Another running list of books read in 2021 . . . a work in progress.

  1. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (1/17)
  2. Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin
  3. What’s the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank
  4. Extra Lives by Tom Bissell (Actually third time reading this through — great book!)
  5. Additional Dialogues by Christopher Trumbo
  6. Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jensen
  7. Dispatches by Michael Herr
  8. Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin
  9. Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gesson
  10. Later by Stephen King
  11. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  12. Danse Macbre by Stephen King
  13. Stamped From the Beginning by Ibran X Kendi
  14. The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nahisi Coates
  15. The Fog by James Herbert
  16. Oh Whistle and I will Come To You, My Lad by M.R. James
  17. Sorted by Jackson Bird
  18. Action Park by Andy Mulvihill
  19. Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
  20. Pryor Convictions by Richard Pryor
  21. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  22. You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
  23. The Storm Is upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything By Mike Rothschild
  24. When Prophecy Fails By Leon Festinger
  25. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump By Michiko Kakutani
  26. The Beginner’s Guide to Stoicism: Tools for Emotional Resilience & Positivity By Matthew J. Van Natta
  27. Night By Elie Wiesel
  28. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  29. NOS4R2 by Joe Hill
  30. The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey
  31. Everything is Spiritual by Rob Bell
  32. How to Not Get Shot by D. L. Hughley
  33. Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
  34. Pastoralia by George Saunders
  35. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
  36. Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes by Brandon O’Brien
  37. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  38. Billy Summers by Stephen King
  39. Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethway
  40. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
  41. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solini
  42. Find the Good by Heather Lende
  43. The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
  44. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
  45. The Elephant in the Room by Jon Ronson
  46. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
  47. Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
  48. The Last Days f August by Jon Ronson
  49. The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
  50. The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson
  51. Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
  52. Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family By Amy Ellis Nutt
  53. 10 Landmark Supreme Court Decisions and How They Impact Your Life By David L. Hudson
  54. The United States of Absurdity: Untold Stories from American History By Dave Anthony
  55. The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit By John V. Petrocelli
  56. The Making of a Miracle: The Untold Story of the Captain of the 1980 Gold Medal-Winning U.S. Olympic Hockey Team By Mike Eruzione
  57. The Problem of Pain By C. S. Lewis
  58. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir By Jenny Lawson
  59. The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
  60. Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips to Improve Your Writing by Mignon Fogarty
  61. The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library, Edmund White
  62. Confessions of a Funeral Director by Eric Jason Martin
  63. Jesus Son by Denis Johnson
  64. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Peterson
  65. Schadenfreude by Suzanne Toren
  66. The Story Teller by Dave Grohl
  67. What is the Bible by Rob Bell
  68. Amy: My Search for her Killer by James Renner
  69. Big Foot . . . It’s Complicated by Denver Riggleman
  70. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
  71. How to Survive a Horror Movie by Seth Grahame-Smith
  72. The Immortal Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  73. Lessons from a Third Grade Dropout by Rick Rigsby
  74. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang & Nate Pederson
  75. Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy by Tom Nichols
  76. OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy Is Supposed to Work by Ben Sheehan
  77. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  78. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  79. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
  80. The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies by Michael V. Hayden
  81. The Hepatitus Bathtub and Other Stories by NOFX
  82. Unqualified by Anna Faris
  83. Parenting the Modern Teen by Christine Carter
  84. The Watson’s Go To Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

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