I Read 52 Books in 2021: This is the full list

I read 2 books in 2019. By making a small change and creating a good system, I increased that number by 50 in 2020. That’s one book a week, on average. I’m trying to replicate that number by reading 52 books in 2021. Here is the full reading list in order of finish date (first to last) and sorted by non-fiction and fiction. I’ve ranked my top books of 2020 here.

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[Updated December 2021]

Non-Fiction

1. How I Built This — Guy Raz
2. So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport
3. Drive — Daniel H. Pink
4. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man — Emmanuel Acho
5. The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch
6. Breath — James Nestor
7. Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
8. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — Mark Manson
9. Educated — Tara Westover
10. Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson
11. Notorious RBG — Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
12. How to Be an Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi
13. Sexual Citizens — Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan
14. Linchpin — Seth Godin
15. The Best of Me — David Sedaris
16. Thing Explainer — Randall Munroe
17. A Promised Land — Barack Obama
18. The Nature Fix — Florence Williams
19. Amoralman — Derek Delgaudio
20. Trust — Pete Buttigieg
21. The War on Normal People — Andrew Yang
22. Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
23. Can’t Hurt Me — David Goggins
24. Mindset — Carol Dweck
25. Becoming — Michelle Obama
26. Benjamin Franklin — Walter Isaacson
27. A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson
28. The Devil in the White City — Erik Larson
29. Daily Rituals — Mason Currey
30. In the Garden of Beasts — Erik Larson
31. The Lost City of Z — David Grann
32. Unbroken — Laura Hillenbrand
33. Neither Wolf Nor Dog — Kent Nerburn
34. The Stranger in the Woods — Michael Finkel
35. Packing for Mars — Mary Roach
36. My Life in France — Julia Child

Fiction

1. Less — Andrew Sean Greer
2. A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles
3. The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
4. The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett
5. The Midnight Library — Matt Haig
6. The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Moshin Hamid
7. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
8. The Mermaid From Jeju — Sumi Hahn
9. The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
10. All The Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
11. Where the Crawdads Sing — Delia Owens
12. The Woman in the Window — A.J. Finn
13. The Cold Millions — Jess Walter
14. The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick
15. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev — Dawnie Walton
16. Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir