The Books I Read in 2019

Here is the list of books I read in 2019 (about 175). My top ten are listed at the bottom, including my favorite of the year.



Elizabeth Alves (Becoming a Prayer Warrior)

R. Glenn Ball and Darrell Puls (Let Us Prey: The Plague of Narcissist Pastors and What We Can Do About It)

Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)

Stan and Jan Berenstain (The Big Honey Hunt)

Hendrik Berkhof (Christ and the Powers)

Ernest Best (I Peter [The New Century Bible Commentary])

Michael F. Bird (What Christians Ought to Believe; Jesus is the Christ; Bourgeois Babes, Bossy Wives, and Bobby Haircuts: A Case for Gender Equality in Ministry; Introducing Paul)

Michael F. Bird and Scott Harrower (Trinity Without Hierarchy)

Ben C. Blackwell, ed. (Reading Mark in Context)

Christopher Lee Bolt (The World in His Hands)

Daniel Bosch (Transforming Mission)

Robert Browning (The Ring and the Book)

Mikhail Bulgakov (The Days of the Turbins; Zoya’s Apartment; Flight; The Crimson Island; A Cabal of Hypocrites)

Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)

G.B. Caird (Principalities and Powers; The Language and Imagery of the Bible)

Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking-glass; The Hunting of the Snark)

Eric H. Cline (1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed)

Travis Collins (What Does It Mean to Be Welcoming?)

Peter C. Craigie (The Twelve Prophets, Volume I)

Matthew B. Crawford (Shop Class as Soulcraft)

Rod Dreher (The Benedict Option)

Umberto Eco (The Island of the Day Before)

John Elderedge (Wild at Heart)

E. Earle Ellis (The Making of the New Testament Documents)

Rachel Held Evans (Faith Unraveled)

Joseph A. Fitzmyer (The Gospel According to Luke I-IX, X-XXIV)

J. Massyngberde Ford (Revelation [ABC])

Theodor Seuss Geisel (Oh, the Thinks You Can Think; Wacky Wednesday)

Ernest Gellner (Nations and Nationalism)

Kevin Giles (The Rise and Fall of Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity)

Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)

Jonah Goldberg (Suicide of the West)

William Golding (Pincher Martin)

The Gospel of Bartholomew

Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in the Willows)

J.R. Graves (The Trilemma; Old Landmarkism, What Is It?)

Joel Gregory (Too Great a Temptation)

Donald Hagner (Hebrews [NIBC])

Mark Hall (Your Own Jesus)

Daniel Hannan (The New Road to Serfdom)

Michael S. Heiser (The Unseen Realm)

Hergé (The Broken Ear; The Black Island; King Ottokar's Sceptre; The Crab with the Golden Claws; The Shooting Star; The Secret of the Unicorn; Red Rackham’s Treasure; The Seven Crystal Balls; Prisoners of the Sun; Land of Black Gold; Destination Moon; The Calculus Affair; The Red Sea Sharks; Tintin in Tibet; The Castafiore Emerald; Flight 714 to Sydney; Tintin and the Picaros)

Rob James (The Takeover in the Southern Baptist Convention)

Alejandro Jodorwsky and Jean Giraud (The Incal)

Dorothy M. Johnson (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)

Terry Jones and Michael Palin (Dr. Fegg’s Encyclopedia of All World Knowledge)

James Joyce (Finnegans Wake)

Jubilees (book)

Stephen and Alex Kendrick (The Battle Plan for Prayer)

Soren Kierkegaard (Training in Christianity)

Robert Kraske (Harry Houdini: Master of Magic)

Halldór Laxness (The Fish Can Sing)

Elaine Lee (Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny, Volumes I-IV),

Letter of Aristeas (book)

Maurice Lever (Beaumarchais)

C. S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Magician’s Realm; The Horse and His Boy; The Last Battle)

Jeremy Lloyd (The Are You Being Served Stories)

John Locke (The Reasonableness of Christianity)

Hugh Lofting (The Story of Doctor Dolittle)

Brennan Manning (The Wisdom of Tenderness; Abba’s Child; The Ragamuffin Gospel)

Betty McDonald (The Egg and I)

Alister E. McGrath (Mere Discipleship)

Scot McKnight (Living the Jesus Creed; The King Jesus Gospel; Reading Romans Backwards)

Brian McLaren (A Generous Orthodoxy)

David Merveille (Hello, Mr. Hulot)

A.A. Milne (The House at Pooh Corner)

Jürgen Moltmann (Theology of Hope)

Dale Moody (The Letters of John; Apostasy; Christ and the Church; Romans [BBC])

Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Daytripper)

Leon Morris (1, 2 Thessalonians)

Clinton D. Morrison (The Powers that Be)

David Murrow (Why Men Hate Going to Church)

H. Richard Niebuhr (Christ and Culture)

John O’Sullivan (The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister)

Michael Palin (Traveling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998)

Boris Pasternak (My Sister, Life; Doctor Zhivago; Blind Beauty)

David Petersen (Mouse Guard: Fall 1152)

Jordan Peterson (Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief)

Pseudo-Dionysius (The Mystical Theology)

Matt Rawle (What Makes a Hero?)

Don Rosa (The Don Rosa Collection, Vol. 10)

Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo: Book One; Usagi Yojimbo: Glimpses of Death; Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai; Usagi Yojimbo: Senso)

E. P. Sanders (Paul)

Simon Schama (Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution)

William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

Ralph L. Smith (Amos [Broadman Bible Commentary])

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (August 1914)

Andy Stanley and Reggie Joiner (Parental Guidance Required)

Ed Stetzer and Eric Geiger (Transformational Groups)

Dave Stevens (The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures)

John Stott (The Cross of Christ)

Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; The Hard Problem; The Boundary; Anna Karenina)

Thomas H. Strohl (Ryan the Kind Rhinoceros)

J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit [The Annotated Edition (by Douglas A. Anderson)]; The Fellowship of the Ring)

W.A. Visser 't Hooft (The Kingship of Christ)

Miroslav Volf and Matthew Croasmun (For the Life of the World)

Mark Waid and Chris Samnee (The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom)

Derek Walcott (The Bounty; The Prodigal)

O.C.S. Wallace (What Baptists Believe)

W.R. White (Baptist Distinctives)

Keith S. Whitfield, ed. (Trinitarian Theology)

Walter Wink (Transforming Bible Study; When the Powers Fall)

Adam Winn (Reading Mark’s Christology Under Caesar)

Ben Witherington III (The Paul Quest; Women in the Earliest Churches)

N. T. Wright (The Climax of the Covenant; The Letter to the Romans [The New Interpreter’s Bible Commentary]; 1 & 2 Peter and Jude; Galatians; Galatians and Thessalonians; Justification; Romans; The Case for the Psalms; Paul in Fresh Perspective; Evil and the Justice of God; Spiritual and Religious; The Original Jesus)

N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird (The New Testament You Never Knew)

Malcolm Yarnell (Who is the Holy Spirit?)

John Howard Yoder (The Politics of Jesus)

Marguerite Yourcenar (Memoirs of Hadrian)

TOP TEN

1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric H. Cline

Christ and the Powers, by Hendrik Berkhof

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, by Simon Schama

The Climax of the Covenant, by N. T. Wright

Daytripper, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá

Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak

The Hard Problem, by Tom Stoppard

The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister, by John O’Sullivan

Principalities and Powers, by G.B. Caird

The Rise and Fall of Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity, by Kevin Giles

FAVORITE BOOK OF 2019

Christ and the Powers, by Hendrik Berkhof

Here is the list of books I read in 2019 (about 175). My top ten are included at the bottom, including my favorite of the year.