Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Books Read 2024

 Here is my completed reading list for last year. My favorite 10 are marked by asterisks:


1.      Christopher Buckley, Make Russia Great Again

2.      William F. Buckley, Jr., Mongoose R.I.P.

3.      Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds ***

4.      Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

5.      Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

6.      C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

7.      C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

8.      William F. Buckley, Jr., Tucker’s Last Stand

9.      Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

10.  E. Michael Jones, Libido Dominandi

11.  Ward Farnsworth, The Socratic Method: a Practitioner’s Handbook ***

12.  Thomas Watson, The Doctrine of Repentance

13.  Thomas Watson, The Godly Man’s Picture

14.  Stuart Robinson, The Church of God ***

15.  Thomas Sibbes, The Broken Reed

16.  William Perkins, The Art of Prophesying

17.  JJ Virgin, The Virgin Diet

18.  W. Robert Godfrey, Learning to Love the Psalms

19.  Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth, Nero

20.  John Flavel, The Mystery of Providence

21.  Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel ***

22.  John Flavel, Facing Grief

23.  Samuel Rutherford, Letters

24.  James Osterhaus, Avoiding Pastoral Pitfalls

25.  Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

26.  Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewell of Christian Contentment

27.  John Bunyan, Prayer

28.  Joseph Alleine, A Sure Guide to Heaven

29.  Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices

30.  William Bridge, A Lifting up for the Downcast

31.  Jim Davis and Michael Graham, The Great Dechurching

32.  Bill Browder, Freezing Order ***

33.  Kathleen Peddicord, How to Retire Overseas

34.  Elizabeth R. Varon, Longstreet ***

35.  G.K. Beale, Union with the Resurrected Christ ***

36.  Bruce K. Waltke and Fred G. Zaspel, How to Read and Understand the Psalms ***

37.  C.S. Lewis, Miracles

38.  Sam Quinones, The Least of Us ***

39.  G.K. Beale, A New Testament Biblical Theology

40.  Lee Gatiss, Fulfill your Ministry

41.  C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

42.  Guillaume Bignon, Excusing Sinners and Blaming God: A Calvinist Assessment of Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Divine Involvement in Evil 

43.  C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed and The Abolition of Man

44.  Guy Prentiss Waters, Well Ordered, Living Well

45.  Guillaume Bignon, Confessions of a French Atheist

46.  Bryan D. Estelle, The Primary Mission of the Church

47.  Jason M. Baxter, The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis ***

48.  Christopher J.H. Wright, The Mission of God

49.  Gavin Ortlund, Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals

50.  Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis:1911-1914