Reading has emerged as a favorite hobby of mine during 2020. Amidst a desire for escapism people have crafted new hobbies ranging from bread baking to Animal Crossing. I have turned to books. Whether it’s fiction or non-fiction, the mental worlds that you can occupy through reading have been a welcome change in entertainment from the nightly Netflix cue. I won’t say any more. I’ll just mention what I’ve read this year that will stick with me going into 2021 and beyond. Not all of these books came out in 2020 (although some did).

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

This would take the cake for the best book I’ve read in 2020

I suppose it make sense I promote a book from a fellow psych PhD but in Maria Konnikova’s The Biggest Bluff, we learn…