Down to the wire on New Year’s Eve last weekend, I was able to carve out some time to finish up Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. It was the 52nd book I finished in 2021 — though, it was not a favorite.
Here is the list of my favorites from 2021 broken down by category:
Investing
Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life (William P. Green).
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success (William N. Thorndike Jr.).
100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-To-1 and How to Find Them (Christopher W. Mayer).
History/Biography
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America (Christopher Leonard).
Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business (Mark Robichaux).
Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism (Bartow J. Elmore).
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams (Michael D'Antonio).
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution (Gregory Zuckerman).
Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire (Ryan Holiday).
Science
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Robert Wright).
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us (Michael Moss).
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To (David A. Sinclair).
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari).
Self-Development
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Clayton M. Christensen).
Secular Buddhism: Eastern Thought for Western Minds (Noah Rasheta).
Awareness (Anthony de Mello).
Fiction
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri).
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Mark T. Sullivan).