In 2019 I consumed a lot of books that I would consider "impulse adds" on Goodreads. A bunch were from authors I heard on radio or podcasts. I know I attempted a novel, a collection of short stories and maybe other works of fiction this year, but clearly they did not stick.

As always, this is not a list of endorsements—just an honest list of books I consumed. I will use a ⭐ star emoji to denote books I thoroughly enjoyed or would recommend. I'll also use emoji to denote whether I consumed each item on this list as a 📖 paper book, 📱ebook, or listened as 🎧 audio.

1. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
   by Andrea Nagle
   📱Finished on Jan. 11
    

2. The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It...Every Time
   by Maria Konnikova
   🎧 Finished on Jan. 12
    

3. The State of Jones ⭐
   by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer
   🎧 Finished on Jan. 28
    

4. Janesville: An American Story
   by Amy Goldstein
   🎧 Finished on Feb. 3
    

5. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
   by David Graeber
   🎧 Finished on Feb. 9
    

6. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup ⭐
   by John Carreyrou
   🎧 Finished on April 20
    

7. Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia ⭐
   by Steven Stoll
   📖 Finished on May 4
    

8. Bunk: The True Story of Hoaxes, Hucksters, Humbug, Plagiarists, Forgeries, and Phonies
   by Kevin Young
   🎧 Finished on May 23
    

9. Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
   by Annie Lowrey
   🎧 Finished on May 27
    

10. Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
    by Roger McNamee
    🎧 Finished on June 2
     

11. The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes and Racism in America's Law Enforcement and the Search for Change ⭐
    by Matthew Horace
    🎧 Finished on June 16
     

12. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
    by Steven Novella
    🎧 Finished on July 4
     

13. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
    by Jason Stanley
    🎧 Finished on July 7
     

14. How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
    by Akiko Busch
    🎧 Finished on July 12
     

15. Thick: And Other Essays ⭐
    by Tressie McMillan Cottom
    📖 Finished on July 18
     

16. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
    by Robin DiAngelo
    🎧 Finished on Aug. 10
     

17. Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace ⭐
    by Nikil Saval
    📖 Finished on Sept. 9
     

18. Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design ⭐
    by Kat Holmes
    📖 Finished on Sept. 14
     

19. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
    by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
    🎧 Finished on Sept. 19
     

20. Educated
    by Tara Westover
    🎧 Finished on Oct. 19
     

21. Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
    by Richard V. Reeves
    📱 Finished on Nov. 17
     

22. Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr ⭐
    by Nancy Isenberg
    🎧 Finished on Dec. 31