Sunday, January 01, 2012

2011 Reading List

As has been my tradition... here's all my reading from the past year. For the record... it's my lowest page total since I've been tracking this thing. The problem is that I'm in the middle of three or four books both at home and in the office. So it's a little deceiving. Hopefully I can get up into the 10,000 page range next year. We shall see.


Professional Reading
1. Razing Hell (Sharon Baker) 222 Pages
2. A Resilient Life (Gordon MacDonald) 243 Pages
3. Visionary Parenting (Rob Rienow) 140 Pages
4. Justification (N.T. Wright) 279 Pages
5. Evil and the Justice of God (N.T. Wright) 176 Pages
6. Surprising Insights from the Unchurched (Thom Rainer) 281 Pages
7. Love Wins (Rob Bell) 202 Pages
8. The Circle of Seasons (Kimberlee Conway Ireton) 138 Pages
9. The Grand Weaver (Ravi Zacharias) 208 Pages
10. God Behaving Badly (David Lamb) 205 Pages
11. Bible Made Impossible (Christian Smith) 240 Pages
12. The Good and Beautiful God (James Bryan Smith) 191 Pages

Top 3 Professional
-A Resilient Life: Extremely valuable book detailing truths that will lead to longevity in ministry. I read this at a crucial time in my own life.
-Bible Made Impossible: Fun little book that details a Christ-centered hermeneutic and makes the case that you don't have to be a fundamentalist or even a biblicist to have an extremely high view of scripture.
-The Good and Beautiful God: Great entry level discipleship material... the whole book is about identifying and rejecting false narratives that we hold about God and ourselves. Very well done.


Personal Reading
1. Star Wars: Patterns of Force (Michael Reaves) 288 Pages
2. American Assassin (Vince Flynn) 435 Pages
3. Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #6: Sentinel (John Jackson Miller) 29 Pages
4. The Game of My Life (Matthew Leach) 206 Pages
5. Star Wars: Judge’s Call (Timothy Zahn) 5 Pages
6. The Abs Diet (David Zinczenko) 287 Pages
7. Star Wars: Vortex (Troy Denning) 375 Pages
8. Dune: House Corrino (Anderson and Herbert) 496 Pages
9. Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #7: Pantheon (John Jackson Miller) 31 Pages
10. Escape from the World Trade Center (Leslie Haskin) 74 Pages
11. Star Wars: Conviction (Aaron Allston) 366 Pages
12. Phoenix Rising (William W. Johnstone) 345 Pages
13. Star Wars: Death Troopers (Joe Schreiber) 284 Pages
14. The Hunger Games (Suzanne Colllins) 374 Pages

Top 3 Personal
-The Hunger Games: Hands down the best and most interesting book I read all year. Good story, compelling characters... can't wait to dive into the last two books.
-American Assassin: Not the best Vince Flynn novel ever... but in the drudgery that was my personal reading this year... it makes it's way into the top two.
-Star Wars, Death Troopers: Again, not a great book... but different than the semi-boring Star Wars stuff that I've been reading lately.


22 Books, 4 Short Stories/ebooks 6120 Total Pages