Poof! My 2021 Reading List

 I am so late in getting out my reading list from last year that I have already started my reading list for this year! Here's how it went in 2021:

Atypical Woman by Abigail Dodds
The Plague by Albert Camus
Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh

This was the second of three books on the plague I read this year and definitely the most interesting. 
A Little Book of the Christian Life by John Calvin
A Taste of Sabbath by Stuart Bryan
102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn

In honor of 9/11, I read this one. A minute-by-minute account inside the World Trade Towers that morning. 
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
United by Trillia Newbell

Don't get me wrong; Trillia Newbell is an infectiously joyful person. But I've been in very international churches and very American churches, and I haven't spent a moment thinking about their demographic makeup. I'm not quite sure why this is so important to Newbell.  
Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl by ND Wilson

Fourth (?) annual read of one of my favorite books EVER.
The Hawk and the Dove by Penelope Wilcock

The trilogy following the life of Father Peregrine is sweet and one of my all time favorites. My copy is starting to show the wear!

The Wounds of God by Penelope Wilcock
The Long Fall by Penelope Wilcock
Exodus Old and New by L Michael Morales

I just love Biblical theology and the storyline of Scripture. (Thank you, Graeme Goldsworthy and Greg Beale!) This book was one of a couple I read along those lines. 
The Dead Don't Dance by Charles Martin
Maggie by Charles Martin
Othello by William Shakespeare
Economics: A Free Market Reader edited by Jane Williams and Kathryn Daniels
Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund

If 2 Timothy 3:17 is to be believed--and it is--Christian therapy is a contradiction in terms. So I was more than a little nervous reading this until chapter 7. But then, wowza. He anchored it Biblically. Good read!
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Learned Treatise on the Plague by Theodore Beza

I'll just say this. Covid and the Bubonic plague are apples and oranges. I'll take covid any day. 

Fault Lines by Voddie Baucham
Between the World and Me by Ta'nahesi Coates

The difference between Baucham's book and Coates' book? If Baucham were to retract everything he said, the theses in Fault Lines would still stand. They are based on facts--quite thoroughly documented facts. If Coates were to retract everything he said in his book, the theses in Between the World and Me would collapse. They are entirely based on feelings. 

Rebels and Exiles by Matthew Harmon

Another Biblical theology
Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis

Not a sci-fi fan, but the Space Trilogy is more than just talking trashcans...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
The Lord's Prayer by RC Sproul
A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
Vindicae Contra Tyrannos by Junius Brutus

Food for thought when the State refuses to stay in its lane 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling

Jesus Wins by Dayton Hartman

Are you pre-mil? post-mil? clueless? Me, too. This tiny little book was great at laying out different end time views found among gospel Christians
Evidence Not Seen by Darlene Rose

Rose was a missionary wife turned POW in the Pacific Theater. It was a tough read. She was an amazing woman. Her testimony is gripping and encouraging. 
Perelandra by CS Lewis
Silas Marner by George Eliot

I <3 Silas Marner. 
Republocrat by Carl Trueman

Good book for those who think that to be a Christian and to be a Republican are the same thing. 
Confessions by Augustine

This was one of those books that I know I missed tons of. 
Alone Yet Not Alone by Tracey Leininger
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
Contentment by Nancy Wilson
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson

The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
True Companion by Nancy Wilson
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Live Not By Lies by Rod Dreher
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Boys of Blur by ND Wilson
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Popes and Feminists by Elise Crapuchettes
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

The Dawning of Indestructible Joy by John Piper
Watch for the Light by various
The Bible