The Books I Read in 2020

Here is the list of the books I read in 2020. My top ten at the bottom, including my favorite of the year.

 

Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency)
 
Ben Agger (Critical Social Theories)
 
Dale Allison (Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet)
 
Gustav Aulen (Christus Victor)
 
C. K. Barrett (From First Adam to Last)
 
Matthew W. Bates (Gospel Allegiance)
 
Richard Bauckham (Jesus and the Eyewitnesses; God Crucified; The Bible in the Contemporary World)
 
Hendrik Berkhof (Christ and the Powers)
 
Julius A. Bewer (The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Volume One: Amos, Hosea and Micah)
 
Rachel Billups (Be Bold)
 
Joseph Blenkinsopp (Isaiah 40-55 [ABC])
 
Robert Browning (The Ring and the Book)
 
F. F. Bruce (1 and 2 Corinthians)
 
G.B. Caird (Principalities and Powers)
 
Andrew Cartmel, et al (Evening's Empire)
 
Joel Comiskey (How to Be a Great Cell Group Coach; How to Be a Great Small Group Meeting)
 
James H. Cone (The Cross and the Lynching Tree)
 
Eleanor Davis (How to be Happy)
 
Kate DiCamillo (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane)
 
Terrance Dicks (The Pyramids of Mars; The Planet of Spiders; Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius)
 
Russell H. Dilday (Columns: Glimpses of a Seminary Under Assault)
 
Walt Disney (The Story of Mary Poppins)
 
James Draper (Authority: The Critical Issue for Southern Baptists)
 
Walther Eichrodt (Man in the Old Testament)
 
Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan Vol. 1, Back on the Street)
 
Millard Erickson (Who’s Tampering with the Trinity?)
 
Tony Evans (Oneness Embraced)
 
Emil Ferris (My Favorite Thing is Monsters)
 
David Fisher (Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit)
 
Jean De Fraine (Adam and the Family of Man; The Bible and the Origin of Man)
 
Greg Gilbert (What Is the Gospel?)
 
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (The Wicked + the Divine: The Faust Act)
 
René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (Asterix the Gaul)
 
Isabel Greenberg (The Encyclopedia of Early Earth)
 
 
F.A. Hayek (The Road to Serfdom)
 
Michael S. Heiser (Angels)
 
Hergé (Tintin in America; Cigars of the Pharaoh; The Blue Lotus; 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)
 
Daniel Hill (White Awake)
 
Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft)
 
Graham Joseph Hill (Holding Up Half the Sky)
 
Tom Holland (Dominion)
 
Morna D. Hooker (From Adam to Christ)
 
Bengt Holmberg (Paul and Power)
 
Reggie Joiner and Tom Shefchunas (Lead Small)
 
Aubrey R. Johnson (The Vitality of the Individual in the Thought of Ancient Israel; The One and the Many in the Israelite Conception of God)
 
Crockett Johnson (Harold and the Purple Crayon)
 
William Johnston (Gilligan’s Island)
 
Reggie Joiner (Lead Small)
 
James Joyce (Finnegans Wake)
 
Norman Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)
 
George W. Knight III (The Role Relation of Man and Woman and the Teaching/Ruling Functions in the Church)
 
Karoline Leach (In the Shadow of the Dreamchild)
 
Jeremy Lloyd (The Are You Being Served Stories)
 
Eric Mason (Woke Church)
 
Thomas H. McAlpine (Facing the Powers)
 
Leon McBeth (Strange New Religions)
 
Gillen McKelvie and Wilson Cowles (The Wicked and the Divine: The Faust Act)
 
Richard McGuire (Here)
 
Carol L. Meyers and Eric M. Meyers (Haggai, Zechariah 1-8)
 
Rachel Green Miller (Beyond Authority and Submission)
 
Dale Moody (Spirit of the Living God; The Hope of Glory; The Word of Truth)
 
Alan Moore and Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke)
 
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Watchmen)
 
Alan Moore, et al. (Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book One; The League of Extraordinary Gentleman)
 
Leon Morris (1 and 2 Thessalonians)
 
Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (All Star Superman)
 
Stephen Charles Mott (Biblical Ethics and Social Change)
 
C.F.D. Moule (The Origins of Christology)
 
John P. Newport (Demons, Demons, Demons)
 
Jonathan Pennington (Reading the Gospels Wisely)
 
John M. Perkins (One Blood)
 
Norman Perrin (Rediscovering the Teaching of Jesus)
 
Peyo (The Purple Smurfs)
 
Nigel Planer and Terence Blacker (Neil’s Book of the Dead)
 
Thom S. Rainer (Breakout Churches)
 
H. Wheeler Robinson (Corporate Personality in Ancient Israel)
 
John A.T. Robinson (The Body: A Study in Pauline Theology)
 
J.W. Rogerson (Anthropology and the Old Testament)
 
Rosemary Ruether (Liberation Theology)
 
Gordon Rupp (Principalities and Powers)
 
Fred Sanders and Scott Swain, eds. (Retrieving Eternal Generation)
 
Richard Scarry (All Day Long)
 
Heinrich Schlier (Principalities and Powers in the New Testament)
 
Charles M. Schulz (The Complete Peanuts: 1963 to 1964)
 
Bill Search (The Essential Guide for Small Groups)
 
Mike Slaughter (Renegade Gospel; The Passionate Church)
 
Donald J. Sobol (Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective)
 
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (August 1914)
 
Evelyn and Frank Stagg (Woman in the World of Jesus)
 
Frank Stagg (The Holy Spirit Today)
 
Frank Stagg, et al (Glossolalia)
 
Ed Stetzer and Andrew McDonald (Christians at Our Best)
 
Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; The Real Inspector Hound; After Magritte; Jumpers; Dirty Linen and New Foundland; Hapgood; Arcadia)
 
William Stringfellow (Free in Obedience; An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land)
 
Albert H. van den Heuvel (These Rebellious Powers)
 
Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth)
 
Amos Wilder (Otherworldliness and the New Testament)
 
Walter Wink (Unmasking the Powers)

B. Wiseman (Morris Goes to School)

Ben Witherington III (Women in the Earliest Churches)

Paul Woodruff (Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature)

N.T. Wright (Lent for Everyone: Mark; History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology; The Day the Revolution Began; The Challenge of Jesus; God and the Pandemic; Colossians and Philemon [TNTC]; Interpreting Jesus)

 

 

 

Top Ten

Richard Bauckham (Jesus and the Eyewitnesses)
 
Russell H. Dilday (Columns: Glimpses of a Seminary Under Assault)
 
Jean De Fraine (Adam and the Family of Man)
 
Norman Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)

Karoline Leach (In the Shadow of the Dreamchild)
 
Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (All Star Superman)
 
Stephen Charles Mott (Biblical Ethics and Social Change)
 
John A.T. Robinson (The Body: A Study in Pauline Theology)
 
Heinrich Schlier (Principalities and Powers in the New Testament)
 
William Stringfellow (Free in Obedience)

 

 

My favorite book of fiction was The Phantom Tollbooth. My favorite book of nonfiction, The Body: A Study in Pauline Theology.