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10 Books one should read in 2020

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With the new year around the corner, let's challenge ourselves to read at least 10 books this year! 1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future. Goodreads rating:4.44/5   2. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frank Victor Frankl was a leading psychologist in Vienna (Austria) when he was arrested for being a Jew during the Nazi