But that said, one thing that truly got its claws in my brain the last quarter of the year was quantum mechanics, and so you can expect to see quite a few books around that subject in next year’s list.
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- One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon by Charles Fishman
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made by Andy Hertzfeld
- Patek Philippe: The Authorized Biography by Nicholas Foulkes
- Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins by Annie Jacobsen
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- Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
- Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll
- Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
- The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli’s
- The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. by Evan Ratliff
- Siege: Trump Under Fire by Michael Wolff
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Where Angels Tread Lightly: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume 1 by John Newman
- Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume 2 by John Newman
- Into the Storm: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume 3 by John Newman
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- Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House by Cliff Sims
- CIA & JFK: The Secret Assassination Files by Jefferson Morley
- Outgrowing God by Richard Dawkins