Friday, January 1, 2021

Books I Read in 2020

Here are the books I read in 2020. This is more for me so I have a record, but I would recommend most, but not all, of them:
  1. 32 Yolks: From my Mother's Table to Working the Line by Eric Ripert
  2. A Spirituality of Fundraising by Henri Nouwen
  3. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
  4. A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
  5. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  6. Aftermath: Empire's End by Chuck Wendig
  7. Aftermath: Life Debt by Chuck Wendig
  8. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts
  9. America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
  10. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
  11. And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning by Joel M. Hoffman
  12. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  13. Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity edited by David Evans and Peter Dula
  14. Birth of the Kingdom by Jan Guillou
  15. Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship Between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill by Deanne Stillman
  16. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
  17. Camino Winds by John Grisham
  18. Campaigning with Crook by Charles King
  19. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
  20. City of Fire: Los Alamos & the Birth of the Atomic Age 1943-45 by James W. Kunetka
  21. Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
  22. Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by Lenny Duncan
  23. Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
  24. Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory by Lydia Reeder
  25. Embracing the Wideness by Kenneth H. Carter, Jr.
  26. Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side by Julia Shaw
  27. Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts
  28. Finding God Beyond Religion: A Guide for Skeptics, Agnostics and Unorthodox Believers Inside and Outside the Church by Tom Stella
  29. For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity by Liz Plank
  30. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
  31. Genesis: A Living Conversation by Bill Moyers
  32. Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
  33. Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
  34. Glory of Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army During World War II by Sandra M. Bolzenius
  35. God is Not...: Religious, Nice, "One of Us", an American a Capitalist edited by D. Brent Laytham
  36. Grant by Ron Chernow
  37. Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes
  38. Helen Keller: A Life by Dorothy Herman
  39. Holy Disunity: How What Separates Us Can Save Us by Layton E. Williams
  40. How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You're Going: Leading in a Liminal Season by Susan Beaumont
  41. How to Retire the Cheapskate Way by Jeff Yeager
  42. I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice by Joe Starita
  43. I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story by Anthony Daniels
  44. It's Better Than it Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear by Gregg Easterbrook
  45. Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend by Michael Munn
  46. Junia is Not Alone by Scot McKnight
  47. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  48. K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs
  49. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
  50. Let Him Go by Larry Watson
  51. Limits of the Known by David Roberts
  52. Living Our Beliefs: The United Methodist Way by Kenneth L. Carder
  53. Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg
  54. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
  55. Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin
  56. Neighborhood Church: Transforming Your Congregation into a Powerhouse for Mission by Krin Van Tatenhove
  57. No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
  58. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
  59. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
  60. Once They Moved Like The Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, And The Apache Wars by David Roberts
  61. Orange is the New Black: My Year Inside a Woman's Prison by Piper Kerman
  62. Prayer and the Devotional Life of United Methodists by Steve Harper
  63. Putting God Second: How to Save Religion from Itself by Rabbi Donniel Hartman
  64. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
  65. Reimagining the Seven Deadly Sins: Reshaping Our Hearts in a Complex World by James Philipps
  66. Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse
  67. Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff
  68. Sermon on the Mount by Amy-Jill Levine
  69. Seven: The Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes by Jeff Cook
  70. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
  71. Sinning Like a Christian: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins by William H. Willimon
  72. St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate by Karen Armstrong
  73. Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith
  74. Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
  75. Ten Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly
  76. Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly by Deborah Noyes
  77. The 19: Questions to Kindle a Wesleyan Spirit by Carolyn C. Moore
  78. The Activists Tao Te Ching by William Martin
  79. The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson
  80. The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging by Charles Vogl
  81. The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop
  82. The Book of Genesis: A Biography by Ronald Hendel
  83. The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People edited by Bethanne Patrick
  84. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  85. The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy
  86. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
  87. The Coming Revolution in Church Economics: Why Tithes and Offerings Are No Longer Enough, and What You Can Do about It by Mark DeYmaz and Harry Li
  88. The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli
  89. The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity by Douglas John Hall
  90. The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
  91. The Future of the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornell West
  92. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
  93. The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City by Alan Ehrenhalt
  94. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tauchman
  95. The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
  96. The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
  97. The Knight Templar by Jan Guillou
  98. The Last Pastor: Faithfully Steering a Closing Church by Gail Cafferata
  99. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
  100. The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
  101. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean Carroll
  102. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
  103. The Post-Quarantine Church by Thom S. Rainer
  104. The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking by Adam Sisman
  105. The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest by David Roberts
  106. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  107. The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou
  108. The Science of Sin: The Psychology of the Seven Deadlies by Simon M. Laham
  109. The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
  110. The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
  111. The Sermon Without End: A Conversational Approach to Preaching by O. Wesley Allen and Ronald J. Allen
  112. The Spirituals and the Blues by James Cone
  113. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
  114. The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist by Anthony M. Amore
  115. The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt that Changed the Nation by Joe Urschel
  116. Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn
  117. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
  118. Traveling the Prayer Paths of Jesus by John Indermark
  119. Travels by Michael Crichton
  120. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
  121. TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald by Timothy L. O'Brien
  122. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
  123. Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
  124. Virus as a Summons to Faith: Biblical Reflections in a Time of Loss, Grief, and Uncertainty by Walter Brueggemann
  125. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  126. Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
  127. Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by John Edgar Wideman
  128. You'd Better Not Die or I'll Kill You: A Caregiver's Survival Guide to Keeping You in Good Health and Good Spirits by Jane Heller

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