Reading in 2010

Continuing the trend I started a couple of years ago, I kept track of the books I read in 2010.

Unfortunately, I lost my reading list when my hard drive failed, which is part of the reason why it’s the middle of February and I’m just now getting around to posting the list. Also, I can’t completely guarantee the accuracy of my list, because I had to reconstruct it with the help of my awesome wife (it’s pretty close though).

Here’s my reading list for 2010:

1. Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History, by Art Spiegelman
2. Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, by Art Spiegelman
3. The Magician’s Nephew, by C.S Lewis
4. Men at Work, by George F. Will
5. A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, by Helmut Thielicke
6. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, by Kate L. Turabian
7. The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
8. The Oxford Guide to Library Research, by Thomas Mann
9. The Black Duck, by Janet Taylor Lisle
10. Four Views on the Warning Passages in Hebrews, edited by Herbert W. Bateman IV
11. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
12. The Bridge of Sighs, by Olen Steinhauer
13. Call for the Dead, by John le Carré
14. The Reason for God, by Timothy Keller
15. The Prodigal God, by Timothy Keller
16. While the Clock Ticked, by Franklin W. Dickson
17. The Gospel and Letters of John, by R. Alan Culpepper
18. John the Maverick Gospel, by Robert Kysar
19. The God of the Gospel of John, by Marianne Meye Thompson
20. The Gospel According to John, by D. A. Carson
21. The Door of No Return, by Sarah Mussi
22. Heat, by Mike Lupica
23. The Giver, by Lois Lowery
24. The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks
25. The Return of the Indian, by Lynne Reid Banks
26. The Secret of the Indian, by Lynne Reid Banks
27. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
28. The Mystery of the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks
29. The Key to the Indian, by Lynne Reid Banks
30. Blockade Billy/Morality, by Stephen King
31. The Case for Christ, by Lee Strobel
32. Sitting With Job: Selected Studies on the Book of Job, edited by Roy B. Zuck
33. Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testement, by William P. Brown
34. Theology for the Community of God, by Stanley J. Grenz
35. The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature, by Roland E. Murphy
36. Theology in the Context of World Christianity, by Timothy C. Tennent
37. How to Read Proverbs, by Tremper Longman III
38. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon
39. Band of Brothers, by Stephen E. Ambrose
40. Summer of ’49, by David Halberstan
41. The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke

I like to do brief reviews of books that I read on The Doc File, especially ones that I really like, but I did a poor job of that this past year. Not surprisingly, I found some books that I really liked (The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, Of Mice and Men, How to Read Proverbs, Band of Brothers) and others that I was less than impressed with (Blockade Billy/Morality, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The Thief Lord).

Once again, I increased my book total for the year (up from 34 in 2009 to 41 in 2010). Considering that I had to do a lot of reading for grad school, maybe that isn’t surprising, but at the same time, considering that some of those books were several hundred page textbooks, maybe it is.

One thing I discovered that I thought was interesting was that all of my required reading actually increased my desire to read other books for fun; I was afraid that the opposite would happen.

I already have a shelf of books waiting for me in 2011, but I’m always open to suggestions. Got any recommendations?

(For comparison’s sake, here are the books I read in 2009 and 2008.)