I like to read, which probably comes as no surprise. It’s kinda one of the most important things to like when you are in academics and higher education. So at some point over the several years, it occurred to me to include a page here listing things that I have recently worked through for my own enjoyment.
Here’s a list of books I read last year. Note that this does not really include “work books” that were part of my academic research. Most or all of this is closer to “interest” reading, listed roughly chronologically as to when I read them throughout the year. (I particularly enjoy the irony of #25 and #26 in juxtaposition, which was unplanned.)
2018 Reading
- Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (5 vols.) – finished from 2014
- Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
- David Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture
- Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
- Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive 1)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
- Christopher Ash, Zeal without Burnout
- Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
- David Crystal, The Gift of Gab
- Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Bobiverse #1
- Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
- Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews
- Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- Brian Sanderson, Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archive 2)
- Stephen King, It
- Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of Distraction
- Daniel Hyde, In Living Color: Images of Christ and the Means of Grace
- Karen Kelsky, The Professor is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job
- Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy
- Julia M. Vick, Jennifer S. Furlong, The Academic Job Search Handbook
- Timothy Z. Winter, The Shepherd Leader at Home
- Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Michael Allen, Sanctification
- Gary Burge, Mapping Your Academic Career
- David Powlison, How Sanctification Works
- Therese Huston, Teaching What You Don’t Know
- Ronald Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
- John R. Taylor, Linguistic Categorization
- John Currid, Against the Gods: The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament
- Dirk Geeraerts, Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings
- Eve Sweetser, From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure
- A. Mohler, P. Enns, et al., Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy
- Miles Van Pelt, Basics of Biblical Aramaic
- John R. Taylor, The Mental Corpus: How Language is Represented in the Mind
- Takamitsu Muraoka, A Biblical Aramaic Reader With an Outline Grammar
- Dirk Geeraerts, Words and Other Wonders: Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics
- Pietro Bortone, Greek Prepositions: From Antiquity to the Present
- David Firth, 1 & 2 Samuel: An Introduction and Study Guide
- Robert Kraft, ed., Septuagintal Lexicography
- John Frame, The Doctrine of the Word of God
- John Byron, Joel N. Lohr, eds., I (Still) Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship
- Takamitsu Muraoka, ed., Melbourne Symposium on Septuagint Lexicography
- Victor Tcherikover, Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews
- Melvin K. H. Peters, ed., XII Congress of the IOSCS, Leiden 2004
- Mark Boda, The Heartbeat of Old Testament Theology: Three Creedal Expressions
- Vyvyan Evans, The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning
- Géza Vèrmes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
- B. H. Kennedy, The Revised Latin Primer
- Henry St. J. Thackeray, Some Aspects of the Greek Old Testament
