2021.Book42 - Dead Astronauts (Vandermeer)

 Phenomenology of genetic engineering? Inside the apocalypse?

2021.Book41 - Kingdom and Empire (Tempelmeyer)

 Pretty good.

2021.Book40 - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me (Kalb)

 A nice life.

2021.Book39 - Piranesi (Clarke)

 Not what I expected, but very good.  Seems pretty straightforward, are there hidden depths?

2021.Book38 - Red Dragon (Harris)

 Good stuff.

2021.Book37 - All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr)

 Pretty enjoyable.

2021.Book36 - Reading while Black (McCaulley)

 Can you read the bible through an emancipatory lens? Of course you can. Unconvincing R7 exegesis, and the "you're saying the slaveowners were right" is a ludicrous straw man.

2021.Book35 - On Awkwardness (Kotsko)

 Surprisingly good.

2021.Book34 - Racial Contract (Mills)

 Good stuff. Seems pretty standard for today High-level thesis (proposing racial contract as better explanation than social contract) is, as Mills says, a category error. But that's just the "woah dude" hook - the actual content is accurate.

Is Europe's racism in America a betrayal of Enlightenment ideals or their inevitable actualization? I think the former.

2021.Book33 - Existentialist Cafe (Bakewell)

 Pretty interesting. Especially Heidegger.

2021.Book32 - Ides of March (Wilder)

 Pretty good. "Hell exhaled you, mountain of lies" - that's some quality invective.

2021.Book31 - Witch Week (Jones)

 Pretty enjoyable.

2021.Book30 - The Looking-Glass War (LeCarre)

 Enjoyable.

2021.Book29 - Memory of Running (McLarty)

 Pretty enjoyable. Good moments of low-key comedy (hospital, vegetable cult)

2021.Book28 - A Murder of Quality (LeCarre)

 Pretty good, quite grim.

2021.Book27 - Call for the Dead (LeCarre)

 Very good little mystery.

2021.Book26 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)

 Excellent, very well done and absorbing

2021.Book25 - Single and Single (LeCarre)

 Pretty good. Entertaining thriller

2021.Book24 - Who Killed Mr Moonlight (Haskins)

 Pretty good. Music is interesting, magic and meditation aren't.

2021.Book23 - Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry (Widdowson, Howard)

 Excellent. Devastating.