Friday, January 01, 2021

books read: 2020

 
this year I read 164 books, definitely down from last year but not a number to be ashamed about!


~  Religion and History  ~ 

Religion and Miscellany
  The Last Superstition (Edward Feser, 2010)
  Elements of Style (Strunk and White, 2018)
  Wordsmithy (Douglas Wilson, 2011)
  Bigger Leaner Stronger (Michael Matthews, 2019)
  12 Rules for Life (Jordan Peterson, 2018)
  Thoughts for Young Men (J.C. Ryle, 2017)
  Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture (Anthony Esolen, 2017)
  The Household and the War for the Cosmos (C.R. Wiley, 2019)
  Man of the House (Wiley, 2017)
  Biblical Manhood (Stuart Scott, 2009)
  Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity (Rebekah Merkle, 2016)
  The School of Obedience (Andrew Murray, 2012)
  Gospel Culture: Living in God's Kingdom (Joseph Boot, 2016)
  Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men (Hugh Ross, 2018)
  The Unseen Realm (Michael S. Heiser, 2019)
  Supernatural: The Unseen World (Heiser, 2015)
  When the Man Comes Around (Douglas Wilson, 2019)
  Dinosaur Books
    The Jurassic Period (Charles River, 2019)
    My Beloved Brontosaurus (Brian Switek, 2014)
    Dinosaurs Rediscovered (Michael Benton, 2020)
History 
  The Conquests of Alexander the Great (Alison Behnke, 2007)
  Rome: Village to Empire (Mary Boatwright, 2011)
  Julius Caesar (Philip Freeman, 2009)
  Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome (John Man, 2005)
  Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War (Nathaniel Philbrick, 2007)
  Washington: The Indispensable Man (James Thomas Flexner, 1994)
  A People's History of the American Revolution (Ray Raphael, 2019)
  The Pioneers (David McCullough, 2020)
  Undaunted Courage (Stephen Ambrose, 1997)
  Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (Max Hastings, 2014)
  Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (William Craig, 2001)
  Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of the Crimea (Prit Buttar, 2019)
  Day of Infamy (Walter Lord, 1991)
  The Fall of Japan (Craig, 2017)
  Dunkirk (Levine, 2017)
  The Battle of Britain: A Day-by-Day Chronicle (Patrick Bishop, 2009)
  The Desert War (Stephen W. Sears, 2015)
  D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Antony Beevor, 2010)
  Biblical History 
    Battles of the Bible: A Military History of Ancient Israel (Herzog and Gichon, 2006)
    In the Footsteps of King David (Yosef Garfinkel, et. al., 2014)
    The Bible and the Ancient Near East (Cyrus Gordon and Gary Rendsburg, 1997)
    A Survey of Israel's History (Leon J. Wood, 1986)
    The Books of History (James E. Smith, 1995)
    Bible Manners and Customs (Packer and Tenney, 2003)
    Peoples of the Old Testament World (Alfred J. Hoerth, et. al., 1998)
    Atlas of the Bible (Carl G. Rasmussen, 2010)
  War Memoirs
    S.S. Panzer Voices: From Barbarossa to Berlin (Sprech History, 2019)
    The Last Panther (Wolfgang Faust, 2016)
    A Higher Call (Adam Makos and Larry Alexander, 2012)
    Spearhead (Makos, 2019)
    Guadalcanal Diary (Richard Tregaskis, 1988)
    A Rumor of War (Philip Caputo, 1977)
    Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War (Matthew Gallagher, 2011)


~  Fiction  ~


HISTORICAL FICTION 
  Historical Fiction of the Ancient and Medieval World
    Empire of Israel: A King to Rule (Dale Ellis, 2019)
    The Secret Chord (Geraldine Brooks, 2016)
    Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Robert Harris, 2007)
    Conspirata: A Novel of Cicero (Harris, 2011)
    Dictator: A Novel of Cicero (Harris, 2016)
    Pompeii (Harris, 2005)
    Fire in the East (Harry Sidebottom, 2009)
    Sword of Kings (Bernard Cornwell, 2019)
    War Lord (Bernard Cornwell, 2020)
    Stormbird (Iggulden, 2015)
    Margaret of Anjou (Iggulden, 2016)
    Bloodline (Iggulden, 2017)
    Ravenspur: The Rise of the Tudors (Iggulden, 2017)
  Historical Fiction of the Napoleonic Era
    The Shores of Tripoli (James L. Haley, 2016)
    The Thirteen-Gun Salute, 1813 (Patrick O'Brian, 1989)
    Sharpe's Revenge: The Peace of 1814 (Cornwell, 1989)
    Gone for Soldiers (Jeff Shaara, 2001)
A PANOPLY OF FICTION
  The Sun Down Motel (Simone St. James, 2020)
  The Andromeda Evolution (Daniel Wilson, 2020)
  Heat Lightning (John Sandford, 2009)
  Adjustment Day (Chuck Pahlanuik, 2019)
  Lullaby (Pahlanuik, 2003)
  The Litigators (John Grisham, 2012)
  Skeleton Coast (Cussler, 2006)
  Devil's Gate (Cussler, 2012)
  The Jungle (Cussler, 2012)
  The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum, 2004)
  Infection (Scott Sigler, 2008)
  Naked in Death (J.D. Robb, 1995)
  The Enemy: Jack Reacher (Lee Child, 2009)
  Night School: Jack Reacher (Child, 2016)
  The Institute (Stephen King, 2019)
  Firestarter (King, 1980)
  The Dark Half (King, 1989)
  Cujo (King, 1986)
  Science Fiction
    2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke, 1968)
    The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells, 2014)
    Nemesis Games (James S.A. Corey, 2015)
    Babylon's Ashes (Corey, 2017)
    Off Armageddon Reef (David Weber, 2008)
    The Stars Now Unclaimed (Drew Williams, 2018)
    Mars (Ben Bova, 1992)
    Green Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2003)
    Galileo's Dream (Robinson, 2009)
    Red Hope (John Dreese, 2015)
    The Far Shore (Glenn Damato, 2019)
    Proxima (Stephen Baxter, 2015)
    Echopraxia (Peter Watts, 2015)
    The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Becky Chambers, 2015)
    The Draco Tavern (Larry Niven, 2006)
    World of Ptavvs (Niven, 1966)
    A Rain of Fire (Ralph Kern, 2020)
    The Praxis: Dread Empire's Fall (Walter Jon Williams, 2009)
    The Facade (Michael Heiser, 2014)
  Fantasy
    A Clash of Kings (George R.R. Martin, 2012)
    The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Martin, 2017)
    Wild Cards (Martin, 1987)
    Into the Darkness (Harry Turtledove, 2000)
    The Blade Itself (Joe Abercrombie, 2015)
    The Heroes (Abercrombie, 2011)
    Half a King (Abercrombie, ????)
    Half the World (Abercrombie, 2015)
    Sins of Empire (Brian McClellan, 2017)
    The Color of Magic (Terry Pratchet, 2005)
    Roma Eterna (Robert Silverberg, 2004)
    The Witcher: The Last Wish (Andrzej Sapkowski, 2020)
    The Witcher: Sword of Destiny (Sapkowski, 2015)
    The Eye of the World (Robert Jordan, 2019)
    The One Kingdom (Sean Russell, 2009)
    In the Eye of Heaven (David Keck, 2018)
    The Thousand Names (Django Wexler, 2013)
    Hawkwood's Voyage (Paul Kearney, 2002)
    The Heretic Kings (Kearney, 1997)
    After the Flood (Kassandra Montag, 2019)
    Into the Storm (Taylor Anderson, 2008)
    Undertow (Michael Buckley, 2016)
    Trysmoon: Ascension (Brian K. Fuller, 2014)
    Prince of Thorns (Mark Lawrence, 2012)
    King of Thorns (Lawrence, 2013)
    Emperor of Thorns (Lawrence, 2013)
  American Westerns
    Sackett's Land (La'Amour, 1984)
    Far As The Eye Can See (Robert Bausch, 2014)
    Many A River (Elmer Kelton, 2009)
    The Rebels: Sons of Texas (Kelton, 2007)
    Doc: A Novel (Mary Doria Russell, 2012)
    Epitaph (Russell, 2015)
    The Cold Dish (Craig Johnson, 2004)
    The Far Empty (J. Todd Scott, 2016)
    Crack in the Sky (Terry C. Johnston, 1998)
    Port Hazard (Loren D. Estleman, 2004)
    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Ron Hansen, 2007)
  The Animorphs Series by K.A. Applegate, continued...
    Animorphs: The Graphic Novel, Invasion (2020)
    Animorphs: The Stranger (1997)
    Animorphs: The Alien (1997)
    Animorphs: The Secret (1997)
    Animorphs: The Android (1997)
    Animorphs: The Forgotten (1997)
    Animorphs: The Reaction (1997)
    Animorphs: The Change (1997)
    Animorphs: The Unknown (1998)
    Animorphs: The Escape (1998)
  Star Wars Legends, continued...
    From A Certain Point of View (Meg Cabot, et. al., 2017)
    X-Wing: Iron Fist (Aaron Allston, 1998)
    X-Wing: Solo Command (Allston, 1999)
    The Courtship of Princess Leia (Dave Wolverton, 1995)
    Heir to the Empire (Timothy Zahn, 1992)
    Dark Force Rising (Zahn, 1994)
    The Last Command (Zahn, 1994)
    Isard's Revenge (Michael A. Stackpole, 1999)
    Jedi Search (Kevin Anderson, 1994)
    Planet of Twilight (Barbara Hambly, 1998)
    The Crystal Star (Vonda N. McIntyre, 1995)
    The Black Fleet Crisis: Before the Storm (Michael P. Kube-McDowell, 1996)
    The Black Fleet Crisis: Shield of Lies (Kube-McDowell, ????)
    The Black Fleet Crisis: Tyrant's Test (Kube-McDowell, ????)

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