One of things this year reinforced is that I look at and understand the world in a radically different way. Along those lines, I picked up one of Aaron’s books and it was painfully accurate. Quite often in life, there are things we don’t want to hear and don’t want to acknowledge but we have to get over it. I came across Asshole Consulting years ago and thought it was a great angle on things. Prince of Shadows (The Covenant Chronicles Book 3).

Check out this series if you’re into any or all of the above. It’s a fun one where loyalties aren’t quite clear and getting muddier every day. In a world where magic is real, angels and demons interfere with world affairs, and there are even bigger forces in play, this series injects espionage into the mix.

Battle Ground was a huge payoff and the Dresden story isn’t done. This pair of books is a fantastic combo but the first is entirely setup for the second. After 20 years of stories, seeing the character development, various threads come together, and Jim becoming an amazing storyteller is great.

This is really good and gets into the mindset of a soldier similar to “Starship Troopers” (the book, not the movie) but it’s the first of 50+ books so I’ll wait to pick up the rest. In Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy Book 1), we get the very beginnings of the fall of the human empire. I’ve never played Warhammer 40k but always loved the lore and the idea behind it. Corporate Confidential from Cynthia ShapiroĪnd here are the 45 books I completed in 2020, sorted by author:.Enforcer from the Four Horseman Universe (Note: This is based immediately after Gunboat Diplomacy).Gunboat Diplomacy from the Four Horseman Universe (Note: this is deep into the series but can be read independently).Regardless, I stuck towards my goal of 24 non-fiction books which would clear my bookshelf and completely failed after only reading four. With the Kindle app and travel, that was always easy. It can be fiction, non-fiction, technical, business-oriented, or whatever as the goal was to always be absorbing and digesting new ideas and information, even just for fun. After college, I resolved to read one book a month.

Horus heresy reading order 2021