Books Read, a compilation
2022-2023
This is a reference post, in case you are looking for a book review. It links to individual reviews, or to the monthly round-ups if you are after a short review of a book I read but didn’t write about. An index of non-book-reviews is here.
2022
You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World, Alan Noble
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, Alan Jacobs
Divided by Faith, Smith and Emerson
Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair. Duke L. Kwon, Gregory Thompson
Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement, Henry Reynolds
Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just, Timothy Keller
Faithful Antiracism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change, Christina Barland Edmondson, Chad Brennan
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, Esau McCaulley
Truth's Table: Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation, Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins
White Lies: Nine Ways to Expose and Resist the Racial Systems That Divide Us, Daniel Hill
White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White, Daniel Hill
Why Can't We Be Friends? : Avoidance Is Not Purity, Aimee Byrd
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah
Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, Timothy Keller
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
Being the Bad Guys: How to Live for Jesus in a World That Says You Shouldn't, Stephen McAlpine
A World Without Email: Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever , Cal Newport
Indistractable, Nir Eyal
The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World, Andy Crouch
Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace, Miroslav Volf
Why Won't You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts. Harriet Lerner
When the Noise won't stop, Paul Grimmond
Chokepoint Capitalism, Cory Doctorow
Reactivity, Paul David Tripp
How to Fight Racism, Jemar Tisby
The Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby
Praying in Public, Pat Quinn
Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Fight for your Pastor, Peter Orr
How to Eat Your Bible, Nate Pickowicz
The Genesis of Gender, Abigail Favale
[Un]intentional, Doug Smith
Say It: Celebration Expository Preaching in the African American Tradition
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times. Soong-Chan Rah
Gathered Together, Karl Deenick
Equipped to Love: Building Idolatry-Free Relationships, Norm Wakefield
Dune, Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
Children of Dune, Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse: Dune, Frank Herbert
The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski
Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapkowski
Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski
Time of Contempt, Andrzej Sapkowski
Baptism of Fire, Andrzej Sapkowski
Tower of the Swallow, Andrzej Sapkowski
The Lady of the Lake, Andrzej Sapkowski
2023
Understanding Gender Dysphoria, Mark Yarhouse 3rd Jan
Friendship, Victor Lee Austin, 12th Jan (3 Parts: 1, 2, 3)
Jesus v Evangelicals, Constantine Campbell, 17th Jan
Letter from Birmingham Jail, MLK, 18th Jan
Lost in Thought, Zina Hitz, 19th Jan
Preaching, Timothy Keller, 20th Jan
If God still breathes, why can't I? Angela Parker, 21st Jan
Life of Antony, Athanasius, 22nd Jan
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs, 28th Jan
So good they can't ignore you, Cal Newport, 28th Jan
Irenaeus, Apostolic Preaching, 28th Jan
Native, Kaitlin B. Curtice, 29th Jan (Audio)
A Praying Church, Paul E. Miller, 4th Feb
Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, 6th Feb
Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellection Formation, Collin Hansen, 9th Feb
The stranger, Albert Camus, 10th Feb (Audio)
Celebrities for Jesus, Katelyn Beaty, 11th Feb
Life of Macrina, Gregory of Nyssa, 11th Feb
From Isolation to Community, Myles Werntz,15th Feb
Everything happens for a reason, Kate Bowler, 16th Feb
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, 19th Feb (Audio)
The Lewis Awakening: The Nature of a God Sent Revival, 23rd Feb
Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman, 28th Feb
A Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Audio), 6th Mar
Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman, 7th March
Hiort, Iain MacLeòid
Exclusion and Embrace, Miroslav Volf (Audio), 16th March
Why Forgive? Johann Christoph Arnold, 25th March
The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing, Jonathan T. Pennington, 26th March
An Taigh-Samhraidh, Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul, 26th March
The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik (Audio), XX Mar
Lent, Esau McCaulley, 8th April
How I became the World's Fittest Woman, Tia-Clair Toomey, 11th April
The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams, 11th April
The Next Evangelicalism, Soong-Chan Rah 11th April
After Evangelicalism, David P. Gushee12th April
Hard work Pays Off, Mat Fraser, 12th April
A Praying life, Paul E. Miller, 12th April
First, Rich Froning, 13th April
Stone of Farewell, Tad Williams, 14th April
Desiring the kingdom, James KA Smith,14th April
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind, Thomas Oden, 14th April
Five Theological Orations, Gregory Nazianzus, 15th April
On Getting out of Bed, Alan O. Noble, 24th April
A Gift of Love, Martin Luther King, Jr., 29th April
Side-by-Side, Edward T. Welch (29th April)
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (audio), 2nd May
Forgive, Timothy Keller, 6th May
Surrender, Bono (Audio) 14th May
Critical Race Theory: an introduction, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, 15th May 2023
The Blue Parakeet, Scot McKnight, 20th May
You are what you love, James K.A. Smith, 19th May
Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, Tim Keller, 26th May
No Future without forgiveness, Desmond Tutu, 27th May
A field guide to Christian Nonviolence, David Cramer and Myles Werntz, 27th May
Building the Benedict Option, Leah Libresco, 27th May
To Green Angel Tower 1: Siege, Tad Williams, 28th May
All my knotted-up life: a memoir, Beth Moore, 30th May (Audio)
The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis, 7th June
The Prodigal God, Timothy Keller, 11th June
The Psalter Reclaimed, Gordan Wenham, 12th June
The Prodigal Prophet, Timothy Keller, 14th June
After Whiteness, Willie James Jennings, 17th June
Paul and the Law, Brian Rosner, 17th June
Rhythms of Grace, Mike Cosper, 22nd June
The Emotional life of our Lord, B.B. Warfield, 22nd June
God of Vengeance? Erich Zenger, 29th June
The freedom of self-forgetfulness, Timothy Keller, 29th June
Women and the Gender of God, Amy Peeler, 1st July
To Green Angel Tower 2: Storm, Tad Williams, 7th July
The Heart of What Was Lost, Tad Williams, 8th July
Finding Lost Words, G. Geoffrey Harper and Kit Barker (eds.), 9th July
Lament for a Son, Nicholas Wolterstorff, 13th July
Romans for you 1-7, Timothy Keller, 14th July
Enchiridion (on Faith, Hope, and Love), Augustine, 14th July
Writing a small group study, Richard Sweatman, 14th July
Selected Sermons, Lemuel Haynes, 18th July
Thanks for the feedback: The science and art of receiving feedback well, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, 21st July
The Great Sex Rescue, Sheila Gregoire et al, 22nd July
Teaching Psalms, Vol 1: From Text to Message, Christopher Ash, 22nd July
Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story), Daniel Nayeri, 22nd July
The Gender Revolution, Patricia Weerakoon et al. 24th July
The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Audio), 26th July
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt (Audio), 28th July
Soulbroken: A Guidebook for your journey through Ambiguous Grief. Stephanie Sarazin, 29th July
We go on, John Onwuchekwa, 5th Aug
Christianity and Critical Race Theory, Robert Chao Romero & Jeff M. Liou, 8th Aug
The Lord's Supper, Jonathan Black, 13th Aug
The Coming of the Holy Spirit, Philip D. Jensen, 15th Aug
Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America, Russell Moore, 26th Aug
King: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jonathan Eig, 27th Aug
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky, 18th Sep (Audio)
The Centre, Ayesha Mazanar Saddiqi, 23nd Sep (Audio)
Amish Grace, Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, David L. Weaver–Zercher, 27th sep
The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker, 27th sept
The Witchwood Crown, Tad Williams, 27th Sept
How Far to the Promised Land, Esau McCaulley, 27th Sept
Abuelita Faith, Kat Armas. (Review)
Undoing the Grade: Why we grade, and how to stop, Jesse Stommel.
Forgiving and Reconciling: Bridges to Wholeness and Hope, Everett Worthington. (Review)
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. Patton, Bruce; Stone, Douglas; Heen, Sheila. (Review)
Walking with God through Pain and Suffering. Timothy Keller (Re-read. Original review here).
Nonviolence: The Revolutionary way of Jesus, Preston Sprinkle w/ Andrew Rillera.
(Review)
The Expulsive Power of a New Affection. Thomas Chalmers
The Cross and the Lynching Tree. James Cone. (Review)
A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Praying with Paul, D.A. Carson, 6th Nov
Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament, Mark Vroegop, 7th Nov
Non-Toxic Masculinity, Zachary Wagner, 15th Nov
No Greater Love: a biblical vision for friendship, Rebecca McLaughlin, 18th Nov
December
Empire of Grass, Tad Williams.
De Amicitia (On Friendship), Cicero.
Lysis, Plato
Ostracism: The Power of Silence, Kipling Williams (Review).
The Samurai, Shusaku Endo (Review).
Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The Iliad, Homer, (translated by Emily Wilson).
Into the Narrowdark, Tad Williams.
Made for People: What we drift into loneliness and how to fight for a life of friendship, Justin Whitmel Earley.
Brothers of the Wind, Tad Williams.
How to Know a Person, David Brooks.
Wow. Can I ask how you fit all this in? Does your work enable a lot of reading? Sorry if this should be obvious; I'm just stumbling across your page.