In 2020, I decided I’d start tracking the books I read in an effort to read more. I spent most of the year tracking it in an email draft to myself. In retrospect, not the brightest way to do this. For 2021, I’ll endeavor to start the list in a new post and keep it updated throughout.

All in all, tracking what I read definitely pushed me to read more, and think a bit more critically about what I was reading (and why). It’s light on current events, which is something I should try to fix in 2021.

January

• After Atlas (Emma Newman)
• Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)
• Reboot (Carl Rauscher)
• Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss)
• An Elegant Puzzle (Will Larson)
• Prove It (Stacey Barr)
• Debugging Teams (Brian Fitzpatrick)

February

• Dual Transformation (Scott Anthony)
• Into Oblivion (Arnaldur Indridason)
• Operation Napoleon (Arnaldur Indridason)
• Machines Like Me (Ewan McGregor)

March

• Into the Woods (Tana French)
• Artemis (Andy Weir)
• The Miracle of Dunkirk (Walter Lord)
• Database Refactoring (Scott Ambler)

April

• Don’t Think of an Elephant (George Lakoff)
• Think Like (a) Git (Sam Livingston-Gray)

May

• Upstream (Dan Heath)

June

• Cryptonomicon (Neal Stepheson)
• Recursion (Blake Crouch)
• Permanent Record (Edward Snowden)
• Bad Blood (John Carreyrou)

July

• Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
• The Likeness (Tana French)
• The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim)
• SQL Antipatterns (Bill Karwin)

August

• Case Histories (Kate Atkinson)
• Little Book of Hygge (Neil Weiking)
• Faithful Place (Tana French)

September

• Broken Harbor (Tana French)
• Abigale Hall (Lauren Forry)

October

• Make It Last (Raleigh Briggs)
• Can’t Even (Anne Helen Peterson)
• Surviving Autocracy (Masha Gessen)
• Chaos Monkeys (Antonio Garcia Martinez)
• Focused Teams (George Champlin-Scharff)
• Go for Python Programmers (Jason McVetta)

November

• Timeline (Michael Crichton)
• The Secret Place (Tana French)
• The Year Without Pants (Scott Berkun)

December

• How to Code in Go (Mark Bates, Cory LaNou, Tim Raymond)