The 2021 Book List
Been a crazy year, marked with some health problems. Oddly enough, spending so much of the year bedridden and immobile has seemed to have a negative impact on my ability to focus on reading. My intake of audiobooks has drastically dropped off, as I've been listening a lot more to podcasts over the last couple of years.
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (finished from 2020)
- No Country for Old Gnomes by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne (finished from 2020)
- Dark Convergence by Dave Gross
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
- The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
- The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein
- Think Like a Game Designer by Justin Gary
- The White Box Essays by Jeremy Holcomb
- Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
- You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (reread)
- The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
Breakdown
Format:
The History
And for anyone who is interested in looking into the past to see some of my previous book lists...
Prior to 2008, I didn't keep a precise running record of the books that I read.
Format:
- Audiobooks: 5
- Electronic: 2
- Kindle: 2
- Dead tree books: 6
Subjects:
- Total Fiction: 4
- Science Fiction: 2
- Fantasy: 2
- Non-Fiction: 9
- Science: 4
- Physics: 1
- Psychology: 2
- Biology: 1
- Technology: 1
- History: 6
- Education: 1
- Game Design: 2
Podcasts
In addition to listening to audiobooks, my intake of thinking consists enough of podcasts that it seems worth including them as a category. Here are the podcasts that I have listened to in 2021 on a fairly regular basis:- You Are Not So Smart
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- The Glenn Loury Show
- Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria
- Very Bad Wizards
- Advisory Opinions
- The Lawfare Podcast
- Rational Security
- The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
- Left, Right, and Center
- Today, Explained
- The Weeds
And for anyone who is interested in looking into the past to see some of my previous book lists...
Prior to 2008, I didn't keep a precise running record of the books that I read.
