Books I Read in 2020–2021

I didn’t do as consistent a job as I intended keeping track of, and writing about, books I read in 2020–2021, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. But here is an incomplete list, with favorites in bold.

2020

• Run, by Ann Patchett
• Why We’re Polarized, by Ezra Klein
• Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
• The Long Haul, by Miles Horton
• Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill
• Trade Wars are Class Wars, by Matthew Klein and Michael Pettis
• The Great Influenza, by John Barry
• The Underground Railroad, by Colton Whitehead
• Beloved, by Toni Morrison

2021

• The Fearless Organization (most of the book)
• State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
• How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
• Man Walks Into a Room, Nicole Krauss
• The Fire This Time, James Baldwin
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
• Station 11, Emily St. John Mandel