What I'm Reading - Books of 2012

This is a more or less complete list of the books I read this year.

Fiction

Fantasy

The Silver Hand – Stephen Lawhead

The Paradise War – Stephen Lawhead

Shadowheart – Tad Williams
Shadowrise – Tad Williams
Shadowplay – Tad Williams

Shadowmarch – Tad Williams

Dragons of Autumn Twilight – Margaret Weis

A Lion Among Men – Gregory Maguire

Science Fiction

Have Space Suit – Will Travel – Robert Heinlein

Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 – ed. Bill Fawcett

Mostly Harmless – Douglas Adams

Young Zaphod Plays it Safe – Douglas Adams

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish – Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe, and Everything – Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe – Douglas Adams        

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Epic – Conor Kostick

Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

Horror / Graphic Novels

Coldheart Canyon – Clive Barker

The Regulators – Stephen King

The Crossroads – Chris Grabenstein

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer – Lish McBride

Ghost Knight – Cornelia Funke

Batman: The Long Halloween – Joseph Loeb

Valley of the Dead: The Truth Behind Dante’s Inferno – Kim Paffenroth

Just After Sunset – Stephen King

The Walking Dead – Rise of the Governor – Robert Kirkman

Dying to Live – Km Paffenroth

11/22/63 – Stephen King

Classics 

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

Silence – Endō Shūsaku

Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyesky

The Plague – Albert Camus

The Brothers Karamazov – Fydor Dostoyevsky

Historical / General Fiction

The Heretic’s Daughter – Kathleen Kent

Guns of the South – Harry Turtledove

The Closers – Michael Connelly

The Reluctant Fundamentalist -  Mohshin Hamid
The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling

Religious Ficition

Soul Harvest – Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins

Apollyon – Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins

More than a Skeleton – Paul Maier

A Skeleton in God’s Closet – Paul Maier

Mary of Nazareth – Marek Halter

Non-Fiction

Science

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos – Brian Greene

A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson

History / Biography

The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era – Michael Neufeld

Moscow 1941: A City and It’s People at War – Rodric Braithwaite

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years – Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America – Erik Larson

Night – Elie Wiessel

Theology / Bible

Introduction to the New Testament – Raymond E. Brown

Intersections: Post-Critical Studies in Preaching – ed. Richard Eslinger

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume III: Companionsand Competitors – John Meier

The Battle for the Resurrection – Norman Geisler

The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ – Gary Habermas

The Changing Faces of Jesus – Géza Vermès

Historical Jesus: What Can We Know and How Can We Know It? – Anthony LeDonne

Ante-Nicean Fathers : Volume 1 – ed. Alexander Roberts

The Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth – Willi Marxsen

The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism and its Jewish Context – James F. McGrath

Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation – Elaine Pagels

Ephesians 1 – 3 – Markus Barth

And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament – Edith Humphrey

Beginnings: Keys that Open the Gospels – Morna Hooker

Jesus the Word According to John the Sectarian: A Paleofundementalist Manifesto for Contemporary Evangelicalism, Especially Its Elites in North America – Robert Gundry

John’s Apologetic Christology: Legimation and Development in Johannine Christology – James F. McGrath

Devotional

The Imitation of Christ – Thomas à Kempis

The Sacred Journey – The Ancient Practices – Charles Foster

Philosophy / Psychology

Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape this Book – ed. Jane Dryden

Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight - Travis Langly

True Crime

Preacher’s Girl:  The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore – Jim Schutze

Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunannan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History – Maureen Orth

My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World’s Most Notorious Murderers – Helen Morrison