2021 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2021.
- Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It by Gabriel Wyner
- The Parthenon by Mary Beard
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
- The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
- Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams by Neil Gaiman
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
- Goodnight Malaysian 370: The Truth Behind The Loss of Flight 370 by Ewan Wilson, Geoff Taylor
- Eleven by Paul Hanley
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
- Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
- I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R Hofstadter
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime by Bill Gates Sr., Mary Ann Mackin
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
- The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection by Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler
- Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
- How I Accidentally Started The Sixties by Howard Bloom
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
- Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P Bix
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World by Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
- Voyager: Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne
- Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter
- If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Rel by Alan Alda
- When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden by Bill Maher
- Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Life of Oscar Wilde (Abridged) by Hesketh Pearson
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier
- The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
- Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
- The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan