5 Books That Make Sense of 2020

Caleb Clark
Curious
Published in
8 min readDec 7, 2020

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These will help you understand what went wrong in the trash year 2020

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2020 has been…interesting, to say the least. In fact, it’s been downright awful. For some, the tragi-comedy of 2020 may seem like a neverending stream of bad luck.

However, today I will argue otherwise. A year like 2020 has been a long time coming, and unless there are substantial economic, political, and cultural shifts as a response to it, years like 2020 will become more frequent.

Even COVID-19 and the collapse of the global economy are more directly tied to policy failures and leaders outright ignoring the warnings of epidemiologists for decades.

Here are five books that will help you understand what led us to the dumpster fire that is 2020.

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

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Caleb Clark
Curious

Caleb is a full-time writer that writes about fiction, tech, films, and occasionally about politics. He is also an aspiring author.