My Reading In 2021
Bryan Davis
Director of Product at The Associated Press, growing audiences and digital revenue with realtime data, content insights, marketing technology, and AI tools
2021 was trying for so many reasons. Just when I thought I was out, Omicron pulled me back in. But our newish baby gave us a lot to be grateful for. Despite the additional invest of time to the tiny human, I prioritized mental well-being through reading. Unlike years prior where I set out with specific goals, this year meandered among a couple of themes. Looking at my list here, I am glad for the diversity of subjects and topics.
Author: Marie Howe
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
“I am living. I remember you.”
Author: John McPhee
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
"Then he started to perform whirling reverse moves before another cadence of almost steadily accurate jump shots, and the murmur increased. Then he began to sweep hook shots into the air. He moved in a semicircle around the court. First with his right hand, then with his left, he tried seven of these long, graceful shots-the most difficult ones in the orthodoxy of basketball-and ambidextrously made them all. The game had not even begun, but the presumably unimpressible Philadelphians were applauding like an audience at an opera.”
Author: John Steinbeck
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Leo Tolstoy
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”
Author: Lewis Carroll
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Author: A.A. Milne
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Author: Robert A. Caro
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Reading this book changes every walk through NYC. It also changes the concept of power- how to gain, wield it, and lose it.
Author: Barack Obama
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
First time reading with the baby, and it took on a new resonance.
Author: Agatha Christie
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: E.B. White
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: David W. Blight
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Andy Weir
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Adam M. Grant
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Eric Jorgenson
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Michael Bungay Stanier
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Carrie Fisher
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Carlo Rovelli
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Colson Whitehead
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Malcolm Gladwell
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Bill Gates
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: William Goldman
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Jocko Willink
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Maria Konnikova
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Ernest Hemingway
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Chris Voss
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Daniel Coyle
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Succinct and practical advice for collaboration.
Author: Colson Whitehead
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Isabel Wilkerson
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
An important examination of the long history of inequality in the United States. It traces the roots of the caste systems in the India and Germany and how those systems frame the terrors of racism still resonating through the US. Wilkerson includes academic and anecdotal evidence to help readers comprehend how the racial caste system in the US impacts every aspect of our lives, both for the oppressed and for those in the dominant caste.
Author: Ben Macintyre
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Writers of The Atlantic
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Alexandre Dumas
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Robert Iger
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Robert Greene
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Kahlil Gibran
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Author: Brené Brown
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: James C. Collins
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Michael D. Watkins
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: George S. Clason
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Robert Kolker
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Shane Parrish
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Ryan Holiday
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Charles T. Munger
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Ryan Holiday
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Author: Ben Horowitz
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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This is such an amazing list, Bryan! I'm going to add a few of these to my reading list for 2022!