Reading 2021 Books I read in 2021: The Sellout by Beaty Paul Whereabouts: A novel by Jhumpa Lahiri Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant The Free World by Louis Menand The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks by Adam Nayman The Chancellor by Kati Marton How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims Self-Reliance by Ralph Emerson Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer Studio Culture Now by Editor: Mark Sinclair Men and Style: Essays, Interviews, and Considerations by David Coggins Fox 8: A Story by George Saunders Three Women by Lisa Taddeo The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life by Kyle Beachy Power Play by Tim Higgins My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinovic The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer This Isn't Happening by Steven Hyden Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Philip Kennicott The Innovation Stack by Jim McKelvey After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made by Ben Rhodes They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Seeing Serena by Gerald Marzorati Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel by Sally Rooney The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer by Christopher Clarey The Monocle Book of Homes by Tyler Brûlé An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel