These are the books I have been reading
2025
A Second Shot of Coffee with Jesus
- David Wilkie
These Happy Golden Years
Little Town on the Prairie
The Long Winter
By the Shores of Silver Lake
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Little House on the Prairie
Little House in the Big Woods
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
2025
The Road to Character
-David Brooks
Becoming the Pastor’s Wife
-Beth Allison Barr
Stuff Matters
-Mark Miodownik
A Tale of Two Cities
-Charles Dickens
Where The Wind Leads
-Vinh Chung
The Return of the King
-J.R.R. Tolkien
Two Towers
-J.R.R. Tolkien
The Beatles Lyrics
-Hunter Davies
The Lord of the Rings
-J.R.R. Tolkien
The Beatles: The Biography
-Bob Spitz
The Hobbit
-J.R.R. Tolkien
How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
-Terry Virts
Never Split The Difference
-Chris Voss
Book 4: The Warden and the Wolf King
-Andrew Peterson
Book 3: The Monster in the Hollows
-Andrew Peterson
Book 2: North! or Be Eaten
-Andrew Peterson
2024
Book 1: On The Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
-Andrew Peterson
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
-Julian Rubinstein
Along Comes Grandpa
-Susan Salach
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
-Eric Berger
The Bottle Imp
-Robert Lewis Stevenson
Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders
-Mary Pipher
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir
-Shoji Morimoto
100 Side Hustles
-Chris Guillebeau
Hard Rock Gold: The Story of the Great Mines That Were the Heartbeat of Juneau
-David & Brenda Stone
The Science of Storytelling: Why stories make us human and how to tell them better
-Will Storr
Brave New World
-Aldous Huxley
The Five Impossible Tasks of Eden Smith
-Tom Llewellyn
Fight Fair: Winning at Conflict without Losing at Love
-Tim & Joy Downs
History, Ethnology and Anthropology Of The Aleut
-Waldemar Jochelson
2023
Dream Thief
-Stephen Lawhead
Scary Close
-Donald Miller
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
-Tony Dungy
We Don’t Make Widgets: Overcoming the Myths That Keep Government from Radically Improving
-Ken Miller
Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
-Neil Postman
What’s So Amazing About Grace?
-Philip Yancey
Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being
-Harold Napoleon
Pilgrim’s Progress, Part 2: Christiana
-John Bunyan
2022
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
-Scott McCloud
Pilgrim’s Progress
-John Bunyan
Creativity, Inc.
-Ed Catmull
The Capture of Attu: As Told By The Men Who Fought There
-Lt. Robert J Mitchell
Brigham Smith
-John L. Smith
Win The Crowd
- Steve Cohen
The Falcon Thief
- Joshua Hammer
The Lord God Made Them All
-James Herriot
The Millionaire Next Door
-Thomas Stanley
All Things Wise and Wonderful
-James Herriot
The Great Divorce
- C.S. Lewis
All Things Bright And Beautiful
-James Herriot
The Cheechakoes
-Wayne Short
All Creatures Great And Small
-James Herriot
Perelandra
-C.S. Lewis
Out Of The Silent Planet
-C.S. Lewis
The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin
-Benjamin Franklin
2021
Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not The Enemy Of Faith
- Barnabas Piper
Miracles Out Of Somewhere
-Kerry Livgren
Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History
-Phil Mason
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Life from Beginning to End
-Hourly History
Radical Hope
-Jonathan Lear
Sleeping Giants
-Sylvain Neuvel
The Journals of Patrick Gass, Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
-Carol Lynn MacGregor
Memoir of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge
-Benjamin Tallmadge
A Prayer For Owen Meany: A Novel
-John Irving
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
-Sarah Mackenzie
Absolute Faves
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
-J.R.R. Tolkien
1984
-George Orwell
The Gift Of Pain
-Paul Brand
Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
-Neil Postman
The Search For God And Guinness
-Stephen Mansfield
Secret Formula: The Inside Story Of How Coca-Cola Became The Best-Known Brand In The World
-Frederick Allen
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
-Donald Miller
About
I am keeping this list because I have a terrible time remembering the books I’ve read each year. As you can see, my interests are all over the map.
I like reading paper books best. There’s something about the smell and the feel of the paper that keeps me from going completely digital.
I read e-books on a Kobo Clara and an old Nook Simple Touch.
I recently bought the Kobo Clara and I really like it, especially the illuminated screen that automatically comes on when I read in the dark. It’s smaller and lighter than the Nook, and much more responsive.
I used to keep the Nook in a case, but found that it endures a lot of heavy-handedness without needing protection. It’s easy to manage on with a Mac and it has an SD card slot in case I run out of room on the local memory.
I buy most of my e-books from Amazon. I have to convert them to e-pub format so I can read them on the Nook. I use Epubor Ultimate to do the conversions.