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March 17, 2021 at 1:15 PM
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One year ago, I sat at a local pub and had a plate of fish and chips for lunch. It was St. Patrick’s Day, and it was the last day before all the restaurants closed in my little corner of the world.
Hospitals filled up; lots of people died. We stopped doing almost everything, and struggled to find ways to do our remaining everyday tasks in a fashion that wouldn’t kill our (or anyone else’s) parents. Somewhere in there a mob of lunatics stormed the Capitol. So, yeah, not a great year.
With everyone’s mental health shot, I think we could all use something a bit more positive right now than another week of my melodramatic political musings. One of the few upsides of the pandemic was a lot more time to read, and I ploughed through books over the past 12 months. Thus, in no particular order, here are 15 of the best nonfiction books I read during the worst year of everyone’s life, and why I would recommend each one of them to you.