2021 Reading List
August 04, 2021
Overview
At the beginning of 2021, I made a New Year's resolution to read more books. This is a list of the books that I've read - or plan to read - in 2021.
For some of the books below, I'll attach links to some thoughts or notes I took while reading.
Reading List
List below is sorted by status:
- 1491 (Charles C. Mann) Started
- The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen) Started
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Started
- Zero to One (Peter Thiel and Blake Masters) Completed
- How to Solve It (George Polya) Completed
- Beloved (Toni Morrison) Completed
- Poor Economics (Abhijit Bannerjee and Esther Duflo) Completed
- On Women (Khushwant Singh) Completed
- Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut) Completed
- Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) Completed
- Deadeye Dick (Kurt Vonnegut) Completed
- Loonshots (Safi Bahcall) Completed
- The Book of Why (Judea Pearl) Completed
- Secret of Concentration (Swami Purushottamananda) Completed
- The Science and Philosopy of Religion (Swami Vivekananda) Completed
- Ramayana vs. Mahabharata (Devdutt Pattaniak) Completed
- Beyond the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo) Completed
- How to be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi) Completed
- Atomic Habits (James Clear) Completed
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Isabel Wilkerson) Completed
- Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates) Completed
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari) Completed
- The Will to Change (bell hooks) Completed
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahnaman) Completed
- Bad Blood (John Carreyou) Completed
- The Hundred-Year Marathon (Michael Pillsbury) Completed
- Minor Feelings (Cathy Park Hong) Completed
- God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) Completed
- A Promised Land (Barack Obama) Completed
- Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) Completed
- Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) Completed
- A Team of Rivals (Doris Kearns Goodwin) Completed
- The Stranger (Albert Camus) Completed
- Lying (Sam Harris) Completed
- The Castle (Franz Kafka) Not Started
- Dune (Frank Herbert) Not Started
- Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (Luigi Zingales and Raghuram Rajan) Not Started
- Thank You for Being Late (Thomas L. Friedman) Not Started
- A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) Not Started
- The Bully Pulpit (Doris Kearns Goodwin) Not Started
- Aaker on Branding (David Aaker) Not Started
- The Smartest Guys in the Room (Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind) Not Started
- The Trial (Franz Kafka) Not Started
- The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) Not Started
- East of Eden (John Steinbeck) Not Started
- The End of Imagination (Arundhati Roy) Not Started
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Joan Didion) Not Started
- Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (bell hooks) Not Started
- The Four Hour Workweek (Tim Ferris) Not Started