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date: '2021-03-21'
title: 2021 reading list
description: "I've been working on making reading a habit again for the past few years (my streak in books is currently 383 days)."
tags: ['books']
---

I've been working on making reading a habit again for the past few years (my streak in books is currently 383 days).<!-- excerpt --> Here's where I'm at for 2021 so far:

**Finished**

- [Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy](https://www.harvard.com/book/kill_switch_the_rise_of_the_modern_senate_and_the_crippling_of_american_dem/), by Adam Jentleson
- [Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software](https://blas.com/working-in-public/), by Nadia Eghbal
- [Let My People Go Surfing](https://www.patagonia.com/product/let-my-people-go-surfing-revised-paperback-book/BK067.html), by Yvon Chouinard
- [The Responsible Company](https://www.patagonia.com/product/the-responsible-company-what-weve-learned-from-patagonias-first-forty-years-paperback-book/BK233.html), by Yvon Chouinard & Vincent Stanley
- [Dark Mirror](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316047/dark-mirror-by-barton-gellman/), by Barton Gellmen
- [Get Together](https://gettogether.world/), by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh & Kai Elmer Sotto
- [Zucked](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598206/zucked-by-roger-mcnamee/), by Roger McNamee
- [Fentanyl, Inc.](https://groveatlantic.com/book/fentanyl-inc/), by Ben Weshoff
- [A Promised Land](https://obamabook.com/), by Barack Obama

**In progress**

- [This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/this-is-how-they-tell-me-the-world-ends-9781635576061/), by Nicole Perlroth
- [Revelation Space](http://www.alastairreynolds.com/release/revelation-space/), by Alastair Reynolds

**Next up**

- [JavaScript for Impatient Programmers](https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/), by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- [Deep JavaScript: Theory and Techniques](https://exploringjs.com/deep-js/), by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- [Don't Think of an Elephant!](https://georgelakoff.com/books/dont_think_of_an_elephant_know_your_values_and_frame_the_debatethe_essential_guide_for_progressives-119190455949080/), by George Lakoff
- [The Assassination of Fred Hampton](https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Fred-Hampton-Chicago-Murdered/dp/1569767092), by Jeffrey Haas
