Highlights of my reading in Year 2 of Coronavirus:

High-Rise (J.G. Ballard)
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization (Nicholson Baker)
Ur-Fascism (Umberto Eco)
The White Album (Joan Didion)
The World as Will and Representation: Volume I (Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. E.F.J. Payne)
Hadji Murat (Leo Tolstoy, trans. Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby Jr.)
A Walk on the Wild Side (Nelson Algren)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Bill Bryson)
Sapiens: A Brief History Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
The Inheritors (William Golding)
Marxism & Darwinism (Anton Pannekoek)
The State and Revolution: The Marxist Teaching on the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution (V.I. Lenin)
New Atlantis (Francis Bacon)
The City of the Sun (Tomasso Campanella)
Erewhon (Samuel Butler)
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth (M. Scott Peck)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursual K. Le Guin)
Newsletter Ninja: How to Become An Author Mailing List Expert (Tammi Labrecque)
Following: A Marketing Guide to Author Platform (David Gaughan)
Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams ( Matthew Walker)
Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)
Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante, trans. Ann Goldstein)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Max Weber, trans. Stephen Kalberg)
Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)
Travels with Herodotus (Ryszard Kapuscinski, trans. Klara Glowczewska)
Shah of Shahs (Ryszard Kapuscinski, trans. William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowski-Brand)
Imperium (Ryszard Kapuscinski, trans. Klara Glowczewska)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll)
V. (Thomas Pynchon)
The Courage to Be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga)
The Book of Life (J. Krishnamurti)

What were the best books you read in 2021? What are your reading goals for 2022?