Every January I post the previous year’s reading list. Here is 2020’s list: Out of the Ashes — Anthony Esolen Be Obsessed or Be Average — Grant Cardone Lucifer’s Hammer — Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari Extreme Ownership — Leif Babin and Jocko Willink King of Capital — John Morris and David Carey The Return of the King — J. R. R. Tolkein Your Blue Flame — Jennifer Fulwile Father Elijah — Michael D. O’Brien Elijah in Jerusalem — Michael D. O’Brien Live Not By Lies — Rob Dreher Hillbilly Elegy — J.D. Vance Angels in Iron — Nicholas Prata I didn’t start out 2020 thinking an apocalyptic novel about a Catholic Carmelite priest who’d converted from Judaism would be my favorite read of the year, but O’Brien’s Father Elijah and Elijah in Jerusalem were the most engrossing of the bunch. Angels in Iron was a fun blend of the warrior ethos (a la Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire) and Catholicism. Esolen’s Out of the Ashes was a great mental follow-up (with practical advice) to the diagnosis of the problem by Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option. Trying to read 120 good books this decade, so I…Continue reading 2020 Reading List