The Best Books I Read In 2021

In this article, I am rating the 33 books I read this year:

‘A’ Rating

• Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell – The Cult Of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, And The Great Startup Delusion – 2021 – 464 pages
• Jim Collins – Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap And Others Don’t – 2001 – 400 pages
• Tim Higgins – Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, And The Bet Of The Century – 2021 – 400 pages
• Jonathan Karl – Betrayal: The Final Act Of The Trump Show – 2021 – 384 pages
• Satya Nadella with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols – Hit Refresh: The Quest To Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul And Imagine A Better Future For Everyone – 2017 – 288 pages
• Brad Stone – Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos And The Invention Of A Global Empire – 2021 – 496 pages

‘B’ Rating

• Huma Abedin – Both/And: A Life In Many Worlds – 2021 – 544 pages
• H.W. Brands – Traitor To His Class: The Privileged Life And Radical Presidency Of Franklin Delano Roosevelt – 2008 – 896 pages
• Robert A. Caro – The Passage Of Power: The Years Of Lyndon Johnson – 2012 – 736 pages
• Katie Couric – Going There – 2021 – 528 pages
• Larry Flynt with Kenneth Ross – An Unseemly Man: My Life As A Pornographer, Pundit, And Social Outcast – 1996 – 265 pages
• Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang – An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle For Domination – 2021 – 352 pages
• Adam Grant – Think Again: The Power Of Knowing What You Don’t Know – 2021 – 320 pages
• Elton John – Me – 2019 – 384 pages
• Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker – I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year – 2021 – 592 pages
• Ben Rhodes – The World As It Is: A Memoir Of The Obama White House – 2018 – 480 pages
• Clarissa Ward – On All Fronts: The Education Of A Journalist – 2020 – 336 pages
• Seth Wickersham – It’s Better To Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty And The Pursuit of Greatness – 2021 – 528 pages
• Bob Woodward and Robert Costa – Peril – 2021 – 512 pages

‘C’ Rating

• Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes – Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won The Presidency – 2021 – 528 pages
• Jonah Berger – Contagious: Why Things Catch On – 2013 – 256 pages
• Elie Honig – Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke The Prosecutor’s Code And Corrupted The Justice Department – 2021 – 288 pages
• Tim Mak – Misfire: Inside The Downfall Of The NRA – 2021 – 384 pages
• James O’Toole – The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales Of Business Pioneers Who Tried To Do Well By Doing Good – 2019 – 592 pages
• Nicole Perlroth – This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race – 2021 – 528 pages
• Peter Robison – Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy And The Fall Of Boeing – 2021 – 336 pages
• Mary L. Trump – Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man – 2020 – 240 pages
• Bessel van der Kolk – The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, And Body In The Healing Of Trauma – 2014 – 464 pages

‘D’ Rating

• Christopher Clarey – The Master: The Long Run And Beautiful Game Of Roger Federer – 2021 – 432 pages – D
• Lisa Feldman Barrett – Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain – 2020 – 192 pages – D
• Kevin Garnett – KG: A To Z: An Uncensored Encyclopedia Of Life, Basketball, And Everything In Between – 2021 – 320 pages – D
• Fiona Hill – There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity In The Twenty-First Century – 2021 – 432 pages – D
• David Maraniss – When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi – 1999 – 544 pages – D

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