I read a lot. I fell in love with reading in the 5th Grade, when the teacher had a contest of who could read the most books during the year. I don’t remember if I read the most or not, but that’s when I started reading for enjoyment and have never stopped. Up through the end of college my reading was mostly in the genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Later I started in on Theology and History, with some Westerns thrown in as well. About six years ago I began logging my reading and since then I’ve averaged 34 books a year, approximately 40% of them fiction.
Here’s the list of titles from 2019:
Recapturing The Wonder Hillbilly Elegy Renfield The Potter’s Promise The Naked Olympics
Determined To Believe? Can Science Explain Everything? How To Think Suffering In Africa
Don’t Just Send A Resume Alas, Babylon The Devil In A Forest The Once And Future King
Against Calvinism The Knight Chance Or The Dance God’s Provision For All
Does God Love All Or Some? Hero Of The Empire Valley Forge
The Concise Guide To Conservatism The Holy Longing The Foundation of Augustinian-Calvinism
Man’s Search For Meaning Special Operations In The American Revolution The Ice Schooner
Midshipman’s Hope Footfall The Disappearing Church Facing Leviathan
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall The Worst Journey Ever
Fiction - 9 (I was off my average of fiction reading in 2019 at only 28%)
Non-Fiction - 23
Started but not finished - 2 (The Extent Of The Atonement, The Nazi Doctors)
Read twice this year - 2 (Does God Love All Or Some?, The Foundation Of Augustinian-Calvinism)
Re-read this year - 3 (Suffering In Africa, Man’s Search For Meaning, Footfall)
The most influential book for me in 2019 was Does God Love All Or Some? by Ronnie W. Rogers.