Year in Review, part 2.
I did not quite hit the 50-book target in 2012, but I’m happy with 45. This is the filtered list of books I read, separated into four tiers, the first one being super-duper-highly recommended.
First tier
- Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller
- Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
- The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit by R. A. Torrey
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Second tier
- The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller
- Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas
- Can Intervention Work? by Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus
- Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books by Tony Reinke
- The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
Third tier
- Graffiti in the Holy of Holies by Clifford Goldstein
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
- Welfare Ministry by Ellen White
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- The Prophets by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Fourth tier
- The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
- How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes
- A Praying Life by Paul A. Miller
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Let me know, what is Tim Keller’s opinion on Evolution and God.We want to hear from you, because it’s a huge topics for me
Regards
I classified them by the impressions they left on me, and whether it was a whole book that I was crazy about, or certain sections.
Surprised that The Meaning of Marriage falls into the second tier, and that Welfare Ministry is in the third!