2021 Readings
2021-12-29
As best I can reconstruct it, here are the books I read in 2021. Not included are scholarly papers, essays, and other short works. I've provided links to books that are available online at my monadnock.net website for works in the public domain.
General
- Adams - Hollowed Out
- Adler - How to Read a Book
- Cain - Quiet (re-read)
- Crawford - Why We Drive
- Crawford - The World Outside Your Head
- Deresiewicz - The Death of the Artist
- Deresiewicz - Excellent Sheep
- Deresiewicz - A Jane Austen Education
- Dor - The Instruction of Imagination
- Frankl - Yes to Life
- Haraszti - The Velvet Prison
- Havel - The Power of the Powerless (re-read)
- Hoffer - The True Believer
- Horowitz - Mutualism
- Kodaly and Kohak - The Victors and the Vanquished
- Michnik - Letters from Prison
- Shane - The Life and Works of Evgenij Zamjatin (re-read)
- Shorris - Riches for the Poor
- Sowell - A Personal Odyssey
- Vaillant - Aging Well
- Woolf - Common Reader
- Zamyatin - A Soviet Heretic (re-read)
Fiction and Writing
Music
- Butt - Bach's Dialogue with Modernity
- Butt (ed.) - The Cambridge Companion to Bach
- Butt - Playing with History
- Gardiner - Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
- Gioia - How to Listen to Jazz
- Gioia - Music: A Subversive History
- Hough - Rough Ideas
- Kenyon (ed.) - Authenticity and Early Music
- Kivy - Authenticities
- Lawson and Stowell - The Historical Performance of Music
- Ledbetter - Unaccompanied Bach
- Moller - The Way of Bach
- Walls - History, Imagination, and the Performance of Music
- Wolff - Bach's Musical Universe
- Wolff - Bach: The Learned Musician
Philosophy
- Barnes - Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction (re-read)
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Confucius - Analects (re-read)
- Evans - Aristotle's Concept of Dialectic
- Foot - Natural Goodness
- Gotthelf and Lennox (eds.) - Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology (re-read)
- Grant - The Ethics of Aristotle
- Hardie - Aristotle's Ethical Theory (re-read)
- Henry and Nielsen (eds.) - Bridging the Gap between Aristotle's Science and Ethics
- Irwin - Aristotle's First Principles
- Johnson - Aristotle on Teleology
- Kelleher - The Journal of Wu Yubi: The Path to Sagehood
- Leigh (ed.) - The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck
- Natali - The Wisdom of Aristotle
- Patočka - Heretical Essays
- Randall - Aristotle (re-read)
- Reeve - Action, Contemplation, and Happiness
- Segvic - From Protagoras to Aristotle
- Sim (ed.) - The Crossroads of Norm and Nature
- Walker - Aristotle on the Uses of Contemplation
Poetry
- Davis - Belonging (re-read)
- Davis - A Trick of Sunlight (re-read)
- Dennis - Night School
- Dennis - Practical Gods
- Holyoak - Facing the Moon
- Holyoak - Foreigner
- Martin - Signs and Wonders
- Martin - Starting from Sleep
Psychology
- Aron - The Highly Sensitive Person
- Lyubomirsky - The How of Happiness
- Myers - The Pursuit of Happiness (re-read)
- Seligman - Authentic Happiness
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