I did a post in 2019 reviewing all the books I read that year. That post was βa retrospective on my best year of reading in a decade.β I read 16 books that year, and in 2020 I read 26 so Iβve kept up the habit π. 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, Iβll 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 β β β β β Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald β β β β Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #3) Frank Herbert β β β β β Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad β β β β Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates β β β β Foundation (Foundation, #1) Isaac Asimov β β β β Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein β β β β The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells β β β β The Pearl John Steinbeck β β β Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, #2) Frank Herbert β β β β The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale β β β β Liar's Poker Michael Lewis β β β Dune (Dune, #1) Frank Herbert β β β β β The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut Jr. β β β β The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis β β β β Constructing the Political Spectacle Murray Edelman β β β β β Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond β β β β β The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business Clayton M. Christensen β β β β β Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann β β β β β The Road Cormac McCarthy β β β β Normal People Sally Rooney β β β β Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny Kate Manne β β β β β Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Jr. β β β β Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Peter Thiel β β β β Iβve set my 2021 reading goal at 30 books. Will see how it goes.