Books I Read in 2023

These are the books I read in 2023. I would recommend most, and the one I would definately not is marked as such. (This is more for my records than anything.

• 1776 by David McCullough
• A Bookshop in Berlin by Francoise Frenkel
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
• A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Advent Conspiracy: Making Christmas Meaningful by Rick McKinley
• After You by Jojo Moyes
• American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherman
• Angrynomics by Eric Lonergan
• Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says About the End by Bart Ehrman
• Books by Larry McMurtry
• Breaking the Code by Bruce Metzger
• Can I Get a Witness: Reading Revelation Through African American Culture by Brian K. Blount
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris
• Church and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
• Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly
• Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success by Ron Friedman
• Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton
• Dress Grey by Lucian K. Truscott IV
• Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan
• Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair that Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson
• Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to freedom and the Making of a Spiritual Hero by Stephan Talty
• Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
• Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
• Experiencing Forgiveness by Charles Stanley
• Facing the Mountain: A true Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown
• Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition by Bruce Henderson
• Finding God in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Spiritual Exploration of the Star Wars Saga by Timothy Paul Jones
• Finding Me by Viola Davis
• Forgive for Good: A Proven Proscription for Health and Happiness by Fred Luskin
• Forgive for Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship by Fred Luskin
• Forgive: How Can I and Why Should I? by Timothy J. Keller
• Forgiveness: A Lenten Study by Marjorie J. Thompson
• Forgiveness: Finding Peace Through Letting Go by Adam Hamilton
• Full Dress Grey by Lucian K. Truscott IV
• G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
• God's Ex-Girlfriend: A Memoir About Loving and Leaving the Evangelical Jesus by Gloria Beth Amodeo
• Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story by Maarten J. Troost
• How to Think About God: A Guide for the 20th Century Pagan by Mortimer J. Adler
• Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country by Lucy Moore
• Julia: A Retelling of Orwell's 1984 by Sandra Newman
• Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
• Lead Like it Matters: 7 Leadership Principles for a Church that Lasts by Craig Groeschel
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• Lost Horizon by James Hilton
• Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• Mecca by Susan Straight
• Midnight Sun by James Dommek, Jr.
• Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible by Randolph E. Richards
• Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past edited by Kevin Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
• Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southward
• Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
• Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
• Not in it to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines the Church by Andy Stanley
• Party Out of Bounds: The B-52s, R.E.M. and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia by Roger Brown
• Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
• Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians got Dumber and Dumber by Andy Borowitz
• Reading Revelation Responsibly: Uncivil Worship and Witness by Michael J. Gorman
• Return of the Jedi: From a Certain Point of View by Various
• Revelation and the End of All Things by Craig R. Koester
• Revelation: Visions, Prophecy and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels
• Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson
• Secrets Kids Know… That Adults Outta Learn by Allen Klein
• Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
• Somebody's Fool by Richard Russo
• Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival and New Beginnings edited by Reyna Grande
• Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith
• Still Me by Jojo Moyes
• Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
• Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them by Elliott G. Morris
• Suder: A Novel by Percival Everett
• Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
• Th Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World by Diamonds, deceit and Desire by Tom Zoellner
• The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos
• The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean
• The Child Who Never Grew by Pearl S. Buck
• The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
• The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies by Aziz Z. Huq
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
• The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Thomas M. Nichols
• The Deconstructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party by Dana Millbank
• The Exchange by John Grisham
• The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
• The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of our Time by David A. Vise
• The Gospel According to Star Wars: Faith, Hope and the Force by John C. McDowell
• The Great Hurricane: 1938 by Cherie Burns
• The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving
• The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry
• The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda was Found, Her Descendants and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines
• The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
• The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
• The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich
• The Manhattan Project Trinity Test: Witnessing the Bomb in New Mexico by Elva K. Osterreich
• The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks
• The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson (do not recommend)
• The Old Man and the Gun: And Other True Tales of Crime by David Grann
• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andres Resendez
• The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
• The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy by Timothy Keller
• The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation by Barbara R. Rossing
• The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach
• The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
• The Trees by Percival Everett
• The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy by Tim Harford
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Wager: A Story of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
• The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income is Our Future by Andrew Yang
• The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress and Building Strength by D. Patrick Miller
• The White Darkness by David Grann
• The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore
• The World According to Star Wars by Cass Sustein
• Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
• Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
• Toy Box Leader: Leadership Lessons from the Toys Your Loved as a Child by Ron Hunter, Jr. and Michael Waddell
• Train: Riding the Rails that Created the Modern World from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief by Tom Zoellner
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
• Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Trust by Hernan Diaz
• Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Upside-Down Apocalypse: Grounding Revelation in the Gospel of Peace by Jeremy Duncan
• Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America by Stephen F. Knott
• Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• You Don’t Own me: The Court Battles That Exposed Barbie's Dark Side by Orly Lobel