Unfortunately I had a substantial downtick in total books read, but I think that is primarily because I tackled some lengthy works this year. I totaled 37 books this year, down 13 from the year before.
January
The Last Druid – Terry Brooks
Leadership is Language – L. David
Marquet
The
First Part of King Henry the Fourth
– William Shakespeare
Early
Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History – J.N. Postgate
February
The
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey – Candice Millard
Dragon Wing – Margaret
Weiss & Tracy Hickman
March
20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea
– Jules Verne
April
The Count of
Monte Cristo
– Alexandre Dumas
Reflections of a
Scientist
– Henry Eyring
The Book of
Mormon
– Various
Ender’s Shadow – Orson Scott
Card
May
A History of
Ancient Egypt
– Marc Van De Mieroop
The Doctrine and
Covenants
– Various
June
Elven Star – Margaret
Weiss and Tracy Hickman
The Power and
the Glory
– Graham Greene
The Complete Far
Side, Volume 1
– Gary Larsen
The Johnstown
Flood
– David McCoullough
The Pearl of
Great Price -
Various
July
Destiny of the
Republic
– Candice Millard
The Second Part
of King Henry the Fourth – William Shakespeare
Shadow of the
Hegemon
– Orson Scott Card
The Sacred
Geography of the American Mound Builders – Maureen Korp
August
Fire Sea – Margaret
Weiss and Tracy Hickman
Summer – Edith Wharton
The Complete Far
Side, Volume 2
– Gary Larsen
A Brief History
of the Dynasties of China – Bamber Gascoigne
September
Shadow Puppets – Orson Scott
Card
Apocalypse
Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All – Michael
Shellenberger
The Book of
Mormon –
Various
Serpent Mage – Margaret
Weiss and Tracy Hickman
October
None.
November
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
The Complete Far
Side, Volume 3
– Gary Larson
The Coddling of the American Mind: How
Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Greg
Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
December
Shadow of the
Giant
– Orson Scott Card
The
Revolutionary Samuel Adams – Stacy Schiff
The Book of
Mormon
– Various
The Hands of
Chaos
– Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
My thoughts—particularly about a couple of projects I
have long put off and am finally getting to, reading the Death Gate
series by Weiss and Hickman and the Ender’s Shadow series by Card. I’m not finished with either, but they are
fantastic. Really enjoying them.
I think that every American should read Apocalypse
Never and The Coddling of the American Mind. Important books on tough issues that I think
illustrate that we are not so disparate as social media and current popular
culture would lead us to think. The
former is particularly interesting to me because the author and I could not be
more different in background and outlook, and yet have come to the same
conclusions. Perhaps it is just bias
confirmation. The book will also always have
a soft spot for me as the last book Dan recommended to me before he passed away;
he knew that I would like it and he was right.
My rereads and history books did not disappoint. It was in a lot of ways a very satisfying
year as I can’t point to a book that I loathed like I have in years past. Probably my least favorite was Summer,
although I think it is elegantly written.
Here’s to a year getting closer to the goal of 52!
Hey, Friend, how’s it going?
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