Thread by @ElonBachman

1\ Here are the best books I read in 2020 (thread)

Putting it out there a bit early, because nothing in my hopper promises to make the list

2019's list is linked in the first tweet

https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1213821120660590592

2\ The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms (Hoffer)

and

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Hoffer)

3\ The Myth of National Defense (Hoppe)

and

The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision (Changizi)

4\ 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less (Jones)

and

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Mann)

5\ A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Hoppe)

and

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Sabar)

6\ Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own (Jones)

and

Strength in What Remains (Kidder)

7\ The Birth and Death of the Sun: Stellar Evolution and Subatomic Energy (Gamow)

and

Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration (Caplan)

8\ A Planet Called Earth (Gamow)

and

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Crowley)

9\ The Founding Fish (McPhee)

and

Democracy: The God that Failed (Hoppe)

10\ The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years (White)

and

Charter Schools and Their Enemies (Sowell)

11\ The Norman Conquest (Morris)

and

Looking for a Ship (McPhee)

12\ The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone (Hazlett)

and

How Innovation Works and Why it Flourishes in Freedom (Ridley)

13\ The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Mencken)

and

America's Great Depression (Rothbard)

14\ Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic (Rothbard)

and

A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (Mencken)

15\ The Progressive Era (Rothbard)

and

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Human Nature and Other Essays (Rothbard)

16\ A Mencken Chrestomathy and Notes on Democracy (both Mencken)

and

Intelligence: All That Matters (Ritchie)

17\ Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War (Rothbard) and Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution (Rothbard)

and

The Soul of a New Machine (Kidder)

18\ Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: Salutary Neglect (Rothbard) and Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: The American Colonies in the 17th Century (Rothbard)

and

Socialism: The Failed Idea that Never Dies (Niemietz)

19\ For a New Liberty: A Libertarian Manifesto (Rothbard)

and

Autocracy (Tullock)

20\ What it Means to be a Libertarian (Murray)

and

The Ethics of Liberty (Rothbard)

21\ An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume 2: Classical Economics (Rothbard)

and

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume 1: Economic Thought before Adam Smith (Rothbard)

22\ Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles (Rothbard)

and

Power and Market: Government and the Economy (Rothbard)

and

Law, Legislation, and Liberty: Volume 1: Rules and Order

23\ An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy (Levinson)

and

We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s (Beck)

and

Law, Legislation, and Liberty: Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice (Hayek)

24\ Great Society: A New History (Shlaes)

and

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the People's Temple (Guinn)

and

and Law, Legislation, and Liberty: Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People (Hayek)

25\ Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class (Murray)

and

Globalizatoin (Boudreaux)

and

The Economics of Justice (Posner)