2021 Reading list

My only New Year resolution for 2021 (Or at least the only one that I can still remember) was to read 2 books every month. Having a long history of unfulfilled new year resolutions, I must say I surprised myself by nailing this one.

Note: I reread some of my favorites such as Harari’s “Sapiens” and Hawking’s “Brief Answers to the Big Questions’’ again this year.

Here is the list of my 2021 reads.

1. The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel
2. What If I Had Never Tried It: The Autobiography — Valentino Rossi
3. Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
4. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future — Peter Thiel
5. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold — John le Carré
6. Storyshowing: How to Stand Out from the Storytellers — Sam Cawthorn
7. Math Without Numbers — Milo Beckman
8. Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World — Vaclav Smil
9. A Pocket Full of Rye — Agatha Christie
10. Brief Answers to the Big Questions — Stephen Hawking
11. The Postman Always Rings Twice — James M Cain
12. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones — James Clear
13. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention — Reed Hastings
14. Crooked House — Agatha Christie
15. Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
16. Billy Summers — Stephen King
17. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products — Nir Eyal
18. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher — Richard Feynman
19. The Two Lost Mountains (Jack West Jr, #6) — Matthew Reilly
20. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
21. Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World — David Epstein
22. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War — Ben Macintyre
23. The Thursday Murder Club — Richard Osman
24. Zen Pencils: Creative Struggle — Gavin Aung Than
25. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything — Joshua Foer
26. Mind Master: Winning Lessons From A Champion’s Life — Viswanathan Anand

Some books from my reading list for 2022 below.

• Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
• Freedom at Midnight — Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
• Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
• Travels with Charley — John Steinbeck
• Code Breaker — Walter Isaacson
• Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
• An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India — Shashi Tharoor

If you have read any of them do reach out, I would love to hear from you!