reading list, 2021
The Book of Form and Emptiness (Ozeki) - 27 October to 27 November
Atomic Habits (Clear) - 26 October to 4 November
The Sum of Us (McGhee) - 2 to 24 October *
Notes on Grief (Adichie) - 11 to 12 October
I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound (Doughty) - 14 January to 10 October
Blind Man’s Bluff (Hill) - 9 to 10 October
Rememberings (O’Connor) - 27 September to 9 October
Effortless (McKeown) - 29 July to 29 September
Burn (Pontzer) - 7 to 28 September
Hot Stew (Mosley) - 21 to 27 September
Horror Stories (Phair) - 13 August to 27 September
The Sweetness of Water (Harris) - 15 to 19 September
Under a White Sky (Kolbert) - 10 to 14 September
Things We Lost to the Water (Nguyen) - 6 to 9 September
Preparations for the Next Life (Lish) - 10 August to 5 September
How The Word Is Passed (Smith) - 15 July to 10 August
The Hospital (Alexander) - 24 July to 4 August
The Plot (Korelitz) - 3 to 4 July
Rock Me on the Water (Brownstein) - 11 June to 1 July
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman) - 5 May to 28 June
The Promise (Galgut) - 4 to 9 June
Nine Days (Kendrick & Kendrick) - 24 May to 3 June
The Inevitable (Englehart) - 19 to 24 May
Abundance (Guanzon) - 16 to 19 May
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev (Walton) - 10 to 16 May
Who Will Pay Reparations on my Soul? (McCarthy) - 4 to 9 May
Futureproof (Roose) - 3 to 4 May
The Frontlines of Peace (Autesserre) - 1 to 2 May
How Rights Went Wrong (Greene) - 22 April to 1 May
Decisive (Heath & Heath) - 18 to 26 April
This is Our Story, This is Our Song (Gates) - 19 to 21 April
Wild Swims (Nors) - 18 to 19 April
Black Man in a White Coat (Tweedy) - 16 to 18 April
Best American Short Stories 2020 - 21 January to 17 April
I Came as a Shadow (Thompson) - 10 to 15 April
Reading, Writing, and Racism (Picower) - 31 March to 9 April *
Arms and the Dudes (Lawson) - 30 to 31 March
Hidden Valley Road (Kolker) - 20 to 30 March
How Beautiful We Were (Mbue) - 18 to 20 March
Hades, Argentina (Loedel) - 13 to 17 March
Eat a Peach (Chang) - 10 to 13 March
Caste (Wilkerson) - 1 to 7 March
Let the Lord Sort Them (Chammah) - 21 to 24 February
Little Fires Everywhere (Ng) - 17 to 19 February
The Body Keeps the Score (van der Kolk) - 26 January to 16 February
How Much of These Hills is Gold (Zhang) - 24 to 26 January
The Will to Change (bell hooks) - 1 to 24 January
Shakespeare in a Divided America (Shapiro) - 15 to 19 January
A Girl in Exile (Kadare) - 12 to 15 January
North of Dawn (Farah) - 8 to 12 January
*Book Club read with the Anti-Racism Coalition of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I thank them for inviting me to join them in this important work.