2021

Here are all the books I read in 2021:

January 2021

• Greyson Gray, by B. C. Tweedt
• And the Answer Is..., by Alex Trebek
• Bird Box, by Josh Malerman
• Replay, by Ken Grimwood
• Computer Power and Human Reason, by Joseph Weizenbaum

February 2021

• Hillbilly Elegy, by J. D. Vance
• The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom
• Dead Man's Walk, by Larry McMurtry

April 2021

• Why is Feminism So Hard to Resist?, by Paul R. Harris

June 2021

• Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
• Tao of Bill Murray, by Gavin Edwards
• Boone, by Robert Morgan
• Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis

July 2021

• First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, by Robert D. Richardson
• Later, by Stephen King
• Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

August 2021

• Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl
• Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, by Ben Blatt

September 2021

• God and Man and Monkey at Yale, by Christopher N. White
• Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, by Ariel Sabar
• Dying to Live: The Power of Forgiveness, by Harold L. Senkbeil

October 2021

• Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, by Mollie Hemingway

November 2021

• Lincoln's Melancholy, by Joshua Wolf Shenk

Summary:

23 total books: 6 audio, 17 print; 8 fiction, 15 non-fiction.

It was a tough year for reading, although looking back over things, I see that I read more than I thought. The most fun was definitely Project Hail Mary. Computer Power and Human Reason was thought-provoking in the way Neil Postman or Nicholas Carr is, but a little more difficult. Reading Boone took months for some reason, although I don’t regret it.

This year started with covid, heavy snow with no power, a roof leak that ruined the master bedroom carpet, and a terrifying ATV accident. Lots of stress certainly affects my will to read! But it also included visits from friends, a fantastic family vacation to Florida, a new path and drainage in our yard, and happy resolutions to all of our insurance claims. Throughout the year, I tried to look for “wins” and point them out. And reading-wise, I’m hoping to start 2022 with more “quick wins,” too.

Themes:

Intelligence, creativity = holding two conflicting ideas at once Emerson, the spirit of self-reliance