Each year I try to keep a list of what I have read. Some books I would eargerly read again and other I probably should have never started. Nevertheless, dear reader, I pass along my reading list from 2012 on to you – the good, the not so good, and the ones you need to start now! Please share with me notable books you have read this past year.
Biography
Some of the People Who Ate My Barbeque Didn’t Vote for Me: The Life of Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin, by Scott E. Buchanan
A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus, by June Hall McCash
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Poetry
A Thousand Mornings, by Mary Oliver
Non-Fiction
Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthiessen
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail, by David Miller
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History, by S. C. Gwynne
The Most Human, Human: What Artificial Intelligence tells us About Being Alive, by Brian Christian
Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach
Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story, by Jim Holt
Religion
Christianity After Religion, Diana Butler Bass
Is God a Christian?, by Kirby Godsey
What’s The Least I can Believe and Still be a Christian? A Guide to What Matters Most, Martin Thielen
Lost and Found, by Ed Stetzer
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, Resurrection and the Mission of the Church, by N.T. Wright
Spirituality/Christian Life
Prayers for a Privileged People, Walter Brueggemann
Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne
Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night, by Gregory L. Hunt
The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows, by James Bryan Smith
Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life, by Marjorie J. Thompson
The Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Christian Reflections on Money, Sex and Power, by Richard Foster
Not a Fan, by Kyle Idleman
Fiction
Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor
Walden Two, by B.F. Skinner
Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski
Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Islands in the Stream, by Ernest Hemmingway
Garden of Eden, by Ernest Hemingway
Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh, Mo Yan
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