Friday, January 02, 2026

books read: 2025

this year I read ~80 books (not sure how to parse short stories!)

RELIGION AND NONFICTION
  The Westminster Confession Commentary (G.I. Williamson, 2003)
  The Blessed and Boundless God (George Swinnock, 1672)
  The Imitation of Christ (Thomas a' Kempis, 1418)
  Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus (Nabeel Qureshi, 2014)
  The Five Points of Calvinism (R.L. Dabney, 1895)
  On Secular Education (Dabney, ~1890)
  The Case for Christian Nationalism (Stephen Wolfe, 2022)
  The New Testament in Its World (N.T. Wright, 2019)
  The Return of the Strong Gods (R.R. Reno, 2019)
  The Lost Generation (Jacob Savage, 2025)
  Spiteful Mutants (Edward Dutton, 2021)
  How to Judge People by the What They Look Like (Dutton, 2018)
  The Cultured Thug Handbook (Mike Maxwell, 2024)
  Spiritual Depression (Martin Lloyd-Jones, 1965)
  The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration (Zmirak and Perrotta, 2018)
  My Awakening (David Duke, 2007)
  The Assertiveness Workbook (Randy Patterson, 2000)

HISTORY
The Ancient and Medieval World
  Persian Fire: The Greco-Persian Wars (Tom Holland, 2005)
  A War Like No Other: The Peloponnesian War (Victor Hanson, 2005)
  Mania for Subjugation: Philip and Alexander (Dan Carlin, 2025)
  Philip and Alexander (Adrian Goldsworthy, 2020)
  Ghost on the Throne (James S. Romm, 2011)
  The Story of Alfred the Great (A.E. McKilliam, 2018)
  The Forge of Christendom (Holland, 2008)
Early American History
  Black Flags, Blue Waters (Eric Jay Dolin, 2018)
  Battles of the Revolutionary War 1775-1781 (W.J. Wood, 2003)
  Sacred Scripture, Sacred War (James P. Byrd, 2013)
  Black and Tan (Douglas Wilson, 2005)
  Southern Slavery As It Was (Wilson, 1996)
  Slave Narratives (Federal Government Collection, 1938)
  Every Man Will Do His Duty (Dean King, 1997)
  The Pioneers (David McCullough, 2019)
The American Civil War
  When In the Course of Human Events (Charles Adams, 2000)
  Give This Book to a Yankee! (Seabrook, 2014)
  The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War (H.W. Crocker III, 2008)
  A Defense of Virginia and the South (R.L. Dabney, 1867)
  Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea (Noah Trudeau, 2008)
  Onward Southern Soldiers (Traci Nichols-Belt, 2011)
  Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong (Lochlainn Seabrook, 2010)
The World Wars and their Aftermath
  Blueprint for Armageddon: The First World War (Dan Carlin, 2015)
  Now It Can Be Told (Philip Gibbs, 1920)
  Hitler's War (David Irving, 1977)
  Understanding World War II (Ron Unz, 2022)
  When the Flagpoles Bloomed (Vera Oredsson, 2016)
  Dive! (Deborah Hopkinson, 2016)
  Knights of the Reich (Gunther Fraschka, 1994)
  The Myth of German Villainy (Benton L. Bradberry, 2012)
  In His Own Words: The Essential Speeches (Adolf Hitler, 2022)
  Hellstorm (Thomas Goodrich, 2010)
  Summer, 1945: A Harvest of Hate (Goodrich, 2010)
  If I Die in a Combat Zone (Tim O'Brien, 1973)
  Swift Sword (Doyle Glass, 2023)

FICTION
Historical Fiction
  The Legion (Simon Scarrow, 2010)
  Hell or Richmond (Ralph Peters, 2013)
  The Cruel Sea (Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951)
  The Hooligans (P.T. Deutermann, 2020)
  The Bridges at Toko-Ri (James A. Michener, 1953)
Modern Fiction
  The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937)
  The Mercy of Gods (James S.A. Corey, 2024)
  The Last Colony (John Scalzi, 2007)
  The Guns of the South (Harry Turtledove, 1992)
  Pronto (Elmore Leonard, 1993)
  Shock Wave (Clive Cussler, 1996)
  Fire Ice (Cussler, 2002)
  Piranha (Cussler, 2015)
  Congo (Michael Crichton, 1980)
  Next (Crichton, 2006)
  Micro (Crichton and Preston, 2011)
American Westerns
  Tooth and Claw (Craig Johnson, 2024)
  Chancy (Louis L'Amour, 1968)
  The Quick and the Dead (L'Amour, 1973)
  The Buckskin Line (Elmer Kelton, 1999)
  The Absaroka Ambush (William Johnstone, 1993)
  Western Short Stories
    The Gift of Cochise (Louis L'Amour)
    The Tin Star (John M. Cunningham)
    Killer's Country! (Dan Cushing)
    Timberline (Owen Wister)
    All Gold Canyon (Jack London)
Grimm's Fairy Tales, collected 1812
  The Frog King
  Cat and Mouse in Partnership
  Our Lady's Child
  The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
  Cinderella
  The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
Gothic Fiction
  The Works of H.P. Lovecraft
    The Nameless City (1921)
    The Picture in the Window (1921)
    The Music of Erich Zann (1922)
    The Rats in the Walls (1924)
    The Vault (1925)
    The Outsider (1926)
    Pickman's Model (1927)
    The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
    The Silver Key (1929)
    The Dunwich Horror (1929)
  The Works of M.R. James
    Lost Hearts (1895)
    Canon Alberic's Scrapbook (1904)
    Lost Hearts (1895)
    The Mezzotint (1904)
    The Ash-Tree (1904)
    Number 13 (1904)

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books read: 2025

this year I read ~80 books (not sure how to parse short stories!) RELIGION AND NONFICTION   The Westminster Confession Commentary (G.I. Will...