The constant reader (2021)

The only book of John le Carré I remember reading is The Constant Gardener. Need to catch up!

I also resolve henceforth to maintain proper records of what I have read for the purposes of unhumblebragging and upholding the virtue of insufferability.

Hence this list of books read in 2021.

1. How Jesus became God: The exaltation of a Jewish preacher from Galilee, by Bart D. Ehrman
2. The hidden girl and other stories, by Ken Liu
3. The end of everything (astrophysically speaking), by Katie Mack
4. In praise of walking, by Shane O’Mara
5. The last train to Zona Verde, by Paul Theroux
6. Exercised: The science of physical activity, rest and health, by Daniel Liberman
7. Salt Sugar Fat: How the food giants hooked us, by Michael Moss
8. On tyranny: Twenty lessons from the twentieth century, by Timothy Snyder
9. Flight or Fright: 17 turbulent tales, edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
10. Becoming, by Michelle Obama
11. The white tiger, by Aravind Adiga
12. The ruling elite of Singapore: Networks of power and influence, by Michael Barr
13. We need to hang out, by Billy Baker
14. Tall order, by Peh Shing Huei
15. Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world, by Fareed Zakaria
16. Our final warning: Six degrees of climate emergency, by Mark Lynas
17. Eating chilli crab in the Anthropocene, edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerso
18. Raffles renounced: Towards a Merdeka history, edited by Alfian Sa’at, Faris Joraimi, Sai Siew Min
19. Going solo, by Eric Klinenberg
20. Under a white sky: The nature of the future, by Elizabeth Kolbert
21. 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
22. How to avoid a climate disaster, by Bill Gates
23. Second sleep, by Robert Harris
24. I’m thinking of ending things, by Iain Reid
25. My twentieth century evening and other small breakthroughs, by Kazuo Ishiguro
26. Between two kingdoms: A memoir of a life interrupted, by Suleika Jaouad
27. Later, by Stephen King
28. The outlaw ocean: Journeys across the last untamed frontier, by Ian Urbina
29. No time to spare: Thinking about what matters, by Ursula K Le Guin
30. After the inquiry, by Jolene Tan
31. Spillover: Animal infections and the next human pandemic, by David Quammen
32. A fatal thing happened on the way to the forum, by Emma Southon
33. The data detective, by Tim Harford
34. I hate running and you can too, by Brendan Leonard
35. This is how they tell me the world ends, by Nicole Perlroth
36. Seven brief lessons on physics, by Carlo Rovelli
37. The order of time, by Carlo Rovelli
38. Four Horsemen: The conversation that sparked an atheist revolution, by Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Dennett
39. Life’s edge: The search for what it means to be alive, by Carl Zimmer
40. News of the world, by Paulette Jiles
41. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
42. Autumn light, by Pico Iyer
43. The devotion of Suspect X, by Keigo Higashino
44. The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly
45. The end of the end of the earth: Essays, by Jonathan Franzen
46. The art of stillness: Adventures in going nowhere, by Pico Iyer
47. Helgoland, by Carlo Rovelli
48. How we die, by Sherwin B Nuland
49. How we disappeared, by Jing-Jing Lee
50. Falter, by Bill McKibben
51. Standing tall, by Peh Shing Huei
52. The great successor, by Anna Fifield
53. Disability and other human questions, by Dan Goodley
54. Weather, by Jenny Offill
55. The logic of life, by Tim Harford
56. Tribe: On homecoming and belonging, by Sebastian Junger
57. Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45, by Volker Ullrich
58. The accidental universe, by Alan Lightman
59. Billy Summers, by Stephen King
60. Writing on the wall, by Tom Standage
61. Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman
62. The psychology of money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness, by Morgan Housel
63. The lost art of dying, by L.S. Dugdale
64. Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
65. Parable of the Talents, by Octavia E. Butler
66. Doom: The politics of catastrophe, by Neil Ferguson
67. Convenience store woman, by Sayaka Murata
68. A tale for the time being, by Ruth Ozeki
69. Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
70. The book of eels, by Patrik Svensson
71. Shakespearean: On life and language in times of disruption, by Robert McCrum
72. Impractical uses of cake, by Yeoh Jo-Ann
73. Every third thought: On life, death and the endgame, by Robert McCrum
74. Azadi, by Arundhati Roy
75. Reasons to stay alive, by Matt Haig
76. Falling, by T. J. Newman
77. The great derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, by Amitav Ghosh
78. I am legend, by Matheson Richard
79. A swim in a pond in the rain, by George Saunders
80. The anomaly: A novel, by Hervé Le Tellier
81. The Barcelona complex: Lionel Messi and the Making-and Unmaking-of the World’s Greatest Soccer Club, by Simon Kuper
82. The science of storytelling, by Will Storr

One of the relatively rare times I’m reading an actual hardcopy book.