Books of 2021

Last updated: Fri Dec 31 2021

Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
Marie de France: Poetry, Marie de France (trans. Dorothy Gilbert)
William Blake (edited Martin Myrone and Amy Concannon)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis
🔁 Beowulf (trans. Maria Dahvana Headley)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography, Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
❤️ The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt
The Song of Achilles, Madeleine Miller
A Promised Land, Barack Obama
The Conference of the Birds, Farid Attar (trans. Dick Davis and Afkham Darbandi)
❤️ The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Magicians, Lev Grossman
Sourdough, Robin Sloan
❤️ The Song of Kieu: A New Lament, Nguyen Du (trans. Timothy Allen)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
The True History of Tea, Victor H. Mair and Erling Hoh
Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, Austin Kleon
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, Austin Kleon
Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel, Complete and Unabridged, Luo Guanzhong (trans. Moss Roberts)
The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen
How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy (ed. Massimo Pigliucci, Skye C. Cleary, & Daniel A. Kaufman)
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen
❤️ The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic, Ramesh Menon
The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession With The New Has Disrupted The Work That Matters Most, Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell
Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat, Robert Paarlberg
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, Julia Galef
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World, Michele Gelfand
What Can A Body Do?: How We Meet The Built World, Sara Hendren
Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century, Orville Schell and John Delury
English, August: An Indian Story, Upamanyu Chatterjee
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
❤️ Monkey King: Journey to the West, Wu Cheng’en (trans. Julia Lovell)
An Introduction to Hinduism, Gavin Flood
A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Volume 5 - Classical Indian Philosophy, Peter Adamson & Jonardon Ganeri
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, Jason Stearns
❤️ Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
Building Mobile Apps At Scale: 39 Engineering Challenges, Gergely Orosz
❤️ We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson
🔁 Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, Bryan Lee O’Malley
Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague, Maggie O’Farrell
❤️ The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
🔁 Scott Pilgrim Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Bryan Lee O’Malley
Layli and Majnun, Nezami Ganjavi (trans. Dick Davis)
🔁 Scott Pilgrim Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness, Bryan Lee O’Malley
🔁 Scott Pilgrim Vol. 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, Bryan Lee O’Malley
Creation of the Gods (trans. Gu Zhizhong)
🔁 Scott Pilgrim Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, Bryan Lee O’Malley
🔁 Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, Bryan Lee O’Malley
❤️ Candide, Voltaire (trans. The Modern Library)
❤️ The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. Ruth L.C. Simms)
The Man Who Solved The Market: How Jim Simons Launched The Quant Revolution, Gregory Zuckerman
❤️ The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones