Best Books of 2020

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Of the books I read in 2020, these are my top selections:

Best New Book (published in 2019 - 2020):

The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned the Pandemic into a Catastrophe (Jay W. Richards, William M. Briggs, Douglas Axe)


Honorable Mention:

Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer (David P. Scaer)

The Case for Trump (Victor Davis Hanson)


Best Older Book (published before 2019):

The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (Michael Walsh)

Honorable Mention:

Law, Life, and the Living God (Scott R. Murray)

The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)

The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)



Best Reread:

Eucharist and Church Fellowship in the First Four Centuries (Werner Elert)




Other Books Read in 2020:

  • Jingle Bell Pop: How to Make a Holiday Hit (John Seabrook)

  • The Memoirs of St. Peter: A New Translation of the Gospel According to Mark (Michael Pakaluk)

  • Playing with Fire: A Modern Investigation into Demons, Exorcism, and Ghosts (Billy Hallowell)

  • The End of Christendom (Malcolm Muggeridge)

  • One Minute Out (Mark Greaney)

  • Idiot Psalms: New Poems (Scott Cairns)

  • The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power (Jakub J. Grygiel and A. Wess Mitchell)

  • The Clicking of Cuthbert (P.G. Wodehouse)

  • The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes the Heart to God (Frederica Mathewes-Green)

  • Lethal Agent (Kyle Mills [Vince Flynn])

  • The Day Is Now Far Spent (Robert Cardinal Sarah, Nicolas Diat)

  • Lectures on the Christian Sacraments (Saint Cyril of Jerusalem; ed. F.L. Cross)

  • The Black Echo (Michael Connelly)

  • Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt (Arthur C. Brooks)

  • Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board (Vince Houghton)

  • Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (James Clear)

  • Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy (Jonah Goldberg)

  • Mr. Mulliner Speaking (P.G. Wodehouse)

  • Happiness and Contemplation (Josef Pieper)

  • God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas [reread] (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

  • Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod (James C. Burkee)