Sunday, January 01, 2023

books read: 2022



this year I read 97 books, 10 less than last year
(but work is a lot more demanding and we have little kids, so it's to be expected)


-  Religion and History  -

RELIGION (and miscellania)
  No More Mr. Nice Guy (Robert A. Glover)
  The Obesity Code (Dr. Jason Fung)
  How Should Men Lead Their Families? (Joel R. Beeke)
  Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (Bruce Feiler)
  Hebrews: An Anchor for the Soul (R. Kent Hughes)
  Praying the Bible (Donald S. Whitney)
  Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History (Richard Hannula)
  The Heroes (Charles Kingsley)
  The Case for Heaven (Lee Strobel)
  The Westminster Shorter Catechicism Study Guide (G.I. Williamson)
  Creation Controversies
    In Six Days (John F. Ashton)
    Preflood History (Trey Smith)
    Thousands... Not Billions (Donald Deyoung)
    Tower of Babel (Bodie Hodge)
    God of the Gaps (Hugh Henry)
    A Flood of Evidence (Ken Ham)
    The Global Flood (John D. Morris)
    After the Flood (Bill Cooper)
    The New Answers: Book One (Ham and Hodge)
    The New Answers: Book Two (Ham and Hodge)
    The New Answers: Book Three (Ham and Hodge)
    The New Answers: Book Four (Ham and Hodge)
HISTORY
  The History of the Ancient World (Susan Wise Bauer)
  Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World (Philip Matyszak)
  The Akkadian Empire (Hourly History)
  The Sumerians (Hourly History)
  The City of Ur (Charles River)
  The Hittites (Captivating History)
  The Hittites (Hourly History)
  The Hittites (Charles River)
  The Trojan War: A New History (Barry Strauss)
  Assyrian History (Captivating History)
  Babylon (Hourly History)
  Conquering Jerusalem (Stephen Dando-Collins)
  The Middle Sea (John Julius Norwich)
  Medieval Europe (Gabriel Monod)
  Early American Studies
    Native American History (Hourly History)
    American Indian Wars (Hourly History)
    French and Indian War (Hourly History)
    King Philip's War (Hourly History)
    Pontiac's War (Hourly History)
    The Seminole Wars (Hourly History)
    Red Cloud's War (Hourly History)
    The Great Sioux War (Hourly History)
    The Wounded Knee Massacre (Hourly History)
    The Apache Wars (Hourly History)
    The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (Rinker Buck)
    The Letters of Narcissa Whitman (Narcissa Whitman)


-  Fiction  -

HISTORICAL FICTION
  A Man at Arms (Steven Pressfield)
  Outlaw: A Tale of Robin Hood (2009)
  The Fort (Bernard Cornwell)
  Sharpe's Assassin (Cornwell)
  Captain Putnam for the Republic of Texas (James L. Haley)
  The North Water (Ian McGuire)
  Historical Fiction of World War Two
    Ghosts of the Bungo Suido (P.T. Deutermann)
    The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris)
    The Race for Paris (Meg Waite Clayton)
    The Lieutenant's Nurse (Sara Ackerman)
    The Eagle's Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway (Jeff Shaara)
A PANOPLY OF FICTION
  Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
  Team Yankee (Harold Coyle)
  Plague Ship (Clive Cussler)
  Serpent (Cussler)
  Pacific Vortex! (Cussler)
  Corsair (Cussler)
  Protocol Zero (James Abel)
  Elevation (Stephen King)
  The Green Mile (King)
  The Shawshank Redemption (King)
  The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
  The Demonologist (Gerald Brittle)
  End of Summer (S.M. Anderson)
  The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
  Left Behind: The Mark (Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins)
  Left Behind: Desecration (LaHaye and Jenkins)
  Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Dune (Frank Herbert)
    Off Armageddon Reef (David Weber)
    Tuf Voyaging (George R.R. Martin)
    Leviathan Falls (James S.A. Corey)
    Aurora (Kim Stanley Robinson)
    Out of the Dark (Weber)
    Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
    The Kaiju Preservation Society (John Scalzi)
    Best Served Cold (Joe Abercrombie)
    Bloody Rose (Nicholas Eames)
    Fevre Dream (George R.R. Martin)
  American Westerns
    Carry the Wind (Terry C. Johnston)
    Savage Run (C.J. Box)
    The Removes (Tatjana Soli)
    Sin Killer (Larry McMurtry)
    The Wandering Hill (McMurtry)
    By Sorrow's River (McMurtry)
    Folly and Glory (McMurtry)
    The First Mountain Man (William Johnstone)
    Another Man's Moccasins (Craig Johnson)
    The Oregon Trail (Francis Parkman)
    White Desert (Loren D. Estleman)



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