Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

I plan to write my next book, this time on leadership and the environment.

I see a lack of leadership -- like a Mandela of the environment. I don't call telling people what to do or spreading facts, figures, doom, and gloom leadership. Nor do I see anyone of renown trying to live by values that would lead us to sustainability and sharing how they create joy, community, and connection. Even Greta promotes panic.

I believe we crave leadership so we can act on our values and overcome the jaded cynicism, shame, guilt, and pointing fingers. We want to take responsibility, to pick up other people's trash, to fly less when we see the compassion and empathy in it, when we can feel the meaning and purpose those who went to jail for other people's freedom did in the US civil rights struggle half a century ago or fighting Hitler a generation before.

My podcast Leadership and the Environment http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast, and my experience acting, have taught me a lot.

I plan to read:

- "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber

- "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief" by Lawrence Wright

- "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves" by Matt Ridley

- "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life" by William Finnegan

Ken MacLeod. I read most of his hard SF, and I am just about to finish re-reading Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution (The Star Fraction + The Stone Canal). It’s a great series, often underrated because it’s more political and technical. The Stone Canal is probably the best of the series.

I plan to re-read Descent and The Restoration Game, at the least.

Haven’t made yet a list of new stuff to read, I’ll pick stuff is it comes.

Seeing Like a State Robert Caro's Lyndon B. Johnson biographies The Overstory

I’d like to finally read something by Jason Fung.

I have been trying fasting on and off for about 6 months and I can see results, but I have not bothered to check the theory behind it at all.

If anybody would like to recommend some books on nutrition, body aging and general health regarding food, bring it!