Books I Read in 2021

Those in bold I particularly appreciated.

1. Nicky & Vera — Peter Sis (Children’s)
2. I Hate Men — Pauline Harmange (Criticism)
3. Perfect Example — John Porcellino (Graphic Novel)
4. Hitler, Ascent — Volker Ullrich (History)
5. The Blue Songbird — Vern Kousky (Children’s)
6. Every Color of Light — Hiroshi Osada (Children’s)
7. The Hill We Climb — Amanda Gorman (Poetry)
8. Pandemic — Slavoj Zizek (Criticism)
9. Sapient — Yuval Noah Harari (Anthropology/Graphic Novel)
10. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity — Carlo Cipolla
11. The One Thing You’d Save — Linda Sue Park (Children’s)
12. The Rock from the Sky — Jon Klassen (Children’s)
13. Catching the Big Fish — David Lynch (Creativity)
14. Exit West — Mohsin Hamid (Fiction)
15. Unwinding Anxiety — Judson Brewer (Improvement)
16. The Elephant Man — Bernard Pomerance (Drama)
17. Reminiscences of the Elephant Man — For Frederick Treves (Biography)
18. The Invention of Morel — Adolfo Bioy Casares (Fiction)
19. An Actor’s Companion — Seth Barrish (Drama)
20. Notes on Grief — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Memoir)
21. The Man Who Lived Underground — Richard Wright (Fiction)
22. Bonjour Tristesse — Françoise Sagan (Fiction)
23. At Night All Blood is Black — David Diop (Fiction)
24. In — William McPhail (Graphic Novel)
25. Factory Summers — Guy Delisle (Graphic Novel)
26. Memory Monster — Yishai Sarid (Fiction)
27. The Plague Year — Lawrence Wright (History)
28. Bath Haus — PJ Vernon (Fiction)
29. The New Me — Halle Butler (Fiction)
30. Levels of Life — Julian Barnes (Memoir)
31. American Estrangment — Said SayrafiezadeH (Fiction)
32. Every Minute is A Day — Robert Meyer, Dan Keoppel (History)
33. Loner — Teddy Wayne (Fiction)
34. The Apartment — Teddy Wayne (Fiction)
35. Kapitoil — Teddy Wayne (Fiction)
36. Twilight of Democracy — Anne Applebaum (History/Criticism)
37. Seek You — Kristen Radtk (Graphic Novel)
38. Secret Life — Theo Elleseworth (Graphic Novel)
39. On Tyranny, graphic edition — Timothy Snyder (History/Graphic Novel)
40. Make It Till You Make It — Brendan Leonard (Creativity)
41. Silverview — John Le Carré (Fiction)
42. Blue Horses — Mary Oliver (Poetry)
43. The Czech Transport: A Chronicle of the Auschwitz Sonderhommando — Salmon Gradowski (History)
44. Fragments — Heraclitus (Philosophy)
45. People Love Dead Jews — Dara Horn (Criticism)
46. Goodbye Columbus — Philip Roth (Fiction)
47. Jews Don’t Count — David Baddiel (Criticism)
48. On Juneteenth–Annette Gordon-Reed (History/Criticism)