So my challenge for myself in 2021 was to read books suggested by various friends, with the goal of 1 book per week. I picked the first and last book, but otherwise I read nearly every book that was suggested to me. There were some really great books in there, and it reminded me how much variation of interest my friends have. That was really interesting. There was everything from light adult fiction, to some serious tomes!
I’m still going to take suggestions on books to read, because there were so many good ones in there. So, keep the suggestions coming!
My challenge for myself for 2022 is something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. I went to Catholic grade school and high school.
—--- Read the Bible in Chronological order —--
Yup… that’s the plan. I’ve already started, and even have a blog dedicated to the process…. And… I am recording as I read it, with occasionally some commentary. It is interesting to think that the book s are out of order, because Job fits into Genesis, right after Noah and the flood and the big listing of all of Noah’s descendents. I’m sure I am mis-pronouncing many of the names and places, but it is an interesting exercise. I’ll link to the webpage which includes the recordings that I am making as I read. I’ve always been embarrassed to hear my own voice, but… I’m putting it out there. I’ve added commentaries from John Gill’s Exposition on the Bible, which was published around 1750.
So, to recap—59 total books in 2021 (although Lonesome Dove spilled into the new year by two days.) Still… Here is the list:
A Jacques Barzun Reader
The Golden Compass
Science and Philosophy
Gossip Girl
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Inkheart
The Story of Earth
A Moveable Feast
Insomnia
The Raw Shark Texts
The 48 Laws of Power
Treason’s Crown
Flatland
A Tale of Two Cities
In The Woods
When Breath Becomes Air
The Parasitic Mind
Princess: More Tears To Cry
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Go Set a Watchman
1620: A Critical Response
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
Stuntman!
Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
Keep Moving
Empire of Lies
People's Republic
The Split
Crisis
Collapse
Wildfire
Indian Country
Black Ice
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Crazy Dangerous
A Matter of Principle
How Paul Robeson Saved My Life
The Lost Continent
A Story Guide to Vaclac Havel’s “The Memorandum”
Cryptocurrency Mining
Crisis of Responsibility
Fate is the Hunter
Babylon Berlin
Less Than Words Can Say
The Power of Babel
Six Easy Pieces
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Time In Between
In The Weeds
Taking the Bastille
A Winter’s Promise
The Haunting of Hill House
A Tiger in The Smoke
What Would You Do If You weren’t Afraid?
A Gentleman of Color
The Great Upheaval
Lonesome Dove
