The Best Books I Read In 2020

As British philosopher C.A. Mace said, “curiosity is the appetite of the mind.”

First, my five most memorable reads this year (by authors alphabetical order):

• Kobe Bryant – The Mamba Mentality: How I Play – 2018 – 208 pages
• Eddie S. Glaude Jr. – James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own – 2020 – 272 pages
• Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer – No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention – 2020 – 320 pages
• Kim Scott – Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity – 2019 – 336 pages
• Jeffrey Toobin – True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump – 2020 – 496 pages

And now on to the other books I read in 2020:

• Neil Irwin – How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World: The Definitive Guide to Adapting and Succeeding in High-Performance Careers – 2019 – 304 pages
• Jonah Berger – The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind – 2020 – 288 pages
• Donald Rumsfeld – When the Center Held: Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency – 2018 – 352 pages
• Mark K. Updegrove – The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush – 2017 – 496 pages
• Jon Ward – Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party – 2019 – 400 pages
• Philip Norman – Paul McCartney: The Life – 2016 – 1 184 pages
• Bob Woodward – Rage – 2020 – 480 pages
• Ruth Marcus – Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover – 2019 – 496 pages
• Keach Hagey – The King of Content: Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire – 2018 – 384 pages
• Garrett M. Graff – The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 – 2019 – 512 pages
• Brian Stelter – Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth – 2020 – 368 pages
• Lan Liu – Conversations on Leadership: Wisdom from Global Management Gurus – 2010 – 272 pages
• Daniel M. Cable – Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do – 2018 – 224 pages
• Mayte Garcia – The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince – 2017 – 304 pages
• Sugar Ray Leonard with Michael Arkush – The Big Fight: My Life in and Out of the Ring – 2011 – 320 pages
• Horst Schulze with Dean Merrill – Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise – 2019 – 224 pages
• Molly Ball – Pelosi – 2020 – 368 pages
• Prince with Dan Piepenbring – The Beautiful Ones – 2019 – 288 pages
• Marc Benioff – Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change – 2019 – 272 pages
• Saul Austerlitz – Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era – 2019 – 367 pages
• Lisa Napoli – Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News – 2020 – 320 pages
• Michael Bamberger – The Second Life of Tiger Woods – 2020 – 272 pages
• Ryan Serhant – Sell It Like Serhant: How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine – 2018 – 240 pages
• Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig – A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America – 2020 – 480 pages
• Chris Smith – The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests – 2016 – 480 pages
• Jerry Rice with Brian Curtis – Go Long! Maximizing the Drive Within – 2007 – 178 pages
• Bob Iger – The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company – 2019 – 272 pages
• Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey – She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement – 2019 – 320 pages

Don’t hesitate to contact me if you are looking for tips on those books.