There's a dearth of fiction on this 2020 list, and I'm going to try to correct that in 2021. I have a Pynchon novel on the nightstand as well as a Murakami audiobook on my phone.

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. Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World
   by Carl Hiaasen
   🎧 Finished on Jan. 13
    

2. Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People ⭐
   by Thomas Frank
   🎧 Finished on Jan. 21
    

3. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom ⭐
   by David W. Blight
   🎧 Finished on Jan. 27
    

4. The Souls of Black Folk
   by W.E.B. Du Bois
   📖 Finished on Feb. 8
    

5. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus ⭐
   by Rick Perlstein
   🎧 Finished on Feb. 11
    

6. Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It
   by Thomas de Zengotita
   📖 Finished on Feb. 23
    

7. The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
   by Corey Robin
   🎧 Finished on Feb. 23
    

8. No Logo
   by Naomi Klein
   📖 Finished on March 17
    

9. Black Ops Advertising: Native Ads, Content Marketing, and the Covert World of the Digital Sell
   by Mara Einstein
   🎧 Finished on April 10
    

10. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump ⭐
    by Asad Haider
    📱 Finished on April 12
     

11. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
    by Rutger Bregman
    🎧 Finished on May 2
     

12. Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism ⭐
    by Touré F. Reed
    📱 Finished on May 4
     

13. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    by Yuval Noah Harari
    🎧 Finished on May 16
     

14. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing ⭐
    by Robert A. Caro
    🎧 Finished on May 24
     

15. Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business
    by Pamela Newkirk
    🎧 Finished on May 28
     

16. How to Be an Antiracist
    by Ibram X. Kendi
    🎧 Finished on June 11
     

17. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life ⭐
    by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

    📱 Finished on June 21
     

18. The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
    by Brenda Wineapple
    📱 Finished on June 28
     

19. The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality ⭐
    by Anna-Lisa Cox
    📖 Finished on July 13
     

20. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
    by Jon Ronson
    📱 Finished on July 18
     

21. A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
    by Bruce Cannon Gibney
    🎧 Finished on July 23/time>
     

22. Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
    by Michael Brooks
    📱 Finished on July 23
     

23. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap ⭐
    by Mehrsa Baradaran
    🎧 Finished on Sept. 2
     

24. Had I Known
    by Barbara Ehrenreich
    🎧 Finished on Sept. 11
     

25. So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    by Jon Ronson
    📱 Finished on Sept. 20
     

26. Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene ⭐
    by Adolph L. Reed Jr.
    📱 Finished on Sept. 23
     

27. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
    by Beverly Daniel Tatum
    🎧 Finished on Oct. 25
     

28. Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
    by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    🎧 Finished on Oct. 31
     

29. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
    by Isabel Wilkerson
    📱 Finished on Nov. 10
     

30. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
    by Jenny Odell
    📱 Finished on Nov. 19
     

31. Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk
    by Justin Tosia and Brandon Warmke
    🎧 Finished on Nov. 20
     

32. Something That May Shock and Discredit You
    by Daniel M. Lavery
    🎧 Finished on Nov. 26
     

33. This America: The Case for the Nation
    by Jill Lepore
    🎧 Finished on Dec. 6
     

34. Content Strategy for the Web ⭐
    by Kristina Halvorson
    📱 Finished on Dec. 6
     

35. The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
    by Bhaskar Sunkara
    🎧 Finished on Dec. 22
     

36. Cross-Cultural Design
    by Senongo Akpem
    📱 Finished on Dec. 24
     

37. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America ⭐
    by James Forman Jr.
    📖 Finished on Dec. 26
     

38. Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
    by Kurt Andersen
    🎧 Finished on Dec. 26
     

39. Accessibility for Everyone ⭐
    by Laura Kalbag
    📱 Finished on Dec. 31