reading list: 2021

January 2021: (11)

• Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
• Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet by Tim Hwang
• Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
• The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
• Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually by Meichi Ng
• I Hate Men by Pauline Harmange
• Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt
• Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty
• Devotions by Mary Oliver
• Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su
• Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City by Gary Kamiya and Paul Madonna (unfinished)
• Version Control by Dexter Palmer (reread)

February 2021: (10)

• War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
• Bad Medicine: Catching New York’s Deadliest Pill Pusher by Charlotte Bismuth
• Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
• My Year Abroad: A Novel by Chang-Rae Lee
• The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices by Casper ter Kuile
• Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

March 2021: (14)

• Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe
• Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu
• The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Everybody (Else) is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes by Gabrielle Korn
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble (reread)
• The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
• Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
• The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Outlawed by Anna North
• Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
• No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol

April 2021: (10)

• Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives by Michael A. Heller and James Salzman
• There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
• Your Computer Is On Fire ed. Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip
• Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
• Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• Provenance by Ann Leckie
• Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
• Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

May 2021: (10)

• Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
• How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (reread)
• The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker by Eric Liu
• The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes) by Kate Lebo
• Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism by Jillian York
• Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
• But You’re Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood by Kayleen Schaefer
• Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing
• My Shanghai: Recipes and Stories from a City on the Water by Betty Liu
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

June 2021: (10)

• Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
• An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World that Expects Exceptional by Rainesford Stauffer
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
• The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
• Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin (reread, unfinished)
• Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
• Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang
• The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura
• The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco, intro by Gary Kamiya
• One of Them: An Eton College Memoir by Musa Okwonga
• Mouthful of Birds: Stories by Samanta Schweblin

July 2021: (8)

• The Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
• Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces by Jenny Erpenbeck
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
• Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir by Anonymous
• Pew by Catherine Lacey
• When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge

August 2021: (6)

• The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• Field Notes From an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir by Julia Zarankin
• Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures With Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel
• Piranesi by Susanna Clark
• Edge Case by YZ Chin

September 2021: (7)

• Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow
• Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton
• A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill
• I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent by Blythe Grossberg
• Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
• Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor by Anna Qu
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

October 2021: (7)

• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
• Inter State: Essays from California by José Vadi
• A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
• Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz
• Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria
• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
• Burnt Toast and Other Disasters by Cal Peternell

November 2021: (7)

• The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan
• Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Son
• The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
• The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
• The Turnout by Megan Abbott
• Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
• This Thing Between Us: A Novel by Gus Moreno

December 2021: (6)

• Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Wandering Earth: Stories by Liu Cixin
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
• Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey
• Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen

Total count: 106