Reading in 2021

A page detailing what I read in 2021. Any must-read recommendations will have a heart ♥ next to them. That means I could see myself reading it again. Other books may be worth reading, but I may not get as much value out of rereads.

A running list of my favorite books.

Back to the reading index.

  1. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
  2. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
  3. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
  4. Ultralight: The Zen Habits Guide to Traveling Light & Living Light by Leo Babauta
  5. Agile Accessibility Handbook: A Practical Guide to Accessible Software Development At Scale by Dylan Barrell
  6. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
  7. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
  8. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
  9. A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport
  10. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
  11. ♥ Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  12. ♥ The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
  13. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
  14. ♥ Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
  15. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
  16. ♥ Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  17. ♥ Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes
  18. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
  19. North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail by Scott Jurek and Jenny Jurek
  20. The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb
  21. ♥ Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  22. The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle by Steven Pressfield
  23. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  24. Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World by William H. McRaven
  25. Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren with Carlye Adler
  26. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
  27. First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks
  28. ♥ Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
  29. ♥ How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens
  30. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
  31. Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda
  32. ♥ This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
  33. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
  34. The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life by Epictetus
  35. Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
  36. Building Successful Communities of Practice: Discover How Connecting People Makes Better Organisations by Emily Webber
  37. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
  38. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman
  39. Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims
  40. ♥ Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  41. The Appalachian Trail: A Biography by Philip D’Anieri
  42. Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi