Non-fiction books of 2021
Just the list for now. The highlighted links connect to my reviews of the book.
My Favorite:
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman.
My least favorite:
Biography, Memoir:
Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsburn.
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey.
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.
Faith:
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristen Du Mez
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
The Neglected C.S. Lewis by Mark Neal and Jerry Root.
History:
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan
The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
The Roman Way by by Edith Hamilton
A Higher Call: An incredible story of chivalry in the skies above war-torn Europe by Adam Makos.
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos.
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham.
Philosophy:
Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt.
The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt.
The Promise of Politics by Hannah Arendt.
Paradox by Margaret Cuonzo.
Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus by Karl Jaspers.
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill.
Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper.
Technopoly by Neil Postman.
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch.
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
Social Science:
Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Science:
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Maphead by Ken Jennings
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin
