Bookshelf
Here is a list of the books that I have read, by year (when I actually thought to record that information). For myself, I look at this as an encouragement to read even more — there are so many books still out there.
2024
Every Season Sacred: Reflections, Prayers, and Invitations to Nourish Your Soul and Nurture Your Family Throughout the Year
Kayla Craig The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days
Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament
Michael Card
2023
All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
Beth Moore
All Shall Be Well: Awakening to God’s Presence in His Messy, Abundant World
Catherine McNiel The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
Pico Iyer The Book of Common Courage: Prayers and Poems to Find Strength in Small Moments
K.J. Ramsey Confessions of a Roadkill Christian: A Short Memoir
Faith Ann Raider The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
John Koenig Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
Louis L’Amour Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford History of Genesee County, Michigan: Her People, Industries, and Institutions
Edwin O. Wood How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
Epictetus, translated by Anthony Long Loss: Poems to Better Weather the Many Waves of Grief
Donna Ashworth Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
Timothy Keller Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life
W. David O. Taylor Religious Rebels: Finding Jesus in the Awkward Middle Way
Christy Wood The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
John Mark Comer Spare
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex Seeking God’s Face: Praying with the Bible Through the Year
Philip F. Reinders Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Nedra Glover Tawwab The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms
Timothy Keller with Kathy Keller When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self
Chuck DeGroat You Belong Here
M. H. Clark, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want
Jesse Mecham
2022
All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
Mel Brooks All Shall Be Well: Awakening to God’s Presence in His Messy, Abundant World
Catherine McNeil American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
Steven Rinella The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions and Results
Stephen Bungay Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear The Baseball 100
Joe Posnanski The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry Damascus Station: A Novel
David McCloskey Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament
Mark Vroegop Education of a Wandering Man
Louis L’Amour Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead and Win
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
Dervla Murphy Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love
K.J. Ramsey The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing Loss: Poems to Better Weather the Many Waves of Grief
Donna Ashworth Meditations
Marcus Aurelius My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
Indra Nooyi The Sacred Search: What If It’s Not about Who You Marry, but Why?
Gary Thomas The Second World War
John Keegan The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey
A.J. Jacobs This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
K.J. Ramsey Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Tim Ferriss When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times
Leah Sottile When Thoughts And Prayers Aren’t Enough: A Shooting Survivor’s Guide Into the Realities of Gun Violence
Taylor S. Schumann Will
Will Smith and Mark Manson You Belong Here
M.H. Clark, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault Your New Playlist: The Student’s Guide to Tapping into the Superpower of Mindset
Jon Acuff, L.E. Acuff, and McRae Acuff
2021
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
Epictetus, translated by Sharon Lebell Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living In
Kai Whiting and Leonidas Konstantakos The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel A. van der Kolk Born Again and Again: Jesus’ Call to Radical Transformation
Megan Westra Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing
Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting
Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home
Traci Smith A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day
Andy Puddicombe How Should a Person Be? A Novel from Life
Sheila Heti If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans
John Pavlovitz Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez The Keto Reset Diet: Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever
Mark Sisson and Brad Kearns Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
Adam Jentleson Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Joshua Wolf Shenk A Man at Arms: A Novel
Steven Pressfield Marcus Aurelius: A Life
Frank McLynn The Mourning After: Grieving Someone We Love
John Pavlovitz Now That Faith Has Come: A Study of Galatians
Beth Moore and Melissa Moore The Pastor’s Wife: A Courageous Testimony of Persecution and Imprisonment in Communist Russia
Sabina Wurmbrand The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James A Promised Land
Barack Obama Sh@dy Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
Ke!th H*uston Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking
Jon Acuff The Steal Like an Artist Journal: A Notebook for Creative Kleptomaniacs
Austin Kleon Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
B.J. Fogg What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry A Wider Universe: A Novel
Allison Floyd
2020
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation
Latasha Morrison Becoming More Agile Whilst Delivering Salesforce
Ines Garcia The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy Broken and Beloved: How Jesus Loves Us Into Wholeness
Sammy Rhodes Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Seth Godin The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)
Gretchen Rubin He Leadeth Me: An Extraordinary Testament of Faith
Daniel L. Flaherty How Could I Wish You Back from Heaven?
Sandra Neahusan It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
Megan Devine The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done
Kendra Adachi Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Seth Godin Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness
Gretchen Rubin The Possibility of Prayer: Finding Stillness with God in a Restless World
John Starke The Problem of Pain
C.S. Lewis A Promised Land
Barack Obama Tales of the Hasidim
Martin Buber A Technique for Producing Ideas: A Simple Five Step Formula for Producing Ideas
James Webb Young We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal
Seth Godin Wonder
R. J. Palacio
2019
The Age of Eisenhower
William I. Hitchcock Atomic Habits
James Clear Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
R.A. Dick Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life
James Kerr A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon
Dana Schwartz
2018
The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker Born a Crime: Stories from South African Childhood
Trevor Noah Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen Crushing It! How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence — And How You Can, Too
Gary Vaynerchuk The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World’s Most Coveted Fish
Emily Voigt Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing
Lewis Carroll Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord’s Prayer
John Dominic Crossan Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder Marriage Matters: Extraordinary Change Through Ordinary Moments
Winston T. Smith Mastery
Robert Greene The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
Simon Winchester Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Liz Wiseman with Greg McKeown The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
Daymond John with Daniel Paisner Return of the King: LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Greatest Comeback in NBA History
Brian Windhorst and Dave McMenamin
2017
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works — A True Story
Dan Harris Church History in Plain Language: Fourth Edition
Bruce L. Shelley Currahee! A Screaming Eagle at Normandy
Donald R. Burgett Divine Direction: 7 Decisions That Will Change Your Life
Craig Groeschel Effective Bible Study
Regular Baptist Press Eisenhower in War and Peace
Jean Edward Smith The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World
Peter Scazzero Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide for Creating Ridiculously Good Content
Ann Handley Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin The Forgotten Jesus: How Western Christians Should Follow an Eastern Rabbi
Robby Gallaty Goliath Must Fall: Winning the Battle Against Your Giants
Louie Giglio The Good Book: 40 Chapters That Reveal the Bible’s Biggest Ideas
Deron Spoo How to Hike the Appalachian Trail: A Comprehensive Guide to Plan and Prepare for a Successful Thru-Hike
Chris Cage I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons
Kevin Hart Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Black Book of Connections: 6.5 ASSETS for Networking Your Way to RICH Relationships
Jeffrey Gitomer The Life-Changing Power of Prayer
T. W. Hunt Lightning Sales Ops: Building Salesforce for Sales Development Teams
Matt Bertuzzi The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
John H. Walton The Magnolia Story
Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, and Mark Dagostino The Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives
Lewis Howes The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
Mayte Garcia Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Keith Ferrazzi No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon
Erik Weihenmayer and Buddy Levy Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders
Reggie McNeal The Principle of the Path: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Andy Stanley The Reason for God: Belief in the Age of Skepticism
Timothy Keller Rebirth: A Fable of Love, Forgiveness, and Following Your Heart
Kamal Ravikant Rewired: How Using Today’s Technology Can Bring You Back to Deeper Relationships, Real Conversations, and the Age-Old Methods of Sharing God’s Love
Brandon Cox The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World’s Greatest Footrace
Dean Karnazes Secrets of a Secret Shopper: Reaching and Keeping Church Guests
Greg Atkinson Walt Whitman’s Guide to Manly Health & Training
Walt Whitman Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
Les Standiford What Is the Bible? How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
Rob Bell
2016
Achieve What Matters in 2017: 8 Strategies Super-Successful People Are Using Now to Accomplish More Next Year
Michael Hyatt The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
A. J. Baime Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting
Dave Furman Breaking Busy: How to Find Peace and Purpose in a World of Crazy
Alli Worthington The Comeback: It’s Not Too Late and You’re Never Too Far
Louie Giglio LIT: How to Get Your Soul Back
Bryan Ward The Manhattan Project: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Al Cimino Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens Perfect Puppy in 7 Days: How to Start Your Puppy Off Right
Sophia Yin #Struggles: Following Jesus in a Selfie-Centered World
Craig Groeschel This Is Awkward: How Life’s Uncomfortable Moments Open the Door to Intimacy and Connection
Sammy Rhodes Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Tim Ferriss Unshakeable: Two Keys to Live an Unshakeable Life
Craig L. Morris What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
Matt Perman X: The Experience When Business Meets Design
Brian Solis
2015
The Afghan Campaign
Steven Pressfield American Sniper
Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice As Soon As I Fell: A Memoir
Kay Bruner Before Bethlehem
James J. Flerlage The Better Life: Small Things You Can Do Right Where You Are
Claire Diaz-Ortiz Debunking the Myths of Forgive-and-Forget
Kay Bruner The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I Have a Dream” and Other Great Writings (King Legacy)
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Clayborne Carson Excel Date and Time Formulas Self-Taught
Ira Krakow The Gift of Time
Mike Vardy A Gospel Primer for Christians: Learning to See the Glories of God’s Love
Milton Vincent Havana Storm: A Dirk Pitt Adventure
Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler I Feel Like Going On: Life, Game, and Glory
Ray Lewis and Daniel Paisner Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love
Richard Sheridan Like Father, Like Son: How Knowing God as Father Changes Men
Pete Alwinson Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Bob Goff Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Bible: A Fresh Look at What Scripture Teaches
Jay E. Adams Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
Christopher McDougall Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself
Joe Thorn, Foreword by Sam Storms Practical Salesforce.com Development Without Code: Customizing Salesforce on the Force.com Platform
Philip Weinmeister The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
Peter Hitchens Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Rachel Held Evans Thriving in Babylon: Why Hope, Humility, and Wisdom Matter in a Godless Culture
Larry Osborne Vague Direction: A 12,000 mile bicycle ride, and the meaning of life
David Gill What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality?
Kevin DeYoung When Life Is Hard
James MacDonald Your Best Year Yet
Kelly Exeter
2014
This year I read through W.E.B. Griffin’s Presidential Agent book series again as I worked toward his new book in the series.
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho Black Ops (A Presidential Agent Novel, Book 5)
W.E.B. Griffin Bo: Life, Laughs, and Lessons of a College Football Legend
Bo Schembechler and Mitch Albom Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No
Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend By Order of the President (A Presidential Agent Novel, Book 1)
W.E.B. Griffin Comfort Ye My People: The Real World Meets Handel’s Messiah, 26 Readings for Advent
Kay Bruner The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version
Augustine The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy Covert Warriors (A Presidential Agent Novel, Book 7)
W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV DeLorean
John Z. DeLorean and Ted Schwarz Devil’s Gate (The NUMA Files)
Clive Cussler Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
David D. Burns, M.D. The Gospel According to Job: An Honest Look at Pain and Doubt from the Life of One Who Lost Everything
Mike Mason The Gospel’s Power & Message
Paul Washer Hazardous Duty (A Presidential Agent Novel, Book 8)
W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV Heart of the Matter: Reflections for Changing Hearts and Lives
New Growth Press and Nancy B. Winter The Hostage (A Presidential Agent Novel, Book 2)
W.E.B. Griffin How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett The Hunters (A Presidential Agent Novel, Book 3)
W.E.B. Griffin Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
Alfred Burnett The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
Sally Lloyd-Jones Jesus the Evangelist: Leaerning to Share the Gospel From the Book of John
Richard D. Phillips Long Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God
Marty Machowski Mindscape: What to Think About Instead of Worrying
Timothy Z. Witmer My Life and The Story of the Gospel Hymns and of Sacred Songs and Solos
Ira D. Sankey The Outlaws (A Presidential Agent Novel, Book 6)
W.E.B. Griffin The Present Principle: Seven Steps to Life in the Now
Claire Diaz-Ortiz Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp The Runyaker’s Journey
Riley McLincha The Shooters (A Presidential Agent Novel, Book 4)
W.E.B. Griffin Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile
Nate Jackson What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?
David Platt What Is the Gospel?
Greg Gilbert When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
David D. Burns, M.D. Who Stole My Church? What to Do When the Church You Love Tries to Enter the 21st Century
Gordon MacDonald Why Your Meetings Suck: 7 Quick Ways to Improve Your Team’s Morale & Productivity
Chris LoCurto
2013
The Best Obamacare Guide
Don Silver Bringing the Social Media #Revolution to Healthcare
The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War I
Herman Wouk The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle Confessions of a Public Speaker
Scott Berkun Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
Matt Chandler, Josh Patterson, and Eric Geiger A Day at a Time: Daily Readings for Men
Richard A. Halverson Does God Listen to Rap? Christians and the World’s Most Controversial Music
Curtis Allen Dust (Silo Series Book 3)
Hugh Howey The Effective Executive in Action: A Journal for Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello Email Marketing Rules: How to Wear a White Hat, Shoot Straight, and Win Hearts
Chad White Eyewitness to the Old West: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration, Adventure, and Peril
Edited by Richard Scott The Forgotten
David Baldacci The Grieving Sisters (The Encounters with Jesus Series)
Timothy Keller The Hit
David Baldacci How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto
Claire Diaz-Ortiz How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
Mark Cuban How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, & Karen Dillon How Winning Works: 8 Essential Leadership Lessons from the Toughest Teams on Earth
Robyn Benincasa I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzi In The Beginning Was The Word…
Regular Baptist Press The Innocent
David Baldacci The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
Clayton M. Christenson It’s Not About the Tights: An Owner’s Manual on Bravery
Chris Brogan John Calvin’s American Legacy
Thomas J. Davis Let the Great World Spin: A Novel
Colum McCann Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Conor Grennan Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Malantes Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting
Johnny Carr The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria Pushups in the Prayer Room: Reflections from a Year Backpacking Around the World
Norm Schriever The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida, translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell Remote: Office Not Required
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson Salesforce.com Secrets of Success: Best Practices for Growth and Profitability
David Taber Shift (Silo Series Book 2)
Hugh Howey South of Normal: My Year in Paradise
Norm Schriever The Storm
Clive Cussler Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
N.T. Wright That’s a Great Question: What to Say When Your Faith Is Questioned
Glenn Pearson Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Maziar Bahari with Aimee Molloy What the Most Successful People Do at Work: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Career
Laura Vanderkam Wool (Silo Series Book 1)
Hugh Howey
2012
Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry In Your City
Timothy Keller Christians & Politics: Uneasy Partners
Philip Yancey Empire and Honor
W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV The Facial Hair Handbook
Jack Passion Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons
Thabiti M. Anyabwile Fundamental Flaws: Seven Things Independent Fundamental Baptists Get Wrong (and How to Fix Them)
Darrel Dow The Holy Spirit: A Comprehensive Study of the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
John F. Walvoord Honor Bound
W.E.B. Griffin It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It
Craig Groeschel Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
Timothy Keller Moneyball
Michael Lewis Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living
Tsh Oxenreider The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
R.A. Torrey Platform: Get Noticed In a Noisy World
Michael Hyatt Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Susan Cain Retreat Hell!
W.E.B. Griffin Spiritual Probation
Rich Merritt Twitter For Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time
Claire Diaz-Ortiz Under Fire
W.E.B. Griffin Victory and Honor
W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV Which Bible Translation Should I Use: A Comparison of 4 Major Recent Versions
Andreas J. Kostenberger and David A. Crouteau
Earlier
I’ve read a lot of good books, and have tried to keep records of what I read (or I at least still have the book), but I’ve not always been good at keeping track of when I read the book. So this is the list of books that I read before I started tracking the date.
Absolute Power
David Baldacci Accidental Pharisees: Avoiding Pride, Exclusivity, and the Other Dangers of Overzealous Faith
Larry W. Osborne Act of War
Dale Brown The Air I Breathe: Worship as a Way of Life
Louie Giglio Airframe
Michael Crichton Always Looking Up: The Adventure of an Incurable Optimist
Michael J. Fox The Amateur’s Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
Jeremy Silman America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
Frank McCourt Angels and Demons
Dan Brown Animal Farm
George Orwell The Appeal
John Grisham Arctic Drift
Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
George Tenet Atlantis Found
Clive Cussler The Aviators
W.E.B. Griffin The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Dan Roam Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest
Stephen E. Ambrose Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth
Charles C. Ryrie Battleground
W.E.B. Griffin Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar’s Way to Transform Your Dog… and Your Life
Cesar Millan Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
David Sheff Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company — and Revolutionized an Industry
Marc Benioff and Carlyle Adler Behind the Lines
W.E.B. Griffin Bendigo Shafter
Louis L’Amour The Berets
W.E.B. Griffin Beyond the Great Snow Mountains
Louis L’Amour Black Ops
W.E.B. Griffin Black Wind
Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell Blood and Honor
W.E.B. Griffin The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy
Bill Simmons Borden Chantry
Louis L’Amour Bowdrie
Louis L’Amour Bowdrie’s Law
Louis L’Amour Boy’s Passage, Man’s Journey
Brian Molitor Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
Ken Jennings The Brethren
John Grisham Brionne
Louis L’Amour The Broken Gun
Louis L’Amour The Broker
John Grisham Buckskin Run
Louis L’Amour Bulletproof Web Design: Improving Flexibility and Protecting Against Worst-Case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS
Dan Cederholm The Burning Hills
Louis L’Amour By Order of the President
W.E.B. Griffin The Californios
Louis L’Amour The Call of the Wild
Jack London Call To Arms
W.E.B. Griffin Callaghen
Louis L’Amour The Camel Club
David Baldacci The Captains
W.E.B. Griffin Carnegie
Peter Krass Catlow
Louis L’Amour Chancy
Louis L’Amour Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results
Roger Connor Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
John McCain Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White The Chase
Clive Cussler The Cherokee Trail
Louis L’Amour A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens The Christmas Train
David Baldacci Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Stephen E. Ambrose The Client
John Grisham Close Combat
W.E.B. Griffin The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour: The Adventure Stories, Volume 4
Louis L’Amour The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour: The Frontier Collection, Volume 1
Louis L’Amour The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour: The Frontier Collection, Volume 2
Louis L’Amour The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour: The Frontier Collection, Volume 3
Louis L’Amour The Colonels
W.E.B. Griffin Comstock Lode
Louis L’Amour Conagher
Louis L’Amour Congo
Michael Crichton Cornbread and Caviar: Reminiscences and Reflections
Bob Jones, Jr. Corsair
Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas Counterattack
W.E.B. Griffin Covert Warriors
W.E.B. Griffin Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview
Albert M. Wolters and Michael W. Goheen Crossfire Trail
Louis L’Amour D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War I
Stephen E. Ambrose The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown Dark Canyon
Louis L’Amour Dark Watch
Clive Cussler David Copperfield
Charles Dickens The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Rick Atkinson The Daybreakers
Louis L’Amour Death and Honor
W.E.B. Griffin Death By Love: Letters From the Cross
Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears Deep Six
Clive Cussler Designing with Web Standards
Jeffrey Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children
William J. Bennett The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel
Lauren Weisenberger The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank Divine Justice
David Baldacci Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe
Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears The Double Agents
W.E.B. Griffin Down the Long Hills
Louis L’Amour Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Edmund Morris Dutchman’s Flat
Louis L’Amour Education of a Wandering Man
Louis L’Amour Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War I
John W. Dower The Empty Land
Louis L’Amour End of the Drive
Louis L’Amour The Essentials of Prayer
E. M. Bounds Fair Blows the Wind
Louis L’Amour Fallon
Louis L’Amour A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway Farmer Boy
Laura Ingalls Wilder The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien The Ferguson Rifle
Louis L’Amour The Fighting Agents
W.E.B. Griffin Fire Ice
Clive Cussler The Firm
John Grisham The First Fast Draw
Louis L’Amour The First Four Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley with Ron Powers Flint
Louis L’Amour Flood Tide
Clive Cussler For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway From the Listening Hills
Louis L’Amour Frontier
Louis L’Amour Galloway
Louis L’Amour The Generals
W.E.B. Griffin The Glorious Cause
Jeff Shaara Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Ann Coulter Gods and Generals
Jeff Shaara The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
Jay Winik The Green Mile
Stephen King Growing Kids God’s Way: Biblical Ethics for Parenting
Gary and Ann Marie Ezzo Guns of the Timberlands
Louis L’Amour Hanging Woman Creek
Louis L’Amour Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them
John McCain and Mark Salter Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K. Rowling The Haunted Mesa
Louis L’Amour Heller With a Gun
Louis L’Amour The Hiding Place
Corrie Ten Boom The High Graders
Louis L’Amour High Lonesome
Louis L’Amour The Hills of Homicide
Louis L’Amour The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien Hondo
Louis L’Amour Honor Bound
W.E.B. Griffin The Honor of Spies
W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV The Hostage
W.E.B. Griffin Hour Game
David Baldacci How Do We Know the Bible Is True?
Ken Ham and Bodie Hodge How the West Was Won
Louis L’Amour How to Win In the Chess Openings
I.A. Horowitz and Sam Sloan How to Work a Room: Your Essential Guide to Savvy Socializing
Susan RoAne The Hunters
W.E.B. Griffin I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941
Victor Klemperer In Danger’s Path
W.E.B. Griffin In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
Rick Atkinson In the Presence of My Enemies
Gracia Burnham and Dean Merrill Inca Gold
Clive Cussler The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice In a Small Town
John Grisham The Iron Marshal
Louis L’Amour Islam: The Straight Path
John L. Esposito The Jesus I Never Knew
Philip Yancey John Adams
David McCullough Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne Jubal Sackett
Louis L’Amour Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton The Key-Lock Man
Louis L’Amour Kid Rodelo
Louis L’Amour Kilkenny
Louis L’Amour Killoe
Louis L’Amour Kilrone
Louis L’Amour Kiowa Trail
Louis L’Amour Lando
Louis L’Amour The Last Heroes
W.E.B. Griffin The Last Juror
John Grisham Last Man Standing
David Baldacci Last of the Breed
Louis L’Amour The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper Last Stand at Papago Wells
Louis L’Amour Law of the Desert Born
Louis L’Amour Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days
Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye Les Misérables
Victor Hugo Lessons in Chess
Garry Kasparov and the Kasparov Chess Academy The Lieutenants
W.E.B. Griffin Line of Fire
W.E.B. Griffin Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder The Lonely Men
Louis L’Amour Lonely on the Mountain
Louis L’Amour The Lonesome Gods
Louis L’Amour Long Ride Home
Louis L’Amour The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder Lonigan
Louis L’Amour Lose It Fast, Lose It Forever: A 4-Step Permanent Weight Loss Plan from the Most Successful “Biggest Loser” of All Time
Pete Thomas Lost City
Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos The Lost World
Michael Crichton The Majors
W.E.B. Griffin The Man Called Noon
Louis L’Amour The Man from Skibbereen
Louis L’Amour The Man from the Broken Hills
Louis L’Amour The Man In the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
John Grogan MatagordA
Louis L’Amour Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
Morris Kline May There Be a Road
Louis L’Amour Milo Talon
Louis L’Amour Moby Dick
Herman Melville Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
Paul M. Johnson Mojave Crossing
Louis L’Amour Monument Rock
Louis L’Amour The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Robert M. Edsel The Mountain Valley War
Louis L’Amour Mustang Man
Louis L’Amour My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Navigator
Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos Necessity of Prayer
E. M. Bounds The New Breed
W.E.B. Griffin Night
Elie Wiesel Night Over the Solomons
Louis L’Amour North to the Rails
Louis L’Amour Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox
Bill Simmons Off the Mangrove Coast
Louis L’Amour Old Yeller
Fred Gipson Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder Ordering Your Private World
Gordon MacDonald Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
Christopher Corbett The Outlaws
W.E.B. Griffin The Outlaws of Mesquite
Louis L’Amour Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell Over on the Dry Side
Louis L’Amour A Painted House
John Grisham The Parables of Grace
Robert Farrar Capon Parenting: From Surviving to Thriving: Building Healthy Families in a Changing World
Charles R. Swindoll Parents in Pain: Overcoming the Hurt and Frustration of Problem Children
John White Passin’ Through
Louis L’Amour The Pelican Brief
John Grisham Plague Ship
Clive Cussler Playing Chess: Step by Step
Gary Lane The Possibilities of Prayer
E. M. Bounds Power Through Prayer
E. M. Bounds Prayer and Praying Men
E. M. Bounds Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
Philip Yancey The Proving Trail
Louis L’Amour The Purpose of Prayer
E. M. Bounds The Purpose-Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For?
Rick Warren The Quick and the Dead
Louis L’Amour Radigan
Louis L’Amour The Rainmaker
John Grisham Raise the Titanic!
Clive Cussler The Reality of Prayer
E. M. Bounds Reilly’s Luck
Louis L’Amour Revelation
H. A. Ironside Revolutionary Parenting: Raising Your Kids to Become Spiritual Champions
George Barna Ride the Dark Trail
Louis L’Amour Ride the River
Louis L’Amour The Rider of Lost Creek
Louis L’Amour The Rider of the Ruby Hills
Louis L’Amour The Riders of High Rock Louis L’Amour Riding for the Brand
Louis L’Amour Rise to Rebellion: A Novel for the American Revolution
Jeff Shaara Rising Sun
Michael Crichton Rivers West
Louis L’Amour The Road Ahead
Bill Gates The Runaway Jury
John Grisham The Rustlers of West Fork
Louis L’Amour The Saboteurs
W.E.B. Griffin Sackett
Louis L’Amour The Sackett Brand
Louis L’Amour The Sackett Companion
Louis L’Amour Sackett’s Land
Louis L’Amour SaharA
Clive Cussler Saving Faith
David Baldacci A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel
Steve Brown Schindler’s List
Thomas Keneally Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
David Michaelis The Sea Hunters
Clive Cussler Secret Honor
W.E.B. Griffin The Secret Warriors
W.E.B. Griffin Semper F
W.E.B. Griffin Serpent
Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos The Shack
William P. Young The Shadow Riders
Louis L’Amour Shalako
Louis L’Amour Shepherding a Child’s Heart
Tedd Tripp Shock Wave
Clive Cussler The Shooters
W.E.B. Griffin Showdown at Yellow Butte
Louis L’Amour Silver Canyon
Louis L’Amour Simple Genius
David Baldacci SitkA
Louis L’Amour Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Michael B. Oren The Sky-Liners
Louis L’Amour Sky Masters
Dale Brown Smoke from This Altar
Louis L’Amour The Soldier Spies
W.E.B. Griffin Son of a Wanted Man
Louis L’Amour Spartan Gold
Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood Special Ops
W.E.B. Griffin The Spymasters
W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV Stone Cold
David Baldacci
The Strong Shall Live
Louis L’Amour The Summons
John Grisham The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
John F. Harris The Swiss Family Robinson, or Adventures on a Desert Island
Jean Rudolph Wyss Taggart
Louis L’Amour A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens The Tall Stranger
Louis L’Amour Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin Terminal Man
Michael Crichton The Testament
John Grisham A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas A Time to Kill
John Grisham Time Traps: Proven Strategies for Swamped Sales People
Todd Duncan The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian
Stephen E. Ambrose To the Far Blue Mountains
Louis L’Amour To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War
Jeff Shaara
To Tame a Land
Louis L’Amour The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
Dave Ramsey A Trail of Memories: The Quotations of Louis L’Amour
Louis L’Amour and Angelique L’Amour Trail to Crazy Man
Louis L’Amour The Trail to Seven Pines
Louis L’Amour Transfer of Power
Vince Flynn Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Mountain
Louis L’Amour Trojan Odyssey
Clive Cussler Trouble Shooter
Louis L’Amour Tucker
Louis L’Amour Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien Under Fire
W.E.B. Griffin Under Fire: An American Story
Oliver L. North with William Novak Under the Sweetwater Rim
Louis L’Amour Understanding the Koran: A Quick Christian Guide to the Muslim Holy Book
Mateen Elass Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures
Dan Roam Utah Blaine
Louis L’Amour Valhalla Rising
Clive Cussler Valley of the Sun
Louis L’Amour Victory and Honor
W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV The Walking Drum
Louis L’Amour War Party
Louis L’Amour The Warrior’s Path
Louis L’Amour The Weapon of Prayer
E. M. Bounds Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook
Dan Cederholm West from Singapore Louis L’Amour West of Dodge
Louis L’Amour Westward the Tide
Louis L’Amour What’s So Amazing About Grace?
Philip Yancey Where Are They Buried: How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy
Tod Benoit Where the Long Grass Blows
Louis L’Amour White Death
Clive Cussler White Fang
Jack London The Whole Truth
David Baldacci The Winner
David Baldacci Winning Chess Brilliancies
Yasser Seirawan Winning Chess Openings
Yasser Seirawan Winning Chess Strategies
Yasser Seirawan Wish You Well
David Baldacci The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman Worship in Spirit and Truth
John M. Frame Yondering
Louis L’Amour 1776
David G. McCullough 1984
George Orwell The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Timothy Ferriss The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)
Timothy Ferriss The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
Gary Chapman
- Books are listed by the year in which I read them, then alphabetically by title.
- I read a lot of different styles and genres for a lot of different reasons.
- The fact that a book is included in this list does not necessarily mean I’m endorsing it for other people to read.
- Hat tip to Louis L’Amour for first showing me the value of keeping track of what I read.