Monday, December 25, 2017

Books I Read in 2017

I have used Goodreads' feature for the last couple of years to share what I have read in a year.  However, I cannot distinguish specifically what types of books that I have read.  So, here is what I have read categorically in 2017.  I hope you find some inspiration here!

- Fiction

  • **Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
  • *Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Philip Dick, The Man in the High Castle
  • T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland and Other Writings
  • James Hannah, The A to Z of You and Me
  • *Madeline L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
  • John LeCarre, Our Kind of Traitor
  • Dennis Lehane, Live by Night
  • Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
  • *Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
  • Arthur Miller, Broken Glass
  • **George Orwell, 1984
  • Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth
  • *William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
  • William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
  • Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation
- Biblical Studies

  • *David Bartlett, Romans
  • *Dave Bland, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon
  • *Charles Cousar, Reading Galatians, Philippians and 1 Thessalonians
  • **Peter Enns, The Bible Told Me So
  • Beverly Gaventa, First and Second Thessalonians
  • Robert Jewett, The Thessalonian Correspondence 
  • Derek Kidner, The Message of Ecclesiastes
  • Thomas Mann, Deuteronomy
  • Bonnie Thurston, Reading Ephesians, Colossians and 2 Thessalonians
  • N.T. Wright, Galatians and Thessalonians
  • N.T. Wright, Romans, Part One: Romans 1-8
  • N.T. Wright, Romans, Part Two: Romans 9-16
- Education

  • *Lorrie Blair, Writing a Graduate Thesis or Dissertation
  • Leisyte and Wilkesmann, Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education
  • *Stabile and Ershler, Constructivism Revisited in the Age of Social Media
  • *Ernest Stringer, Action Research
  • Marshall Welch, Engaging Higher Education
- Ministry


  • *Herring and Elton, Leading Congregations and Nonprofits in a Connected World
  • Ron Susek, Firestorm
  • **Thomas Tumblin, AdMinistry
- Preaching/Communication


  • *Jeffrey Arthurs, Preaching with Variety
  • Decker and York, Speaking with Bold Assurance
  • Gonzalez and Jimenez, Pulpito
  • *Hogan and Reid, Connecting with the Congregation
  • Eunjoo Mary Kim, Preaching the Presence of God
  • *Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
  • Lane Sebring, Preaching Killer Sermons
  • Frank A. Thomas, They Like To Never Quit Praisin' God
- Psychology/Leadership

  • *Brene Brown, Daring Greatly
  • *Angela Duckworth, Grit
  • **Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
  • *Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
  • Sebastian Junger, Tribe
- Theology (Systematic, Spiritual)

  • *Bland and Webb, Creation, Character, and Wisdom
  • *Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall/Temptation
  • **David Congdon, The God Who Saves
  • *Zach Hoag, The Light is Winning
  • Kyle Idleman, Grace is Greater
  • *Kelly Kapic, Embodied Hope
  • *C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
  • *Kevin C. Neese, The Gospel According to Star Trek
  • John Walton, The Lost World of Adam and Eve
  • Lisa Whittle, 5-Word Prayers
  • *Brian Zahnd, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
- Miscellaneous

  • Harriot Castor, Starting Chess
  • *Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
The books marked with an (*) are the ones that I enjoyed a little more, and the ones marked with an (**) were my favorites from 2017.  What did you read?  Did you read any that I did?  What recommendations do you have?  Leave your comments below or connect with me on Twitter.  And happy reading in 2018!

1 comment:

Kevin C. Neece said...

Glad to see mine among your better picks! Thanks for the review as well. Happy 2018 reading!! :)