The Books I Read this Year (2014)

Every year I set myself the goal of reading 100 books.  I didn't quite make it this year, but I like (most of ) the books I read this year. This is not the order in which I read them, nor are they ranked in order here.

Non Fiction
The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing – Rise B. Axelrod
A Coming Christ in Advent – Raymond E. Brown

A Risen Christ in Eastertime: Essays on the Gospel Narratives of the Resurrection -Raymond E. Brown

A Crucified Christ in Holy Week: Essays on the Four Gospel Passion Narratives - Raymond E. Brown 

The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus - Raymond Edward Brown 

Muted Hosannas – Jeff Carter

Religious Rock ‘N Roll: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – Jimmy Swaggart
You Shall Not Steal: Community and Property in the Biblical Tradition - Robert Gnuse 

Another Gospel: A Confrontation with Liberation Theology - Paul McGlasson 

God on the Streets of Gotham: What the Big Screen Batman Can Teach Us about God and Ourselves - Paul Asay

Folk Songs for Schools & Camps - Jerry Silverman

Let Those Who Have Ears to Hear: If They Took the Music Away...Would You Still Follow Jesus? - Kimberly Smith

Oh, Be Careful Little Ears: Contemporary Christian Music...is that in the Bible? - Kimberly Smith 

Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan - Aidan Day

The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan - Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited -Clinton Heylin

Gustavo Gutierrez: Essential Writings -Gustavo Gutiérrez
Stony the Road We Trod - Cain Hope Felder
Introducing Black Theology: 3 Crucial Questions for the Evangelical Church -Bruce L. Fields 

Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics - David A. Nichols

One Summer: America, 1927 -Bill Bryson

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee - Bart D. Ehrman

My Friend Dahmer - Derf Backderf

Standing Witness: Devils Tower National Monument: A History - Jeanne Rogers

The Broken God - Dean Merrill

Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions - Candida R Moss

The Quran: With or Against the Bible? - Ejaz Naqvi 

 Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Eyes- Mitri Raheb (also here, here, here, here, and here) 

The Four Witnesses: The Rebel, the Rabbi, the Chronicler, and the Mystic –Why the Gospels Present Strikingly Different Visions of Jesus? -Robin Griffith-Jones

The Apocalyptic Jesus - Robert J. Miller 

 What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism - Robert Schoen

The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus & the Truth of theTraditional Gospels - Luke Timothy Johnson 

The Gospel According to Jesus' Enemies: Services and Sermons for Lent - Dann J. Ettner

To Paint Is To Love Again - Henry Miller

Lay Flat 02: Meta -Shane Lavalette 

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Vol. 2 - Mentor, Message, and Miracles -John P. Meier

The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good about the Good News? - Peter J. Gomes

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back -Todd Burpo (I put this one in the "non fiction" category only very reluctantly)

Nick Cave: A Study of Love, Death and Apocalypse - Roland Boer

Kosher Jesus -Shmuley Boteach 

From Time to Time - Hannah Tillich

The Political Teachings of Jesus -Tod Lindberg 

Fiction

Doctor Sleep – Stephen King

The Journals of Eleanor Druse: My Investigation of the Kingdom Hospital Incident - Eleanor Druse
Otherland Vol. 2: River of Blue Fire – Tad Williams
Otherland Vol. 1: City of Golden Shadow – Tad Williams
The War of the Flowers – Tad Williams
Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
froomb! - John Lymington
The Walking Dead Compendium: Vol. 2 – Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead Compendium: Vol. 1 – Robert Kirkman
Watchmen – Alan Moore

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

Enemy Mine - Barry B. Longyear

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Vol. 1- Robert Silverberg                                                        

The Science Fiction Century -David G. Hartwell

The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys Vol.1) - Franklin W. Dixon

The Skylark of Space - E.E. "Doc" Smith

The Star- H.G. Wells

With The Night Mail: A Story of 2000 AD -Rudyard Kipling

The Damned Thing -Ambrose Bierce

The Mysterious Island- Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne
How Few Remain - Harry Turtledove 

Prey- Michael Crichton

The Warlord of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Gods of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs

Destination: Void - Frank Herbert 

The Call of the Green Bird - Alberta Hawse 

Crispin: The Cross of Lead – Avi

The Templar Legacy -Steve Berry 

Cities of the Red Night - William S. Burroughs

Nova Express - William S. Burroughs

Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy

The Scarlet Letter -Nathaniel Hawthorne

Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

Pathfinder - Orson Scott Card 

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus- Orson Scott Card 

William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back - Ian Doescher 

The Eye of Moloch - Glenn Beck

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame -Victor Hugo 

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

Five Plays by Langston Hughes - Langston Hughes

Selected Stories - Philip K. Dick

Paycheck and Other Classic Stories -Philip K. Dick

Christ Stopped At Eboli - Carlo Levi