Saturday, December 29, 2018

The Books I Read in 2018




This year I gave myself a minor project of listing every book I read in 2018. As a voluminous reader I was curious about how many books I read in a given year - apparently about 126. Here is the list:

Vasily Aksenov (The Steel Bird)

Nathan Barnes (Read 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women)

Matthew W. Bates (Salvation by Allegiance Alone)

Richard Bauckham (God Crucified)

Alan Bennett (The Madness of King George)

Harold Bloom (Bloom’s Notes: Animal Farm; Bloom’s Notes: 1984)

Robert McAfee Brown (Liberation Theology)

Christopher R. Browning (Ordinary Men)

Walter Brueggeman (A Way Other Than Our Own)

William F. Buckley Jr. (Saving the Queen)

Wade Burleson (Hardball Religion; Fraudulent Authority)

Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-glass)

Iris Chang (The Rape of Nanking)

Oscar Cullman (Baptism in the New Testament)

Will Eisner (A Contract with God)

T. S. Eliot (Coriolan; The Waste Land)

Kenneth Grahame (The Wind and the Willows)

Jennifer Grant and Cathleen Falsani, eds. (Disquiet Time)

Graham Greene (The Power and the Glory)

Donald Hagner (Hebrews [NIBC])

Megan D. Harding (The Fallen Series: Book I, Fallen)

Richard B. Hayes (Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul)

Herge (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; Secret of the Unicorn; Red Rackham’s Treasure; The Seven Crystal Balls; Prisoners of the Sun; Land of Black Gold; Destination Moon; Explorers on the Moon; The Calculus Affair; The Red Sea Sharks; Tintin in Tibet; The Castafiore Emerald; Flight 714 to Sydney; Tintin and the Picaros)

George Herriman (Krazy Kat & Ignatz: A Ragout of Raspberries, 1941-1942)

Irenaeus (Against Heresies; Fragments)

Aubrey Johnson (The Vitality of the Individual in the Thought of Ancient Israel; The One and the Many in the Israelite Conception of God)

Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird)

Robert Lawson (Ben and Me)

Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Silver Chair)

Thomas Mann (Royal Highness)

Florentino Garcia Marquez (The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated)

Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics)

John L. McKenzie (Second Isaiah [The Anchor Bible Commentary])

J.J. Mearsheimer (The Tragedy of Great Power Politics)

Frank Miller (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns)

A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

Jürgen Moltmann (Theology of Hope)

Alan Moore (From Hell)

John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey; Rumpole for the Defense; Rumpole and the Age of Miracles; Rumpole’s Last Case; Rumpole and the Golden Thread; Rumpole Rests His Case; Rumpole and the Angel of Death; Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders)

Elmer Mould (Essentials of Bible History)

Mary Norton (The Magic Bed-knob; Bonfires and Broomsticks)

Michael Palin (Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years; Diaries 1980-1988: Halfway to Hollywood)

Jordan Peterson (Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief; 12 Rules for Life)

David Platt (Radical)

Marvin H. Pope (Job [Anchor Bible Commentary])

Karen Swallow Prior (On Reading Well [Advanced Copy])

A.T. Robertson (Word Pictures in the New Testament, Vols. IV-V)

H. Wheeler Robinson (Corporate Personality in Ancient Israel)

Don Rosa (The Don Rosa Collection, Vols. 1-10)

Georges Simenon (Monsieur Monde Vanishes)

Sang-Won Aaron Son (Corporate Elements in Pauline Theology)

Ed Stetzer (Christians in the Age of Outrage)

Tom Stoppard (Every Boy Deserves Favor; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; The Invention of Love; Shakespeare in Love; Parade’s End)

Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels, Book III)

Terry Teykl (Divine Strongholds)

Dylan Thomas (Under Milk Wood)

Bill Watterson (The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes; The Essential Calvin and Hobbes; The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes; Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons; The Days are Just Packed; Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat; There’s Treasure Everywhere; It’s a Magical World)

Walter Wink (The Powers that Be)

Ben Witherington III (The Jesus Quest)

P.G. Wodehouse (Leave It to Psmith)

Miroslav Volf (Exclusion and Embrace)

N.T. Wright (Hebrews; The Challenge of Jesus; The Last Word; Justification; What Saint Paul Really Said; The Day the Revolution Began; Paul: A Biography)


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