2009 – books i read


I started reading again early this summer.  I also joined goodreads.com (a social networking site for books) so I could keep track of my books, see book reviews, discover new books, and etc.  Anyway, here’s what I’ve read this year (12/31/09):

2009 – 70 books

Title/Author/Rating

The Attributes of God by A.W. Pink – 4

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – 4

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn – 5

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis – 4

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens – 5

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens – 5

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens – 5

The Power in Prayer by Charles Spurgeon – 4

God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens – 3

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom – 5

Christ and Culture Revisited by D.A. Carson – 4

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller – 2

The Whimsical Christian by Dorothy Sayers – 3

The Documents in the Case by Dorothy Sayers – 4

Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy Sayers – 4

In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy Sayers – 4

Striding Folly by Dorothy Sayers – 4

The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers – 4

Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World by Douglas Hunter – 3

When People are BIG and God is Small by Edward T. Welch – 5

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway – 5

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – 5

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway – 5

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – 5

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway – 4

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway – 3

Three by Flannery O’Connor (Wise Blood, Everything that Rises Must Converge, and The Violent Bear it Away) by Flannery O’Connor – 5

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer – 4

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevskii – 5

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevskii – 5

Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden – 4

Christian Love by Hugh Binning – 5

The Summons by John Grisham – 3

Paradise Lost by John Milton – 4

The Mortification of Sin by John Owen – 4

Let the Nations Be Glad! by John Piper – 5

God is the Gospel: Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himself by John Piper – 4

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist by John Piper – 4

What’s the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible by John Piper – 4

For Your Joy by John Piper – 5

The Passion of Jesus Christ by John Piper – 4

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – 5

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck – 5

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad – 4

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang – 4

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro – 4

The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict by Ken Sande – 5

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame – 4

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini – 3

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – 2

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger – 3

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy – 5

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle – 3

The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther – 5

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov – 3

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne – 4

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam – 4

How Right you are, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse – 4

Bertie Wooster Sees it Through (a.k.a. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit) by P. G. Wodehouse – 4

How to Give Away your Faith by Paul E. Little – 4

The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul – 4

Five things Every Christian Needs to Grow by R.C. Sproul – 3

The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes – 5

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell – 1

The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson – 2

Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis – 1

Portrait of Calvin by T. H. L. Parker – 4

Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner – 4

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner – 4

The Shack by William P. Young – 1

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