Last year, and the year before, in typical nerd fashion, I mentioned all of the books I read (from cover to cover). Since this is the third year mentioning this, I think I’ll make it an annual thing. And since I don’t have a shortage of books nor do I cease from searching for new ones, keeping it annual shouldn’t be a problem.
As before, all of these books were pleasure-reading. Last year’s list (2013) was a meager 13, which now seems rather appropriate, though then inadvertent. This year’s list is a skosh more full, mainly because I wanted to see how many I could do. Here the list, this time in order of reading/completion:
- Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
- Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril
- Lemony Snicket, The End
- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Alice Calaprice (ed.), Dear Professor Einstein
- Tom Clancy, The Teeth of the Tiger
- John Grisham, A Time to Kill
- John Grisham, The Summons
- Lynn Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
- John Grisham, The Broker
- John Grisham, The Last Juror
- Arthur Pink, The Doctrine of Election
- Eric van Lustbader, The Bourne Legacy
- Lewis Grizzard, When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?
- Peter Kreeft, The Best Things In Life
- Peter Kreeft, Between Heaven and Hell
- Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass
- Margaret Avery, Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Hebrews
- John Grisham, The Firm
- Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception
- Martin Hengel, The Pre-Christian Paul
- Robert Ludlum, The Rhinemann Exchange
- John Grisham, The Racketeer
- Denny Flinn, How Not To Write a Screenplay
- T.M. Campbell, The Dispensations. A Lecture Delivered Before the Theological Union of the Guelph Conference
- Robert Ludlum, The Scorpio Illusion
- David A. Black, Why Four Gospels?
- James Patterson, Along Came a Spider
- Bill Bryson, Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer’s Guide to Getting it Right
Next year’s list won’t be as long (or ambitious) as this one, since I’m returning to technical/scholarly books as my primary reading. But I’ll drop in a few diverting-types along the way.
Peripatetic Learning 
This has inspired me to rekindle my love for reading. I can still count on you to inspire years later (and miles away).
Tosha