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