Books I Read in 2021
Books I Read in 2021
Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and reads them.
Samuel Butler
These are the books I read in 2021. Some I read for work projects and some for pleasure. These aren’t ranked best to worse, but are listed in order read. As you look forward to a new year of reading perhaps some of these will make your list. Happy New Year, happy reading.
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, David Brooks
The Illustrated Life and Times of Billy the Kid: The Final Word, Bob Boze Bell
Steve McQueen: The Salvation of an American Icon, Greg Laurie & Marshall Terrill
Art + Faith: A Theology of Making, Makoto Fujimura
The John Wayne Code: Wit, Wisdom and Timeless Advice from the American Icon, James Ellis & Kaytie Norman
The Illustrated Texas Dictionary of the English Language, vol. 1, Jim Everhart
Unbranded: Four Men and Sixteen Mustangs. Three Thousand Miles across the American West, Ben Masters
John Wayne: The Life and Legend, Scott Eyman
The Wonderful Country, Tom Lea
Horseman, Pass By, Larry McMurtry
Write Your Fiction Book Proposal, Mary DeMuth
Why Honor Matters, Tamler Sommers
The Woman of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today, Shannon Bream
Fort Davis, Lawrence John Francell
Leaving Cheyenne, Larry McMurtry
Simple Faith: Discovering What Really Matters, Charles R. Swindoll
The Gospel of Matthew, vol. 1, William Barclay
Cowboy Lingo, Ramon F. Adams
Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World, D. A. Carson
The Sermon on the Mount: The Message of the Kingdom, R. Kent Hughes
The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, John R. W. Stott
Insights on Matthew 1–15, Charles R. Swindoll
On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed
America, Why I Love Her, John Wayne (with John Mitchum)
The Last Picture Show, Larry McMurtry
Freedom, Sebastian Junger
West Texas Cattle Kingdom, Bill O’Neal
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, & Jason Stanford
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived, William H. McRaven
Three Rings: A Tales of Exile, Narrative, and Fate, Daniel Mendelsohn
Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings, Diana Pavlac Glyer
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, George Saunders
Invincible: Conquering the Mountains that Separate You from the Blessed Life, Robert Jeffress (with Derrick G. Jeter)
The River, Peter Heller
Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, Stephen L. Hardin
Goodbye to a River, John Graves
Thirst, A.G. Mojtabai
John Graves and the Making of Goodbye to a River: Selected Letters, 1957–1960, David S. Hamrick
Bible Epitaphs, Clarence Edward Macartney
Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief, Kathleen P. Chamberlain
The Power of the Dog, Thomas Savage