reading list — 2021

List of books I read in 2021, in chronological order.

  • Just Mercy

    Bryan Stevenson

  • The Big Sleep

    Raymond Chandler

  • Such a Fun Age

    Kiley Reid

  • Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

    Chris Crowe

  • Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

    David Grann

  • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

    Deesha Philyaw

  • Revelations of Divine Love

    Julian of Norwich

  • The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power

    D. L. Mayfield

  • Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

    Ijeoma Oluo

  • Angel - A Short Story of Ruination

    Shea Serrano

  • Anxious People

    Fredrik Backman

  • Normal People

    Sally Rooney

  • JavaScript: The New Toys

    T.J. Crowder

  • Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

    Rebekah Taussig

  • Programming TypeScript: Making Your JavaScript Applications Scale

    Boris Cherny

  • Greenlights

    Matthew McConaughey

  • Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

    Kate Manne

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz

    Heather Morris

  • Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

    Gregory Boyle

  • No One Asked for This: Essays

    Cazzie David

  • Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose

    Aimee Byrd

  • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

    Beth Allison Barr

  • The 80/80 Marriage: A New Model for a Happier, Stronger Relationship

    Nate Klemp

  • Unf*ck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

    Faith G. Harper

  • Everything Is Spiritual: Who We Are and What We're Doing Here

    Rob Bell

  • Follow Me To Ground

    Sue Rainsford

  • Liberty For All

    Andrew T. Walker

  • Project Hail Mary

    Andy Weir

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

    Lindsay C. Gibson

  • Born With Teeth

    Kate Mulgrew

  • The Vanishing Half

    Brit Bennett

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower

    Stephen Chbosky

  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

    Cathy Park Hong

  • Kitchen Confidential

    Anthony Bourdain

  • The Midnight Library

    Matt Haig

  • Nightbitch

    Rachel Yoder

  • A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

    C.A. Fletcher

  • Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

    James P. Carse

  • The Woman in the Window

    A.J. Finn

  • Einstein's Dreams

    Alan Lightman

  • Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World

    Matt Parker

  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

    Carlo Rovelli