My 2021 Year in Books

Mikhail Klassen
9 min readJan 25, 2022

The year 2020 felt like it never really ended. Chaos and confusion just rolled into the next month, and then the next. And here we are, setting off on 2022.

I do most of my reading while on flights, blissfully disconnected from the internet and away from a computer screen. There hasn’t been much of that these past two years.

Mood shapes reading and reading shapes mood. Here are the books that had the most profound effect on me and my thinking.

As a quick list

  1. Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts

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Mikhail Klassen

Entrepreneur, Data Scientist, PhD Astrophysicist, Writer, Mentor