Books Read 2021

1. “The Lying Life of Adults” — Elena Ferrante  (January)
2. “Moscow Circles” — Benedict Erofeev  (January)
3. “The End of Eddy” — Édourad Louis  (January)
4. “I Love Dick” — Chris Kraus  (January)
5. “Persepolis” — Marjane Satrapi  (January)
6. “Motherhood” — Shelia Heti  (January)
7. “An Event in Autumn” — Henning Mankell  (February)
8. “Crush” — Frédéric Dard  (February)
9. “Crime and Punishment” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky  (February)
10. “The Executioner Weeps” — Frédéric Dard  (February)
11. “Zen and The Art of Murder” — Oliver Bottini  (February)
12. “In The Cut”  — Susanna Moore  (February)
13. “One Way Out” — A. A. Dhand  (February)
14. “A Drinking Life — Pete Hamill  (March)
15. “Don’t You Leave Me Here” — Wilko Johnson  (March)
16. “Heartburn” — Nora Ephron  (March)
17. “Requiem For A Dream” — Hubert Selby Jr.  (March)
18. “A Boy’s Own Story” — Edmund White  (April)
19. “The Brotherhood of The Grape” — John Fante  (April)
20. “MainStream” — Various  (April)
21. “Who Killed My Father?” — Édourad Louis  (April)
22. “In The Dream House” — Carmen Maria Machado  (April)
23. “Waiting Period” — Hubert Selby Jr.  (April)
24. “Atomic Habits” — James Clear  (April)
25. “Jews Don’t Count” — David Baddiel  (April)
26. “Shuggie Bain” — Douglas Stuart  (April)
27. “Odes” — Sharon Olds  (May)
28. “The Giro Playboy” — Michael Smith  (May)
29. “The Descent of Man” — Grayson Perry  (May)
30. “An Apartment on Uranus” — Paul B. Preciado  (May)
31. “The Narrow Road to The Deep North” — Basho  (May)
32. “The Way Home” — Mark Boyle  (May)
33. “Move!” — Caroline Williams  (May)
34. “Politically Homeless” — Matt Forde  (June)
35. “The Tunnel” — Ernesto Sabato  (June)
36. “Exposure” — Aga Lesiewicz  (June)
37. “Discipline Equals Freedom” — Jocko Willink  (June)
38. “Existentialism and Excess: The Life…” — Gary Cox  (June)
39. “You Were Never Really Here” — Jonathan Ames  (June)
40. “The Abbey” — Chris Culver  (July)
41. “Morning: How To Make Time” — Allan Jenkins  (July)
42. “The Hustler” — Walter Tevis  (July)
43. “The Shadow Collector” — Kate Ellis  (July)
44. “Crossroad Blues” — Ace Atkins  (July)
45. “Luster” — Raven Leilani  (July)
46. “A Spring Betrayal” — Tom Callaghan  (July)
47. “Divorcing” — Susan Taubes  (July)
48. “The Less Dead” — Denise Mina  (July)
49. “Daisy Jones & The Six” — Taylor Jenkins Reid  (August)
50. “The Colour of Money” — Walter Tevis  (August)
51. “The Answer Is…” — Alex Trebek  (August)
52. “Room at the Top” — John Braine  (August)
53. “Ankomst” — Gøhril Gabrielsen  (August)
54. “Hunger” — Knut Hamsun  (August)
55. “The Lone Woman” — Bernardo Atxaga  (August)
56. “Everybody” — Olivia Laing  (August)
57. “Real Estate” — Deborah Levy  (September)
58. “The King of Fools” — Frédéric Dard  (September)
59. “Dancing in the Dark” — Karl Ove Knausgaard  (September)
60. “Kitchen Confidential” — Anthony Bourdain  (September)
61. “Home in the Vinyl Cafe” — Stuart McLean  (October)
62. “The Warriors” — Sol Yurick  (October)
63. “The Listeners” — Jordan Tannahill  (October)
64. “Invisible Cities” — Italo Calvino  (October)
65. “The Good Father” — Wayne Grady  (October)
66. “The Vinyl Cafe Celebrates” — Stuart McLean  (November)
67. “Sonny Liston Was A Friend of Mine” — Thom Jones  (November)
68. “Why Marianne Faithfull Matters?” — Tanya Pearson  (November)
69. “Olive Kitteridge” — Elizabeth Strout  (November)
70. “Exteriors” — Annie Ernaux  (November)
71. “Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It” — Oliver Burkeman  (November)
72. “Life at the Top” — John Braine  (November)
73. “American Salvage” — Bonnie Jo Campbell  (November)
74. “A Walk in the Woods” — Bill Bryson  (November)
75. “Indelicacy” — Amina Cain  (November)
76. “Second Place” — Rachel Cusk  (November)
77. “Micromastery” — Robert Twigger  (November)
78. “Rewilding” — Micah Mortali  (December)
79. “The War of Art” — Steven Pressfield  (December)
80. “Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times” — Katherine May  (December)
81. “Essential: Essays by The Minimalists” — Ryan Nicodemus & Joshua Fields Millburn  (December)
82. “Dhammapada” — Sangharakshita (Trans.)  (December)
83. “Everything That Remains” — Ryan Nicodemus & Joshua Fields Millburn  (December)

Books in bold were particularly good.