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Year in Books -- 2021
Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir *
The Art of Language Invention - David J. Peterson
Middlegame - Seanan McGuire *
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë *
The Nature Of Demonstrative Proof According To The Principles Of Aristotle And St. Thomas Aquinas - Owen Bennett
What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Donovan Moore
William Blake collection *
Digital Apollo - David A. Mindell
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell *
The Metaphysical Poets collection *
The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins *
The Great Poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson *
The Royal Society - Adrian Tinniswood
Or What You Will - Jo Walton
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence *
Railways and the Raj - Christian Wolmar *
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States - Alex Wellerstein
The Archimedes Codex - Reviel Netz
A Passage to India - EM Forester *
Days of the Deer - Liliana Bodoc
Lagoon - Nnedi Okorafor *
Essential Hindi Grammar - Christine Everaert
Seven Demons - Aidan Truhen *
Design of Weldments - Omer W. Blodgett
Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli *
Burning Chrome - William Gibson
Memory of Empire - Arkady Martine *
A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine *
High-Rise - JG Ballard *
Over Sea and Under Stone - Susan Cooper
Psalm for the Wild-Born - Becky Chambers *
Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch *
The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
Greenwitch *
The Grey King *
Silver on the Tree *
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann *
Master of Djinn - P. Djèlí Clark *
City of Brass - S. A. Chakraborty *
Kingdom of Copper - S. A. Chakraborty *
Empire of Gold - S. A. Chakraborty *
Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells *
Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee *
Raven Strategem - Yoon Ha Lee *
Revenant Gun - Yoon Ha Lee *
A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab *
A Gathering of Shadows - V.E. Schwab *
A Conjuring of Light - V.E. Schwab *
Nothing Like It in the World - Stephen E. Ambrose *
But n Ben A Go Go - Matthew Fitt
A Voyage for Madmen - Peter Nicols *
Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season - Peter Nichols *
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad - Lesley Hazleton *
The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough *
The Great Bridge - David McCullough *
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century - Michael Hiltzik *
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex - Michael Hiltzik *
The Strangest Man - Graham Farmelo *
Sailing a Serious Ocean - John Kretschmer *
Dune - Frank Herbert *
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin *
The Wright Brothers - David McCullough *
Moby Dick - Herman Melville #
Art Loss Register Casebook Volume One - Anja Shortland
Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir *
Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky *
A Long Journey to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chalmers *
Seven Surrenders - Ada Palmer
The Will to Battle - Ada Palmer
Crash - JG Ballard *
Perhaps the Stars - Ada Palmer
* == audiobook
# == group reading out loud to each other over weekly video calls
Bold == would enthusiastically recommend
Italic == reread
Still having trouble concentrating on physical books. Also did a lot of shop work and a lot of bike riding this year, so the list is even more heavily tilted towards audio.
The Art of Language Invention - David J. Peterson
Middlegame - Seanan McGuire *
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë *
The Nature Of Demonstrative Proof According To The Principles Of Aristotle And St. Thomas Aquinas - Owen Bennett
What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Donovan Moore
William Blake collection *
Digital Apollo - David A. Mindell
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell *
The Metaphysical Poets collection *
The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins *
The Great Poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson *
The Royal Society - Adrian Tinniswood
Or What You Will - Jo Walton
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence *
Railways and the Raj - Christian Wolmar *
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States - Alex Wellerstein
The Archimedes Codex - Reviel Netz
A Passage to India - EM Forester *
Days of the Deer - Liliana Bodoc
Lagoon - Nnedi Okorafor *
Essential Hindi Grammar - Christine Everaert
Seven Demons - Aidan Truhen *
Design of Weldments - Omer W. Blodgett
Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli *
Burning Chrome - William Gibson
Memory of Empire - Arkady Martine *
A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine *
High-Rise - JG Ballard *
Over Sea and Under Stone - Susan Cooper
Psalm for the Wild-Born - Becky Chambers *
Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch *
The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
Greenwitch *
The Grey King *
Silver on the Tree *
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann *
Master of Djinn - P. Djèlí Clark *
City of Brass - S. A. Chakraborty *
Kingdom of Copper - S. A. Chakraborty *
Empire of Gold - S. A. Chakraborty *
Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells *
Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee *
Raven Strategem - Yoon Ha Lee *
Revenant Gun - Yoon Ha Lee *
A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab *
A Gathering of Shadows - V.E. Schwab *
A Conjuring of Light - V.E. Schwab *
Nothing Like It in the World - Stephen E. Ambrose *
But n Ben A Go Go - Matthew Fitt
A Voyage for Madmen - Peter Nicols *
Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season - Peter Nichols *
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad - Lesley Hazleton *
The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough *
The Great Bridge - David McCullough *
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century - Michael Hiltzik *
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex - Michael Hiltzik *
The Strangest Man - Graham Farmelo *
Sailing a Serious Ocean - John Kretschmer *
Dune - Frank Herbert *
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin *
The Wright Brothers - David McCullough *
Moby Dick - Herman Melville #
Art Loss Register Casebook Volume One - Anja Shortland
Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir *
Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky *
A Long Journey to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chalmers *
Seven Surrenders - Ada Palmer
The Will to Battle - Ada Palmer
Crash - JG Ballard *
Perhaps the Stars - Ada Palmer
* == audiobook
# == group reading out loud to each other over weekly video calls
Bold == would enthusiastically recommend
Italic == reread
Still having trouble concentrating on physical books. Also did a lot of shop work and a lot of bike riding this year, so the list is even more heavily tilted towards audio.
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