{"id":322,"date":"2022-01-09T08:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T13:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/?p=322"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:12:15","slug":"books-read-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Books Read 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As mentioned in my previous post, I use Goodreads&#8217; gamification of reading to track what I&#8217;ve read throughout the year. Not because I can&#8217;t remember. Well, mostly not that. But, from a morbid sense of seeing where all my &#8220;free&#8221; time went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020, I had selected a goal of 52 books for the year. But, that was before the pandemic got going and I spent the final 9 months of the year at home 99.9% of the time. So, I crushed that goal by getting through 80 books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t figure 2121 to be quite that bad, but I feel like my reading speed and rhythm had improved somewhat, so I picked 65 books for the new year. Well, it was pretty much the same and the results were too. I read 80 books in the course of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And much like the previous year, the list was dominated by fiction, woodworking, and various not-fiction topics like, weirdly (for me) economics. The breakdown: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Woodworking, furniture making, or historical furniture &#8211; 8 (down from 9)<\/li><li>Alternate History &#8211; 1 (down from 11)<\/li><li>British Naval Thrillers &#8211; 5 (even)<\/li><li>Sci-fi &#8211; 35 (down from 47 last year)<\/li><li>Fantasy &#8211; 6 (new)<\/li><li>Skill building &#8211; 3 (new)<\/li><li>Non-fiction, history, economics, sociology, privacy, morality\/human rights &#8211; 21 (up from 13)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The non-fiction category was dominated by binges on Niall Ferguson and Tyler Cowen (his <a href=\"https:\/\/conversationswithtyler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">podcast<\/a> is highly recommended). Where the Sci-fi category was dominated by a binge on newly discovered author Brandon Q. Morris and a re-read of the Expanse series after talking my wife into watched the Amazon adaptation. Likewise the debut of the Wheel of Time series prompted a reread of that epic if only to refresh my memory of just how divergent the series is\/will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The list:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jutland, 1916 by Peter Hart<\/li><li>Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss<\/li><li>Hot Zone by Steven Konkoly<\/li><li>Points of Impact by Marko Kloos<\/li><li>Lethal Seasons by Alice Sabo<\/li><li>Revelation by Stephen Arseneault<\/li><li>Apollo 8.1 by Matt Eaton<\/li><li>The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan<\/li><li>The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan<\/li><li>Theories of International Politics and Zombies by Daniel W. Drezner<\/li><li>Woke Racism by John McWhorter<\/li><li>The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan<\/li><li>The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking<\/li><li>The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan<\/li><li>Civilization by Niall Ferguson<\/li><li>Payback&#8217;s a Witch by Lana Harper<\/li><li>Empire by Niall Ferguson<\/li><li>Tiamat&#8217;s Wrath by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>One Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias<\/li><li>Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>Obfuscation by Finn Brunton<\/li><li>&#8220;I Have Nothing to Hide&#8221; by Heidi Boghosian<\/li><li>Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>Strange Dogs by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>The Vital Abyss by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>Babylon&#8217;s Ashes by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>Doom by Niall Ferguson<\/li><li>Abaddon&#8217;s Gate by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>Gods of Risk by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>Caliban&#8217;s War by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey<\/li><li>Mars Nation 3 by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>Mars Nation 2 by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>Mars Nation 1 by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>The Complacent Class by Tyler Cowen<\/li><li>Proxima Dreaming by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>Screams from the Void by Anne Tibbets<\/li><li>The Godel Operation by James L. Cambias<\/li><li>This Book Was Self-Published by Michael Bazzell<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Proxima Dying by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>Proxima Rising by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>Make a Chair from a Tree by John D. Alexander Jr.<\/li><li>Average Is Over by Tyler Cowen<\/li><li>Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky<\/li><li>The Dark Spring by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson<\/li><li>Big Business by Tyler Cowen<\/li><li>The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy<\/li><li>In the Line of Fire by Philip McCutchan<\/li><li>Math with Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin<\/li><li>The Hole by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>Giving the Devil His Due by Michael Shermer<\/li><li>1882 by Robert Conroy<\/li><li>Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir<\/li><li>Vietnam by Max Hastings<\/li><li>Return to Enceladus by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>The Io Encounter by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray<\/li><li>The Titan Probe by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>Thomas Paine&#8217;s Rights of Man by Christopher Hitchens<\/li><li>The Enceladus Mission by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>Silent Sun by Brandon Q. Morris<\/li><li>Discover Your Inner Economist by Tyler Cowen<\/li><li>How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life by Russ Roberts<\/li><li>Chairmaker&#8217;s Notebook by Peter Galbert<\/li><li>By Hand &amp; Eye by George R. Walker<\/li><li>Free Speech And Why It Matters by Andrew Doyle<\/li><li>Randomize by Andy Weir<\/li><li>K3+ by Erasmo Acosta<\/li><li>Handplane Essentials by Christopher Schwarz<\/li><li>From Truths to Tools by Jim Tolpin<\/li><li>A Cry from the Far Middle by P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/li><li>Deed of Glory by Alan Evans<\/li><li>Sink or Capture by Alan Evans<\/li><li>Joined by Joshua A. Klein<\/li><li>Orphans of the Storm by Alan Evans<\/li><li>Audacity by Alan Evans<\/li><li>By Hound &amp; Eye by George R. Walker<\/li><li>The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s see what 2022 brings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in my previous post, I use Goodreads&#8217; gamification of reading to track what I&#8217;ve read throughout the year. Not because I can&#8217;t remember. Well, mostly not that. But, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/?p=322\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_read","tag-goodreads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayneprecht.org\/blogs\/readings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}