{"id":11588,"date":"2021-12-29T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=11588"},"modified":"2021-12-29T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:45:01","slug":"books-i-read-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=11588","title":{"rendered":"Books I read in 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As 2021 comes to a close, I wanted to share all the books I read this year. My habit of reading is one of the few things that has benefitted from all my time at home this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here’s the list. This is in the order of how I read them, not how much I enjoyed them. There were so many good books, it’s hard to focus on just a few (and now that I look at them all, I must admit there’s one or two I don’t even remember reading). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as entertaining reads, I really enjoyed Smoke Gets In Your Eyes<\/strong>, A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/strong>, Project Hail Mary<\/strong>, The Soul of an Octopus<\/strong>, The Birth of Loud<\/strong>, and You\u2019ll Never Believe What Happened To Lacey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meaningful and powerful reads included Seven Fallen Feathers<\/strong>, Paying the Land<\/strong>, The Power<\/strong>, Gutter Child<\/strong>, Just Mercy<\/strong>, Five Little Indians<\/strong>, This One Looks Like a Boy<\/strong>, A Fine Balance<\/strong>, and Overstory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, not a bad list…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Mediocre<\/strong> \u2014 Ijeoma Oluo<\/li>
  2. How To Kill a City<\/strong> \u2014 PE Moskowitz<\/li>
  3. Seven Fallen Feathers<\/strong> \u2014  Tanya Talaga<\/li>
  4. Stories of Your Life<\/strong> \u2014 Ted Chiang<\/li>
  5. Paying the Land<\/strong> \u2014 Joe Sacco<\/li>
  6. Evicted<\/strong> \u2014 Matthew Desmond <\/li>
  7. Exhalation<\/strong> \u2014 Ted Chiang <\/li>
  8. Happy City<\/strong> \u2014 Charles Montgomery<\/li>
  9. Sputnik Sweetheart<\/strong> \u2014 Haruki Murakami<\/li>
  10. Do Better<\/strong> \u2014 Rachel Ricketts <\/li>
  11. Good Lord Bird<\/strong> \u2014 James McBride<\/li>
  12. 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act <\/strong>\u2014 Bob Joseph<\/li>
  13. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory<\/strong> \u2014 Caitlin Doughty<\/li>
  14. The Power<\/strong> \u2014 Naomi Alderman<\/li>
  15. Indigenomics<\/strong> \u2014 Carol Anne Hilton<\/li>
  16. Born Standing Up<\/strong> \u2014 Steve Martin <\/li>
  17. The Devil You Know<\/strong> \u2014 Charles Blow<\/li>
  18. A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/strong> \u2014 Bill Bryson<\/li>
  19. All Our Relations<\/strong> \u2014 Tanya Talaga<\/li>
  20. Watchmen<\/strong> \u2014 Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons<\/li>
  21. Peace and Good Order<\/strong> \u2014 Harold Johnson<\/li>
  22. How To Write One Song<\/strong> \u2014 Jeff Tweedy<\/li>
  23. Gutter Child<\/strong> \u2014 Jael Richardson <\/li>
  24. The Body, A Guide For Occupants<\/strong> \u2014 Bill Bryson<\/li>
  25. The Right To Be Cold<\/strong> \u2014 Sheila Watt-Cloutier<\/li>
  26. Let\u2019s Explore Diabetes With Owls<\/strong> \u2014 David Sedaris <\/li>
  27. Year Book<\/strong> \u2014 Seth Rogen <\/li>
  28. Minor Feelings <\/strong>\u2014 Cathy Park Hong <\/li>
  29. A Promised Land<\/strong> \u2014 Barack Obama<\/li>
  30. Project Hail Mary<\/strong> \u2014 Andy Weir<\/li>
  31. The Day the World Stops Shopping<\/strong> \u2014 J.B. MacKinnon<\/li>
  32. Power, A Users Guide <\/strong>\u2014 Julie Diamond<\/li>
  33. Think Again<\/strong> \u2014 Adam Grant<\/li>
  34. The Premonition<\/strong> \u2014 Michael Lewis<\/li>
  35. DreadfulWater <\/strong>\u2014 Thomas King<\/li>
  36. The Soul of an Octopus<\/strong> \u2014 Sy Montgomery<\/li>
  37. Willful Blindness <\/strong>\u2014 Sam Cooper <\/li>
  38. Mission Economy<\/strong> \u2014 Mariana Mazzucato<\/li>
  39. The Bomber Mafia<\/strong> \u2014 Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>
  40. In Search of April Raintree<\/strong> \u2014 Beatrice Mosionier<\/li>
  41. This Is Your Mind on Plants<\/strong> \u2014 Michael Pollan<\/li>
  42. The Red Power Murders <\/strong>\u2014 Thomas King<\/li>
  43. How to Change Your Mind<\/strong> \u2014 Michael Pollan<\/li>
  44. Money<\/strong> \u2014 Jacob Goldstein <\/strong><\/li>
  45. Indian In the Cupboard <\/strong>\u2014 Jody Wilson-Raybould <\/strong><\/li>
  46. The Birth of Loud <\/strong>\u2014 Ian S. Port<\/li>
  47. Winners Take All<\/strong> \u2014 Anand Giridharadas<\/li>
  48. Just Mercy<\/strong> \u2014 Bryan Stevenson<\/li>
  49. Five Little Indians <\/strong>\u2014 Michelle Good<\/li>
  50. Bewilderment<\/strong> \u2014 Richard Powers<\/li>
  51. Unreconciled<\/strong> \u2014 Jesse Wente<\/li>
  52. This One Looks Like A Boy <\/strong>\u2014 Lorimer Shenher<\/li>
  53. Dune<\/strong> \u2014 Frank Herbert<\/li>
  54. You\u2019ll Never Believe What Happened To Lacey<\/strong> \u2014 Amber Ruffin <\/li>
  55. Amusing Ourselves To Death <\/strong>\u2014 Neil Postman<\/li>
  56. Lost Connections<\/strong> \u2014 Johann Hari<\/li>
  57. Slaughterhouse-Five<\/strong> \u2014 Kurt Vonnegut <\/li>
  58. Birds Of All Feathers<\/strong> \u2014 Michael Bach<\/li>
  59. A Fine Balance<\/strong> \u2014 Rohinton Mistry<\/li>
  60. Out of Office <\/strong>\u2014 Charlie Warzel & Anne Helen Petersen<\/strong><\/li>
  61. Overstory<\/strong> \u2014 Richard Powers<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In the middle of all that, I happily finished my first book<\/a> and released it, which was definitely one of my highlights of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I haven’t decided what I’ll start 2022 with \u2013 likely Indigenous Relations<\/strong> by Bob Joseph & Cynthia F. Joseph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you read something you loved in 2021, leave a comment below and let me know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Happy New Year, all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PS: Here\u2019s my list from 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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