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October 2007
- Minister of Mercy: The New Testament Deacon / Strauch / helpful

September 2007
- The Ministry We Need / Baxter / SUPERB! includes a great biography of Baxter's life
- Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment / Burroughs / EXCELLENT, I will read many times throughout life
- The Saint's and Angel's Song / Fischer / also good
- Saint Ben / Fischer / I liked it

August 2007
- Sing the Lord's Song: Biblical Psalms in Worship / Keddie / some good points, overall not thoroughly pursuasive
- The Psalms in Christian Worship: A Doctrinal, Historical, and Expository Guide / Ward / ok, but argumentation is weak

July 2007
- The Atonement / Clark / helpful, but not as focused as I would have liked
- God Incarnate: Meeting the Contemporary Challenges to a Classic Christian Doctrine / Carey / worthless
- On God and Political Duty / Calvin / enjoyable and helpful

June 2007
- Holiness / Ryle / excellent!

May 2007
- Perspectives on Church Government: Five Views of Church Polity / Brand & Norman / actually 3 views - not too bad

March 2007
- The Informed Investor: A Hype-Free Guide to Constructing a Sound Financial Portfolio / Armstrong III / somewhat helpful

February 2007
- The Hittites: And Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor / Macqueen / a really great overview of Hitte history

January 2007
- The Cell Church: A Paradigm for Church Planting in Bangkok / Kim / how to mega-church in 3rd world countries, yuck

December 2006
- A Brother's Journey: Surviving Childhood Abuse / Pelzer / David's brother Richard's story - very sad

November 2006
- The Catcher in the Rye / Salinger / ok

October 2006
- God of Promise: Introducting Covenant Theology / Horton / excellent, the work on suzereign treaties is helpful
- Genesis / Calvin / insightful and worth reading

September 2006
- Till Shiloh Comes / Morris / not bad
- Directed Verdict / Singer / slightly entertaining

August 2006
- The Strength of His Hands / Austin / enjoyable
- The Book of God: The Bible as a Novel / Wangerin / interesting

July 2006
- Sola Scriptura: Problems and Principles in Preaching Historical Texts / Greidanus / superb in the Vosian tradition

June 2006
- Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning / Wilson / written in the 80s, still excellent and relavent
- Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments / Vos / interesting, probably under appreciated

May 2006
- O Come Let Us Worship / Rayburn / fails to argue the necessity of his preferred mode of worship
- Apostasy from the Gospel / Owen / excellent exegesis of Hebrews 6

April 2006
- The Slave / Bashevis-Singer / great, reminds me of Sienkiewicz a bit
- With Reverence and Awe: Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship / Hart and Muether / pretty shallow

March 2006
- The Ten Commandments / Watson / excellent, though not as precise as I hoped
- Worship in Spirit and Truth / Frame / fairly pop level, but some interesting points

February 2006
- On the Eve / Turgenev / pretty interesting
- The Lord's Supper / Watson / ok
- Man in the Old Testament / Eichrodt / not worth reading
- The Baptist Faith and Message / Hobbs / fairly brief, somewhat insightful

January 2006
- A Layman's Guide to the Sabbath Question / Belcher / fair treatment of 3 common positions
- Excused Absence: Should Christian Kids Leave Public Schools? / Wilson / highly recommended
- Song of Redemption / Austin / very enjoyable
- Gods and Kings / Austin / excellent, highly recommended
- Out of Order: Arrogance, Corruption, and Incompetence on the Bench / Boot / disturbing

December 2005
- The Birth of the United States / Bishop / not bad

November 2005
- The Holy Spirit / Owen / superb and should be read

September 2005
- The Reformed Pastor / Baxter / truly excellent and should be read by all pastors

August 2005
- The Absurdity and Perfidy of all Authoritative Toleration / Brown / excellent
- The Bourne Ultimatum / Ludlum / not too bad, the movies are better
- A Simple Overview of Covenant Theology / McMahon / pretty decent (though pricey)

July 2005
- The Story of England / Hibbert / very interesting and great introductory
- Christian Faith versus Unbelief / Amen / pretty lame, though the author meant well

June 2005
- The New Testament Documents: Are they Reliable? / Bruce / introductory and fairly shallow
- Our Beckoning Borders: Illegal Immigration to America / Ashabranner / informative
- The Majority Text: Essays and Reviews in the Continuing Debate / Letis / challenging and quite interesting

May 2005
- Saving your Marriage before it Starts / Parrott / secular and shallow
- Liars and Thieves / Coonts / fairly entertaining

April 2005
- Covenantal Worship: Reconsidering the Puritan Regulative Principle / Gore / some challenging points made
- Infant Baptism: Scriptural and Reasonable / Samuel Miller / excellent

March 2005
- In Vain / Sienkiewicz / superb
- A Hero for Our Time / Lermontov / not too bad
- The Acts of the Apostles / Haenchen / absolutely horrid

February 2005
- Henryk Sienkiewicz: A Biography / Giergielewicz / pretty interesting
- Believers and Their Seed / Hoeksema / strong start, weak finish

January 2005
- On the Divine Images / St. John of Damascus / informative, but painfully erroneous
- The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face / Morley / somewhat insightful
- The Orthodox Veneration of Mary / St. John Maximovitch / interesting
- Ethics / Bonhoeffer / horrible
- Where Worlds Meet / Sienkiewicz / entertaining, well worth reading
- Peter, Stephen, James and John: Studies in Early Non-Pauline Christianity / Bruce / interesting and informative
- Through the Desert / Sienkiewicz / another classic

December 2004
- For the Life of the Word: Sacraments and Orthodoxy / Scmemann / hardly orthodox, save your money
- Wittgenstein: On Rules and Private Language / Saul Kripke / fascinating

November 2004
- Comparative Philosophy / Bahn / somewhat interesting
- Your God is too Small / Phillips / not so good

October 2004
- Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Question / Herda / simple introductory
- Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith / Gillquist / from ignorance to ignorance
- The Sinai Strategy: Economics and the Ten Commandments / North / I love North
- I Aint Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up / Ventura / somewhat interesting

September 2004
- Aquinas / Copleston / not very good

August 2004
- The Holy Sinner / Mann / yuck

July 2004
- The Robe / Douglas / highly recommend

June 2004
- God, Freedom, and Evil / Plantinga / excellent: read slowly
- Orthodoxy / Chesterton / horrible

May 2004
- The Russian Revolution / Goldston / very good introduction

April 2004
- The Cold War and the Income Tax / Wilson / ugh

March 2004
- Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the US-Mexican Border / Davidson / sobering

February 2004
- Christian Baptism / Murray / great read
- The Victory of the Lamb: Christ's Triumph over Sin, Death, and Satan / Leahy / ok

January 2004
- Angels and Demons / Brown / pretty entertaining
- Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail / Martinez / depressing
- The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop / Morgan / fantastic
- The Supreme Court / Rehnquist / excellent introduction
- The Dream Master / Zelazny / surprisingly entertaining
- Does God have a Nature? / Plantinga / not bad

December 2003
- Christianity and the Constitution / Eidsmoe / pretty good

November 2003
- Elijah / Pink / good read

October 2003
- God's Covenant and Our Time / Duty / not bad
- Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism / North / I love North
- Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Bible / Adams / excellent
- The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, and Self-Image / Adams / mind altering

September 2003
- Jeremiah / Huey / pretty ok
- Prophets of Psychoheresy I / Bobgan / not bad
- Jonah: A Study in Compassion / Robertson / very nice
- How to Help People Change / Adams / informative
- Puritan Economic Experiments / North / challenging
- Solving Marriage Problems / Adams / should come in handy
- The Biblical Doctrine of Infant Baptism / Marcel / helpful
- Psychobabble: The Failture of Modern Psychology and the Biblical Alternative / Ganz / extremely good intro
- Children of the Promise: The Biblical Case for Infant Baptism / Booth / not bad

August 2003
- What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East / Lewis / answers an intriguing question

July 2003
- In the Presence of My Enemies / Burnham / sad
- Emotional Intelligence / Goleman / surpisingly good, interesting intro on neural physiology
- The Rise of Christianity / Fend / heavy and informative
- Saint Augustine / Willis / ok overview

June 2003
- Westminster's Confession: The Abandonmen of Van Til's Legacy / North / typically good
- Ann Frank: Diary of a Young Girl / Frank / pretty interesting
- The Case for Christ / Strobel / pretty weak
- Protestantism / Dunstan / clueless

May 2003
- Our Idea of God / Morris / not his best, but good
- Every Thought Captive: A Study Manual for the Defense of Christian Truth / Pratt / simple yet good

April 2003
- The Meaning of BRK "to bless" in the Old Testament / Mitchell / focused and informative
- Many Mexicos / Simpson / excellent overview of Mexico's history

March 2003
- Spanish: Verbs and Essentials of Grammar / Ramboz / pretty helpful
- Spanish without the Fuss / Munday / ok
- The Logic of the God Incarnate / Morris / very good

December 2002
- A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising / Bialoszewski / horrible
- The Rise and Fall of Adolph Hitler / Shirer/ simple
- The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories / Gogol / fun

November 2002
- And Quiet Flows the Don / Sholokhov / pretty good Cossack story
- The Teutonic Knights / Sienkiewicz / excellent, one of his best outside the Trilogy

October 2002
- Van Til's Apologetic: Readings and Analysis / Bahnsen / probably the best survey of Van Til's apologetic
- The Great Tribulation: Past or Present / Gentry and Ice / insightful
- Our English Bible in the Making / May / good overview
- True Spirituality / Schaeffer / ok
- Sarah / Scott-Card / surprisingly entertaining
- A Clockwork Orange / Burgess / dark and entertaining
- The God who is There / Schaeffer / not bad

September 2002
- The Complete Guide to Choosing a Cruising Sailboat / Marshall / inspiring
- So What's the Difference / Ridenour / pretty weak
- Return to Reason / Clark / excellent intro to Reformed Epistemology
- Language, Truth, and Logic / Ayer / blah
- The Story of D-Day: June 6, 1944 / Bliven / general
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / Solzhenitsyn / extremely good

August 2002
- Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth / McGinn / informative
- Factotum / Bukowski / not bad, pretty dark
- How Should we Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture / Schaeffer / great in parts
- By this Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today / Bahnsen / extremely good

July 2002
- The Book of Confessions: Study Edition / various / should be read regularly
- Absolute Predestination / Zanchius / pretty good

June 2002
- The Bondage of the Will / Luther / really good
- The Return of the King / Tolkien / awesome
- Being There / Kosinski / pretty unusual for the author, though not bad
- Steps / Kosinski / this author is very dark, not a bad book though

May 2002
- Blind Date / Kosinski / not so good
- Ham on Rye / Bukowski / strange, yet entertaining
- The Painted Bird / Kosinski / disturbing

April 2002
- The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination / Boettner / pretty solid
- Philosophy of Logics / Haack / really good

March 2002
- Robinson Crusoe / Defoe / excellent
- By What Standard? An Analysis of the Philosophy of Cornelius Van Til / Rushdoony / ok
- All Quiet on the Western Front / Remarque / worth reading
- Why I am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects / Russell / pretty goofy

February 2002
- The Two Towers / Tolkien / excellent
- Warrant and Proper Function / Plantinga / superb
- Power Through Prayer / Bounds / ok

January 2002
- Catch 22 / Heller / horribly boring
- Holy Scripture: The Ground and Pillar of Our Faith / King / pretty good
- Some Problems of Philosophy / James / not very good
- The Fellowship of the Ring / Tolkien / better than the movie
- End Times Fiction: A Biblical Consideration of the Left Behind Series / Demar / awesome
- The Hobbit / Tolkien / not as good as the other 3, but excellent nonetheless
- If I were an Atheist / Nelson / no idea how this got published

December 2001
- Into the Wild / Krakauer / entertaining

November 2001
- Competent to Counsel / Adams / exellent

September 2001
- Kant / Scruton / ok
- First Language Acquisition: Method, Description, and Explanation / Ingram / informative
- Historical Linguistics / Trask / not bad
- A Little Book on PERL / Sebesta / good for beginners

August 2001
- Count of Monte Cristo / Dumas / superb, none of the movies do it justice
- Perelandra / Lewis / not as good as the first in the trilogy

July 2001
- Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist / Piper / uncomparable, should be read regularly
- Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals / Kant / ok
- Pursuasions: A Dream of Reason Meeting Unbelief / Wilson / entertaining and evangelistic

June 2001
- Survival in Auschwitz / Levi / depressing
- The Hand: Or, The Confession of an Executioner / Aleshkovsky / wretched - a couple hundred page monologue
- The Dynamic Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology / Skinner / ok
- Holocaust: Problem and Perspective of Interpretation / Niewyk / disturbing
- The Holocaust in History / Marrus / informative yet sad
- Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology / Brown / informative and thick
- Holocaust Reader, From Ideology to Annihilation / Botwinick / pretty good
- History of the Holocaust / Botwinick / pretty good

May 2001
- Incarnation: Myth or Fact? / Skarsaune / ok

April 2001
- Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous / Wood / somewhat insightful

March 2001
- The Source / Michener / interesting and entertaining
- Fire in the Steppe / Sienkiewicz / extremely good
- The Theory of Knowledge / Hamlyn / not so good

February 2001
- A Course in Phonology / Roca and Johnson / informative
- African Languages: An Introduction / Heine and Nurse / fascinating

January 2001
- Through a Boy's Eyes: The Turbulent Years 1926-1945 / Posner / very good
- A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness / Pelzer / emotionally disturbing
- The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family / Pelzer / extremely sad
- A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive / Pelzer / powerful, yet probably the saddest book I've read
- Doctrine of the Knowledge of God / Frame / awesome
- Ashes and Diamonds / Andrzejewski / pretty good
- The Stranger / Camus / enjoyable

November 2000
- The Deluge / Sienkiewicz / extremely good

October 2000
- Elements of Acoustic Phonetics / Ladefoged / pretty good

September 2000
- A Course in Phonetics / Ladefoged / interesting
- The Sovereignty of God / Pink / very good
- Amazing Grace / Kozol / pretty good

August 2000
- C.S. Lewis / Swift / informative

July 2000
- Who Owns the Land: The Arab-Israeli Conflict / Ellisen / very informative
- With Fire and Sword / Sienkiewicz / probably my favorite work of Sienkiewicz
- The Little Trilogy / Sienkiewicz / great
- The Trilogy Companion: A Reader's Guide to the Trilogy of Henryk Sienkiewicz / should probably be read after the Trilogy
- A Practical Introduction to Phonetics / Catford / helpful
- Tractates on the Gospel of John 1-10 / Augustine / fascinating

June 2000
- Contra Julianum / Augustine / awesome
- Meir Ezofowich / Orzeszkowa / really really good
- The Problems of Philosophy / Russell / very informative
- Poststructuralism and the New Testament: Derrida and Foucault at the Foot of the Cross / Moore / terrible

May 2000
- Five Views on Apologetics / Cowan / great overview
- The Teacher, The Free Choice of the Will, Grace and Freewill / Augustine / awesome
- Rat / Zaniewski / really odd, but I enjoyed it a lot

April 2000
- The Abolition of Man / Lewis / not his best, but good nonetheless

March 2000
- The Silver Chair / Lewis / excellent
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich / Tolstoy / pretty good
- A Short History of the Early Church / Boer / fairly brief, but not bad
- C.S. Lewis / Wellman / great
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe / Lewis / very good

February 2000
- John Calvin / Lidner / pretty brief
- French Lessons: A Memoir / Kaplan / not bad
- The Great Divorce / Lewis / my favorite work of Lewis
- Language and Thought / Chomsky / ok

January 2000
- The Weight of Glory: And Other Addresses / Lewis / not bad
- Scuba Diving / Graver / inspirational
- How Languages are Learned / Lightbown and Spada / excellent
- Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language / Hoffman / really interesting
- Out of a Silent Planet / Lewis / excellent and unusual
- Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Century / MacMullen
- Hume in 90 Minutes / Strathern / 90 minutes didn't cover much

December 1999
- Mark's Story of Jesus / Kelber / surprisingly good
- The Gospel in Brief / Tolstoy / it's fair to say Tolstoy never knew the Gospel
- Metaphysics / Taylor / pretty good
- The Reality of God / Cassels / not good
- The Elders of the Church / Eyres / excellent

November 1999
- A Thousand Years of Jewish History / Harris / surprisingly great

October 1999
- In Defense of the Faith: A Survey of Christian Epistemology / Van Til / superb

September 1999
- Religion and the Romans / Dowden / not that great

August 1999
- Introduction to Transformational Grammar: From Principles and Parameters to Minimalism / Ouhalla / superb

July 1999
- The Apologia Pro Vita Sua of John Henry Newman / Newman / blah

June 1999
- Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction / Cook / pretty helpful
- Chomsky / Lyons / not bad
- Language: It's Structure and Use / Finegan / great
- The Defense of the Faith / Van Til / awesome

April 1999
- The Brothers Karamazov / Dostoevsky / pretty good

March 1999
- Demons / Dostoevsky / great depth

February 1999
- The Idiot / Dostoevsky / really good
- Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature / Jackendoff / insightful

January 1999
- Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages / Bonvillain / helpful
- Crime and Punishment / Dostevsky / probably my favorite Dostoevsky
- Notes from the Underground / Dostoevsky / entertaining
- White Nights / Dostoevsky / my favorite novella
- The Dream of a Ridiculous Man and selections from The House of the Dead / Dostoevsky / not bad
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language / Pinker / intriguing

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