My Best Reads in 2021

Barbarians, Robots, Science, Speculation, Swearing, and the Bible. Anyone See a Theme Here?

I was looking over my reading from 2021 and thought it would be useful—or at least diverting—to list my top-ten reads and a provide quick thought about each.

Nine of my top 10. Can you tell which is missing?

1. Douglas Boin, Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome (Norton, 2020). A side of the story I’d never really considered—the jilted a…