Books
Almost a year ago, I posted a list of the books that I had read that year. This year's list is longer than last year's, probably because I actually kept a list this time:
Philosophy
William P. Alston, Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience
Hadley Arkes, The Philosopher in the City: The Moral Dimensions of Urban Politics
Hadley Arkes, Natural Rights and the Right to Choose
Daniel Dennett, Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
Jerry Fodor, In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law
Saul Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
William Lycan, An Introduction to Philosophy of Language
Thomas V. Morris, ed., God and the Philosophers: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason
Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief
John R. Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind
J.J.C. Smart and J.J. Haldane, Atheism and Theism
David Stove, Scientific Irrationalism
Various social issues
Bob Briner, Roaring Lambs
J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
Allen Carlson, The "American Way": Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity
Ann Coulter, Treason
Kenneth Craycraft, The American Myth of Religious Freedom
F. James Davis, Who is Black? One Nation's Definition
Jayna Davis, The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing
Ronald Dworkin, Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom
David Frum & Richard Perle, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
Maggie Gallagher, The Abolition of Marriage
Maggie Gallagher, Enemies of Eros
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
F. Carolyn Graglia, Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism
Lawrence Otis Graham, Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
Victor Davis Hanson & John Heath, Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics
Peter Huber, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists
Eric Jacobsen, Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Mark Gavreau Judge, If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture
Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism
Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Frederica Mathewes-Green, Real Choices
Charles Murray, In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government
David G. Myers, Pursuit of Happiness
John U. Ogbu, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement
SuDawn Peters, Hidden for Glory, Destined for Adoption
Richard Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Story of Decline
Rita James Simon & Rhonda M. Roorda, In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
David Sucher, City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village
Beverly Daniel Tatum, "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations About Race
Edward Tenner, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Raymond A. Winbush, ed., Should America Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations
Religion
Albert Borgmann, Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works Vol. 28, The Illustrated London News 1908-10
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works Vol. III, The Well and the Shallows; The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic; The Catholic Church and Conversion; Where All Roads Lead; The Way of the Cross
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works Vol. V, The Outline of Sanity, The End of the Armistice, Utopia of Usurers
Deal Hudson, An American Conversion
John Lawlor, C.S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections
C.S. Lewis, Letters
C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
Michael McConnell, et al., eds., Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
D.G. Newcombe, Henry VIII and the English Reformation
Michael O'Brien, A Landscape with Dragons
Joseph Pearce, C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church
Leon Podles, The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity
Gerald L. Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
Randall Sullivan, The Miracle Detective
Philip Yancey, Reaching for the Invisible God
Strokes
Scott E. Kasner & Philip B. Gorelick (eds.), Prevention and Treatment of Ischemic Stroke
J. Crayton Pruitt, A Crusade for Stroke Prevention
Kenneth R. Kensey & Carol A Turkington, The Blood Thinner Cure
Christian Wilde, Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke
Fiction
David Baldacci, Last Man Standing
Ted Dekker, Three
Ted Dekker, Heaven's Wager
Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven
Ted Dekker, When Heaven Weeps
Greg Iles, Mortal Fear
Greg Iles, The Quiet Game
Greg Iles, 24 Hours
Greg Iles, Dead Sleep
Greg Iles, Sleep No More
Greg Iles, Black Cross
Greg Iles, The Footprint of God
Michael O'Brien, Plague Journal
Michael O'Brien, Empire of the Sun
Michael O'Brien, Father Elijah
Frank Peretti, This Present Darkness
Frank Peretti, Piercing the Darkness
Frank Peretti, Prophet
Keith Robertson, The Money Machine
Keith Robertson, The Crow and the Castle
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Philosophy
William P. Alston, Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience
Hadley Arkes, The Philosopher in the City: The Moral Dimensions of Urban Politics
Hadley Arkes, Natural Rights and the Right to Choose
Daniel Dennett, Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
Jerry Fodor, In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind
H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law
Saul Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
William Lycan, An Introduction to Philosophy of Language
Thomas V. Morris, ed., God and the Philosophers: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason
Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief
John R. Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind
J.J.C. Smart and J.J. Haldane, Atheism and Theism
David Stove, Scientific Irrationalism
Various social issues
Bob Briner, Roaring Lambs
J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
Allen Carlson, The "American Way": Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity
Ann Coulter, Treason
Kenneth Craycraft, The American Myth of Religious Freedom
F. James Davis, Who is Black? One Nation's Definition
Jayna Davis, The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing
Ronald Dworkin, Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom
David Frum & Richard Perle, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
Maggie Gallagher, The Abolition of Marriage
Maggie Gallagher, Enemies of Eros
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
F. Carolyn Graglia, Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism
Lawrence Otis Graham, Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
Victor Davis Hanson & John Heath, Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics
Peter Huber, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists
Eric Jacobsen, Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Mark Gavreau Judge, If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture
Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism
Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Frederica Mathewes-Green, Real Choices
Charles Murray, In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government
David G. Myers, Pursuit of Happiness
John U. Ogbu, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement
SuDawn Peters, Hidden for Glory, Destined for Adoption
Richard Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Story of Decline
Rita James Simon & Rhonda M. Roorda, In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
David Sucher, City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village
Beverly Daniel Tatum, "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations About Race
Edward Tenner, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Raymond A. Winbush, ed., Should America Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations
Religion
Albert Borgmann, Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works Vol. 28, The Illustrated London News 1908-10
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works Vol. III, The Well and the Shallows; The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic; The Catholic Church and Conversion; Where All Roads Lead; The Way of the Cross
G.K. Chesterton, Collected Works Vol. V, The Outline of Sanity, The End of the Armistice, Utopia of Usurers
Deal Hudson, An American Conversion
John Lawlor, C.S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections
C.S. Lewis, Letters
C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress
Michael McConnell, et al., eds., Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought
D.G. Newcombe, Henry VIII and the English Reformation
Michael O'Brien, A Landscape with Dragons
Joseph Pearce, C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church
Leon Podles, The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity
Gerald L. Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
Randall Sullivan, The Miracle Detective
Philip Yancey, Reaching for the Invisible God
Strokes
Scott E. Kasner & Philip B. Gorelick (eds.), Prevention and Treatment of Ischemic Stroke
J. Crayton Pruitt, A Crusade for Stroke Prevention
Kenneth R. Kensey & Carol A Turkington, The Blood Thinner Cure
Christian Wilde, Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke
Fiction
David Baldacci, Last Man Standing
Ted Dekker, Three
Ted Dekker, Heaven's Wager
Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven
Ted Dekker, When Heaven Weeps
Greg Iles, Mortal Fear
Greg Iles, The Quiet Game
Greg Iles, 24 Hours
Greg Iles, Dead Sleep
Greg Iles, Sleep No More
Greg Iles, Black Cross
Greg Iles, The Footprint of God
Michael O'Brien, Plague Journal
Michael O'Brien, Empire of the Sun
Michael O'Brien, Father Elijah
Frank Peretti, This Present Darkness
Frank Peretti, Piercing the Darkness
Frank Peretti, Prophet
Keith Robertson, The Money Machine
Keith Robertson, The Crow and the Castle
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
posted by Stuart Buck at
7:26 AM
6 Comments:
Yes, but where are the reviews???
Stuart--
When did you give up sleeping?
Wow! Some list.......
Peg K
I didn't see the Bible on that list.
Any hope for a ranking? Harry Potter comes last alphabetically in your fiction list, but would you rank it that low? :)
Ah, discovered Greg Iles last year, did you?
I haven't read anything by him yet that I didn't enjoy, although I thought the latest, Footprint, was not his best.
If you enjoyed Iles, try David L. Robbins or Brian Haig next.
Anon -- I don't have the time to review all of those books. So a list it is.
Peg -- I read very quickly and use too much of my spare time that way.
Anon -- The Bible isn't there because I didn't read the whole thing this year.
Josh -- Nope, no ranking is in the works. Too difficult. But you're right, I wouldn't put Harry Potter last. :)
Anon -- yes, indeed, I discovered Greg Iles. I try to not to read too much fiction, but when I find an author I like, I end up reading everything he has written. Thanks for the suggestions.
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