What I’ve been reading during the last seven months

Benjamin Shurance
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

I’ve made a lot of time to read over the past seven months, partaking on average more than six books per month. Here is a list of what I’ve read. A special thanks to the fine folks at Wayne County Public Library in Wooster, Ohio, through which more than 70% of these books were made available (including most of the audiobooks on their wonderful Overdrive app).

Fiction

  • The Wingfeather Tales, Peterson et al. (★★★★)
  • The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (★★★★)
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
  • 🎧 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
  • Invisible Country, Annamaria Alfieri
  • 🎧 God Help the Child, Toni Morrison (★★★★)
  • 🎧 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling (★★★★★)
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
  • 🎧 The Road, Cormac McCarthy (★★★★)
  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Tiffany, Thorne & Rowling (★★★)
  • Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling
  • 🎧 Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (★★★★)
  • 🎧 Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee (★★★★)
  • 🎧 The Warden, Anthony Trollope (★★★★★)
  • 🎧 The Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope (★★★)

Christian thought and life

  • Longing to Know, Esther Lightcap Meek (★★★★)
  • Sub-merge, John B. Hayes (★★★★★)
  • How to Survive the Apocalypse, Joustra & Wilkinson (★★★)
  • From Anabaptist Seed, C. Arnold Snyder
  • The End of Sexual Identity, Jenell Williams Paris (★★★)
  • Divine Sex, Jonathan Grant (★★★★★)
  • 🎧 When Helping Hurts, Corbett & Fikkert (★★★★★)
  • 🎧 Prayer, Richard J. Foster (★★★★)
  • The Listening Life, Adam S. McHugh (★★★★★)
  • 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You, Tony Reinke (★★★★★)
  • Following in the Footsteps of Christ, C. Arnold Snyder(★★★★)
  • 🎧 Hearing God, Dallas Willard (★★★★★)
  • Strong and Weak, Andy Crouch (★★★★★)
  • The Forgotten Ways, Alan Hirsch (★★★★★)
  • Incarnate, Michael Frost (★★★)
  • Simply Good News, N. T. Wright (★★)
  • 🎧 Desiring God, John Piper (★★★★)
  • Untamed, Hirsh & Hirsch (★★★★)

Non fiction (memoirs/history/politics)

  • Born a Crime, Trevor Noah (★★★)
  • La Place de la Concorde Suisse, John McPhee (★★)
  • The Book of Common Prayer, Alan Jacobs (★★★★)
  • Write These Laws on Your Children, Robert Kunzman (★★★★★)
  • At the Existenialist Café, Sarah Bakewell (★★★)
  • The Fractured Republic, Yuval Levin (★★★★)
  • 🎧 Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance (★★★★)
  • The Vanishing American Adult, Ben Sasse (★★★)
  • 🎧 Two Paths, John Kasich (★★)

For more info and my reviews, see my GoodReads profile.

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