Reading List 2021

 What gets counted, gets done.  My annual list of books I have finished reading during the year. 

1. The Food and Wine of France, Edward Behr (P)
2. The Food of Spain, Claudia Roden (P)
3. Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis
4. Coffee, Castanets and Don Quixote, Robert Noble Graham
5. Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age, Sanjay Gupta
6. My French Platter, Anna Marie Rawson
7. The Problem of Alzheimer's, Dr. Jason Karlawish (P)
8. Composing a Life, Mary Catherine Bateson
9. All The Young Men. Ruth Coker Burns
10. Open Wound, Dr. Jason Karlawish 
11. Just Passing Through, Mary Jane Houlton
12. Your Brain on Facts, Moxie LaBouche
13. True Facts that Sound Like Bull#*t, Shane Carley
14. Our Italian Journey, Ilene and Gary Modica
15. A Cargo Pilot's Life - Tails from Corrosion Corner, Brett Lane
16. The Potomac River A History and Guide, Garrett Peck (P)
17. Stories from a Whisky Bar, Ralfy (P) 
18. Altered, Kyle Ball
19. Something Awesome: A life in neurosurgery, William Friedman
20. The Housekeepers Tale, Tessa Boase
21. World Travel, Anthony Bourdain , Laurie Woolever
22. Finding Freedom, Erin French
23. Provence 1970, Luke Barr
24. Open Season, Ben Crump
25. The House That Jack Bought, Jack Waldie
26. The Road to Villa Page, Cynthia dn William Royce
27. The Devil in the Kitchen, Marco White
28. Living it Up in France, Hettie Ashwin
29. Born for Love, Leo Buscaglia
30. Little and Often, Trent Preszler 
31. Becoming Trader Joe, Joe Coulombe
32. Our Incorrigible Ontological Relations And Categories of Being, Julian Galvez 
33. Living, Loving and Learning, Leo Buscaglia
34. Disability Law for Property, Land Use and Zoning Lawyers, Robin Paul Malloy
35. How to Write a Sentence, Stanley Fish
36. Eat a Peach, David Chang
37. Elderhood, Louise Aronson 
38. The Wreckage of my Presence, Casey Wilson
39. We Always Had Paris, Templeton Peck
40. French Like Moi, Scott Dominic Carpenter
41. Cutting the Cord, Martin Cooper
42. Andrew Zimmern's Field Guide to Weird, Wild and Wonderful Foods, Andrew Zimmern
43. Now Try Something Weirder, Michael Johnson
44. The Comfort Book, Matt Haig
45. How to Make Photographs, Joel Meyerowitz (P)
46. It's A Mad World: Travels Through a Muddled Life, Susie Kelly
47. Dangerous Minds, Taj Nathan
48. The Obstacle Is The Way, Ryan Holiday
49. Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, Ina Garten (P)
50. If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland
51. How Photography Became Contemporary Art, Andy Grundberg (P)
52. Zen Camera, David Ulrich (P)
53. Stupid Things I won't Do When I Get Old, Steven Petrow
54. Aging A Very Short Introduction, Nancy Pachana
55. The Photography Storytelling Workshop, Finn Beales 
56. A Carnival of Snackery, David Sedaris
57. The Meaning in the Making, Sean Tucker
58. This Much is True, Miriam Margolyes (Thanks John for the recommendation) 
59. Fruit, Nancie McDermoott 
60. The Photographer's Eye, John Szarkowski
61. The Best American Travel Writing 2021, Padma Lakshmi
62. Vintage Christmas, Marlene Campbell
63. Perspective, Val Proudkil
64. Bistro Cooking, Cyril Lignac