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2021 reading list


books I am wanting to read 

You may see this list grow or get shorter, either as I add new books that I want to read or when I move books that I read to the respective month that I read it in. In no particular order:
  1. Get in the Van by Henry Rollins (even though it's near impossible to find a copy!!)
  2. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
  3. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
  4. the The Boys comics by Garth Ennis
  5. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  6. Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words by Andrew Morton
  7. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
  8. Souichi's Diary of Delights, Gyo, and Shiver by Junji Ito (side note: I am a huge Junji Ito fan!)
  9. the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson
  10. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre
  11. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  12. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr
  13. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  14. Othello by William Shakespeare (and maybe some other plays but idk yet)
  15. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (side note: I think I might have read this several years ago, but I'm not entirely sure)
  16. Brave New World by Huxley Aldous
  17. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  18. The Autobiography of Malcom X
  19. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
  20. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
  21. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  22. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Noah Yuval Harari
  23. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  24. The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

books I am wanting to re-read

  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • May on Motors by James May
  • The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

January

1st January: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
5th JanuaryEverything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
6th JanuaryAwards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom by Shelby Lorman
8th January: Dracula by Bram Stoker
15th January: 1984 by George Orwell
23rd January: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
24th JanuaryFuturistic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
31st January: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron 

February

5th FebruaryFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8th February: Animal Farm by George Orwell
9th February: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

March

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December


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