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What's on your 2021 reading list?

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Romeroc3

Fiction books predominated on my 2021 reading list. Today I am finishing the Going to Meet the Man: Stories. This is the last book on the list, hurray! By the way, a very good story, read a short summary on the website freebooksummary.com/category/going... it will be cool if my recommendation is useful or interesting to someone. I wish everyone to quickly finish reading their books and write a new list for 2022.

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finistratbob • Edited

I like social books that help to understand a global problem and possible ways to solve them. I recently read the book "How It Feels to be Colored Me" freebooksummary.com/category/how-i... about the problems of racism in our society. This is an incredible book with real-world examples. It seems to me that this problem needs to be talked about, written, and discussed. Social books help to resonate in the hearts of people.

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Shemona Singh • Edited

Most excited to read:

  • Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
  • Aspirations, Agnes Callard
  • The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
  • 1q84, Haruki Murakami

The rest of my evergrowing reading list 😅

Read so far in 2021:

  • Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari
  • Normal People, Sally Rooney
  • The Collected Schizophrenias, EsmĂŠ Weijun Wang
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Glenn Stovall

My tech/business specific list as of now:

  • Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson
  • Tech Humanist: How You Can Make Technology Better for Business and Better for Humans , Kate O' Neill
  • The Collected Angers, Mike Monterio
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Jonas Brømsø • Edited

My birthday is coming up, with lots of books on the wish list, but here is my list for beginning 2021.

  • "The Imposters Handbook - a CS primer for self-taught programmers" by Rob Conery
  • "Working In Public - the making and maintenance of open source software" by Nadia Eghbal
  • "Coders - the making of a new tribe and the remaking of the world"

3 books

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Stephanie S.
  1. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
    by Clive Thompson

  2. The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think

  3. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

  4. A Promised Land by Barack Obama

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Jonas Brømsø • Edited

"Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson" is on my list too

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Sheila Gomes

I've just started watching "The Expanse" TV series, and I always try to read the books behind the series I watch, which means I started reading "Leviathan Wakes" by James Corey (and only after discovered it's a collection of many titles, so maybe that'll be it for 2021 :D). But, in case I don't really like it, next on the list are: "The Book of Delights" by Ross Gay, "Nomadland" by Jessica Bruder, "The Tyranny of Merit" by Michael Sandel, "Between the World and me" by Ta-nehisi Coates, "The Refusal of Work" by David Frayne. It's always a growing list, that will probably change very soon, especially after I read all the comments in this discussion!

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Andrew McIntosh • Edited

I want to read some of the Hugo and Nebula nominees I didn't get to last year, specifically:

  • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
  • The Light Brigade

Otherwise I want to re-read Dan Moren's Galactic Cold War books, and knock off a few more in the Vorkosigan Saga.

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Anibal

Hi !
I want to learn this year all that i could about security, bug bounty, hacking ...
I began yesterday a course in udemy , and when I finish i will begin to start reading books (that I already have) about it :)