Saturday, January 01, 2022

books read: 2021

this year I read 107 books, which is in fourth-to-last place in terms of most books read since I've started doing a yearly Reading Queue. Just behind 2021 is 2018 (106 books), 2016 (102 books), and 2015 (a measly 57 books). I doubt I'll ever break 2019's record of a whopping 237 books.


~   Religion and History   ~

RELIGION
  The New Testament in its World (N.T. Wright & Michael F. Bird, 2019)
  Masculine Christianity (Zachary M. Garris, 2020)
  Revelation: Four Views (Steve Gregg, 1997)
  When the Man Comes Around (Douglas Wilson, 2019)
  Dark Agenda (David Horowitz, 2021)
  The Spine of Scripture (Bnonn Tennant, 2019)
  It's Good to be a Man (Michael Foster & Tennant, 2021)
  The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates (Michael Trewhella, 2014)
  Notes on Leviticus (Michael Heiser, 2021)
  Notes on the Book of Acts (Heiser, 2021)
  The Institutes of the Christian Religion: Book One (John Calvin)
  Romans (Calvin)
  Infant Baptism (Sean McGowan, 2020)
  Baptism: A Biblical Study (Jack Cottrell, 1990)
  Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up? (David Bercot, 1989)
  The Fitness Mindset (Brian Keane, 2017)
  The Unseen Realm
    The Unseen Realm (Heiser, 2019)
    Demons (Heiser, 2020)
    Slaying Dragons (Daniel Kolenda, 2020)
    Giants, Gods, and Dragons (Derek and Sharon Gilbert, 2021)
    Last Clash of the Titans (Derek Gilbert, 2018)
    Bad Moon Rising (Gilbert, 2019)
    The Omega Conspiracy (I.D.E. Thomas, 2007)
HISTORY
  American History in Black and White (David Barton, 2017)
  The New World (Winston Churchill, 2013)
  Hannibal (Patrick N. Hunt, 2018)
  The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny (Daisy Dunn, 2019)
  Crusaders (Dan Jones, 2019)
  The Discarded Image (C.S. Lewis, 2020)
  A Short History of Europe (Simon Jenkins, 2019)
  A Journey to the New World (Kathryn Lasky, 1996)
  The Napoleonic Wars (Gunther Rothenburg, 1999)
  The Somme (Martin Gilbert, 2007)
  Pacific Air (David Sears, 2011)
  Landing in Hell: Pelileu (Peter Maragritis, 2018)
  I Marched with Patton (Frank Sisson, 2020)
  Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day (Ray Lambert, 2020)
  Supernova in the East (Dan Carlin, 2020)


Fiction and Literature  ~

HISTORICAL FICTION
  Historical Fiction of the Ancient and Medieval World
    The Odyssey (Gareth Hinds, 2010)
    Gates of Fire: The Battle of Thermopylae (Steven Pressfield, 1998)
    Tides of War: The Tale of Alcibiades (Pressfield, 2001)
    The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great (Pressfield, 2004)
    Samurai Rising (Pamela S. Turner and Hinds, 2016)
 Historical Fiction of the Napoleonic Era, continued...
    The Nutmeg of Consolation, 1813 (Patrick O'Brian, 1991)
    The Truelove, 1813 (O'Brian, 1992)
    The Wine-Dark Sea, 1813 (O'Brian, 1993)
    The Commodore, 1813 (O'Brian, 1995)
    The Yellow Admiral, 1814 (O'Brian, 1996)
    The Hundred Days, 1815 (O'Brian, 1999)
    Sharpe's Waterloo: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (Bernard Cornwell, 1990)
    Blue at the Mizzen, 1816 (O'Brian, 1999)
    Sharpe's Devil: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821 (Cornwell, 1992)
  Historical Fiction of the Second World War
    To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (Jeff Shaara, 2020)
    Pacific Glory (P.T. Deutermann, 2011)
    The Silver Waterfall: The Battle of Midway (Kevin Miller, 2020)
    The Nugget (Deutermann, 2019)
    Sentinels of Fire (Deutermann, 2013)
    The Commodore (Deutermann, 2016)
    Catch-22 (Joseph Heller, 1961)
    Devastation Road (Jason Hewitt, 2015)
    The Good Shepherd (C.S. Forester, 2018)
    Run Silent, Run Deep (Edward Beach, 1956)
  Historical Fiction of the Vietnam War
    The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien, 2009)
    Matterhorn (Karl Marlantes, 2009)
    The 13th Valley (John Del Vacchio, 1982)
A PANOPLY OF FICTION
  We Are Unprepared (Meg Little Reilly, 2016)
  The Street Lawyer (John Grisham, 1998)
  Onslaught (David Poyer, 2016)
  Red Phoenix (Larry Bond, 1989)
  Liberty's Last Stand (Stephen Coonts, 2016)
  Crescent Dawn (Clive Cussler, 2010)
  Roadwork (Stephen King, 1974)
  Insomnia (King, 1994)
  Wizard and Glass (King, 2016)
  Night Shift (King, 1978)
  Science Fiction
    Persepolis Rising (James S.A. Corey, 2017)
    Tiamat's Wrath (Corey, 2018)
    Starfish (Peter Watts, 2000)
    Old Man's War (John Scalzi, 2005)
    Footfall (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, 1985)
    Engineering Infinity (The Infinity Project, 2011)
    Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero (Sean Chen and Travis Beacham, 2013)
  Fantasy
    Before They Are Hanged (Joe Abercrombie, 2007)
    The Last Argument of Kings (Abercrombie, 2008)
    The Mad Lancers (Brian McClellan, 2020)
    The Age of Myth (Michael J. Sullivan, 2016)
    Blood of Elves (Andrzej Sapkowski, 2009)
    World War Z (Max Brooks, 2006)
    Half a War (Abercrombie, 2015)
    Kings of the Wyld (Nicholas Eames, 2017)
    The Shadow of What Was Lost (James Islington, 2014)
    The Rage of Dragons (Evan Winter, 2019)
    The Grey Bastards (Jonathan French, 1918)
    The Bone Ships (R.J. Barker, 2019)
    Star Wars Legends, continued...
      From A Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (Del Ray, 2020)
      X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar (Aaron Allston, 1999)
      The New Rebellion (Kristine Rusch, 1997)
  American Westerns
    All The Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy, 1992)
    Death Without Company (Craig Johnson, 2007)
    Kindness Goes Unpunished (Johnson, 2008)
    Spirit of Steamboat (Johnson, 2013)
    Wild Justice (Loren D. Estleman, 2018)
    Boone's Lick (Larry McMurtry, 2001)
    The Revenant (Michael Punke, 2002)
    A Good Day for a Massacre (William & J.A. Johnstone, 2020)
    Springfield 1880 (Johnstone, 2018)
    The Chuckwagon Trail (Johnstone, 2017)


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