Sean O'Leary's Reading Archive // 2021
Through the Rift. Into Other Worlds.
Sean O'Leary's 2021 reading year crosses worlds that rarely stay still. Ringworld engineering, machine wars, magical schools, zombie survival, interstellar empires, cyberpunk identities, parallel Earths and collapsing civilizations all move through the same reading orbit.
Some journeys continue across entire series. Others open one doorway and disappear. Together they form a year built around one of speculative fiction's oldest promises: somewhere beyond the familiar world, another possibility is waiting.
2021
Dimensional Archive
28
Completed reads
10
Future reads recorded
12
Months in the archive
Completed Coordinates
Twenty-eight books across four sectors.
The 2021 archive remains in Sean's recorded completion order. Each coordinate below preserves the date attached to the original reading record.
I
Sector I // January–March
10 completed
The Gate Opens
Hellifax
January 21, 2021The Ringworld Engineers
February 1, 2021The Dead Bedroom Fix
February 3, 2021A Tale of Two Cities
February 7, 2021Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
February 12, 2021Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
February 19, 2021Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
February 28, 2021Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
March 7, 2021Well Fed
March 25, 2021
II
Sector II // April–June
8 completed
Empires Rise
Robot Visions
April 14, 2021Make Me King
April 26, 2021The High King of Montival
May 13, 2021Red Rising
May 21, 2021Golden Son
May 28, 2021Mistborn: Secret History
June 4, 2021Morning Star
June 7, 2021Iron Gold
June 29, 2021
III
Sector III // July–September
5 completed
Survival Protocols
Mindless
July 7, 2021The Battle of Corrin
July 29, 2021Mountain Man: Prequel
July 31, 2021The Hospital
August 1, 2021Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
August 26, 2021
IV
Sector IV // October–December
5 completed
Beyond the Known World
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
October 7, 2021Dark Age
November 1, 2021Altered Carbon
November 13, 2021The Long Earth
December 10, 2021Hunters of Dune
December 26, 2021Uncharted Coordinates
Ten books waiting beyond the 2021 horizon.
Sean's surviving 2021 record also preserved these titles as Future Reads. They remain here as part of the historical reading record.
01
Future Read
The Tears of the Sun
S. M. Stirling
02
Future Read
City of Golden Shadow
Tad Williams
03
Future Read
Broken Angels
Richard K. Morgan
04
Future Read
The Ringworld Throne
Larry Niven
05
Future Read
The Long War
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
06
Future Read
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
07
Future Read
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
08
Future Read
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
09
Future Read
Farewell Summer
Ray Bradbury
10
Future Read
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
Anne McCaffrey
Civil Rights Related Reading
The world outside speculative fiction.
Sean's 2021 archive also preserved a companion reading list centered on race, American history, Indigenous history, identity and civil rights. The source did not attach completion dates to these titles.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty
Geronimo: His Own Story
Geronimo
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Nobody Knows My Name
James Baldwin
Racial Formation in the United States
Michael Omi & Howard Winant
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
James Baldwin
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.; edited by Clayborne Carson
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History
Joseph M. Marshall III
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
The Life of Black Hawk
Black Hawk
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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