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

1. Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
2. Isaac Asimov, Foundation
3. Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
4. George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (5 vols.) – finished from 2014
5. Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
6. David Murray, Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture
7. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
8. Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive 1)
9. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
10. Christopher Ash, Zeal without Burnout
11. Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
12. David Crystal, The Gift of Gab
13. Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Bobiverse #1
14. Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
15. Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews
16. Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
17. Brian Sanderson, Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archive 2)
18. Stephen King, It 
19. Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in the Age of Distraction 
20. Daniel Hyde, In Living Color: Images of Christ and the Means of Grace 
21. Karen Kelsky, The Professor is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job 
22. Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy
23. Julia M. Vick, Jennifer S. Furlong, The Academic Job Search Handbook 
24. Timothy Z. Winter, The Shepherd Leader at Home 
25. Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
26. Michael Allen, Sanctification
27. Gary Burge, Mapping Your Academic Career
28. David Powlison, How Sanctification Works 
29. Therese Huston, Teaching What You Don’t Know
30. Ronald Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
31. John R. Taylor, Linguistic Categorization
32. John Currid, Against the Gods: The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament
33. Dirk Geeraerts, Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings
34. Eve Sweetser, From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure 
35. A. Mohler, P. Enns, et al., Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy 
36. Miles Van Pelt, Basics of Biblical Aramaic
37. John R. Taylor, The Mental Corpus: How Language is Represented in the Mind 
38. Takamitsu Muraoka, A Biblical Aramaic Reader With an Outline Grammar
39. Dirk Geeraerts, Words and Other Wonders: Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics
40. Pietro Bortone, Greek Prepositions: From Antiquity to the Present 
41. David Firth, 1 & 2 Samuel: An Introduction and Study Guide 
42. Robert Kraft, ed., Septuagintal Lexicography 
43. John Frame, The Doctrine of the Word of God
44. John Byron, Joel N. Lohr, eds., I (Still) Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship 
45. Takamitsu Muraoka, ed., Melbourne Symposium on Septuagint Lexicography 
46. Victor Tcherikover, Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews
47. Melvin K. H. Peters, ed., XII Congress of the IOSCS, Leiden 2004
48. Mark Boda, The Heartbeat of Old Testament Theology: Three Creedal Expressions
49. Vyvyan Evans, The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning
50. Géza Vèrmes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
51. B. H. Kennedy, The Revised Latin Primer
52. Henry St. J. Thackeray, Some Aspects of the Greek Old Testament