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Friday, December 28, 2012

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
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
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
The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ – Gary Habermas
The Changing Faces of Jesus – Géza Vermès
Ante-Nicean Fathers : Volume 1 ed. Alexander Roberts
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
John’s Apologetic Christology: Legimation and Development in Johannine Christology – James F. McGrath

Devotional
The Imitation of Christ – Thomas à Kempis

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

2 comments:

  1. Looking over your list, I suspect you might like "God on the Streets of Gotham" too.

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  2. Hey! Wow. Thanks for stopping by this little corner of the internet. And thanks for your book.

    And, yes, that does sound like something I'd like to read.

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