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2021 Book Rankings
2021 was a very fun year for doubling down on favorite authors. I read many mediocre books, but discovering A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth and Brideshead Revisited more than made up for it.
Liked
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
How to Be Good – Nick Hornby
Zero to One – Peter Thiel
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth – Daniel Mason
Liked Less
A Promised Land – Barack Obama
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
Last Night in Montreal – Emily St. John Mandel
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
Meh
Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan
The Winter Soldier – Daniel Mason
Grant – Ron Chernow
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
Hillbilly Elegy – J. D. Vance
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo ishiguro
What It Takes – Richard Ben Cramer
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
The Power – Naomi Alderman
Vicious – V. E. Schwab
Vengeful – V. E. Schwab
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Disliked
The Overstory – Richard Powers
The Opening Kickoff – Dave Revsine
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Really Disliked
The Three-Body Problem – Liu Cixin
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
