Reading List 2021
A list of every book I read last year.
My first post of each new year always contains the list of books I read the previous year (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020). I post the list for personal accountability, not to showboat. Knowing I have to confess my list helps me stay on track.
The total this year comes to 93 books. You can see from glancing at the graphs below how the tonnage relates to other years. I’d love to include a massive, annotated write-up about my discoveries, but this year I think I’ll let my “no comment” be the comment. It just takes too much time to write a post like that.
If I were to comment, I’d tell you I read every Fredrik Backman book and his darker books tended to be too dark for me but I simultaneously seemed to like them better than the lighter ones.
And I’d tell you that I read about four or five books in 2021 from author-friends that will be published by traditional publishers in 2022. It’s always fun to root for friends. I even wrote the forward for a book coming out in May with Christian Focus.
I’d also tell you that in these annual posts I often flag that I attempt to read the Bible cover to cover each year. I made it again this year and did it in The Message version. I know, I know—gasp. The reasons for this shift were several, but riding the cultural fad wasn’t one of them. I missed it by like fifteen years. The Message version of the Old Testament historical books and prophets sang melodies I’d never noticed before—in a good way—but places like the Psalms and other poetry had too many pop cliches, in my opinion. This year I’m going back to my ESV Study Bible, with the goal of reading the “book introductions” as I go along.
Okay, okay, I have to stop with all the comments. Just call me on the phone if you want to talk about them.
Here’s one update that might interest you and has little to do with reading lists. Now that I finished writing and submitting several articles this fall and winter to other websites, I’m returning to a book project I began last summer on my sabbatical. I’m calling the book Author as Abram: Writing to the Land He Will Show Us (A Memoirish Essay to Encourage Christian Authors). I probably have 40 pages of the 160 or so written.
Speaking of articles and books and sabbaticals, may I make a request? If you didn’t pick up a copy of my book that I compiled during my sabbatical called Shepherd and Sheep: Essays on Loving and Leading in a Local Church, I’d love for you to do so. The book has some of my best writing collected in one place. The feedback on the book has been—how shall I say this?—small but meaningful.
And if you had a favorite book from your recent reading lists, please let me know in the comments. I’m always on the hunt.
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Books Read, 2013–2021
Pages Read, 2013–2021
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In order of completion, this year I read . . .
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (384 pages)
Sabbaticals: “How-To” Take a Break from Ministry before Ministry Breaks You by Rusty McKie (122 pages)
Echo Island by Jared C. Wilson (272 pages)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (391 pages)
Five Masculine Instincts: A Guide to Becoming a Better Man by Chase Replogle (208 pages)
Blogging for God’s Glory in a Clickbait World by Benjamin Vrbicek and John Beeson (181 pages)
Mocking Jay (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (391 pages)
A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O’Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth by Michael Mears Bruner (260 pages)
The Unbelievable Gospel: Say Something Worth Believing by Jonathan K. Dodson (240 pages)
Win the Day: 7 Daily Habits to Help You Stress Less & Accomplish More by Mark Batterson (256 pages)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel by Suzanne Collins (528 pages)
Here in Spirit: Knowing the Spirit Who Creates, Sustains, and Transforms Everything by Jonathan K. Dodson (160 pages)
The Bible: Romans to Revelation, Part 6 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Ecclesiastes and the Search for Meaning in an Upside-Down World by Russell L. Meek (80 pages)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (272 pages)
What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book by Peter Ginna (320 pages)
To Be Continued: The Unstoppable Mission of Jesus by Tony Merida, Christy Britton, and Amy Tyson (261 pages)
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher (272 pages)
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher (256 pages)
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis (176 pages)
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman (432 pages)
Fail: Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure by J.R. Briggs (208 pages)
Our Good Crisis: Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes by Jonathan K. Dodson (192 pages)
The Bible: Genesis to Deuteronomy, Part 1 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church by Ivan Mesa (139 pages)
Over The River: The Story of Joshua (Kaleidoscope Kids’ Bibles) by Chris Ammen (115 pages)
Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (247 pages)
The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims by Rebecca McLaughlin (125 pages)
Before the Lord, Before the Church: “How-To” Plan a Child Dedication by Jared Kennedy (108 pages)
How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter by Timothy Keller (60 pages)
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches by Russell Moore (256 pages)
The Mission of the Body of Christ (Retelling the Story Series) by Russ Ramsey (256 pages)
Hiroshima by John Hersey (160 pages)
Home: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (336 pages)
Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life by Douglas Wilson (124 pages)
With Those Who Weep: A Theology of Tears by S.A. Morrison (122 pages)
Lilia: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (272 pages)
Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction by Jack Hart (280 pages)
Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies by Suzanne Gilad (384 pages)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (531 pages)
The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul by Russell Moore (304 pages)
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr (224 pages)
Shepherd and Sheep: Essays on Loving and Leading in a Local Church by Benjamin Vrbicek (160 pages)
The Bible: Joshua to Esther, Part 2 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality by Rachel Joy Welcher (216 pages)
Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words by Richard Hughes Gibson, James Edward Beitler III (248 pages)
Green Lights by Matthew McConaughey (304 pages)
Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (352 pages)
Seven Questions about Heaven by Stephen R. Morefield (144 pages)
Gospel-Centered Discipleship by Jonathan K. Dodson (176 pages)
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcom Gladwell (256 pages)
Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul by Hannah Anderson (208 pages)
All That’s Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment by Hannah Anderson (224 pages)
The Writer’s Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose by Helen Sword (88 pages)
Men and Women in the Church by Kevin DeYoung (176 pages)
Jack: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (320 pages)
#Blessed: Intentional Gratitude in a World that Celebrates Self Everything by Laura Pyne (152 pages)
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson (397 pages)
The Bible: Psalms to Song of Solomon, Part 3 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing by Jack Hart (282 pages)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (448 pages)
From Everlasting to Everlasting: Every Believer’s Biography by Will Dobbie (208 pages)
Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, On Being a Christian by Bret Lott (192 pages)
Pastors and Their Critics: A Guide to Coping with Criticism in the Ministry by Joel R. Beeke (192 pages)
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (768 pages)
Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer’s Life by Bret Lott (224 pages)
Woke-Free Church: For the Deliverance of the Body of Christ from Social Justice Captivity by Jeff Kliewer (165 pages)
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (384 pages)
The Art of War: Complete Text of Sun Tzu’s Classics, Military Strategy History, Ancient Chinese Military Strategist by Sun Tzu (137 pages)
When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays by Marilynne Robinson (224 pages)
The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe (120 pages) [I only read the long, historical background and not the anthology part]
Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman (352 pages)
Us Against You: A Novel (Beartown Series) by Fredrik Backman (448 pages)
Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing by Andy Crouch (192 pages)
The Bible: Isaiah to Malachi, Part 4 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Deacons by Ben Bechtel (150 pages)
Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel by Fredrik Backman (336 pages)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) by Agatha Christie (304 pages)
Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential by Collin Hansen and Jonathan Leeman (160 pages)
The Art of Pastoring: Ministry Without All the Answers by David Hansen (224 pages)
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry: A Novel by Fredrik Backman (384 pages)
The Deal of a Lifetime: A Novella by Fredrik Backman (96 pages)
Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr (640 pages)
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman (208 pages)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (304 pages)
When Prayer Is a Struggle by Kevin Halloran (160 pages)
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: A Novella by Fredrik Backman (96 pages)
Lament for a Father: The Journey to Understanding and Forgiveness by Marvin Olasky (112 pages)
The Weary World Rejoices: Daily Devotions for Advent by Megan Hill (127 pages)
Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands by Jen Wilkin (176 pages)
The Ten Commandments: What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why We Should Obey Them by Kevin DeYoung (208 pages)
Art and the Bible by Francis A. Schaeffer (95 pages)
The Bible: Matthew to Acts, Part 5 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Without Theological Triage, You Drive a Car of Glass: A Review of Before You Lose Your Faith
A few reasons you need to read Ivan Mesa’s new book Before You Lose Your Faith (and Gavin Ortlund’s book Finding the Right Hills to Die On).
Back in April we took our church staff to The Gospel Coalition’s national conference. For three days we listened to sermons, attended break-out seminars, walked the city streets of Indianapolis, laughed, prayed, and saw friends we hadn’t seen in years.
Each day of the conference The Gospel Coalition provided attendees with free books, including the recently released Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church edited by Ivan Mesa.
“Deconstruction is the term often used to describe how evangelical Christians end up as atheists—or something in between.”
I have a huge stack of books to read, so I don’t even know why I moved Before You Lose Your Faith to the top of the pile. But I did. And I am glad I did read it sooner than later, for all the book’s excellent and challenging yet compassionate entries from some of my favorite writers, for example, Samuel James and Jared C. Wilson.
What Is “Deconstructing”?
For those unfamiliar with the term deconstructing, it involves “systematically dissecting and often rejecting all the beliefs you grew up with” (2). Deconstruction is the term often used to describe how evangelical Christians end up as atheists—or something in between.
Deconstruction is happening all around you, not just to some Christian celebrity out there on the Internet or the young men and women on the university campus in your city but also among those in the church you attend. For some of you, although you might not want to admit it, deconstruction might even be happening in your heart and mind as you wrestle with doubts about the Christian faith so personal and so intense you worry you cannot bring them up in a conversation with your pastor.
This is why I appreciated the tone each contributing author uses throughout the book, speaking to readers with the assumption that they are in some stage of deconstruction. Too often Christians talk past the very people we are ostensibly talking with to score points with our tribe, the tribe we imagine listening over our shoulder and cheering us on as we “own” our opponents. Before You Lose Your Faith is not out to own anyone. The book speaks with consistent compassion to the real issues of those losing their faith and overwhelmed with doubt.
Speaking of the real issues, Part Two of the book has eight chapters devoted to reconstructing views that many in our secular age consider disagreeable or even deplorable about Christianity, at least as they understand Christianity. Issues such as sexuality, science, and social justice receive warranted attention. Claude Atcho wrote a chapter in this section called “Race: Is Christianity a White Man’s Religion?” that explores how our faith would be less syncretistic if we untangled aspects of the true Christian faith from certain aspects of culture and church traditions. Although the Christian church might participate in racial injustice, is racism what true Christianity endorses? This kind of disentangling, he writes, could save people from deconstructing.
Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead has a line I thought about often as I read Before You Lose Your Faith. The main character, Pastor Ames, writes to his son about doubt, saying, “The Lord gave you a mind so that you can make honest use of it. . . . you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment” (Gilead, 179). Before You Lose Your Faith helps disentangle our doubts, especially when we might not have realized our doubts are influenced by the particular fashions of our moment in time and place in culture.
The Need for Theological Triage
A favorite paragraph from the book highlights the importance of what people refer to as theological triage. The triage metaphor comes from war hospitals, specifically the decision process of prioritizing which injured soldiers to treat first. Many years ago, doctors treated wounded soldiers on a first-come, first-served basis, which is nice if you’re first to the field hospital but becomes a bummer when you’re at the back of the line with a sucking chest wound.
In a similar way, theological triage helps rank doctrines in terms of their importance. Gavin Ortlund wrote a whole book on the topic called Finding the Right Hills to Die On: The Case for Theological Triage. In that book, Ortlund suggests as a starting point a four-fold way to rank doctrines: first-rank doctrines are essential to the gospel itself; second-rank doctrines are urgent to church health at the local and denominational level; third-rank doctrines are important but not important enough to justify separation among Christians in the same church; and fourth-rank doctrines are those that are unimportant to our gospel witness and ministry collaboration.
“Like a car made of glass that has no shock absorbers, such a faith shatters upon hitting any bump in the road.”
Coming back to Before You Lose Your Faith and my favorite paragraph, Karen Swallow Prior quotes an author who noted that without theological triage, we tend to have “glass theology.” By this she means when we regard each aspect of our theology as equally important—that is, when all doctrines are “first-rank” doctrines—our theology turns brittle. Prior writes, “Like a car made of glass that has no shock absorbers, such a faith shatters upon hitting any bump in the road” (96). I might add that you don’t have to drive your glass car over bumpy roads for it to shatter; people also throw rocks.
When Parishioners Leave Church Pews Unnecessarily
As a pastor of a local church, there is nothing theoretical about deconstruction and theological triage. I believe if pastor-elders can model prioritizing doctrines well, triage might save a lot of pain among our parishioners. But sometimes, whether pastors model triage well or not, people who we do not want to leave, leave anyway.
This winter I know a pastor who received an eight-page letter from a longtime parishioner, a friend even, who outlined the struggles he had with the evangelical world, the ways the church had failed during the previous year, and why he was leaving my friend’s church. The letter mentioned the disappointments you might expect: error too far in one direction with mask protocols (re: not enough enforcement); error in politics (re: not enough rebuking); error in issues of race (re: not enough engagement); and others. The pastor likely wouldn’t even quibble much about most of the issues, and on a few, the pastor’s personal convictions align precisely with the one who wrote the letter.
The main reason for leaving the church, however, had to do with a specific theological point that the pastor held, even though the church and denomination had stated clearly that it is a position Christians should not separate over. (To use Gavin Ortlund’s framework, the specific doctrine in question should be considered a “third-rank doctrine.”) Except the man did separate from the church. Now the pastor worries about the letter writer’s faith, what church he’ll now attend, and whether a friend was lost. The whole situation is sad, especially because, as the pastor sees it, the departure was unnecessary.
That’s just one story from the trenches. I have many others.
A Book for Evangelists and Preachers
In the last entry, Derek Rishmawy writes, “If you’ve come to the end of this book, you’re either thinking about deconstructing your faith or you’re worrying about how to talk to folks who are” (131). To be candid, I was doing neither. My faith was not deconstructing nor was I seeking to help those who are.
But reading the book made me realize that I should be in the latter category; I should care about those deconstructing their faith more than I currently do. In fact, I suspect the main benefit to me from the book will be in my preaching. I typically do a poor job engaging contemporary struggles that people have with the Christian faith. Ivan Mesa’s book helped me see that, and the book also stoked my desire to improve while showing me fifteen examples of how to do this well.
Pastors need the reminder that part of contending for the faith once for all delivered, as Jude puts it, must also involve having “mercy on those who doubt” (Jude 3, 22). And part of having mercy on those who doubt involves understanding those doubts. Reading Before You Lose Your Faith will help you understand. It did for me, and I trust it will do the same for you.
Reading List 2020
A list of every book I read last year.
My first post of each new year always contains the list of books I read the previous year (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019). I do it for personal accountability, not to showboat; knowing I have to post my list helps me stay on track.
My reading intake increased this year from last year, while my writing output decreased a bit. And that was fine with me, even intentional. I read 92 books and over 24,000 pages.
In an unexpected highlight, a new reader to my blog scoured my list of books from past years and noticed something: no books by pastor John MacArthur. This was not intentional. It just sort of happened, or sorta did not happen as it were. So my new friend made use of the rarely used “donate” button buried on my About page and gave me $100 to buy some books. Among the new books, I grabbed two recent ones by MacArthur, including a complete commentary on the Bible, which I now consult each time I prepare a sermon. Why can’t y’all be more like this guy?
You’ll see on the list Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, a beast of a novel. Amazon tells me the book is 1,168 pages! I assume that’s right. I listened to the audiobook, which I had to rent from the library three separate times to finish because the audiobook is sixty-three hours long! And get this—each time I rented the book, I had to go back on the waitlist for three or four months. Yet, despite the long gaps between rentals, each time I reengage the plot, the book still felt surprisingly fresh, which I assume is a testament to the quality of the book and the magnetic pull of the characters.
I didn’t love every aspect of Atlas Shrugged, though. Just to name a few frustrations, the multiple love interests toward Dagny (and her reciprocation) annoyed me; the stark black-and-white, good-and-evil contrast of most characters felt unrealistic; and the final soliloquy by the mysterious John Gault is more becoming to a non-fiction book. Still, the book seemed to me, dare I say it, contemporary and relevant.
One other goofy detail about Atlas Shrugged. Later in the year I also listened to the audiobook of The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brendan Manning, which was read by the same popular voice actor, Scott Brick. The commonality of the reader, coupled with such diametrically opposed themes—“salvation by man’s hard work” vs. “salvation by God’s grace”—made for a viscerally jarring listening experience. I kept mumbling to myself, “This is so strange,” but no one was sharing earbuds with me to commiserate.
I’m not sure how closely anyone looks at my lists, but you’ll notice that Analog Church appears on the list three times. That’s not a mistake. I did actually read it three times. I read the book twice as I prepared a book review for 9Marks. I believe a reviewer should truly understand a book before commenting on it publicly. But 9Marks requested I make some overhauls to the first draft of my review, so I reread the book again before resubmitting. The time commitment was not ideal, but sometimes that’s how a writing project goes. Getting it right counts more than getting it published.
I enjoyed my first book of the year far more than I expected, the autobiography Open by Andre Agassi. At a pastor’s conference in 2019 I heard James K.A. Smith mention the book in an offhand comment, commending it as one of the best memoirs of all time (or something like that). Smith’s recommendation didn’t disappoint. It’s hard for me to fathom the level of transparency Agassi has with his readers. Open really is a fitting title.
I also enjoyed two Crossway books by two female authors: Jen Oshman’s Enough About Me and Glenna Marshall’s Everyday Faithfulness. In the category of Christian ministry, I thought Gospel-Driven Church (Crossway, 2019) was classic Jared C. Wilson: thoughtful and punchy, winsome and gospel-y. The sequel comes out this year in March, which I’m looking forward to reading.
This year I reread two books about writing, as well as a half-dozen new ones. Both Stephen King’s On Writing and William Zinsser’s On Writing Well taught me more the second time around than the first. Andrew Peterson’s Adorning the Dark was a new read, but it will certainly be a book to reread in the coming years. Kudos to Peterson and B&H for publishing the book without a single endorsement. It didn’t need them. Would that we all had such confidence in our work. This fall I also began reading the words of Flannery O’Connor (five books) and words written about her (one book completed and another in the works). I expect this Flannery fascination to continue next year and maybe longer.
My favorite book of the year, outside of the Bible, was once again my beloved World War II novel All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. If Doerr and I were stranded on the proverbial desert island with Marie-Laure Werner, Volkheimer, Reinhold von Rumpel, and a makeshift radio, we wouldn’t get bored. Each year when I begin the book afresh, the immediacy of the present tense verbs in the opening lines (and throughout the book) take me to a happy place: “At dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles. Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, they say. Depart immediately to open country.” (Pour, not poured. Blow, not blew. Turn, not turned. Flutter, not fluttered. Swirl, not swirled. And so on for 450 lovely pages.)
Before turning you loose on the list, let me add just a few housekeeping notes. Yes, I “count” reading my own books but only once for every ten times I read them; it really does take forever to write a book. In fact, I just finished recording the audiobook for Blogging for God’s Glory in a Clickbait World. Look for that to release in the late winter.
Speaking of audiobooks, I read twenty-five audiobooks this year, which helps pad the numbers and lets me shoehorn extra books into my life—especially novels, which I often listen to as I exercise. Next, just as some people write in their Twitter bios about their retweets, I’ll say that reading a book does not equal endorsement of a book. For example, this fall I listened to The Subtle Art of . . . What can I say? I was in the mood to see what all the fuss was about. Finally, as I’ve pointed out in other years, I count reading the Bible as six normal-sized books rather than one massive book; breaking it up helps me keep pace from year to year.
Let me know in the comments your favorite book from last year, and if we overlapped at all in our reading, especially in the unlikely event you listened to Atlas Shrugged and The Ragamuffin Gospel in that order. So strange.
Books Read, 2013–2020
Pages Read, 2013–2020
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Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi (400 pages)
Gospel-Driven Church: Uniting Church Growth Dreams with the Metrics of Grace by Jared C. Wilson (240 pages)
The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth by Jared C. Wilson (224 pages)
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren (184 pages)
Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age by Tony Reinke (160 pages)
The Bible: Romans to Revelation, Part 6 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Leading with Love by Alexander Strauch (208 pages)
Tracing the Thread: Examining the Story of Self for Lasting Change by Christy Rood (210 pages)
Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop (224 pages)
Proverbs: A 12-Week Study by Lynda Brownback (96 pages)
The Abiding Cycle: Knowing God by Experience through Obedience by Glen Whatley (140 pages)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (544 pages)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (368 pages)
Living & Active Vol. 1: Scripture Through the Lives of Luther, Calvin, And Knox by Stephen R. Morefield (105 pages)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (176 pages)
Epic: An Around-the-World Journey through Christian History by Tim Challies (176 pages)
Learn how to become a blogger: An EASY step by step guide to starting your own blog by Matthew Arnold (118 pages)
Make Money from Blogging: How to Start A Blog While Raising A Family (Make Money from Home) by Sally Miller (123 pages)
God’s Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards (With the Complete Text of The End for Which God Created the World) by John Piper and Jonathan Edwards (272 pages)
The United States v. You: A Practical Guide to the Court-Martial Process for Military Members and their Families by R. Davis Younts (113 pages)
Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World by Michael Hyatt (288 pages)
Enough about Me: Find Lasting Joy in the Age of Self by Jen Oshman (176 pages)
The Bible: Genesis to Deuteronomy, Part 1 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Blogging for Dummies by Amy Lupold Bair (432 pages)
How to Blog for Profit: Without Selling Your Soul by Ruth Soukup (229 pages)
Influence: Building a Platform that Elevates Jesus (Not Me) by Kate Motaung and Shannon Popkin (168 pages)
Coronavirus and Christ by John Piper (112 pages)
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis (176 pages)
Trade Craft, issues about blogging (6 issues) by Various (200 pages)
The Ten Commandments: What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why We Should Obey Them by Kevin DeYoung (208 pages)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (304 pages)
The Commonwealth v. You: A practical guide to the Pennsylvania Criminal Justice System for those facing charges by R. Davis Younts (121 pages)
Jesus Driven Ministry by Ajith Fernando (256 pages)
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (124 pages)
Tons of blog posts about blogging by Various (350 pages)
The Lord’s Prayer by R.C. Sproul (129 pages)
The Lord’s Prayer by Thomas Watson (332 pages)
Extreme Ownership (How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win) by Jocko Willink (384 pages)
Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making by Andrew Peterson (224 pages)
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson (409 pages)
The Bible: Joshua to Esther, Part 2 of 6 by God (300 pages)
On Writing (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue)) by Stephen King (320 pages)
Everyday Faithfulness: The Beauty of Ordinary Perseverance in a Demanding World (The Gospel Coalition) by Glenna Marshall (176 pages)
A Solider of the Great War by Mark Helprin (880 pages)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1,168 pages)
Blogging for God’s Glory in a Clickbait World by Benjamin Vrbicek and John Beeson (181 pages)
Placed for a Purpose: A Simple and Sustainable Vision for Loving Your Next-Door Neighbors by Chris McKinney and Elizabeth McKinney (143 pages)
The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield (432 pages)
Analog Church: Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age by Jay Y. Kim (216 pages)
Stand Firm: Living in a Post-Christian Culture by John MacArthur (152 pages)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (224 pages)
Analog Church: Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age by Jay Y. Kim (216 pages)
Beartown: A Novel by Fredrik Backman (432 pages)
The Bible: Psalms to Song of Solomon, Part 3 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Analog Church: Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age by Jay Y. Kim (216 pages)
World-Class Assistant: Hiring, Training and Leveraging an Executive Assistant by Michael Hyatt (176 pages)
The Truth about Us: The Very Good News about How Very Bad We Are by Brant Hansen (208 pages)
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser (336 pages)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (352 pages)
You’re a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You by Mike McHargue (240 pages)
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science by Mike McHargue (304 pages)
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers by Dane C. Ortlund (224 pages)
The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity (Cruciform Quick) by Michael J. Kruger (58 pages)
Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen (176 pages)
The Subtle Art of Not… : A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson (224 pages)
When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man by Edward T. Welch (252 pages)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (384 pages)
How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age by Jonathan Leeman (272 pages)
Dear Edward: A Novel by Ann Napolitano (352 pages)
Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less by Michael Hyatt (256 pages)
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The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out by Brennan Manning (272 pages)
The Bible: Isaiah to Malachi, Part 4 of 6 by God (300 pages)
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The Bible: Matthew to Acts, Part 5 of 6 by God (300 pages)
Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers (248 pages)
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