I did a post in 2019 reviewing all the books I read that year. That post was “a retrospective on my best year of reading in a decade.” I read 16 books that year, and in 2020 I read 26 so I’ve kept up the habit 🙂.
I still use Goodreads.com to track my reading, but recently Goodreads killed their public API so the Command Line Interface (CLI) application that I built for Goodreads is now dead. Alas.
Instead of inlining my reviews of books in this post, I’ll leverage the new functionality I added to this site to power my library page to link to reviews of all the books I read this year.
Below are the covers, titles, authors, and ratings of the 26 books I read this year. Click them to read my short review.
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
★★★★★
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
★★★★
Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
Frank Herbert
★★★★★
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
★★★★
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
★★★★
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Isaac Asimov
★★★★
Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
★★★★
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
★★★★
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
★★★
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Camille Fournier
★★★
Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
Frank Herbert
★★★★
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
★★★★
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
★★★
Dune (Dune, #1)
Frank Herbert
★★★★★
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★★
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis
★★★★
Constructing the Political Spectacle
Murray Edelman
★★★★★
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
★★★★★
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Clayton M. Christensen
★★★★★
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
★★★★★
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★
Normal People
Sally Rooney
★★★★
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Kate Manne
★★★★★
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★★
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
★★★★
I’ve set my 2021 reading goal at 30 books.