Every year it’s a good idea to create a list of books to read. For one thing, it helps to maintain the discipline to read throughout the year. It is, however, also good to keep a list of books one has already read, so one can see how much he has accomplished in one year. My reading list from last year (2019) included the following major works. Note that this is not an exhaustive list. It just represents the major works:
- Alister McGrath, J.I. Packer: A Biography
- Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western Liberalism
- Blaise Pascal, Pensees
- C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
- Michael Haykin, et. al, The Baptist Story: From English Sect to Global Movement
- Thomas Kidd & Barry Hankins, Baptists in America: A History
- Travis Kerns, The Saints of Zion: An Introduction to Mormon Theology
- John Gribbin, Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
- Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- Brandon Brown, Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War
- Thomas Schreiner and Ardel Caneday, The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Persevearance and Assurance
- Thomas Schreiner and Shawn Wright, eds., Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ
- Luis de Molina, On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of The Concordia
For the year 2020, I have created the following reading list. Again, this is just a start and not an exhaustive list.
- David McCullough, Truman
- David McCullough, John Adams
- Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
- Henry Lee Poe, Becoming C.S. Lewis (1898-1918), Vol. 1: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis
- Alister McGrath, Science and Religion: A New Introduction
- Ron Chernow, Grant
- J.P. Moreland, Scientism and Secularism
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
- David Halberstam, The Fifties
- Steve Duby, God in Himself: Scripture, Metaphysics, and the Task of Christian Theology
What did you read in 2019, and what do you plan on reading in 2020? Feel free to leave some of your ideas below in the comments section.
Dr. Peter Rasor