I keep this page fairly current; it was last updated on January 16, 2021.
- The section for each year includes all the books I read that year (including the current year), in the order I finished the books.
- Books are marked “(new)” if this was the first time I read them, or “(reread)” otherwise.
- I separate out fiction and non-fiction not because I value them differently, but because they just are very different.
- Links on the books themselves are affiliate links to Alibris!
Quick links:
Planned
These are books I am actively planning to read — not just volumes I’m vaguely interested in, but texts I am committed to reading for some reason.
Non-fiction
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A Time to Keep, Ephraim Radner (new)
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Created in God’s Image, Anthony Hoekema (new)
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Technopoly, Neil Postman (new)
Fiction
- Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (new)
Started
These are books I have actually begun reading. (You will see items move from Planned down here if you watch this page!)
Non-fiction
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Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology, David H. Kelsey (new)
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein (new)
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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, Bruce A. Tate (new)
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Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky (new)
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Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares, Stephen Boyd (new)
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Confronted by Grace: Meditations of a Theologian, John Webster (new)
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We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and the Image of God, David T. Koyzis (new)
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Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes Du Mez (new)
Fiction
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Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (new)
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with my daughter!)
2021
Nonfiction
- Holiness, John Webster (new)
Fiction
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with my daughter!)
2020
Non-fiction
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Phaedrus, Plato (new)
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The Postmodern Condition, Jean-François Lyotard (new)
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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne (new)
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The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin (new)
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Evolution as Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears, Mary Midgley (new)
- discussed on Winning Slowly episodes 8.16 and 8.17
- posts on the book
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The Culture of Theology, John Webster (new)
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Shape Up, Ryan Singer (new)
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Politics & the Order of Love, Eric Gregory (new)
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Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much, Ashley Hales (new)
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (also available for free from the author here), Zeynep Tüfeçki (new)
Fiction
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The Expanse (reread, continued from 2019)
- Babylon’s Ashes, James S. A. Corey
- Persepolis Rising, James S. A. Corey
- Tiamat’s Wrath, James S. A. Corey
- Auberon (short fiction), James S. A. Corey (new)
- Gods of Risk (short fiction), James S. A. Corey
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The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil (new)1
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Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (new)
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The Lost World, Michael Crichton (new)
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Sourdough, Robin Sloan (new)
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The Orphans Trilogy, Sean Williams and Shane Dix (new)
- Echoes of Earth
- Orphans of Earth, Sean Williams and Shane Dix (new)
- Heirs of Earth, Sean Williams and Shane Dix (new)
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Delta-V, Daniel Suarez (new)
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Contact, Carl Sagan (new)
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Age of Myth, Michael J. Sullivan (new)
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The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (new reread):
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan (new)
- review
- discussed on Winning Slowly 8.22
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Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson (new)
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Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson (reread)
2019
Non-Fiction
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All That’s Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment, Hannah Anderson (new) — review
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Retrieving Eternal Generation, edited by Fred Sanders and Scott R. Swain (new) — review
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What is An Evangelical, Thomas Kidd (new) — review
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In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World, Jake Meador (new) — discussed in an interview with Jake on Winning Slowly
Fiction
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The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
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Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (new)
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Beowulf (new)
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The Martian, Andy Weir (reread)
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The Themis Files, Sylvain Neuvel (new):
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Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (new)
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Recursion, Blake Crouch (new)
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Dark Matter, Blake Crouch (new)
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The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (reread):
2018
Fiction
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Agent of Change, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (new)
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The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (new)
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The Fated Sky, Mary Robinette Kowal (new)
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Ringworld, Larry Niven (new)
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The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemison (new)
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The Obelisk Gate, N. K. Jemison (new)
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The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemison (new)
This is where it is for a reason. Don’t @ me. ↩︎