Reading List of 2008
As 2008 comes to a close, here is a look at the different books I have read this year.
Here is a listing of them with my rating for them (5 being the best):
- Unchristian by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons 3.5
- Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose 4
- Little-Known Facts About Well-Known Stuff by David Hoffman 3
- It All Goes Back in the Box by John Ortberg 3.5
- The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren 4.5
- The Last Christian Generation by Josh McDowell 1
- Tough Choices by Carly Fiorina 3
- Organic Community by Joseph R. Myers 3.5
- Finding Our Way Again by Brian McLaren 3
- Terrify No More by Gary Haugen 4.5
- The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom 4.5
- The Shack by William P. Young 5
- What God Thinks of Kids by Dr. Joe Grana 3
- Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell 4.5
- I Became a Christian and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by Vince Antonucci 3.5
- Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath 4
- No Perfect People Allowed by John Burke 3.5
- Embrace Me by Lisa Samson 4
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3.5
- Guns Save Lives by Robert A. Waters 4
- Buck Naked Faith by Eric Sandras 3
- Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman 3.5
- Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose 3
- Armed Response by David Kenik 3.5
- The Secret Life of Houdini by Kalush and Sloman 3.5
- The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence 2.5
- Wild at Heart by John Eldredge 4
- Fusion by Nelson Searcy 3.5
- Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell 4
- Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers 3.5
- Blog by Hugh Hewitt 4
- How Good is Good Enough? by Andy Stanley 3.5
- The Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts, Ph.D 4
- Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren 3
- A Tale of Three Kings by Gene Edwards 4.5
- On Becoming Babywise by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam 4.5
All in all I read 36 books. As I did last year, here are my yearly awards:
My favorite book of 2008: The Shack by William P. Young
My least favorite book of 2008: The Last Christian Generation by Josh McDowell