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Read in 2016 (starting with most recent):
A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
The Short Drop by Matthew Fitzsimmons

Read in 2015:
The Homiletical Plot by Eugene Lowry
Brain Web by Douglas E. Richards
Mind's Eye by Douglas E. Richards
Wired by Douglas E. Richards
Split Second by Douglas E. Richards
Choices Under Fire by Michael Bess
The Discernment of Spirits by Timothy Gallagher
With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar
The Billion Dollar Spy by David Hoffman
*American Originals by Paul Conkin
*Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George Marsden
*One Nation Under God by Kevin Kruse
Preaching in an Age of Distraction by Ellsworth Kalas
The Contemplative Pastor by Eugene Peterson
Kathryn Kuhlman: The Woman Behind the Miracles by Wayne Warner
The Bookseller by Cynthian Swanson
Champion by Marie Lu
Prodigy by Marie Lu
Legend by Marie Lu
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosaria Butterfield
God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Run With the Horses by Eugene Peterson
Fire Season by Philip Conners
(R)evolution by PJ Manney
*Proving Doctrine by David Kelsey
*To Serve God and Wal-Mart by Bethany Moreton
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Wreckage by Emily Bleeker
Into Africa by Martin Dugard
The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey
*Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson

Read in 2014 (starting with most recent):
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
The Bible
The Pastor's Kid by Barnabas Piper
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel
*The Life and Works of Thomas Cole by L.L. Noble
*The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Lexicon by Max Barry
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Fluency by Jennifer Foehner Wells
Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey
The Last Town by Blake Crouch
Wayward by Blake Crouch
Pines by Blake Crouch
The Amateurs by Marcus Sakey
When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Risk of Returning by Shirley and Rudy Nelson
A Better World by Marcus Sakey
Brilliance by Marcus Sakey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Giver by Lois Lowry
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Painter by Peter Keller
The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle
Through All the Plain by Benjamin David Peters
The Martian by Andy Weir
*City of God by Augustine
By the Rivers of Water by Erkskine Clarke
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes by Belden Lane
Sand by Hugh Howey
*Confessions by Augustine
Russia, the Soviet Union and the United States by John Lewis Gaddis
Almost Amish by Nancy Sleeth
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safrna Foer
*Spaces for the Sacred by Philip Sheldrake
Leaves from the Notebooks of a Tamed Cynic by Reinhold Niebuhr
The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics by Hamilton and Phillips
Schleiermacher by Theodore Vial
Sabbath as Resistance by Walter Brueggemann
Plain and Simple by Sue Bender
*Putting Away Childish Things by Marcus Borg
The Economy of Desire by Daniel Bell
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Read in 2013:
A Concise History of Germany by Mary Fulbrook
The Pastor by Eugene Peterson
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
The Telling Room by Michael Paterniti
*America's God by Mark Noll
Peace Child by Don Richardson
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
Dust by Hugh Howey
Shift by Hugh Howey
Wool by Hugh Howey
Pilgrim's Wilderness by Tom Kissia
Body Politics by John Howard Yoder
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Inferno by Dan Brown
C.S. Lewis: A Life by Alister McGrath
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
*Jesus by Marcus Borg
Knowing Me, Knowing God by Malcolm Goldsmith
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
Fire by Kristin Cashore
The Mormon People by Matthew Bowman
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
*Looking for God in the Suburbs by James Hudnut-Beumler
Numbers and Deuteronomy by John Goldingay
*Bourgeois Utopias by Robert Fishman

Read in 2012
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Long Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
*Moral Minority by David Swartz
Fooling Houdini by Alex Stone
*Moral Politics by George Lakoff
Spiral Dynamics by Don Edward Beck and Christopher Cowan
The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution by Richard Beeman
Engines of Change by Paul Ingrassia
Leap Over a Wall by Eugene Peterson
1 and 2 Samuel by John Goldingay
Being Consumed by William Cavanaugh
Migrations of the Holy by William Cavanaugh
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Living Your Strengths by Albert Winseman
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Countercultural Conservatives by Axel Shafer
The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan Hatch
*Moral, Believing Animals by Christian Smith
*The Death of Josseline by Margaret Regan
Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf
*Allies for Armageddon by Victoria Clark
*The End of Days by Gershom Gorenberg
*Eye on Israel by Michelle Mart
*Caught in the Middle East by Peter Hahn
*Debating the 1960s by Michael Flamm and David Steigerwald
*Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 by Nick Cullather

Read in 2011 (starting with most recent):
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
*Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Religion in America Since 1945 by Patrick Allitt
The Roots of Riches by Chuck Bentley
*The American Intellectual Tradition by David Hollinger and Charles Capper
*Twentieth Century America by Douglas Tallack
Friendship at the Margins by Chris Heuertz and Christine Pohl
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial by Edward Larson
Practicing the Way of Jesus by Mark Scandrette
Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish by Joseph Keenan
Luther the Reformer by James Kittleson
The Anabaptist Story by William Estep
Renovation of the Church by Kent Carlson
Bible by Gordon Campbell
The Big Roads by Earl Swift
The Old Religion in a New World by Mark Noll
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller
*Freud and Freudians on Religion by Donald Capps
*"The Illusion of a Future" by Jonathan Lear
*The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
*Group Psychology and the Analysis of Ego by Sigmund Freud
*Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
*Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
*Freud: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Storr
*On Dream by Sigmund Freud
Revive Us Again by Joel Carpenter
A New Evangelical Coalition by Joel Carpenter
A Transforming Faith by David Watt
Transformed by Love by Bruce Shelley
*A Cautious Patriotism by Gerald Sittser
*Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo
*The First Strange Place by Beth Bailey and David Farber
*Why We Fought by Robert Westbrook
*Everyday Religion by Nancy Ammerman
*American Evangelicalism by Christian Smith
*Acts of Faith by Rodney Stark and Roger Finke
*The Sacred Canopy by Peter Berger
*The Myth of Religious Violence by William Cavanaugh
*Terror in the Mind of God by Mark Juergensmeyer
Key Questions About Christian Faith by John Goldingay
Founding Faith by Steven Waldman
Radical by David Platt
Bloody Crimes by James Swanson
Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism by George Marsden
Surprised by Grace by Tullian Tchividjian

Read in 2010 (starting with most recent):
The Black Nile by Dan Morrison
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
*The First Crusade: A New History by Thomas Asbridge
*Thirteen Days by Robert Kennedy
The Gospel of Ruth by Carolyn Custis James
The Stillborn God by Mark Lilla
*The Weakness of God by John Caputo
*Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
*Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton
My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
*The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg
*The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
*Telling the Truth About History by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob
*Houses of History by Kathleen Troup and Anna Green
*That Noble Dream by Peter Novick
*Globalized Islam by Olivier Roy
*The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade
The Icarus Syndrome by Peter Beinart
Evolution: The Remarkable Theory of a Scientific Theory by Edward Larson
Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller
The Enneagram by Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert
The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
The Fifties by David Halberstam
After You Believe by N.T. Wright
And: The Gathered and Scattered Church by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay
Against the Tide by Miroslav Volf
The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns
The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick
Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Wills
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Viral Hope ed. by J.R. Woodward
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 by George Herring
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett
The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
Sands of Empire by Robert Merry
A Country of Vast Designs by Robert Merry

Read in 2009 (starting with most recent):
The Poor Will Be Glad by Peter Greer and Phil Smith
Colorado: A History of the Centennial State by Abbott, Leonard, and Noel
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Jesus, The Final Days by Craig Evans and N.T. Wright
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson
The Cold War: a New History by John Lewis Gaddis
Crazy For the Storm by Norman Ollestad
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 by Sean Wilentz
Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross
'What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?' by Kevin Mattson
Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Jesus, Interrupted by Bart Ehrman
Irrational Predictability by Dan Ariely
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo
The Search for Christian America by Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden
Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Saving Francis by Ian Morgan Cron
On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Fasting by Scot McKnight
Justification: God's Plan and Paul's Vision by N.T. Wright
Heaven Misplaced by Douglas Wilson
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton
The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations by Michael Holmes
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer
A Brief History of Central America by Lynn Foster
The Tangible Kingdom by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
The God I Don't Understand by Christopher Wright

Read in 2008 (starting with most recent):
The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Culture Making by Andy Crouch
You Set My Spirit Free by St. John of the Cross
American Creation by Joseph Ellis
What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
The Apostles' Creed for Today by Justo Gonzalez
Torah Through A Zionist Vision by Avraham Feder
The Worst, Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
The Theology of Paul the Apostle by James D.G. Dunn
My Beautiful Idol by Pete Gall
The Mission of God by Christopher Wright
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change by Stephen Kinzer
The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch
Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King
The Shaping of Things to Come by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch
From Eden to Exile by Eric Cline
No god but God by Reza Aslan
Small Footprint, Big Handprint by Tri Robinson
Christians at the Border by Danny Carroll
Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament by Christopher Wright
Questions to All Your Answers by Roger Olson
Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross by Hans Boersma
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr

Read in 2007 (starting with most recent):
Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice by Christopher Marshall
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism by James Smith
The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
The Shack by William Young
Welcoming but Not Affirming by Stanley Grenz
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren
Serve God Save the Planet by Matthew Sleeth
Old Testament Theology: Israel's Gospel by John Goldingay
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Loving Homosexuals Like Jesus Would by Chad Thompson
Justice in the Burbs by Will and Lisa Samson
How (Not) to Speak of God by Pete Rollins
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry Stout
They Like Jesus But Not the Church by Dan Kimball
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius... by Dava Sobel
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antartic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Sex God by Rob Bell
Emergent Manifesto of Hope ed. by Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones
God’s Judgments by Steven Keillor
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Raising Adopted Children by Lois Ruskai Melina
Beginning Well by Gordon T. Smith
The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture by Shane Hipps
Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the OT by Peter Enns
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Language of God by Francis Collins

Read in 2006 (starting with most recent):
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
Evil and the Justice of God by N.T. Wright
Communicating For a Change by Andy Stanley
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren
The Lost Message of Jesus by Steve Chalke
The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
The Great Turning by David Korten
A Short History of World War II by James Stokebury
A Short History of World War I by James Stokebury
Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller
June 1941: Hitler and Stalin by John Lukacs
Abraham by Bruce Feiler
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Not the Way It's Supposed To Be by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
General A.P. Hill by James Robertson
On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius
The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
Good News About Injustice by Gary Haugen
Embracing Grace by Scot McKnight
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
Revolution by George Barna
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard
Atonement for a 'Sinless' Society by Alan Mann
Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf
Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf
Simply Christian by N.T. Wright
Paul by N.T. Wright
The Last Word by N.T. Wright
No Perfect People Allowed by John Burke

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