Booklist 2021
January 1-March 19
Live From New York by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
Words + Music by Alanis Morissette
War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell
Assholes: a Theory by Aaron James
The Saga of the Volsungs
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
March 20-June 21
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Animal Man Book 1 by Grant Morrison
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Red Hood: The Lost Days by Judd Winick
Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
Dialogues by Lucian of Samasota
501 Must-Read Books
Batman: Under the Red Hood by Judd Winick
The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling
Invasion by Keith Giffen
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Lyric Potential by Miller/Hayden/O’Neal
June 22-Sept 20
The Aetheopica by Heliodorus
The Source by James Michener
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Misery by Stephen King
The Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Sin City: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Eagles’ Brood by Jack Whyte
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Sept 20-Dec 31
The Poetic Edda translated by Lee M. Hollander
Eaters of the Dad by Michael Crichton
The Book that Changed My Life by Roxanne J. Coady (Ed.)
Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Norse Myths by Neil Gaiman
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
Dust by Arthur Slade
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Think by Simon Blackburn
Beowulf tr. By Seamus Heaney
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Wars by Timothy Findlay
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
I Am Mine by Eddie Vedder
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
Films
Dune
Shang-Chi
Don't Look Up
Mank
Sing
Free Guy
Red Notice
Black Widow
Flags of our Fathers
TV Shows
Loki
WandaVision
Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The Queen's Gambit
Titans S3
True Detective
Preacher
The Boys S2
Peaky Blinders S 2, 3
The Pacific
The Last Kingdom
Curb Your Enthusiasm
NO: Squid Game;
Albums
Matter of Time by Eddie Vedder
Ok Human by Weezer
Letter to You by Bruce Springsteen
Saskadelphia by The Tragically Hip
No Simple Thing by the Sheepdogs
Flag Day by Various Artists
Juice WRLD (various) thanks to Fynn
A View From the Top of the World by Dream Theater
The Myth of Happier Ever After by Biffy Clyro
