2021 Book List

This year, the goal wasn’t to cruise through as many books as possible like it was last year.

I wrote a post called How to read 2 (or more) books a week detailing how I went about finishing a crazy amount of books in 2020.

2021 brought with it other passion projects that involved more video tutorials and hands-on learning, but we still got quite a few books in (and the year isn’t over yet).

I’ll add up the total pages read when the year ends and I’ll update this list as more are finished.

*Note*
My ranking system is personal.
5’s usually mean that it got me to see the world in a new way, it entertained me in an unexpected way, or it offered what I needed to hear at this point in my life.

Many of these were recommended to me as life-changing books.

If the book you recommended wasn’t rated highly by me, can we still be friends?

I’ve found that when you read books – meaning the timing and circumstances of your life – impacts your feelings about that book.

If your recommendation is lower than it should be, it was just the wrong timing for me.

2021 List

Number	Date	Title	Author	Rating (1-5)
1	1/2	The Coddling of the American Mind	Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt	5
2	1/5	American Dirt	Jeanine Cummins	4
3	1/9	The Moment of Lift	Melinda Gates	2
4	1/12	Being Mortal	Atul Gawande	4
5	1/13	Stiff	Mary Roach	4
6	1/20	Why We Sleep	Matthew Walker	5
7	1/29	Drunk Tank Pink	Adam Alter	3
8	2/6	The Righteous Mind	Jonathan Haidt	5
9	2/10	Calypso	David Sedaris	1
10	2/13	The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck	Mark Manson	3
11	2/17	Midnight in Chernobyl	Adam Higginbotham	4
12	2/21	The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle	Stuart Turton	5
13	2/24	Seabiscuit	Laura Hillenbrand	3
14	2/26	Greenlights	Matthew McConaughey	5
15	3/3	Extreme Ownership	Jocko Willink & Leif Babin	3
16	3/8	The Happiness Advantage	Shawn Achor	4
17	3/16	Open	Andre Agassi	5
18	3/28	How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It	James Wesley Rawles	2
19	4/5	The Power of Now	Eckhart Tolle	4
20	4/7	Breath	James Nestor	3
21	4/17	Caste	Isabel Wilkerson	2
22	4/21	Eleven Rings	Phil Jackson	3
23	4/22	Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	4
24	5/2	Bitcoin Billionaires	Ben Mezrich	4
25	5/8	The Man Who Solved the Market	Gregory Zuckerman	3
26	5/20	A Random Walk Down Wall Street	Burton G. Malkiel	3
27	5/28	None Dare Call it Conspiracy	Gary Allen	3
28	6/4	Wealth, Poverty, and Politics	Thomas Sowell	4
29	6/11	Hate, Inc	Matt Taibbi	3
30	6/18	Lies My Teacher Told Me	James Loewen	5
31	6/30	Our Mathematical Universe	Max Tegmark	4
32	7/9	Human Errors	Nathan H. Lents	3
33	7/15	Know What Makes Them Tick	Max Siegel	3
34	7/21	The Only Negotiating Guide You’ll Ever Need	Peter Stark, Jane Flaherty	3
35	7/23	You Don’t Have to Be a Shark	Robert Herjavec	5
36	7/28	Thinking in Bets	Annie Duke	5
37	7/31	The Theory of Everything	Stephen Hawking	2
38	8/8	Energy	Richard Rhodes	3
39	8/31	The Personality Brokers	Merve Emre	3
40	9/22	Tesla	Margaret Cheney	4
41	10/18	Surprise, Kill, Vanish	Annie Jacobsen	5
42	10/21	Billion Dollar Loser	Reeves Wiedeman	4
43	10/30	Personal Finance 101	Alfred Mill, Michele Cagan	3
44	11/5	The Hiding Place	Corrie ten Boom	3
45	11/6	Everything is Figureoutable	Marie Forleo	4
46	11/22	Loonshots	Safi Bahcall	4
47	12/2	The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse	Charlie Mackesy	5
48	12/11	On the Road	Jack Kerouac	2
49	12/14	The Book of Mormon	Several	4
50	12/20	Real vs Rumor	Keith Erekson	2
51	12/29	The Innovator’s Dilemma	Clayton M Christensen	2
52	12/31	Homo Deus	Yuval Noah Harari	5

What books need to go on my 2022 list?

Want even more book recommendations?
Check out my 2020 list