Thursday, January 02, 2020

books read: 2019

This year I set another record: 237 books read!

~  Science and Spirituality ~

THEOLOGY
  The Divine Conspiracy (Dallas Willard, 1998)
  Desiring God (John Piper, 2011)
  The Furious Longing of God (Brennan Manning, 2009)
  Does God Control Everything? (R.C. Sproul, 2012)
  Does Prayer Change Things? (Sproul, 2019)
  Heaven (Randy Alcorn, 2004)
  Supernatural: The Unseen World (Dr. Michael S. Heiser, 2015)
  Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World? (Tom Doyle, 2012)
CHRISTIAN LIVING
  The Five Love Languages (Gary Chapman, 2015)
  Prevailing Prayer (Dwight L. Moody, 1941)
  Practicing the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence, 2014)
  The Fruitful Life (Jerry Bridges, 2006)
  Disciplines of a Godly Man (R. Kent Hughes, 2006)
  Reforming Marriage: Gospel Living for Couples (Douglas Wilson, 2012)
  Fasting for Breakthrough and Deliverance (John Eckhardt, 2016)
  The Easy Way to Quit Smoking (Allen Carr, 2015)
  Atomic Habits (James Clear, 2017)
CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS
  On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision (William Craig, 2010)
  The Case for Christ (Lee Strobel, 2016)
  The Case for a Creator (Strobel, 2004)
  The Case for Faith (Strobel, 2014)
  The Case for Miracles (Strobel, 2018)
  Darwin's House of Cards (Tom Bethell, 2016)
  Darwin on Trial (Philip E. Johnson, 1988)
  Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis (Michael Denton, 2016)
  Evolution's Final Days (John Morrison, 2019)
  Heretic: One Scientist's Journey from Darwinism to Design (Matti Leisola, 2018)
THE DINOSAURIA
  The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Steve Brusatte, 2019)
  Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs (Steve Parker, 2006)
  Feathered Dinosaurs (Christopher Sloan, 2000)
  Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds (Thom and Laurie Holmes, 2002)
  Prehistoric World: Triassic Life (Dougal Dixon, 2006)
  Coelophysis (Susan H. Gray, 2004)



~  History ~ 

THE ANCIENT WORLD
  The Encyclopedia of Classic Warfare (ed. Jack Watkins, 2011)
  Egypt: A Short History (Robert L. Tignor, 2011)
  Greece and Rome at War (Peter Connelly, 2016)
  The Rise of Athens (Anthony Everitt, 2017)
  The Peloponnesian Wars (Captivating History, 2019)
  Late Antiquity (Gillian Clark, 2011)
  Byzantium (Peter Sarris, 2015)
  Ancient Rome
    The Legionary (Connelly, 1998)
    The Cavalryman (Connelly, 1989)
    Uniforms of the Roman World (Kevin F. Kiley, 2013)
    The Rise and Fall of the Roman Kingdom (Victor Miller, 2015)
    The Roman Republic (David M. Gwynn, 2012)
    The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage, and the Struggle for the Mediterranean
      (Nigel Bagnall, 2005)
    The Roman Empire (Christopher Kelly, 2006)
THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
  The History of the Middle Ages: 500 AD to 1500 AD (i60Learning, 2018)
  Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels (Antonio Santosuosso, 2004)
  Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades
    (Christopher Tyerman, 2005)
  The Greatest Knight: the Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind
    Five English Thrones (Thomas Asbridge, 2014)
  Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe (Nancy Goldstone, 2007)
THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
  1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Charles C. Mann, 2006)
  Empires of the Sea: the Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest
    for the Center of the World (Crowley, 2009)
  The Tudors: the Untold Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
    (G.J. Meyer, 2011)
  Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
    (Sarah Gristwood, 2016)
  Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent, and
    the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe (John Julius Norwich, ??)
  American Colonies (Alan Taylor, 2002)
THE MODERN WORLD
  The Napoleonic Wars (Mike Rapport, 2013)
  The Mexican-American War (John DiConsiglio, 2014)
  A Night to Remember: The Sinking of the Titanic (Walter Loyd, 2014)
  The First World War
    A Very Simple History of World War One (Brian Eisenbise, 2018)
    Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Erik Larson, 2016)
    To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of the First World War
      (Soaring Penguin Press, 2014)
    Sagittarius Rising (Cecil Lewis, 2014)
  The Second World War
    D-Day Through German Eyes (Holger Eckhertz, 2015)
    Tiger Tracks: The Classic Panzer Memoir (Wolfgang Faust, 2016)
    The Things Our Fathers Saw: Voices of the Pacific Theater (Matthew Rozel, 2017)
    Voices of the Pacific (Adam Makos, 2014)
    The Battle of Wake Island (Charles River, 2019)
    The Aleutian Islands Campaign (River, 2019)
    Coral Sea 1942: Turning the Tide (Freeman, 2019)
    Incredible Victory: the Battle of Midway (Lord, 1998)
    Torpedo 8 (Ira Wolfert, 2019)
    Iwo Jima (Hourly History, 2019)


~  Fiction & Literature  ~

HISTORICAL FICTION
  Historical Fiction of the Ancient World 
    The Eagle's Prey (Simon Scarrow, 2004)
    The Eagle's Prophecy (Scarrow, 2005)
    Eagle in the Sand (Scarrow, 2008)
    War of the Wolf (Bernard Cornwell, 2018)
  Historical Fiction of the American Civil War Era
    Gone for Soldiers (Jeff Shaara, 2003)
    Rebel (Cornwell, 2001)
    Copperhead (Cornwell, 2001)
    Battle Flag (Cornwell, 2001)
    The Bloody Ground (Cornwell, 1996)
    Gettysburg (N. Gingrich & W. Forstchen, 2004)
    The March (E.L. Doctorow, 2006)
  Historical Fiction of the Napoleonic Era
    Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, 1794 (C.S. Forester, 1950)
    Sharpe's Enemy: The Defence of Portugal, 1812  (Cornwell, 1984)
    The Ionian Mission, 1813 (Patrick O'Brian, 1980)
    Treason's Harbour, 1813 (O'Brian, 1983)
    Sharpe's Honour: The Vitoria Campaign, 1813 (Cornwell, 1985)
    The Far Side of the World, 1813 (O'Brian, 1984)
    Sharpe's Regiment: The Invasion of France, 1813 (Cornwell, 1986)
    The Reverse of the Medal, 1813 (O'Brian, 1992)
    The Letter of Marque, 1813 (O'Brian, 1988)
    Sharpe's Siege: The Winter Campaign, 1814 (Cornwell, 1987)
A GAUNTLET OF FICTION
  Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time (James Gurney, 2011)
  Dinotopia: The World Beneath (Gurney, 2012)
  Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara (Gurney, 2017)
  A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin, 1996)
  Comfort to the Enemy (Elmore Leonard, 2010)
  Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton, 1990)
  The Midnight Watch (David Dyer, 2017)
  Phantoms (Dean Koontz, 2002)
  Redwall (Brian Jacques, 2002)
  I Am Death (Chris Carter, 2017)
  White Plague (James Abel, 2015)
  Trial By Fire (Coyle, 1992)
  Golden Buddha (Clive Cussler, 2007)
  Sacred Stone (Cussler, 2004)
  Dark Watch (Cussler, 2011)
  The Silent Sea (Cussler, 2017)
  Six Years (Harlan Coben, 2013)
  Ashfall (Mike Mullin, 2012)
  It (Stephen King, 1986)
  The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson, 1959)
  Bird Box (Josh Malerman, 2014)
  The Amityville Horror (Jay Janson, 2005)
  The Call of Cthulu (H.P. Lovecraft, 2011)
  A Head Full of Ghosts (Peter Tremblay, 2016)
  The Winter People (Jennifer McMahon, 2016)
  Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein, 1959)
    Forty Signs of Rain (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2005)
    The Forge of God (Greg Bear, 1987)
    New Earth (Bova, 2013)
    Earth Unaware (Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, 2012)
    Earth Afire (Card & Johnston, 2013)
    Earth Awakens (Card & Johnston, 2014)
    Ender's Game (Card, 1994)
    The Gunslinger (Stephen King, 1982)
    The Drawing of the Three (King, 1987)
    The Waste Lands (King, 1991)
    The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey
      Drive (2012)
      The Butcher of Anderson Station (2011)
      Leviathan Wakes (2011)
      Caliban's War (2012)
      Gods of Risk (Corey, 2012)
      Abaddon's Gate (Corey, 2013)
      The Churn (James S.A. Corey, 2014)
      Cibola Burn (Corey, 2014)
    Star Wars Legends
      The Truce at Bakura (Kathy Tyers, 1994)
      Rogue Squadron (Michael A. Stackpole, 1996)
      X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble (Stackpole, 1996)
      X-Wing: The Krytos Trap (Stackpole, 1996)
      X-Wing: The Bacta War (Stackpole, 1997)
      X-Wing: Wraith Squadron (Aaron Allston, 1998)
      Thrawn (Timothy Zahn, 2019)
  American Westerns
    Aces and Eights (Loren D. Estleman, 1981)
    The Long High Noon (Estelman, 2015)
    Bloody Season (Estleman, 1988)
    The High Rocks (Estleman, 1979)
    Stamping Ground (Estleman, 1981)
    Murdock's Law (Estleman, 1987)
    The Stranglers (Estleman, 1984)
    City of Widows (Estleman, 1994)
    The Hell Bent Kid (Charles O. Locke, 2018)
    True Grit (Charles Portis, 2010)
    The Kid (Ron Hansen, 2019)
    The Sisters Brothers (Patrick Dewitt, 2012)
    Hell's Half Acre: The  Butcher of Baxter Pass (William Johnstone, 2017)
    Glorious (Jeff Guinn, 2014)
    Buffalo Trail (Guinn, 2016)
    Silver City (Guin, 2017)
    Dance on the Wind (Terry C. Johnston, 2010)
    Buffalo Palace (Johnston, 1997)
  The Left Behind Series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
    The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye (2007)
    Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995)
    Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (1996)
    Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (1997)
    Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (1999)
    Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed (2000)
    Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem; Target: Antichrist (2000)
    The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (2000)
    The Mark: The Beast Rules The World (2000)
    Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (2001)
    The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (2002)
    Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (2003)
    Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (2004)
    Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (2007)
  The Animorphs Series by K.A. Applegate
    The Invasion (1996)
    The Visitor (1996)
    The Encounter (1996)
    The Message (1996)
    The Predator (1996)
    The Capture (1997)
    Megamorphs: The Andalite's Gift (1997)
    Megamorphs: In the Time of the Dinosaurs (1998)
  The Walking Dead Graphic Novels
    Days Gone Bye (2004)
    Miles Behind Us (2004)
    Safety Behind Bars (2005)
    The Heart's Desire (2005)
    The Best Defense (2006)
    This Sorrowful Life (2007)
    The Calm Before (2007)
    Made To Suffer (2008)
    Here We Remain (2009)
    What We Become (2009)
    Fear The Hunters (2010)
    Life Among Them (2010)
    Too Far Gone (2010)
    No Way Out (2011)
    We Find Ourselves (2011)
    A Larger World (2012)
    Something to Fear (2012)
    What Comes After (2013)
    March to War (2013)
    All Out War: Part One (2014)
    All Out War: Part Two (2014)
    A New Beginning (2014)
    Whispers Into Screams (2015)
    Life and Death (2015)
    No Turning Back (2015)
    Call to Arms (2016)
    The Whisperer War (2017)
    A Certain Doom (2017)
    Lines We Cross (2018)
    New World Order (2018)
    The Rotten Core (2019)
    The Road Back (2019)
    Falling Into Place (2019)
    Lines Are Drawn (2019)
    Storm the Gates (2019)
    The Last Stand (2019)
    Aftermath (2019)
    The Farm House (2019)

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