2021: Books Read

Non-Fiction

Media and Technology

  1. Peter Pomerantsev - This Is Not Propaganda
  2. Eliot Higgins - We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
  3. Margaret Sullivan - Ghosting the News
  4. Julia Ebner - Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
  5. Nina Jankowicz - How to Lose the Information War
  6. Richard Ovenden - Burning The Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
  7. Tim Hwang - Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
  8. Ronald J. Deibert - Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society
  9. Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang - An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

Politics, Current Affairs, and World Affairs

  1. Anne Applebaum - Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
  2. Kathleen Belew - Bring The War Home
  3. Lee Fang - The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right
  4. Jane Mayer - Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
  5. Steve Coll - Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden*
  6. Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  7. Erik Larson - The Splendid and the Vile
  8. Beth Macy - Dopesick (audiobook)

Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies

  1. Joan Didion - South and West: From A Notebook
  2. Robert A. Caro - Working
  3. Colette - The Pure and the Impure
  4. Samantha Harvey - The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping (audiobook)
  5. Dave Grohl - The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music (audiobook)

Essay Collections and Diaries

  1. Georges Perec - Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books (Penguin Great Ideas)
  2. Philip Pullman - Dæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
  3. Zadie Smith - Intimations: Six Essays

Philosophy

  1. Eric Hoffer - The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Miscellany

  1. Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Technical Books

  1. Steven S. Skiena - The Algorithm Design Manual*

Fiction

General Fiction

  1. Elena Ferrante - The Lying Life of Adults
  2. Lauren Oyler - Fake Accounts (did-not-finish)
  3. Jhumpa Lahiri - Whereabouts
  4. Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
  5. Haruki Murakami - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
  6. Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin
  7. David Mitchell - Utopia Avenue
  8. Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa
  9. Barbara Noble - Doreen (Persephone Nº60)
  10. Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half
  11. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (audiobook, Audible's The Jane Austen Collection)
  12. Jane Austen - Emma (audiobook, Audible's The Jane Austen Collection)
  13. Yōko Ogawa - The Memory Police
  14. Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
  15. Sunjeev Sahota - China Room
  16. Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests (audiobook)
  17. Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You
  18. Michael Chabon - Wonder Boys (audiobook)
  19. Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine
  20. Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Before the Coffee Gets Cold I (audiobook)
  21. Damon Galgut - The Promise
  22. Richard Powers - Bewilderment
  23. Andrew Sean Greer - Less (audiobook)
  24. Megha Majumdar - The Burning (audiobook)

Novellas and Short Story Collections

  1. Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
  2. Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Café
  3. Simone de Beauvoir - The Inseparables
  4. Calvin Kasulke - Several People Are Typing

Mystery / Suspense Thrillers

  1. Agatha Christie - The Clocks
  2. Agatha Christie - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and other stories

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

  1. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (re-read)
  2. David Mitchell - Slade House
  3. Malka Older - Infomocracy
  4. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (re-read)
  5. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (re-read)
  6. Erin Morgenstern - The Starless Sea
  7. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (re-read)
  8. N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Trilogy 1)
  9. Leigh Bardugo - Ninth House
  10. Andy Weir - The Martian (audiobook)
  11. Annalee Newitz - The Future of Another Timeline
  12. Isaac Asimov - Foundation (re-read)
  13. Isaac Asimov - Foundation & Empire (re-read)
  14. Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers 1) (audiobook)
  15. Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation

Mythology

  1. Stephen Fry - Mythos (audiobook)
  2. Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

Children's Books / Young Adult

  1. Eleanor Graham - The Children Who Lived In A Barn (Persephone Nº27)
  2. Elizabeth Anna Hart - The Runaway (Persephone Nº37)
  3. John Green - Looking for Alaska (audiobook)
  4. Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden (audiobook, re-read)
  5. Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy (audiobook, re-read)

Graphic Novels

  1. Owen D. Pomrey - Victory Point

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