What I Read in 2021

Here is a list of the books I read in 2021. This is more for my records, but I would recommend most, but not all, of them.

1. 109 East Palace by Jennet Conant
2. 1356 by Bernard Cornwell
3. A Sense of Honor by James Webb
4. A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
5. After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam by Lesley Hazleton
6. American Street by Ibi Zoboi
7. Black Buck: A Novel by Mateo Askaripour
8. Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
9. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
10. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
11. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
12. Bound for Gold by William Martin
13. Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing by Diana Lind
14. Caste: The Origin of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
15. Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
16. Cloak of Deception by James Luceno
17. Dare to Dream: Creating a God-Sized Mission Statement for Your Life by Mike Slaughter
18. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
19. Do Not Live Afraid: Faith in a Fearful World by John Indermark
20. Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
21. Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
22. Eight Life-Enriching Practices of United Methodists by Hal Knight
23. Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest by David Roberts
24. Exploring the Seven Elements of the Lord's Prayer: A Thought-Provoking Journey Into the Practical and Biblical Principles of the Prayer Given to Us by Christ Jesus by Erik Douglas Randolph
25. Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson
26. Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose
27. God the What? What Our Metaphors for God Reveal about Our Beliefs in God by Carolyn Jane Bohler
28. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
29. Hail Mary by Andy Weir
30. Heretic by Bernard Cornwell
31. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
32. Hiroshima by John Hersey
33. His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meachem
34. I Alone Can Fix It: Donald Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carole Leonnig and Phillip Rucker
35. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick
36. Indians on Vacation by Thomas King
37. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
38. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
39. Lies We Believe About God by Wm. Paul Young
40. Life in a Medieval Castle by Brenda Ralph Lewis
41. Life in a Medieval Village by Frances and Joseph Gies
42. Living a Life that Matters by Harold S. Kushner
43. Living the Lord's Prayer by Rowan Williams and Wendy Beckett
44. Lord, Teach Us: The Lord's Prayer and the Christian Life by William Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas
45. Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
46. Lupe Wong Won't Dance by Donna Barba Higuera
47. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter
48. Mary Magdalene: A Biography by Bruce Chilton
49. Matrix by Lauren Groll
50. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
51. Mingling with the Enemy: A Social Survival Guide for Our Divided Era by Jeanne Martinet
52. Minimalism for Families by Zoe Kim
53. Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
54. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
55. Move: What 1,000 Churches Reveal about Spiritual Growth by Greg L. Hawkins
56. Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
57. Of Logs and Stone: The Buildings of the Los Alamos Ranch School and Bathtub Row by Craig Martin
58. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood and Travis Thrasher
59. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
60. On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus by David Waltner-Toews
61. Outlawed by Anna North
62. Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences by Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman
63. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose
64. Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The Followes of Jesus in Legend and History by Bart Ehrman
65. Practicing Resurrection: The Gospel of Mark and Radical Discipleship by Janet Wolf
66. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
67. Questions God Asks Us by Trevor Hudson
68. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
69. Searching for Sunday: Leaving, Loving and Finding the Church by Rachel Held-Evans
70. Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry
71. She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
72. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
73. Simple Governance: Liberating Your Church for Mission by Stephan Ross
74. Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle by Kristen Green
75. Sooley by John Grisham
76. Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life by Marjorie J. Thompson
77. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
78. Stride: Creating a Discipleship Pathway for Your Church by Mike Schreiner and Ken Willard
79. Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
80. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
81. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez
82. Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
83. That Left Turn at Albuquerque by Scott Phillips
84. The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company by John Rossman
85. The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough
86. The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwel
87. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
88. The Battle for Civil Rights, Or, How Los Alamos Became a County by Marjorie Bell Chambers
89. The Bomber Mafia by Macolm Gladwell
90. The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster by Kevin Cook
91. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
92. The Eagles of Heart Mountain: The True Story of Football, Incarceration and Resistence in World War II America by Bradford Pearson
93. The End of Youth Ministry?: Why Parents Don't Really Care about Youth Groups and What Youth Workers Should Do about It by Andrew Root
94. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
95. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
96. The Greatest Prayer by John Dominic Crossan
97. The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction by Peter Rollins
98. The Immoral Majority: Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power Over Christian Values by Ben Howe
99. The Jewish Background to the Lord's Prayer by Brad Young
100. The Kindness Challenge: Thirty Days to Improve Any Relationship by Shaunti Feldhahn
101. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
102. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
103. The Lord and His Prayer by NT Wright
104. The Lord's Prayer by C. Clifton Black
105. The Lord's Prayer by Mary Lou Redding
106. The Lord's Prayer: Jesus Teaches Us How to Pray by Mary Lou Redding
107. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
108. The Morning and the Evening by Ken Follett
109. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
110. The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief by Liz Tichenor
111. The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
112. The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
113. The Physics of Star Wars by Patrick Johnson
114. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough
115. The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution by R. Albert Mohler Jr.
116. The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century by Robert D. Kaplan
117. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
118. The Sinking of the Bismark by William L. Shirer
119. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
120. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones
121. The Truth about Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit by Aja Raden
122. The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam
123. Thrawn Ascendency: Greater Good by Timothy Zahn
124. Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump by David Rothkopf
125. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
126. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
127. Vagabond by Bernard Cornwell
128. Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence by Eduardo Obreg Pagan
129. We are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
130. What Do We Do with the Bible by Richard Rohr
131. What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?: Discover a Life Filled with Purpose and Joy Through the Secrets of Jewish Wisdom by Michal Oshman
132. White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler
133. Working Class Rage by Tex Sample
134. Year Book by Seth Rogen
135. You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers by Amanda Frost
136. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacy: Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar