Reading List

Here is my unofficial reading list for 2021. I might change it up here or there, but I don’t plan on changing much, maybe only the order. According to my math this should get me to 33 books which is my goal…I might even try to do better than 33 books. We shall see.

Logic: A Complete Introduction
by Siu-Fan Lee
Wheel of Time Book 10: Crossroads of Twilight
by Robert Jordan
White Guilt
by Shelby Steele
Wheel of Time Book 11: Knife of Dreams
by Robert Jordan
How to Have Impossible Conversations
by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
Wheel of Time Book 12: The Gathering Storm
By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Irreversible Damage
by Abigail Shrier
Wheel of Time Book 13: The Towers of Midnight
By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
by Jordan Peterson
Wheel of Time Book 14: A Memory of Light (Finally! I mean, the story is good, but 14 books! I’m ready for this point in the year)
by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Return of the God Hypothesis
by Stephen C. Meyer
1984
by George Orwell
False Alarm
by Bjorn Lomborg
The Kill Artist
by Daniel Silva
Apocalypse Never
by Michael Shellenberger
Timeline
by Michael Crichton
The History of the Ancient World (I listened to the audiobook last year…feel like I need to read the physical copy this year…)
by Susan Weise-Bauer
The Expanse Book 1: Leviathan Wakes
by James S. A. Corey
The History of the Medieval World
by Susan Weise-Bauer
Mistborn Trilogy Book 1: Mistborn
by Brandon Sanderson
The Plantagenets
by Dan Jones
James Bond: License Renewed (First Bond novel after Ian Fleming’s death. Hope it’s good.)
by John Gardner
The Wars of the Roses
by Dan Jones
Witcher Series Book 2: Time for Contempt
by Andrej Sapkowski
Reinventing Racism: Why “White Fragility” Is the Wrong Way to Think about Racial Inequality
by Jonathan D. Church
Witcher Series Book 3: Baptism of Fire
by Andrej Sapkowski
One Vote Away
by Ted Cruz
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
The Naked Communist
by W. Cleon Skousen
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth (yearly tradition around Christmas)
by Charles Dickens
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The Rational Male 3: Positive Masculinity
by Rollo Tomassi

2020 was a wild year for me as far as reading goes. I had always wanted to read more but never lived up to what I wanted for myself. This last year I found the advice of Scott Adams extremely helpful. Never set goals for yourself (or at least don’t pay too much attention to them) it is more important to set up a system that you can work every day. Eventually the daily system will lead you to a larger goal if you calibrate it correctly. This list is living proof of this method (one of the many for me this year). I decided to read 30 pages as my daily system, which roughly translates into an hour of reading. With this system in place, I read more books this past year than I have in the last decade and I plan to increase my yearly goal for 2021. Here’s to the end of a wild year and to more success in the next!

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
by Susan Weise Bauer (Audible)
The Wheel of Time Book 4: The Shadow Rising
by Robert Jordan
Carnival Row
by Stephanie K. Smith (Audible)
Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch
by Ruth Cowen (Audible)
Mere Christianity
by C.S. Lewis
Cari Mora
by Thomas Harris (Audible)
The Happines Hypothesis
by Jonathan Heidt (Audible)
The Wheel of Time Book 5: The Fires of Heaven
by Robert Jordan
Magna Carta
by Dan Jones
Congo
by Michael Crichton
The False Promise of Single Payer Healthcare
by Sally C. Pipes
The Last Wish
by Andrej Sapkowski
The Madness of Crowds
by Douglas Murray
Sword of Destiny
By Andrej Sapkowski
The Keys of Prolific Creativity
by David V. Stewart
The Wheel of Time Book 6: Lord of Chaos
by Robert Jordan
Loserthink
By Scott Adams
Blood of Elves
by Andrej Sapkowski
#Blackprivilege
by Charlamagne Tha God
The Wheel of Time Book 7: A Crown of Swords
by Robert Jordan
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity and Why That Harms Everyone
by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Dune
by Frank Herbert
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
by Thomas Asbridge (Audible)
Lose the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
by John McWhorter
The Wheel of Time Book 8: The Path of Daggers
by Robert Jordan
The Go-Giver
by Bob Burg and John David Mann
The Wheel of Time Book 9: Winter’s Heart
by Robert Jordan
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
by Thomas Sowell
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth
by Charles Dickens
The Law
by Frederic Bastiat
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

Best Non-Fiction book of 2020: This was a difficult decision to make…I read a lot of great books this year, but I think the best of them was Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. The book was packed full of information often citing or quoting original materials from the subject matter they were discussing. This gave me more confidence in the conclusions they were reaching in their overview of the Critical Theories that we see invading our current culture. I definitely recommend picking up this book if you are interested in philosophy or want to understand the craze of calling everything racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic.

Best Fiction book of 2020: I have to go with Dune for this pick. I originally listened to Dune on audiobook a couple of years ago and couldn’t enjoy it. The vast universe that Frank Herbert created is almost too obscure in audiobook form because you can’t see how the strange terms the characters use are spelled and you don’t get the appendices at the end of the book that explain so much. This year, inspired by the Denis Villaneuve film that was SUPPOSED to come out last month, I decided to pick up the physical copy and give the story another shot. Upon the second reading, with the appendices for help, this book really stood out to me as a testament to fantasy and sci-fi storytelling.

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2021 Reading List

Books I Read in 2020