How to Read a Book

How to Read a Book is a practical book that lays out how you should go about reading non-fiction books that deserve your full attention and focus, and in doing so, works towards convincing you that actively reading books is worth doing, and worth doing well. Many of the pointers are easy to guess at, even though it's rare to see them employed; reading the table of contents, categorizing a book as narrowly as possible, laying out the author's arguments before diving into them - these are all practices that, with practice and proper application, will save you from reading good books without comprehending them (i.e. becoming simultaneously widely and poorly read). It should also save you from reading poorly-written books almost entirely.

A high-level overview is available on Wikipedia. That being said, I highly encourage you to buy your own copy, along with a highlighter, and get to work on reading it cover to cover.

I look forward to reading some of the suggested books in 2020.