July 2021 update: Lego and veganism

New books

First up are books that haven’t been mentioned in any comments until this month. These are either recent releases or obscure books experiencing a revival.

Forget the Alamo
6 users (this month)
Beautifully Unexpected
4 users
The Passing Playbook
4 users
Frankly We Did Win This Election
3 users
No One Is Talking About This
3 users
Girl A
3 users

We're about 6 months after the end of Trump's presidency in the US, so it makes sense to see some books around that topic. There's a couple of paperback fiction novels, and (true to form) a M-M romance novel.

Top books

The overall top books this month are the usual suspects with the addition of a book about the economic and social impacts of covid:

The Body Keeps the Score
20 users (this month)
How to win Friends & Influence People
15 users
COVID-19
13 users
Adult children of emotionally immature parents
13 users
Why We Sleep
13 users
Come as You Are
12 users

There are some more interesting books in the top 20 this month though, here’s a curated selection:

Brick by Brick
11 users (this month)
The Gift of Fear
11 users
The Library at Mount Char
8 users
Atomic Habits
7 users
Project Hail Mary
7 users
The Defining Decade
7 users

Brick by Brick is about the LEGO company, I added it to my reading list. Project Hail Mary is a novel from the author of The Martian, and has good reviews on Goodreads.

New subreddits

There were 12 new subreddits added to the redditreads database in July, the most ever! These aren’t new on reddit, rather they only now exceeded the threshold for statistically significant results:

r/DebateAVegan is r/vegan minus r/veganrecipes

How Not to Die
4 users
Eating Animals
4 users
The China Study
3 users
The Sexual Politics of Meat
3 users
What a Fish Knows
3 users
Zoopolis
3 users