2012 Books

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

1. All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy (1992) // Print
2. Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer – Maureen Ogle (2007) // Print
3. The Book of the Dun Cow – Walter Wangerin (2003) // Print
   
4. A Boy’s Will – Robert Frost (1913) // Kindle
5. The Call to Wonder: Loving God Like a Child – R.C. Sproul, Jr. (2012) // Print
6. Christians are Hate-filled Hypocrites, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told – Bradley R.E. Wright (2010) // Print
7. Clouds of Witness – Dorothy Sayers (1926) // Kindle
8. Contending for Our All: Defending Truth and Treasuring Christ in the Lives of Athanasius, Owen, and Machen – John Piper (2006) // Kindle
9. The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought – Marilynne Robinson (2005) // Print
10. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy (1886) // Print
11. The Dragon’s Tooth – N.D. Wilson (2011) // Print
12. The Drowned Vault – N.D. Wilson (2012) // Print
13. Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families – Doug Wilson (2012) // Print
14. Finally Alive – John Piper (2009) // Audio
15. The Four: A Survey of the Gospels – Peter Leithart (2010) // Print
16. The Glory of Christ – John Owen (1684) // Kindle
17. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners – John Bunyan (1666) // Kindle
18. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (1861) // Kindle
19. Growing Up Amish: A Memoir– Ira Wagler (2011) // Print
20. Hire on a Whim: Four Qualities that Make for Great Employees – Garrett Miller (2010) // Print
21. Hired ‘Right’ Out of College: From Classes to Career – Garrett Miller (2012) // Print
22. History and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History – Carl Trueman (2010) // Kindle
23. History of the World in 6 Glasses – Tom Standage (2006) // Kindle
24. The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap Between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness – Kevin DeYoung (2012) // Print
25. The Intolerance of Tolerance – D.A. Carson (2012) // Print
26. Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry (2001) // Print
27. Jesus Loves the Little Children: Why We Baptize Children – Daniel Hyde (2012) // Print
28. Joy in the Morning – P.G. Wodehouse (1946) // Print
29. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman (1855) // Kindle
30. Lifted: Experiencing the Resurrection Life – Sam Allberry (2012) // Print
31. The Longer Poems: Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, Waste Land – T.S. Eliot (various) // Print
32. The Man Who Knew Too Much – G.K. Chesterton (1922) // Kindle
    
33. The Masculine Mandate: God’s Calling to Men – Richard Phillips (2009) // Print
34. More: The Vanishing of Scale in an Over-the-Top Nation – Ronald Bishop (2011) // Print
35. Mystery of the Lord’s Supper – Robert Bruce (1589) // Kindle
36. The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement – Jean Twenge & Keith Campbell (2009) // Print
37. Odes to Common Things – Pablo Neruda (1994) // Print
38. Odes to Opposites – Pablo Neruda (1995) // Print
39. On the Incarnation of the Word – Saint Athanasius (~350) // Kindle
40. Paradise Lost – John Milton (1667) // Print
41. Parenting by God’s Promises: How to Raise Children in the Covenant of Grace – Joel Beeke (2011) // Print
42. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One – Emily Dickinson (1896) // Kindle
43. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) // Kindle
44. Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports are Played and Games are Won – Tobias Moskowitz & L. John Wertheim (2011) // Print
45. The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis (1942) // Audio
46. A Shot of Faith (To the Head): Be a Confident Believer in an Age of Cranky Atheists) – Mitch Stokes (2012) // Print
    
47. Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters – N.T. Wright (2011) // Print
48. Singing and Making Music: Issues in Church Music Today – Paul S. Jones (2006) // Print.
49. Standing on the Promises: A Handbook of Biblical Childrearing – Doug Wilson (1997) // Print
50. The Three Forms of Unity: Belgic Confession, Canons of Dort, Heidelberg Catechism – various (various) // Various.
51. Walden – Henry David Thoreau (1854) // Print
52. Welcome to a Reformed Church: A Guide for Pilgrims – Daniel Hyde (2010) // Print
53. 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