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My Reader Goals 2021 🎯

Happy New Year!

Every year I like to list books I plan on reading. It's a starting point, a list that I look at every month to pick what to read next. It's not meant to be a “must read” list, just suggestions for my future me.

This year I'm not being too ambitious. I want to slow down and savour the moment. No big goals really, just sailing in cruise control.

I mainly want to keep on reading the books I already own, so I will try to pick from the following list:

  1. Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day
  2. The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
  3. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  4. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells
  5. Dragons of Winter Night Margaret Weis
  6. Extend Your Mind: Praxis Volume 2 by Tiago Forte
  7. Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5) by James S.A. Corey
  8. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2) by Becky Chambers
  9. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
  10. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich
  11. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance | AUDIBLE
  12. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer
  13. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by B.J. Fogg
  14. Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening by Joseph Goldstein
  15. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil | AUDIBLE
  16. The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1) by John Scalzi
  17. Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
  18. Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
  19. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  20. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2) by John Scalzi
  21. The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
  22. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
  23. The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World by Jenn Granneman
  24. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
  25. Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
  26. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
  27. Let It Shine by Alyssa Cole
  28. Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam by Yasmine Mohammed
  29. The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future by Ryder Carroll
  30. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris
  31. The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) by Joe Abercrombie
  32. Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2) by Joe Abercrombie
  33. Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future by Lucie Greene
  34. An Extraordinary Union (The Loyal League #1) by Alyssa Cole
  35. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  36. Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld

Books I want to buy next:

I have a few that are on my radar for me to acquire at some point:
(mostly related to technology/digital information)

  1. A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind by David J. Helfand
  2. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
  3. A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport
  4. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac

Take care in 2021!

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By Noisy Deadlines
Minimalist in progress, nerdy, introvert, skeptic. I don't leave without my e-reader.