2012: My Book List

Jan 3, 2013 | Books

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

Book List: My Top 20

Jun 29, 2012 | Books

My favorite books, in no particular order. May change in the future.

1. Education by Ellen White*
2. The Places in Between by Rory Stewart*
3. The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel*
4. Man Is Not Alone by Abraham Joshua Heschel*
5. God, Gödel, and Grace by Clifford Goldstein*
6. The Remnant by Clifford Goldstein
7. The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons*
8. The Audacity to Win by David Plouffe*
9. The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis
10. Knowing God by J. I. Packer
11. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
12. Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
13. No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice
14. Lessons on Faith by A.T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner*
15. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit by R. A. Torrey
16. How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes*
17. What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
18. The Spirit of Sacrifice & Commitment – Experiences of Seventh-day Adventist Pioneers by James R. Nix*
19. The Desire of Ages by Ellen White*
20. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

(* – very very highly recommended)