I finished 53 books in 2012, a new record. After the list you can find some brief statistical analysis of the books. The list is arranged as follows: #. Title – Author (Year) // Format
- All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy (1992) // Print
- Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer – Maureen Ogle (2007) // Print
- The Book of the Dun Cow – Walter Wangerin (2003) // Print
- A Boy’s Will – Robert Frost (1913) // Kindle
- The Call to Wonder: Loving God Like a Child – R.C. Sproul, Jr. (2012) // Print
- Christians are Hate-filled Hypocrites, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told – Bradley R.E. Wright (2010) // Print
- Clouds of Witness – Dorothy Sayers (1926) // Kindle
- Contending for Our All: Defending Truth and Treasuring Christ in the Lives of Athanasius, Owen, and Machen – John Piper (2006) // Kindle
- The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought – Marilynne Robinson (2005) // Print
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy (1886) // Print
- The Dragon’s Tooth – N.D. Wilson (2011) // Print
- The Drowned Vault – N.D. Wilson (2012) // Print
- Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families – Doug Wilson (2012) // Print
- Finally Alive – John Piper (2009) // Audio
- The Four: A Survey of the Gospels – Peter Leithart (2010) // Print
- The Glory of Christ – John Owen (1684) // Kindle
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – John Bunyan (1666) // Kindle
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (1861) // Kindle
- Growing Up Amish: A Memoir– Ira Wagler (2011) // Print
- Hire on a Whim: Four Qualities that Make for Great Employees – Garrett Miller (2010) // Print
- Hired ‘Right’ Out of College: From Classes to Career – Garrett Miller (2012) // Print
- History and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History – Carl Trueman (2010) // Kindle
- History of the World in 6 Glasses – Tom Standage (2006) // Kindle
- The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap Between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness – Kevin DeYoung (2012) // Print
- The Intolerance of Tolerance – D.A. Carson (2012) // Print
- Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry (2001) // Print
- Jesus Loves the Little Children: Why We Baptize Children – Daniel Hyde (2012) // Print
- Joy in the Morning – P.G. Wodehouse (1946) // Print
- Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman (1855) // Kindle
- Lifted: Experiencing the Resurrection Life – Sam Allberry (2012) // Print
- The Longer Poems: Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, Waste Land – T.S. Eliot (various) // Print
- The Man Who Knew Too Much – G.K. Chesterton (1922) // Kindle
- The Masculine Mandate: God’s Calling to Men – Richard Phillips (2009) // Print
- More: The Vanishing of Scale in an Over-the-Top Nation – Ronald Bishop (2011) // Print
- Mystery of the Lord’s Supper – Robert Bruce (1589) // Kindle
- The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement – Jean Twenge & Keith Campbell (2009) // Print
- Odes to Common Things – Pablo Neruda (1994) // Print
- Odes to Opposites – Pablo Neruda (1995) // Print
- On the Incarnation of the Word – Saint Athanasius (~350) // Kindle
- Paradise Lost – John Milton (1667) // Print
- Parenting by God’s Promises: How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace – Joel Beeke (2011) // Print
- Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One – Emily Dickinson (1896) // Kindle
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) // Kindle
- Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports are Played and Games are Won – Tobias Moskowitz & L. John Wertheim (2011) // Print
- The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis (1942) // Audio
- A Shot of Faith (To the Head): Be a Confident Believer in an Age of Cranky Atheists) – Mitch Stokes (2012) // Print
- Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters – N.T. Wright (2011) // Print
- Singing and Making Music: Issues in Church Music Today – Paul S. Jones (2006) // Print.
- Standing on the Promises: A Handbook of Biblical Childrearing – Doug Wilson (1997) // Print
- The Three Forms of Unity: Belgic Confession, Canons of Dort, Heidelberg Catechism – various (various) // Various.
- Walden – Henry David Thoreau (1854) // Print
- Welcome to a Reformed Church: A Guide for Pilgrims – Daniel Hyde (2010) // Print
- What Did You Expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage – Paul David Tripp (2010) // Print
Books by year:
0-1799: 6
1800-1899: 6
1900-1999: 10
2001-2012: 31 (9 in 2012)
Books by genre:
Biography: 3
Classic theology: 4
Essays: 1
Fiction: 11
Marriage & family: 5
Modern theology: 12
Other nonfiction: 10
Poetry: 7
Books by format:
Audio: 2
Kindle: 14
Print: 37
Top authors:
Daniel Hyde: 2
Garrett Miller: 2
Pablo Neruda: 2
John Piper: 2
Doug Wilson: 2
N.D. Wilson: 2
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Impressive list! As I said on your elder brother's recent post, I appreciate this labor of love on your part: I mine these lists each January for recommendations from reliable sources. Speaking of which: how difficult/worthwhile was Athanasius' work on the incarnation?
Aron, if one person gets one recommendation, the list is worth it! Though it would still be worth it otherwise, since it's for my own record keeping benefit as well. Athanasius was not as difficult as I expected, and it was very much worthwhile. Make sure you get the edition with the Lewis introduction. As he writes in the introduction, reading the original sources (like Athanasius) rather than reading about the original source (like someone writing about Athanasius' work) is often easier and more enjoyable. I think the Kindle version is only 99 cents if you're so inclined…