Books read in 2021

As the year closes and we review the happy times and times we could improve upon, I’d like to share the list of books I read in 2021. I completed 108 books from cover to cover this year. Some books I started and did not finish. The last book I have not completed yet, but I share it just because I am almost done — but not quite done. Thus, it may end up being 107 books this year.

Books read in 2021

1. Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. Jordan B. Peterson. Started Sunday November 29, 2020 at 2:52PM. Finished Sunday January 3, 2021 at 7:18PM in Austin, Texas.

2. The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov started Sunday January 3, 2021 at 7:18PM in Austin, Texas. Finished Saturday January 9, 2021 at 10:58PM in Austin, Texas.

3. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson) — Robert Caro. Started Monday January 4, 2021 at 11:37AM in Austin, Texas. Finished Thursday January 21, 2021 at 2:03PM in Austin, Texas.

4. Weapons of Math Destruction — Cathy O’Neil. Started Thursday January 21, 2021 at 2:24PM Finished Friday January 22, 2021 at 6:10PM.

5. Plato’s Republic — Benjamin Jowett Translation. Started Friday January 22, 2021 at 5:52PM. Finished Monday January 25, 2021 at 5:04PM in Austin, Texas.

6. Rewriting The Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity — Joseph E. Stiglitz. Started Monday January 25, 2021 at 5:05PM in Austin, Texas. Finished Saturday January 30, 2021 at 3:40PM in Austin, Texas.

7. A People’s History of the United States — Howard Zinn. Started Saturday January 30, 2021 at 3:41PM in Austin, Texas. Finished Sunday January 31, 2021 at 8:02PM in Austin, Texas.

8. Reflections on the Psalms — C.S. Lewis. Started Sunday January 31, 2021 at 8:03PM in Austin, Texas. Finished Tuesday February 2, 2021 at 6:45 PM in Austin, Texas.

9. The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne. Started Tuesday February 2, 2021 at 6:46PM in Austin, Texas. Finished on Sunday February 7, 2021 at 10:46AM.

10. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity — David Lynch. Started Sunday on February 21, 2021 at 3:51PM in Austin, Texas. Finished at 8:56PM on Sunday February 21, 2021 at home in my room.

11. What is Art? — Leo Tolstoy. Started Monday February 15, 2021 at 10:35PM in Austin, Texas. Finished Monday February 22, 2021 at 6:29PM.

12. Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies — Sol Stein. Started Monday February 22, 2021 at 6:35PM. Finished Sunday February 28, 2021 at 12:57PM.

13. A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake — Joseph Campbell & Henry Morton Robinson. Started February 7, 2021 at 10:46AM in Austin, Texas. Finished Monday March 1, 2021 at 6:26PM.

14. The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell. Started Monday March 1, 2021 at 6:30PM. Finished Sunday March 7, 2021 at 10:18AM.

15. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life — Jordan Peterson. Started Sunday March 7, 2021 at 10:20AM. Finished Wednesday March 10, 2021 at 4:43PM.

16. Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America — Jeffrey Ryan. Started Wednesday March 10, 2021. Finished Friday March 12, 2021 at 6:51PM.

17. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know — Malcolm Gladwell. Started Friday March 12, 2021 at 6:52PM. Finished Tuesday March 16, 2021 at 7:50PM.

18. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant — W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Started on Tuesday March 16, 2021 at 7:51PM. Finished Saturday March 20, 2021 at 2:41PM.

19. The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus. Translated from the French by Justin O’Brien. Started Saturday March 20, 2021 at 2:42PM. Finished Tuesday March 23, 2021.

20. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick. Started Tuesday March 23, 2021. Finished Tuesday March 27, 2021 at 6:31PM.

21. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again — David Foster Wallace. Started Tuesday March 23, 2021 at 7:15PM. Finished Sunday April 4, 2021 at 10:17PM in Austin, Texas.

22.Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer. Started Sunday April 4, 2021 at 10:23PM in Austin, Texas. Finished Sunday April 11, 2021 at 4:54PM.

23.Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power — Niall Ferguson. Started on Sunday April 11, 2021 at 4:58PM. Finished Friday April 23, 2021 at 8:22PM in Austin, Texas.

24. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution — Francis Fukuyama. Started Friday April 23, 2021 at 8:32PM in Austin, Texas. Finished on Thursday May 20, 2021 at 6:24PM.

25.The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien. Started April 2021. Finished Friday May 28, 2021 at 11:59PM.

26. The Zimmerman Telegram — Barbara W. Tuchman. Started Sunday May 30, 2021 at 3:25PM. Finished Monday June 7, 2021 at 8:35PM.

27. The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution — Barbra W. Tuchman. Started Monday June 7, 2021 at 8:37PM. Finished Friday June 18, 2021 at 1054AM.

28. The Body — Stephen King. Started Thursday June 17, 2021 at 10:58PM. Finished Saturday June 19, 2021 at 1:31PM in Austin, Texas.

29. A Matter of Interpretation — Antonin Scalia. Started Saturday June 19, 2021 at 3:39PM. Finished Sunday June 20, 2021 at 4:21PM in Cedar Park, Texas.

30. How to Write a Thesis — Umberto Eco. Started Sunday June 20, 201 at 5:38PM in Cedar Park, Texas. Finished Wednesday June 23, 2021 at 12:21 or 12:22 PM in Cedar Park.

31. The Constitution in Exile : How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land — Andrew P. Napolitano. Started Friday June 25, 2021 at 5:36PM. Finished Saturday June 26, 2021 around 7:40PM.

32.A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway. Started Saturday June 28, 2021 at 8:39PM. Finished Monday June 28, 2021 at 6:47PM.

33.The Conscience of a Conservative — Barry Goldwater. Started Monday June 28, 2021 at 6:48PM. Finished Monday June 28, 2021 at 8:46PM.

34.God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom” — William F. Buckley Jr. Started Tuesday June 29, 2021 at 3:48PM. Finished Thursday June 30, 2021 at 8:12PM.

35.The Battle of Gettysburg — Frank A. Haskell. Started Tuesday June 29, 2021 at 8:17PM. Finished Friday July 2, 2021 at 3:09PM.

36.Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes — Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein. Started Friday July 2, 2021 at 3:14PM. Finished Saturday July 3, 2021 at 3:21PM.

37. The Alchemist — Paul Coelho. Started July 4, 2021 Sunday at 9:27PM. Finished July 7, 2021 Wednesday at 8:09PM.

38. The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law — Mark Hermann. Started Thursday July 9, 2021 late in the day. Finished Friday July 9, 2021 at 11:30AM.

39.Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages — Michael Keen & Joel Slemrod. Started Wednesday June 23, 2021 at 6:28PM. Finished Friday July 9, 2021 at 4:28PM

40. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess — David Shenk. Started Friday July 9, 2021 at 4:39PM. Finished Saturday July 10, 2021 11:43AM.

41. The Tales of Beedle the Bard — J.K. Rowling. Started Saturday July 10, 2021 11:45AM. Finished Saturday July 10, 2021 12:48AM.

42. The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare. Started Saturday July 10, 2021 12:52PM. Finished Saturday July 10, 2021 3:56PM.

43.Don Juan in Hell — from Man and Superman — George Bernard Shaw. Started Saturday July 10, 2021 4:29PM. Finished Saturday July 10, 2021 6:52PM.

44. Meditations — Marcus Aurelius. Started Saturday July 10, 2021. Finished Sunday July 11, 2021 at 9:23AM.

45.Legal Analysis — David S. Romantz & Kathleen Elliott Vinson. Started morning of Sunday July 11, 2021. Finished Sunday July 11, 2021 at 1:45PM.

46. An Enemy of the People — Henrik Ibsen. Started Sunday July 11, 2021 at 1:52PM. Finished Sunday July 11, 2021 at 3:22PM.

47. Richard II — William Shakespeare. Started Sunday July 11, 2021 at 3:24PM. Finished Sunday July 11, 2021 at 5:14PM.

48. Passenger to Frankfurt — Agatha Christi. Started Sunday July 11, 2021 at 7:09PM. Finished Wednesday July 14, 2021 at 6:14PM.

49. Letters to a Young Lawyer — Alan Dershowitz. Started Wednesday July 14, 2021 at 6:15PM. Finished Thursday July 25, 2021 at 8:29AM.

50. Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawyer — Grover E Cleveland. Started Thursday July 25, 2021 at 11:33AM. Finished Friday July 16, 2021 at 9:01AM.

51. Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation’s Top Advocates — Ross Guberman. Started Friday July 16, 2021 at 10:37AM. Finished Saturday July 17, 2021 at 3:07PM.

52.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream — Hunter S. Thompson. Started Saturday July 17, 2021 at 3:16PM. Finished Saturday July 17, 2021 at 7:37PM.

53.Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller. Started Saturday July 17, 2021 at 8:11PM. Finished Saturday July 17, 2021 at 9:31PM.

54.A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams. Started Saturday July 17, 2021 at 10:44PM. Finished Sunday July 18, 2021 at 9:04PM.

55. For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway. Started Sunday July 18, 2021 at 10:55PM. Finished Monday July 26, 2021 at 4:30PM.

56.Introduction to Freemasonry — II — Fellowcraft — Carl H. Claudy. Started Tuesday July 27, 2021 at 7:29PM. Finished Thursday July 29, 2021 at 5:45PM.

57. How to Read a Book: Mortimer J. Adler. Started Friday July 16, 2021 at 7:05PM. Finished Saturday July 31, 2021 at 3:23PM.

58. Introduction to Freemasonry — I — Entered Apprentice — Carl H. Claudy. Started Sunday at approximately 6:44PM on August 1, 2021. Finished Monday August 2, 2021 at 7:07PM.

59.The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck. Started Monday July 26, 2021 at 4:31PM. Finished Saturday August 7, 2021 at 4:54PM in Corpus Christi, Texas.

60. Civilization: The West and the Rest — Niall Ferguson. Started July/August 2021. Finished Saturday August 18, 2021 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

61. How to Speak How to Listen — Mortimer Adler. Finished Tuesday August 28, 2021 at 2:42PM

62. The Alchemy of Finance — George Soros. Started August 2021. Finished Tuesday August 21, 2021 in Corpus Christ, Texas.

63.Dune — Frank Herbert. Started Thursday September 2, 2021 at 11:23AM. Finished Monday September 6, 2021 at 3:25PM.

64. Grammars of Creation — George Steiner. Started Tuesday August 24, 2021 at 6:09PM in Cedar Park, Texas at home. Finished Monday September 6, 2021 at 8:59PM in Cedar Park, Texas at home.

65.The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins. Started Monday September 6, 2021 at 8:52PM in Cedar Park, Texas. Finished Saturday September 11, 2021 at 10:18AM in Cedar Park, Texas.

66. The Second Treatise of Government — John Locke. Started Saturday September 11, 2021 at 10:25AM. Finished Saturday September 11, 2021 at 7:54PM.

67. Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche. Started Saturday September 11, 2021 at 7:55PM. Finished Wednesday September 15, 2021 at 8:36AM on flight from Austin to Hilton Head Island.

68. David Lynch: The Man from Another Place — Dennis Lim. Started Wednesday September 15, 2021 at 8:36AM on flight from Austin to Hilton Head Island and finished Wednesday at 1:58PM same day on connecting flight.

69. All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque. Started Sunday September 19, 2021 at 12:46PM. Finished Tuesday September 21, 2021 at 9:22PM.

70. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom — Sławomir Rawicz. Started Tuesday September 21, 2021 at 9:25PM. Finished Sunday September 26, 2021 at 7:12PM.

71. Ten Philosophical Mistakes: Basic Errors in Modern Thought — How They Came About, Their Consequences, and How to Avoid Them. Started Wednesday September 15, 2021. Finished Tuesday September 28, 2021 at 6:37PM.

72. Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy — Mortimer J. Adler. Started Tuesday September 28, 2021 at 6:37PM. Finished Saturday October 2, 2021 at 4:21PM.

73. Stillness is the Key — Ryan Holiday. Started Saturday October 2, 2021 at 6:35PM. Finished Sunday October 3, 2021 at 4:06PM.

74. Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising — Ryan Holiday. Started Sunday October 3, 2021 at 4:10PM.

75. A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters — Julian Barnes. Started Monday October 4, 2021 at 6:43PM. Finished Saturday October 8, 2021 at 9:52PM.

76. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen. Started at 12:13PM on Saturday May 29, 2021. Restarted Sunday September 26, 2021 at 7:24PM. Finished Saturday October 9, 2021 at 10:07PM.

77. Letters to a Young Poet — Rainer Maria Rilke. Started Saturday October 8, 2021 at 9:55PM.

78.The 48 Laws of Power — Robert Greene. Started Saturday October 9, 2021 at 4:37PM. Finished Saturday October 16, 2021 at 11:16PM.

79. Trust Me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator — Ryan Holiday. Started Saturday October 16, 2021 at 11:17PM. Finished Monday October 18, 2021 at 6:30PM.

80. Mastery — Robert Greene. Started Monday October 18, 2021 at 6:41PM.

81. Felt Time: The Science of How We Experience Time — Started. Thursday October, 2021 at 4:33PM. Finished Sunday October 24, 2021 at 1:29PM.

82. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking — for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers. Started Sunday October 24, 2021 at 1:30PM. Finished Tuesday October 26, 2021 at 9:36PM.

83. The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. Gary Keller with Jay Papasan. Started October 25, 2021 Wednesday at 5:29PM. Finished Friday October 29, 2021 at 2:26PM.

84. The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin. Started October 26, 2021 Tuesday at 9:39PM. Finished Saturday October 30, 2021 at 12:49PM.

85. The 50th Law — Robert Greene, 50 Cent. Started Saturday October 30, 2021 at 4:47PM. Finished Tuesday November 2, 2021 at 1:43PM.

86. Rich Dad Poor Dad. Robert T. Kiyosaki. Started Friday October 29, 2021 at 2:52PM. Finished Tuesday November 2, 2021 at 5:07PM.

87.City of Quartz — Mike Davis. Started November 2, 2021 at 6:18PM. Finished Sunday November 14, 2021 at 10:18PM.

88. Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino. Started Monday November 15,2021 at 1:48PM. Finished Thursday November 18, 2021.

89. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows — John Koeing. Started Thursday November 18, 2021 at 6:28PM. Finished Saturday November 20, 2021 at 3:49PM.

90. Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People — William Ury. Started Saturday November 20, 2021 at 3:50PM. Finished Saturday November 20, 2021 at 8:49PM.

91. Getting to Yes with Yourself and other Worthy Opponents — William Ury. Started Saturday November 20, 2021 at 8:50PM. Finished Sunday November 21, 2021 at 9:58PM in Corpus Christi.

92. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son — George Horace Lorimer. Started Sunday November 21, 2021 at 10:00PM in Corpus Christi. Finished Tuesday November 23, 2021 at 11:12AM in Corpus Christi.

93.The Power of a Positive No: How to Say NO and Still Get to YES — William Ury — Started on Tuesday November 23, 2021 at 11:12AM in Corpus Christi. Finished on Sunday November 28, 2021 at 8:01PM in Cedar Park, Texas.

94. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men — David Foster Wallace. Started November 28, 2021 at 8:03PM in Cedar Park, Texas. Finished Tuesday November 30, 2021 at 5:13PM.

95.A Voyage to Arcturus — David Lindsay. Started Tuesday November 30, 2021 at 5:14PM. Finished Saturday December 4, 2021 at 9:45PM.

96. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — Author unknown, translated by Benedict Flynn. Started on Saturday December 4, 2021 at 9:45PM. Finished Sunday December 5, 2021 at 12:45PM.

97. The Tempest — William Shakespeare. Started Sunday December 5, 2021 at 12:45PM. Sunday December 5, 2021 at 2:14PM.

98. The Taming of the Shrew — William Shakespeare. Started Sunday December 5, 2021 at 2:14PM. Finished Monday December 6, 2021 at 12:56PM.

99. All’s Well That Ends Well — William Shakespeare. Started Tuesday December 7, 2021 at 9:10AM. Finished Thursday December 9, 2021 at 5:18PM.

100. Coriolanus — Shakespeare. Started Thursday December 9, 2021 at 5:18PM. Finished Friday December 10, 2021 at 12:02PM.

101. Difficult Conversations — Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen. Started Friday December 10, 2021 at 12:04PM. Finished Saturday December 11, 2021 at 11:35AM.

102. Scoop — Evelyn Waugh. Started Saturday December 11, 2021 at 11:35AM. Finished Saturday December 18, 2021 at 5:58AM.

103. Freud: A Very Short Introduction — Anthony Storr. Started Saturday December 18, 2021 at 6:07AM. Finished Saturday December 18, 2021 at 4:50PM.

104. Cymbeline — William Shakespeare. Started Saturday December 18, 2021 at 11:03AM. Finished Monday December 20, 2021 at 1:28PM.

105. The Gospel of Wealth — Andrew Carnegie. Started Monday December 20, 2021 at 1:45PM. Finished Monday December 20, 2021 at 2:01PM.

106. Jung: A Very Short Introduction — Anthony Stevens. Started Monday December 27, 2021 at 10:36PM. Finished Tuesday December 28, 2021 at 3:54PM.

107. Rivers: A Very Short Introduction — Nick Middleton. Started Tuesday December 28, 2021 at 4:51PM. Finished Wednesday December 29, 2021 at 11:46AM.

108. Lakes: A Very Short Introduction — Warwick F. Vincent. Started Wednesday December 29, 2021 at 11:46AM.

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