Books I have read in 2021

Dec 31, 2021

Here is the list of books I have read in 2021:

  1. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  2. Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
  3. The Little Book of Investing in Nature by John Tobin-de la Puente and Andrew W. Mitchell
  4. Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears
  5. The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time by Jim McKelvey
  6. The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars
  7. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
  8. Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection by Marissa King
  9. Regression and Other Stories by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill and Aki Vehtari
  10. Køb og salg af aktier og obligationer by Jens Christensen
  11. Electoral Shocks: The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World by Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, Hermann Schmitt, Cees van der Eijk, Jonathan Mellon and Christopher Prosser
  12. Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks by Jonathan Schwabish
  13. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
  14. Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics by Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford
  15. Deep Learning with R by Francois Chollet
  16. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
  17. Learning the Pandas Library: Python Tools for Data Munging, Analysis, and Visualization by Matt Harrison
  18. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  19. The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal
  20. Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health by David J. Nutt
  21. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science by Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro
  22. Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss
  23. High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
  24. The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger
  25. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson
  26. Tidyverse Skills for Data Science by Carrie Wright, Shannon E. Ellis, Stephanie C. Hicks and Roger D. Peng
  27. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
  28. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
  29. Hjernen bag Astralis by Markus Bernsen
  30. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein
  31. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
  32. The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
  33. Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
  34. Om de fleste - og det meste by Lars Løkke Rasmussen
  35. Jytte vender tilbage: Den umoderne guide til at skabe forandringer imod alle odds by Morten Münster
  36. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
  37. Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
  38. Casper by Martin Kongstad
  39. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
  40. Woody Allen: A Photographic Celebration by Ward Calhoun
  41. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
  42. The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock
  43. Pseudoarbejde: Hvordan vi fik travlt med at lave ingenting by Dennis Nørmark and Anders Fogh Jensen
  44. The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
  45. Complex City: London's Changing Character by Jane Manning, Lionel Eid, Daniel Elsea, George Garofalakis and Antony Rifkin
  46. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
  47. Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Christopher A. Bail
  48. Reporting Public Opinion: How the Media Turns Boring Polls into Biased News by Erik Gahner Larsen and Zoltán Fazekas
  49. Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science by Scott Ashworth, Ethan Bueno De Mesquita and Christopher R Berry
  50. The A-Z History of London by Philip Parker
  51. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
  52. 1913: Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts by Florian Illies
  53. Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson
  54. Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R by Roger S. Bivand, Edzer J. Pebesma and Virgilio Gómez-Rubio
  55. The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review by Partha Dasgupta
  56. Besættelsestiden i Esbjerg by Orla Baggesen
  57. Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe by Hugo Mercier
  58. The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
  59. Go Figure: Things you didn't know you didn't know by Tom Standage
  60. Uncommon Knowledge: the Economist Explains by Tom Standage
  61. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
  62. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
  63. Ned til hundene by Helle Helle
  64. Sex, Lies and Politics by Philip Cowley and Robert Ford
  65. Something's Off by Virgil Abloh
  66. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
  67. London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
  68. Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose
  69. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
  70. Modern Psychometrics with R by Patrick Mair
  71. Drive-In Digte by Dan Turèll
  72. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

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