And the 61 books I read last year were…
About 5 years ago I made the New Year’s resolution to read 50 books in one year. Keeping track was just a list of authors and titles in a Word document. Since then I’ve kept 50 as my annual goal and have a Word document for each year. Whenever anyone asks me for reading suggestions I just skim those files.
2011 was a year of the series. Two years ago my friend Todd convinced me to read all of the Star Wars novels, so a bunch of those were gone through. Also discovered the Hunger Game books by Suzanne Collins and The Dresdin Files by Jim Butcher, both good fantasy series.
If the unintended theme of 2011 was “series.” then I’m already seeing 2012’s theme as being “reread.” The 13th and final Wheel of Time book will be coming out this year (one of the greatest fantasy series since Lord of the Rings), so I’ve already begun reread that series. With a desire to get back to reading some classics, I have my sights on rereading “The Grapes of Wrath” and “The Brothers Karamazov” to start that off. I also find my heart moving toward books that have been really challenging and encouraging to me in the past: “Orthodoxy” by G.K. Chesterton, “The Pursuit of God” by Tozer, “The Confessions of St Augustine,” and “The Divine Conspiracy” by Dallas Willard.
So many books, so little time. But here are the 61 from last year:
- Gracenomics — Mike Foster
- Under the Dome — Stephen King
- The Postcard Killers — James Patterson
- Star Wars: Vortex — Troy Denning
- Let the Great World Spin — Colum McCann
- Awakening: A New Approach to Faith, Fasting, and Spiritual Freedom — Stovall
- Feed — Mira Grant
- About Schmidt — Louis Begley
- Cross Fire — James Patterson
- Of Love & Evil ~ Anne Rice
- Kings of the Earth ~ Jon Clinch
- The Hunger Games ~ Suzanne Collins
- Don’t Blink ~ James Patterson
- Catching Fire ~ Suzanne Collins
- Star Wars: The Approaching Storm ~ Alan Dean Foster
- Mockingjay ~ Suzanne Collins
- Storm Front ~ Jim Butcher
- Poke The Box ~ Seth Godin
- To Be Told ~ Dan Allendar
- From God To Us ~ Geisler & Nix
- The Journey From Texts To Translations ~ Paul Wagner
- A General Intro to the Bible ~ David Ewert
- What the Night Knows ~ Dean Koontz
- Whispers ~ Bill Hybels
- Star Wars: Hard Contact ~ Karen Traviss
- Life After God ~ Douglas Coupland
- Kraken ~ China Mieville
- Unbroken ~ Laura Hillenbrand
- When Good Men Get Angry ~ Bill Perkins
- Faithful Place ~ Tana French
- Everything That Rises Must Converge ~ Flannery O’Connor
- 10th Anniversary ~ James Patterson
- Tick Tock ~ James Patterson
- Bossypants ~ Tina Fey
- The Lost Gate ~ Orson Scott Card
- Star Wars: Red Harvest — Joe Schreiber
- Star Wars: Deceived ~ Paul Kemp
- The Dead Town ~ Dean Koontz
- Deadline — Mira Grant
- Towers of Midnight ~ Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
- Star Wars: Conviction ~ Aaron Allston
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 ~ Sean Williams
- Star Wars: Shatterpoint ~ Matthew Stover
- Townie: A Memoir ~ Andre Dubus III
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars ~ Karen Traviss
- Star Wars: Wild Space ~ Karen Miller
- Fool Moon ~ Jim Butcher
- The Memory of Earth ~ Orson Scott Card
- Grave Peril ~ Jim Butcher
- The Call of Earth ~ Orson Scott Card
- The Last Four Things ~ Paul Hoffman
- Game of Thrones ~ George Martin
- Summer Knight ~ Jim Butcher
- Immanuel’s Veins ~ Ted Dekker
- The Litigaters ~ John Grisham
- Death Masks ~ Jim Butcher
- Damned ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- Blood Rites ~ Jim Butcher
- Pearl Harbor Ghosts ~ Thurston Clarke
- Divergent ~ Veronica Roth
- Tribes ~ Seth Godin
Tomorrow I’ll list out my favorite fiction and non-fiction works from the list and explain why they were.
What were some of the books you read last year?
