If memory serves me right, I read around 10 books last year. Here's the list, with a few words about each entry.
Moby Dick, Herman Melville. The Great American Novel. Haven't actually quite finished this one, but I've gotten most of the way through it, so feels more appropriate to include it in the 2020 list rather than the 2021 one (I do intend on finishing this book).
Interestingly, despite its length, I found it fairly easy to pick the book up midway after a longer pause from reading it. This might be due to quite a different structure compared to the more modern novels I'm used to. Though it happens mostly chronologically, it's not really a linear, continuous story where you have to keep track of the plot and characters. Instead, you're presented with short vignettes of whaling life (and, sometimes, everyone's favorite cetology lectures).
Się, Edward Stachura. A collection of short stories by the Polish poet, one of his last published works before his suicide two years later. The stories are mostly set in travels around both Poland and the American continent.
The First Philosophers, Robin Waterfield. Guess you could say I'm finally starting with the Greeks (I did read The Republic the year prior, reading it was an interesting experience but I'm sure a lot of it went way over my head at the time).
Like Moby Dick, I haven't quite finished the whole book yet — I read the first half on the presocratics, but will need to get back to the part on the sophists at some point.
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk. Probably shouldn't talk about this one much, but man, this is the first time in a while a book sucked me in this strongly. A literal page turner that kept me awake late into the night.
Antifragile, Nassim Taleb. Very glad I finally got around to reading something from Taleb.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig. Another foray into philosophy, though definitely more modern than the Greeks. It wasn't until I was about halfway through the book that I found out it's mostly autobiographical rather than pure fiction.
Vagabonding, Rolf Potts. I've published extended reading notes here.
The Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg. Widely popular amongst and recommended by Bitcoin/blockchain fans.
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley. Probably my favorite dystopian novel I've read so far.
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman. An interesting (and long!) volume on how our brains work.
Interestingly, in the first month alone of 2021, I've already read nearly half as many new books. Granted, none of them were quite as long as, say, Antifragile or the Kahneman book, but still a welcome metric. Off to more reading, now!