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2021
My Year in Books
43,027
pages read
Jake Lee
140
books read
Jake Lee
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This is my journey in books for 2021!
People, Places, and Things by Stephen King
Shortest Book
18
pages
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
Longest Book
707
pages
Average book length in 2021
307
pages
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most Shelved
6,761,963
people also shelved
Snap by Mark Powell
Least Shelved
45
people also shelved
Jake’s average rating for 2021
3.6
3.6
Growing As a Mobile Engineer by Gergely Orosz
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.71 average
Devolution by Max Brooks

Jake’s first review of the year

did not like it
I've never read a book before that manages to combine extreme unbelievability with extreme predictability, a feat I didn't know was possible.

Every character is a one dimensional sterotype, and their future decisions / actions can be predicted perfectly from their very first appearance. Since each is a ultra shallow stereotype, you can even ascertain their entire backstory from their name alone, something the author often didn't bother to do.

The ...more
JAKE’S 2021 BOOKS
Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
Eon by Greg Bear
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
Masters of Doom by David Kushner
Vulcan 607 by Rowland White
it was amazing
The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
The Union Club Mysteries by Isaac Asimov
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
People, Places, and Things by Stephen King
Catastrophes! by Isaac Asimov
The Castle by Franz Kafka
Gulag by Anne Applebaum
it was amazing
2061 by Arthur C. Clarke
Aelita by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Liftoff by Eric Berger
it was amazing
The New Weird by Ann VanderMeer
Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim
The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber
Things from the Flood by Simon Stålenhag
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean
The Brain by David Eagleman
A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
The Wall by Christopher Hilton
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
Miracles of Life by J.G. Ballard
it was amazing
The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made by David Hughes
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
The Secret Barrister by The Secret Barrister
Ramble Book by Adam Buxton
it was amazing
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse by David Mitchell
Grass by Sheri S. Tepper
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
One Summer by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson
Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
The Gardener's Son by Cormac McCarthy
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Cat Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
Human Acts by Han Kang
it was amazing
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
As Good As It Gets by Romesh Ranganathan
Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
it was amazing
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Dark Benediction by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Wordwatching by Alex Horne
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
My Life in Lists by Guy Browning
really liked it
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
The End of the World by Mike Ashley
Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
JPod by Douglas Coupland
Consider Her Ways and Others by John Wyndham
Black Flags by Joby Warrick
All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
Straight Outta Crawley by Romesh Ranganathan
The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
it was amazing
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Gathering Evidence by Martin MacInnes
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Maps of My Life by Guy Browning
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes by James Acaster
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Out of the Ordinary by Jon Ronson
Devolution by Max Brooks
Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
it was amazing
Lanny by Max Porter
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames
Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
Androids by Chet Haase
it was amazing
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Billy Summers by Stephen King
The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
Particle Physics Brick by Brick by Ben Still
Mudlark by Lara Maiklem
2021 Reading Challenge Img rccompleted
2021 READING
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Jake Lee read 140 out of 121 books.
 
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