Books of 2021

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