As you peruse this list, please keep in mind that these books were read, and evaluated, over a period of many years. As my understanding of God’s Word (not to mention the world ) has grown, the predictable result is that I would now evaluate many of these works differently — DW
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Brown Harris Harrison Hart Harvey Harvey Hatch Hatherleigh Haugk Haupt Hayek Hazlitt Hazony Heaney Heany Heath & Potter Hegel Hegeman Hegseth/Goodwin Heilbroner Heiser Helm Helseth Hemingway Hendrickson Henry Herbert Herl Herman Hermon Herrick Herriot Hession Hetherington Heward-Mills Hewitt Heydt Heyer Heyer Hibbs Hicks Higgins Hill Hillebrand Hislop Very Hitchcock Hitchens Hitchens, Wilson Hodgart Hodge Hoekema Hoeksema Hoffecker, ed. Hoffer Holford Holiday Holland Hollander Holloway Holy Spirit Holy Spirit (C.S.) Holy Spirit (Lattimore’s translation) Holy Spirit (NKJV mostly) Holy Spirit/Adams Holy Spirit Homer Homer, Lattimore Homer/Lattimore Hoover Hopkins Horgan Horner Hornsby Horowitz Horton Hotham House/Ice Houseal Hovestol Howard Howe Hubbard Huber Hubery Hudson Hughes Hughesreally Hugh of St. Victor Hull Hulse Hume Humez Humphries Hunt Hunter Hurley Hyatt Hynes Ibrahim I forget Ignatius Ingram Ingrams Isker J.C. Ryle J.I. 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2025 1 The Return of the King Tolkien stupendous January 2 Edward Lear: Complete Verse Lear fun January 3 Penny Plain O’Douglas fun January 4 The New Testament (NKJV/Cash) Holy Spirit Scripture January 5 Humorists Johnson quite good January 6 Essays Lewis excellent January 7 Everyday Guide to Scrivener 3 Crawford good January 8 The White Horse King Merkle really good January 9 Ecochondriacs Wilson whattabook January 10 Dilbert’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life Adams good January 11 Common Grace Van Til good January 12 Evangellyfish Wilson whattabook January 13 Ride Sally Ride Wilson whattabook January 14 The Man in the Dark Wilson whattabook January 15 The Flags Out Front Wilson whattabook January 16 The Horse and His Boy Lewis great January 17 The Trinity: An Introduction Swain solid January 18 Pomosexuality Wilson whattabook January 19 The Neglected Qualification Wilson whattabook January 20 Farmer Giles of Ham Tolkien fun January 21 Christian in Complete Armor Gurnall great January 22 European Brain Snakes Wilson whattabook January 23 Foundations of Social Order Rushdoony great January 24 Atomic Habits Clear good January 25 Heidelberg Catechism Ursinus great January 26 Christendom and the Nations Jordan good January 27 21 Prayers for Pastors on the Lord’s Day Wilson whattabook January 28 What Women Want When They Test Men Bryan good January 29 Gashmu Saith It Wilson whattabook January 30 The Abolition of Man Lewis still great January 31 Mere Fundamentalism Wilson whattabook January 32 The 39 Steps Buchan good January 33 The Art of Divine Contentment Watson great January 34 My Dear Hemlock Dillehay quite good January 35 Greenmantle Buchan good January 36 21 Prayers Wilson whattabook February 37 How to Worship Moats good February 38 Planet Narnia Ward stupendous February 39 Deeper Heaven Hale quite good February 40 Rules for Reformers Wilson whattabook February 41 The Pilgrim’s Regress Lewis just great March 42 Pudd’nhead Wilson Twain fun March 43 The Story of English in 100 Words Crystal good March 44 Worthy Ferguson really good March 45 Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue McWhorter great March 46 The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis Baxter really good March 47 The Prelude Wordsworth good March 48 American Milk & Honey Wilson whattabook March 49 Philemon Nordling very good March 50 Treasury of David Vol. 3 Spurgeon great April 51 Jewish Comedy Dauber quite good April 52 Should Christians Support Israel? Myers good April 53 That Hideous Strength Lewis marvelous April 54 Undiscovered Youngren really good April 55 Christian Reflections Lewis great April 56 The Daily Drucker Drucker quite good April 57 A Primer on Worship and Reformation Wilson whattabook April 58 Out of the Silent Planet Lewis still great April 59 21 Prayers for Pastors Wilson whattabook April 60 Low Noon Griffith fun April 61 The Sin of Empathy Rigney great April 62 Against the Waves Harris quite good May 63 Ecochondriacs Wilson whattabook May 64 Live Like a Narnian Rigney good May 65 Evangellyfish Wilson whattabook May 66 It’s Not Like Being Black Baucham good May 67 The Man in the Dark Wilson whattabook May 68 The Flags Out Front Wilson whattabook May 69 The Holy Bible (Lexham) Holy Spirit Scripture May 70 Hal Lindsey & the Restoration of the Jews Scissel/Brown good May 71 Neo-Calvinism Brock & Sutanto really informative May 72 Expository Apologetics Baucham good May 73 The Hebrew Republic Nelson really good May 74 The Hobbit Tolkien still great May 75 The Shape of Sola Scriptura Mathison great June 76 The Dying Citizen Hanson really good June 77 Chesterton’s Jews Mayers mixed June 78 The KJV: A Creationist’s Defense Morris good July 79 21 Prayers for Pastors on the Lord’s Day Wilson whattabook July 80 English Literature in the 16th Century Lewis great July 81 Myths of American Slavery Kennedy good July 82 Plot: The Art of Story Jones good July 83 How to Tell a Story Aristotle interesting July 84 Poetic Meter and Form Wynne good July 85 Literary Devices Jones good July 86 Keep Your Kids Wilson whattabook July 87 The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien just great July 88 The Definitive Wit of Winston Churchill Churchill great July 89 The Two Towers Tolkien great July 90 The Return of the King Tolkien great August 91 The Hobbit Tolkien really good August 92 Papa Don’t Pope Wilson whattabook August 93 Leave It to Psmith Wodehouse still great August 94 Out of the Silent Planet Lewis great August 95 The New Testament Lattimore Scripture August 96 Perelandra Lewis great August 97 The Silent Bells Wilson really good August 98 That Hideous Strength Lewis wonderful September 99 The Cottage Haupt quite good September 100 The Case for Classical Christian Education Wilson whattabook September 101 The Code of the Woosters Wodehouse great September 102 Virgins and Volcanoes Wilson whattabook September 103 True Spirituality Schaeffer really good October 104 Darwinian Racism Weikart good stuff October 105 Mere Calvinism Orrick quite good October
Top 2024 1 The Rights of Magistrates Beza good January 2 Paradise Lost Milton great January 3 Sense and Sensibility Austen great January 4 Preface to Paradise Lost Lewis simply great January 5 The Abolition of Man Lewis always great January 6 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Cipolla still good January 7 Refreshment for the Soul Sibbes really good January 8 The PIG to Western Civilization Esolen quite good January 9 The Poetic Edda: A Study Guide Tetzner good January 10 Gashmu Saith It Wilson whattabook January 11 Taking Back the Culture Dunlop quite good January 12 The Didascalicon Hugh of St. Victor good January 13 The Poetic Edda Crawford interesting January 14 The Poetry of Robert Frost Frost great January 15 Same Sex Mirage Wilson whattabook January 16 That Hideous Strength Lewis still great January 17 Pride and Prejudice Austen great January 18 Forbidden Child Newell good January 19 Winter Fire Smith just great January 20 The Loveliness of Christ Rutherford great January 21 Wordsmithy Wilson whattabook January 22 Papa Don’t Pope Wilson whattabook January 23 This Independent Republic Rushdoony good January 24 Life After Capitalism Gilder just great January 25 Sunday as First Day Sabbath Kayser fantastic January 26 The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 1 Wilson whattabook January 27 Animal Farm Orwell really good January 28 The New Testament (KJV) Holy Spirit Scripture January 29 Why You Think the Way You Do Sunshine really good January 30 The Emotional Life of Our Lord Warfield fantastic January 31 God Has Spoken Packer really fine January 32 Death by Living Wilson really good January 33 Five Lies Butterfield just great February 34 Van Til and the Limits of Reason Rushdoony good February 35 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Cipolla great February 36 By What Standard? Rushdoony really good February 37 The Silver Chair Lewis still great February 38 The St. Andrews Seven Piggin/Roxborough good February 39 This Independent Republic Rushdoony really good February 40 Theology in Three Dimensions Frame quite good February 41 Determinism and Free Will Wilson whattabook February 42 Leadership and Emotional Sabotage Rigney really good February 43 Ruler of Kings Boot great March 44 The Biblical Philosophy of History Rushdoony very good March 45 Malthus Winch really informative March 46 Bad Therapy Shrier really good March 47 21 Prayers Wilson whattabook March 48 God’s Plan for Victory Rushdoony quite good March 49 The Four Loves (audio) Lewis great March 50 Nostalgia Esolen really good March 51 Darwin’s Sandcastle Wilson quite good March 52 Rabbit Higgins quite good March 53 Our Program Kuyper impressive March 54 Savage Church Craw good March 55 Persuasion Austen really good April 56 The Horse and His Boy Lewis still great April 57 Wiser Than the Machine Collender/Shaw decent April 58 Emma Austen really fine April 59 Life in Negative World Renn quite good April 60 The Olivet Discourse Orr solid April 61 Northanger Abbey Austen quite good April 62 American Milk & Honey Wilson whattabook May 63 Knowledge of the Holy Tozer great May 64 300 Quotations for Preachers from Puritans Barry good May 65 Christianity and the State Rushdoony really good May 66 The Surprising Genius of Jesus Williams good May 67 The Holy Bible (KJV) Holy Spirit Scripture May 68 Mere Christendom Wilson whattabook May 69 The Total State Macintyre great May 70 Life With the Professor Beckmann good May 71 Divine Right Resistance Kayser really good May 72 Mansfield Park Austen really fine June 73 The Unprotected Class Carl really good June 74 Bed & Board Capon good June 75 Conservatism Hazony six-stars June 76 Virtuous Liberty Sandlin mixed June 77 The Gospel of Jesus Boettner really good July 78 32 Christians Who Changed Their World Sunshine good July 79 Christian Worldview Bavinck great July 80 Law and Liberty Rushdoony really good July 81 O Love That Will Not Let Me Go Guthrie really good July 82 Revolt Against Maturity Rushdoony good July 83 On the Trinity Augustine dense July 84 Dictionary of Fine Distinctions Burnstein really fun August 85 Epistle to the Romans Vol. 1 Murray solid August 86 Masculine Christianity Garris really good August 87 Shepherds for Sale Basham great August 88 Calvinism/Origin and Safeguard Kuyper good August 89 Defenders of the West Ibrahim really good August 90 The Abusive Wife Edgington informative August 91 How to Exasperate Your Wife Wilson whattabook August 92 The Magician’s Nephew Lewis great August 93 Gashmu Saith It Wilson whattabook August 94 Systematic Theology Berkof really good August 95 Concise Guide to Conservatism Kirk quite good August 96 Declaration/Constitution Jefferson/Madison genius August 97 NT Interlinear [Newberry] Holy Spirit Scripture August 98 Reforming Marriage Wilson whattabook August 99 Leadership and Emotional Sabotage Rigney really good August 100 Heidelberg Catechism Ursinus great August 101 Cheers & Amen Bishop quite good August 102 The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien just great September 103 How Readest Thou? Ryle really good September 104 21 Prayers for Pastors Wilson whattabook September 105 Not the Same Digory at All Wilson whattabook September 106 The Auburn Avenue Chronicles II Wilson whattabook September 107 The Two Towers Tolkien stupendous September 108 The Knowledge of the Holy Tozer really good October
Top 2023 1 The Man in the Dark Wilson whattabook January 2 Out of the Silent Planet Lewis great January 3 The Art of Divine Contentment Watson really good January 4 The Air We Breathe Scrivener quite good January 5 The Case for Christian Nationalism Wolfe really good January 6 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis great January 7 Reformed Preaching Beeke quite good January 8 Preface to Paradise Lost Lewis great January 9 Epic English Words Devoe fun January 10 The Pot-hunters Wodehouse okay January 11 What Calvinism Has Done for America Monsma good January 12 Foundations of a Moral Government Milton good January 13 All Things Considered Chesterton good January 14 On Writing and Writers Lewis great January 15 Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces Lewis great January 16 Common Sense Paine surprisingly good January 17 The Four Loves Lewis great January 18 The Truth and Beauty Klavan really good January 19 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lewis great January 20 Knowledge and Power Gilder great January 21 Life Together Bonhoffer really good January 22 The Anglosphere’s Broken Covenant Wagner persuasive January 23 Letter to the American Church Metaxas solid January 24 Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan great January 25 Messiah ben Joseph Mitchell great January 26 Perelandra Lewis great February 27 Reforming Marriage Wilson whattabook February 28 The Plan of Salvation Warfield gold February 29 The Cultural Mind Wilson whattabook February 30 When the Man Comes Around Wilson whattabook February 31 The New Testament (Cash) Holy Spirit Scripture February 32 The Sins of G.K. Chesterton Ingrams decent February 33 The Wonderful Works of God Bavinck great February 34 A Dictionary of Kiwi Slang McGill decent February 35 Authority in the Christian Life Berthoud solid February 36 The Secularization of Science Dooyeweerd good February 37 Demons Heiser really good February 38 The Word Hord Videen quite good March 39 Jesus: The Incarnation of the Word Mitchell fantastic March 40 Power in Weakness Hughes really good March 41 Why Liberalism Failed Deneen spotty March 42 Live Like a Narnian Rigney very good March 43 Pomosexuality Wilson whattabook March 44 Untune the Sky Wilson whattabook March 45 Forgiveness Grauke good March 46 Ride Sally Ride Wilson whattabook March 47 How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy Card good March 48 Susan Creek Wilson whattabook February 49 Two Williams Wilson whattabook February 50 Barbary Jihad Wilson whattabook March 51 Ride Sally Ride (again!) Wilson whattabook March 52 Untune the Sky Wilson whattabook March 53 Ploductivity Wilson whattabook April 54 Writing Great Fiction Hynes really good April 55 The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth Maxwell good April 56 True Companion Wilson really good April 57 The Christian Sabbath Johnson good April 58 The Hobbit Tolkien just great April 59 The Emotional Life of our Lord Warfield good April 60 Two Williams Wilson whattabook April 61 Over Seventy Wodehouse fun April 62 Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers Driesbach good April 63 Spurgeon on the Power of Scripture Allen very good May 64 The Webster Bible Holy Spirit Scripture May 65 Skin and Blood Wilson whattabook May 66 No Apologies Esolen really good May 67 The Case for the Christian Family Longshore great May 68 Blackthorn Winter Wilson whattabook May 69 Susan Creek Wilson whattabook May 70 God’s Battalions Stark really good June 71 Barbary Jihad Wilson whattabook June 72 Lex Rex Rutherford great June 73 Final Battle Horowitz really solid July 74 Untune the Sky Wilson whattabook July 75 The World’s Last Night Lewis great July 76 Ploductivity Wilson whattabook July 77 Chestertonian Calvinism Wilson whattabook July 78 The Theory of Rene Girard Osborn fun July 79 Pride and Prejudice Austen great July 80 Ecochondriacs Wilson whattabook July 81 Why I Left Full Preterism Frost really informative July 82 Wit’s End Geary okay July 83 Principles of War Wilson great August 84 The Fourth Turning Is Here Howe provocative August 85 The Case for Dividend Growth Bahnsen quite good August 86 The Book That Made Your World Mangalwadi good August 87 Federal Husband Wilson whattabook August 88 A New Day of Small Beginnings Courthial good August 89 The New Testament (ESV) Holy Spirit Scripture August 90 Domestic Extremist Keenan quite good August 91 Andrew and the Firedrake Wilson whattabook August 92 Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl Wilson so good August 93 The Screwtape Letters Lewis always great August 94 2084 Lennox decent September 95 Calvinist Poetry Wilson, ed. really good September 96 The Boniface Option Isker quite good September 97 Get the Guy Wilson whattabook September 98 Get the Girl Wilson whattabook September 99 Flight by Flight Webbon good September 100 Men and Marriage Gilder great September 101 Adventures of Sally Wodehouse fun October 102 Skin and Blood Wilson whattabook October 103 The God Who Is There Schaeffer great October 104 Decluttering Your Marriage Wilson whattabook October
Top 2022 1 300 Quotations for Preachers Ritzema good January 2 Mike at Wyrkyn Wodehouse enjoyable January 3 Rigged Hemingway very fine January 4 Principles of War Wilson seminal January 5 Smith of Wooten Major Tolkien great January 6 Revival God’s Way Ravenhill good/awful January 7 Black & Tan Wilson whattabook January 8 The Emotional Life of Our Lord Warfield great January 9 Images of America: Moscow Monroe fun January 10 Nice Guy’s Guide to Relationships Stotts funny January 11 The Rational Male Tomassi insightful/appalling January 12 Commentary on Micah Calvin good January 13 In the House of Tom Bombadil Wiley great January 14 Fidelity Wilson whattabook January 15 Trust Me, I’m Lying Holiday informative January 16 To Be as God Rushdoony quite good January 17 Why Social Justice is Not Biblical Justice Allen good January 18 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Cipolla just great January 19 The Pilgrim’s Regress Lewis great January 20 That Hideous Strength Lewis marvelous again January 21 The Politics of Pornography Rushdoony good January 22 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Cipolla just great January 23 Book Lover’s Treasury of Quotations Hatherleigh fine January 24 The Joy of Preaching Brooks really good January 25 Ploductivity Wilson whattabook January 26 Fractals Lisle stupendous January 27 Let the Stones Cry Out Wilson whattabook January 28 The Discarded Image Lewis just great January 29 Experiment in Criticism Lewis great January 30 The Light From Behind the Sun Wilson whattabook January 31 Watchdogs, Blogs, and Wild Hogs Jackson fun January 32 It’s Good to be a Man Foster/Tennant very good January 33 Murder Your Darlings Clark good January 34 To a Thousand Generations Wilson whattabook February 35 The Storm Before the Calm Friedman quite good February 36 The Heresy of John Milton, Calvinist Horner persuasive February 37 Reforming Hospitality Wald mixed February 38 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing Provost good February 39 Has God Indeed Said? Kayser/Pickering really good February 40 No Mere Mortals Sumpter really good February 41 Chesterton’s Gateway Nicolle quite good March 42 Moscow Monroe informative March 43 The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Cipolla great March 44 The Lord Gave the Word Watts really fine March 45 Steal Like an Artist Kleon solid March 46 Chesterton’s Tavern Belmonte really good March 47 Answered Prayer Wilson really good April 48 The Reformed Pastor Baxter quite good April 49 Andrew and the Firedrake Wilson whattabook April 50 Slave MacArthur really good April 51 There’s No Free Lunch Bahnsen really good April 52 An Apologetic for Liberty Kookogey solid April 53 The Confessional County Simmons solid April 54 Disunited Nations Zeihan really informative April 55 Freedom and Virtue Carey solid May 56 Concise Theology Packer great May 57 Don’ts for Husbands Ebbutt quirky May 58 Christianity and Wokeness Strachan really good May 59 American Awakening Mitchell quite good May 60 Why I Love the Apostle Paul Piper quite good May 61 Not George Washington Wodehouse/Westbrook his worst May 62 Ride, Sally, Ride Wilson whattabook May 63 The Holy Bible (Moffatt) Scripture May 64 Be Thou My Vision Gibson great May 65 Vine’s Expository Dictionary Vine good May 66 Eggs Are Expensive, Sperm Is Cheap Krehbiel very good June 67 That Hideous Strength Lewis evergreen June 68 The Battle for the American Mind Hegseth/Goodwin great July 69 The Swoop Wodehouse no good July 70 The Economics of the Parables Sirico solid July 71 Sheltering Mercy Smith & Wilt quite good July 72 Misinflation Bahnsen/Wilson whattabook July 73 The Year of Our Lord Ferguson really good July 74 Authentic Ministry Reeves really good July 75 Strange New World Trueman great July 76 The Wimsey Papers Sayers fun July 77 The Absent Superpower Zeihan informative August 78 The Psychology of Totalitarianism Desmet very good August 79 The New Testament (NASB) Holy Spirit Scripture August 80 Coincidence in the Solar System Martineau great August 81 Humor Seriously Aaker/Bagdona meh August 82 The Magna Carta of Humanity Guiness Christless wisdom August 83 Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable Ayto great August 84 Christian Nationalism Torba/Isker good September 85 Life Is Hardy-Har-Hard Banyan pretty good September 86 Unimaginable Johnston pretty good September 87 The Didache early fathers good September 88 The Screwtape Letters Lewis always great September 89 Mere Christendom Wilson whattabook September 90 The New Testament (NEB) Holy Spirit Scripture September 91 The Magician’s Nephew Lewis always good September 92 The Judeo/Christian Tradition North really good September 93 The Failure of Natural Theology Johnson really good September 94 True Spirituality Schaeffer good September 95 The End of the World Is Just the Beginning Zeihan great October 96 The Horse and His Boy Lewis great October 97 Small Preaching Pennington quite good October 98 The Emotional Life of Our Lord Warfield great October 99 Tragic Consequences North/Goetsch good October 100 The Last Battle Lewis always good October 101 Self-Discipline for Writers Meadows good October 102 The Mark of the Christian Schaeffer really good October 103 Be Thou My Vision Gibson excellent November 104 The Thing Is Houseal very good November 105 Blackthorn Winter Wilson whattabook November
Top 2021 1 Freud Rushdoony good January 2 Weakness is the Way Packer good January 3 The Princess and Curdie MacDonald fun January 4 Escape From Reason Schaeffer good January 5 What I Saw in America Chesterton fun January 6 Concerning the True Care of Souls Bucer solid January 7 Where I Come From Bragg great January 8 The Westminster Shorter Catechism Ferguson just great January 9 How to be Filled With the Holy Spirit Tozer really good January 10 The Fear of God Bunyan great January 11 Slave Narratives assorted informative January 12 Slaying Leviathan Sunshine really good January 13 On Temptation Owen quite fine January 14 Ancient Christian Devotional Various decent January 15 A Short Introduction to Abraham Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism Sumpter really solid January 16 The Preacher’s Joke Book Jones funny January 17 English as She is Spoke Carolino hilarious January 18 The Maker v. the Takers Bowyer a great book January 19 The Mystery of Providence Flavel really good January 20 Intellectuals and Race Sowell great January 21 The Maker v. the Takers Bowyer really good January 22 The Starfish and the Spider Brafman good January 23 Shining Like the Sun Wenkel really good January 24 The Abolition of Man Lewis evergreen January 25 Ecochondriacs Wilson whattabook January 26 Evangellyfish Wilson whattabook January 27 Ideas Have Consequences Weaver really fine January 28 Ecochondriacs Wilson whattabook February 29 More Than a Battle Rigney quite solid February 30 Mere Christianity Lewis great February 31 God is the Gospel Piper great February 32 Return of the Strong Gods Reno excellent February 33 How to be Filled with the Holy Spirit Tozer quite good March 34 The Great Divorce Lewis great, as always March 35 Pendulum Drew/Williams interesting March 36 Remembering the Right Chronicles informative March 37 Fight by Flight Webbon good March 38 The English Reformation and the Puritans Reeves really good March 39 The Bruised Reed Sibbes very good March 40 The Forgotten Trinity White quite good March 41 Debating the Text of the Word of God White/Wilson fun March 42 The Return of the Chaos Monsters Mobley fascinating March 43 How to Win Friends and Influence People Carnegie good March 44 The Apocrypha (NEB) various informative March 45 Following God Fully Reeves/Beeke really good April 46 Beowulf Wilson whattabook April 47 The Fear of God Bunyan really good April 48 The New Testament NKJV, read by Cash Scripture April 49 The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self Trueman excellent May 50 The Fourth Turning Strauss & Howe provocative May 51 The Jerusalem Bible Scripture wonderful May 52 The Return of Prayers Goodwin really good May 53 The Complete John Ploughman Spurgeon just great May 54 Prince Caspian Lewis always great May 55 Liberty for All Walker good May 56 Gentle and Lowly Ortland really good May 57 Rejoice and Tremble Reeves excellent June 58 The Superstition of Divorce Chesterton good June 59 Fault Lines Baucham outstanding June 60 Live Not by Lies Dreher quite good June 61 Authorized Ward very good June 62 The Two Towers Tolkien outstanding June 63 Bunyan’s Dying Sayings Bunyan good June 64 Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress Spurgeon good June 65 The Tortured Planet Lewis quite good June 66 The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Cipolla insightful June 67 Cynical Theories Pluckrose/Lindsay very good June 68 Justifying Revolution Steward deeply satisfying July 69 After Humanity Ward really good July 70 Ride, Sally, Ride Wilson whattabook July 71 Ecochondriacs Wilson whattabook July 72 Judgment of the Nephilim Pitterson really good July 73 Wanting Burgis good enough July 74 The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Cipolla still insightful July 75 Save the Cat Snyder really good July 76 Anointed Expository Preaching Olford decent/solid July 77 Save the Cat Writes a Novel Broady really good July 78 The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Cipolla still great July 79 Conscience Naselli/Crowley really good July 80 Differences Baptism No Bar Bunyan good July 81 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings Cooper funny July 82 The Return of Prayers Goodwin really fine August 83 Uncle Fred in the Springtime Wodehouse really fun August 84 Triumphing Over Sinful Fear Flavel really good August 85 Devoured by Cannabis Wilson whattabook August 86 The Return of the King Tolkien great August 87 The Revolt of the Public Gurri really good August 88 Save the Cat Writes a Novel Brody quite good August 89 The New Testament (Lamsa) Scripture August 90 Save the Cat Writes a Novel Brody quite good August 91 The Maker v. the Takers Bowyer really good August 92 All Gong and No Dinner Rees fun August 93 The Sidney Psalter Philip and Mary great August 94 The Old Reliable Wodehouse fun September 95 The Horse and His Boy Lewis great September 96 The Proverbs of Middle Earth Rowe quite good September 97 The Unquenchable Flame Reeves very good September 98 There’s No Free Lunch Bahnsen very good September 99 The Christian in Complete Armor Gurnall great September 100 The Heart of Christ in Heaven Goodwin solid September 101 Importunity Love really good September 102 Brave Ollie Possum Nicolle fun October 103 The Pastor and His Critics Beeke quite good October 104 Outside the Camp Garwood okay October 105 When the Man Comes Around Wilson whattabook November
Top 2020 1 The New Testament (KJV) Holy Spirit Scripture January 2 Imputation of Active Obedience Strange mostly good January 3 The Way of Men Donovan decent January 4 The Winter King Cohen quite good January 5 Art and the Bible Schaeffer really good January 6 The Year of Our Lord 1943 Jacobs quite good January 7 Dilbert’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life Adams fun January 8 The Calvinist Temper in English Poetry Boulger informative January 9 Ball of Collusion McCarthy really solid January 10 A Christmas Cornucopia Forsyth informative January 11 Jack Sayer quite good January 12 Wired for Story Cron really solid January 13 The New Testament Knox Scripture February 14 Evangellyfish Wilson whattabook February 15 Paul and First-Century Letter Writing Richards really good February 16 Did America Have a Christian Founding? Hall great February 17 Systematic Theology Frame really good February 18 The Age of Entitlement Caldwell magnificent February 19 The Challenge of Preaching Stott really good March 20 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Weatherford really fun March 21 Experiment in Criticism Lewis still great March 22 The Horse and His Boy Lewis wonderful March 23 Leisure: The Basis of Culture Pieper really good March 24 The Great Divorce Lewis wonderful March 25 Kindest Regards Kooser really good March 26 Improving With Age Briscoe corny but good March 27 The Decline of the Novel Bottum really informative March 28 Barbed Arrows Spurgeon good March 29 Post Christian Veith really good April 30 Watermelons Delingpole really informative April 31 American Nations Woodard really informative & silly April 32 Preaching as Reminding Arthurs quite good April 33 The Weight of Glory Lewis great April 34 The Lordship of Jesus Christ Pape really good April 35 Eugenics and Other Evils Chesterton quite good April 36 He is There and He is Not Silent Schaeffer still good April 37 Animal Stories Herriot quite fun May 38 Performing Flea Wodehouse just great May 39 Scrivener for Mac Prince good May 40 Race in America Peacock good May 41 A Conflict of Visions Sowell really good May 42 Flags Out Front Wilson whattabook May 43 Christianity and Liberalism Machen great May 44 Prince Caspian Lewis always great May 45 The Bible NKJV Holy Spirit Scripture May 46 Beyond Authority and Submission Miller lame May 47 The Mythology of Science Rushdoony bracing May 48 Etymologicon Forsyth quite fun May 49 Primal Screams Eberstadt good May 50 Sex and the Unreal City Esolen really fine May 51 C.S. Lewis and the Christian Worldview Peterson good May 52 The Dragon’s Tooth Wilson great May 53 The Abolition of Man Lewis perennial May 54 The Silver Chair Lewis always great June 55 The Face of Water Rudem good June 56 Why We Sleep Walker really informative June 57 Albion’s Seed Fischer really fine June 58 The Person of Jesus Machen really good June 59 The Drowned Vault Wilson whattabook July 60 The Law Bastiat great July 61 The Christian Manifesto Schaeffer really good July 62 The Man in the Dark Wilson whattabook July 63 Empire of Bones Wilson whattabook July 64 The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Maxwell good July 65 The Small Bachelor Wodehouse just great July 66 The Art of Divine Contentment Watson really good July 67 Scrivener 3 for Mac: Compiling Prince good July 68 Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations Sherrin good July 69 Academic Graffiti Auden fun July 70 New Testament Modernized Geneva Scripture August 71 Scrivener, Pure and Simple Hornsby okay August 72 Summary of The Fourth Turning Zoom fine August 73 Essays Lewis superb August 74 The Shorter Catechism Ferguson great August 75 Pensées Pascal really good August 76 Against All Opposition Bahnsen really good August 77 The Head of Kay’s Wodehouse fun August 78 Richard Rohr and the Enneagram Secret Montenegro informative August 79 The Heart Wilson whattabook September 80 Dominion Holland really good September 81 Charter Schools and Their Enemies Sowell good September 82 Mere Christianity Lewis always good September 83 The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien evergreen September 84 Commentary on 1 Thessalonians Calvin sturdy September 85 Cheap Sex Regnerus informative September 86 American Negro Slavery: A Survey Philips informative September 87 The Accidental Superpower Zeihan really informative September 88 The Crook in the Lot Boston really good October 89 The Pilgrim’s Regress (Wade edition) Lewis great October 90 Beowulf Wilson whattabook October 91 The Door Before Wilson whattabook October 92 Commentary on 2 Thessalonians Calvin sturdy October 93 The New Testament (Lexham) Holy Spirit Scripture October 94 The Abolition of Man Lewis always great October 95 Ride, Sally, Ride Wilson whattabook October 96 Ballad of the White Horse Chesterton fun October 97 The Great Gain of Godliness Watson really good October 98 Heretics Chesterton still great October 99 The End of Christendom Muggeridge really good October 100 The Price of Panic Axe Briggs Richards great October 101 Ruth Hubbard solid October 102 The Weight of Glory Lewis great November 103 The Princess and the Goblin MacDonald fun November 104 The PIG to the Constitution Gutzman really good November
Top 2019 1 Grace Abounding Bunyan quite good January 2 The Cult of Personality Testing Paul informative January 3 Militant Normals Schlichter really good January 4 Lewis on the Christian Life Rigney good January 5 Skin in the Game Taleb good January 6 Surprised by Joy Lewis great January 7 The Marvelous Clouds Peters informative January 8 Ship of Fools Carlson good January 9 The Horse and His Boy Lewis great January 10 Zeal for Thy House Sayers good January 11 Nature’s Case for God Frame really good January 12 The Devil’s Pleasure Palace Walsh really fine January 13 The Writer Says Lippert good January 14 Revelation: Four Views Gregg fantastic January 15 The Weight of Glory Lewis always great January 16 Same Sex Mirage Wilson whattabook January 17 A Serrated Edge Wilson whattabook January 18 Skin and Blood Wilson whattabook January 19 Learning Contentment Wilson whattabook January 20 The Abolition of Man Lewis always great January 21 Reflections on the Psalms Lewis mixed February 22 Flags Out Front Wilson whattabook February 23 Seeing Green Dillehay really fine February 24 The Case Against Education Caplan kinda solid February 25 Overcoming Sin and Temptation Owen great February 26 NKJV Cash Scripture February 27 Love & Respect Eggerichs quite good March 28 C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law Dyer & Watson really good March 29 Lectures on the History of Preaching Broadus quite good March 30 Beowulf Wilson whattarendering March 31 The Virtue of Nationalism Hazony superb March 32 Blood Bought World Sumpter very good March 33 Papa Don’t Pope Wilson whattabook March 34 That Hideous Strength Lewis just great April 35 Social Justice and Its Dangers Enick solid May 36 A Little Book on the Christian Life Calvin good May 37 Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education Grawe solid May 38 Galahad at Blandings Wodehouse just fun May 39 The Great Divorce Lewis great May 40 The Quest for Cosmic Justice Sowell so good May 41 Clementine Vulgate New Testament Holy Spirit Scripture May 42 The Ruling Class Codevilla really good May 43 The Temple Herbert great May 44 The Country Parson Herbert good May 45 Nation of Rebels Heath & Potter really solid May 46 The Man Born to be King Sayers moving June 47 The Household and the War for the Cosmos Wiley fantastic June 48 Basic Economics Sowell really good June 49 That Hideous Strength Lewis always great June 50 You Who Jankovic really good June 51 Why Ministers Must Be Men Wilson whattbook June 52 The Screwtape Letters Lewis great June 53 Religion and the Framers Bradford quite good June 54 The Loveliness of Christ Rutherford outstanding June 55 Lord Peter Wimsey Vol. 1 Sayers entertaining July 56 Survival and Resistance Gribben outstanding July 57 The Sacred Art of Joking Cary lame mostly July 58 The Universe According to G.K. Chesterton Ahlquist great July 59 The Man in the Dark Wilson whattabook July 60 Mere Fundamentalism Wilson whattabook July 61 Against Intellectual Monopoly Boldrin/Levine really good July 62 Treasury of David Vol. 2 Spurgeon great July 63 Planet Narnia Ward still great July 64 Marijuana Debunked Gogek solid August 65 Story Marketing for Christian Schools Cochran solid August 66 The New Testament Moffatt Scripture August 67 The New Testament Phillips Scripture August 68 Fed by Ravens Bull stimulating August 69 Paradise Lost Milton great August 70 Tell Your Children Berenson really informative August 71 Global Warming Skepticism for Busy People Spencer really good August 72 Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature Lewis still great September 73 The Weight of Glory Lewis still great September 74 Copy Fights Thierer/Crews informative September 75 Never Split the Difference Voss quite good September 76 Uncle Fred in the Springtime Wodehouse great September 77 Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? Sowell so good September 78 A Primer on Worship and Reformation Wilson whattabook September 79 The Screwtape Letters Lewis still great September 80 Why Children Matter Wilson whattabook October 81 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Covey decent October 82 God Dwells Among Us Kim & Beale good October 83 Grace Upon Grace Wilson whattabook October 84 In Defense of Troublemakers Nemeth good October 85 Calvin’s Company of Pastors Manetsch really good October 86 The Saint’s Everlasting Rest Baxter edifying October 87 Abolition of Man Lewis outstanding October 88 The Four Loves (lectures) Lewis wonderful October 89 The Everlasting Man Chesterton stellar November 90 Eggs Are Expensive, Sperm is Cheap Krehbiel still fun November 91 Virgil Wander Enger really goo d November 92 Planning, Plotting and Progress Teppo good November 93 The Madness of Crowds Murray good November 94 Jeeves and the King of Clubs Schott quite good November 95 Prayers of the Reformers McPherson edifying November 96 The Soul in Paraphrase Ryken quite good November 97 The Best Poems of the English Language Bloom good November 98 Sunset at Blandings Wodehouse worthwhile November 99 Intellectuals and Society Sowell great December 100 Range Epstein really good December 101 The Things of Earth Rigney great December 102 Dragons and Dragonslayers Chester fun December 103 The Abolition of Man Lewis still great December 104 Natural Law Haines & Fulford really solid December
Top 2018 1 C.S. Lewis/Anti-Darwinist Bergman really good January 2 God in the Dock C.S. Lewis great January 3 Love Thy Body Pearcey really good January 4 Letters to an American Lady Lewis quite good January 5 Surprised by Joy Lewis great January 6 The Dragon’s Tooth (WN) Wilson whattabook January 7 The Weight of Glory Lewis great January 8 Prince Caspian Lewis great January 9 Man of the House Wiley quite good February 10 The Last of the Lost Boys Wilson whattabook February 11 The Pilgrim’s Regress Lewis great February 12 The Drowned Vault (WN) Wilson whattabook February 13 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lewis great February 14 The Abolition of Man Lewis great February 15 Crisis of Responsibility Bahnsen really good February 16 The Weight of Glory Lewis still great February 17 Scrivener Essentials Prince quite good February 18 Scrivener Absolute Beginner’s Guide Kettle good February 19 C.S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea Reppert really good February 20 Empire of Bones (WN) Wilson whattabook March 21 That Hideous Strength Lewis simply great March 22 After the Flood Cooper lotta fun March 23 Jill the Reckless (WN) Wodehouse great March 24 12 Rules Peterson really worthwhile March 25 Side by Side Welch uneven April 26 Feathers for Arrows Spurgeon good April 27 The Urban State of Mind Renn good April 28 Cultural Revolution Taylor okay April 29 Graciousness Crotts quite good April 30 The Pilgrim’s Regress Lewis still fantastic April 31 The Screwtape Letters Lewis just great April 32 Real Artists Don’t Starve Goins decent April 33 Approved by God Wright/Townsend helpful but patchy April 34 Empires of Dirt Wilson whattabook April 35 All That Is In God Dolezal fantastic May 36 Traces of the Trinity Leithart good book May 37 Poetical Fragments Baxter decent May 38 American Wits Hollander okay May 39 That Hideous Strength (WN) Lewis great May 40 Thinking Like Your Editor Rabiner/Fortunato good May 41 Full Moon Wodehouse fun May 42 Confess Your Sins Stott solid May 43 The New Testament in Scots Lorimer Scripture May 44 Essay Collection Lewis fantastic May 45 100 Cupboards Wilson whattabook May 46 Spiritual Friendship Hill appalling/heartbreaking June 47 Lord Peter Sayers fun June 48 Subtracting Christianity Sobran really good June 49 Biblical Authority After Babel Vanhoozer really good June 50 A Different Shade of Green Wilson whattabook June 51 Darwin’s House of Cards Bethell quite good June 52 New Testament ESV Holy Spirit Scripture June 53 Suicide of the West Goldberg quite good June 54 The Horse and His Boy Lewis always great June 55 Toxic Charity Rupton good June 56 The Silver Chair Lewis always great June 57 Out of the Silent Planet Lewis just good July 58 Alice in Wonderland Carroll fun July 59 Discrimination and Disparities Sowell just great July 60 Four Guys in a Boat Burrow fun July 61 What the F Bergen interesting July 62 The Genius of Birds Ackerman fascinating July 63 The Last Battle Lewis always great July 64 Through the Looking Glass Carroll fun July 65 Against Empathy Bloom interesting August 66 Confessions of a Food Catholic Wilson whattabook August 67 The Magician’s Nephew Lewis always grand August 68 Letters to Malcolm Lewis stimulating August 69 Times Three McGinley quite fun August 70 Leadership and Self-Deception Arbinger still good August 71 The Proper Procedure Dalrymple well done August 72 The Magician’s Twin West really fine August 73 Christology, Cosmology and C.S. Lewis Ward really good August 74 Knowing Christ Jones fantastic August 75 The New Testament (NET) Holy Spirit Scripture August 76 Expository Exultation Piper stellar August 77 The Weight of Glory Lewis always good August 78 The Discarded Image Lewis great September 79 The New Testament (Philipps) Holy Spirit Scripture September 80 Dandelion Fire Wilson whattabook September 81 The Abolition of Man Lewis evergreen September 82 The Pursuit of Glory Johnson good stuff September 83 Through the Eyes of C.H. Spurgeon Spurgeon great September 84 George MacDonald: An Anthology MacDonald really good September 85 The Daughter of Time Tey quite informative September 86 The Chestnut King Wilson whattabook September 87 Why Can’t We Be Friends? Byrd poor September 88 Miracles Lewis still great October 89 Selected Literary Essays Lewis superb October 90 Notes from the Tilt a Whirl Wilson whattabook October 91 The Preacher’s Catechism Allen really good October 92 The Door Before Wilson whattabook October 93 The Demon in Democracy Legutko really fine October 94 Perelandra Lewis always great October 95 Three Men in a Boat Jerome fun October 96 The Lost Letters of Pergamum Longnecker informative November 97 Leepike Ridge Wilson whattabook November 98 The Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan great November 99 Death by Living Wilson whattabook November 100 Sacred Conviction Jay quite good November 101 Boys of Blur Wilson whattabook November 102 Sleuthing C.S. Lewis Lindskoog mixed November 103 Undeniable Axe glorious November 104 Hillbilly Elegy Vance moving November
Top 2017 1 Orthodoxy Chesterrton superb January 2 Christian Reflections Lewis just great January 3 God & Man at Yale Buckley hard-hitting January 4 Pursuit of God Tozer really good January 5 Paul Among the People Ruden quite good January 6 Eve in Exile Merkle great January 7 Letters to Malcolm Lewis great, as always January 8 Super Nuke! Jett fun January 9 The Other Side of the Coyne Wilson whattabook February 10 Poems Lewis good fun February 11 Practice of the Presence of God Brother Lawrence good February 12 Homiletics and Pastoral Theology Shedd quite good February 13 The Portable Dante Dante great February 14 Writing Tools Clark really good February 15 Rejoicing in Christ Reeves really good February 16 Knowing God Packer great March 17 The Purpose of Man Tozer quite good March 18 The Necessity of Reformation Calvin very good March 19 The Rational Optimist Ridley very good March 20 Bring On the Girls Wodehouse fun March 21 All Things for Good Watson great March 22 A Little Book of the Christian Life Calvin really good March 23 Facts the Historians Leave Out Tilley pretty good March 24 Wind in the Willows Graeme great March 25 The Romance of Protestantism Alcock very good March 26 100 Cupboards Wilson whattabook March 27 The Door Before Wilson whattabook March 28 Deeper Magic Williams great March 29 The Doctrine of Repentance Watson whattabook April 30 New Oxford Book of Christian Verse Davie decent April 31 Dandelion Fire Wilson whattabook May 32 Letters to a Romantic: On Engagement Perron/Harmon solid May 33 The Hobbit Tolkien great May 34 The Whole Christ Ferguson really good May 35 Swear Not at All Gee okay in parts May. 36 Out of the Ashes Esolen magnificent May 37 The Chestnut King Wilson whattabook June 38 Samson Agonistes and Shorter Poems Milton quite good June 39 The Benedict Option Dreher good June 40 Outlaws of Time Wilson whattabook June 41 Book of Enoch Enoch and others weird June 42 The Minister’s Self-Watch Spurgeon good June 43 Christian Economics in One Lesson North sturdy June 44 The Nephilim Chronicles Zimmerman fun and weird June 45 God is the Gospel Piper wonderful June 46 Favorite Poems Wordsworth quite good June 47 The King James Only Controversy White mostly good July 48 Outlaws of Time (Glory and Ghost) Wilson whattabook July 49 Abolition of Man Lewis superb July 50 Postmodernism Hulse solid July 51 Encouragement for Pastors’ Wives Martin quite good July 52 Open Air Preaching Spurgeon good July 53 The Appearance of Impropriety Morgan/Reynolds great July 54 That Hideous Strength Lewis marvelous July 55 In Praise of Profanity Adams meh July 56 Letters to Malcolm Lewis still great July 57 Chicago Poems Sandburg all right July 58 Game of Thrones Martin cluttered August 59 Social Media for Writers Morris/Ballantine decent August 60 Glass Jaw Dezenhall quite good August 61 Loyalty & Disloyalty Heward-Mills quite good August 62 The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Epstein excellent August 63 The Personal Heresy Lewis/Tillyard very good August 64 A Conflict of Visions Sowell great August 65 Evernote for Dummies Sarna good August 66 Reversing Hermon Heiser good August 67 Hot Water Wodehouse fun August 68 The Allegory of Love Lewis great September 69 People’s Republic Schlichter fun September 70 Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 7 Schaff striking September 71 The Fractured Republic Levin good September 72 The Pastor as Public Theologian Vanhoozer/Strachan solid September 73 C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity Marsden really good October 74 The Grace of Shame Bayly great October 75 Anna Karenina Tolstoy really good October 76 Essays C.S. Lewis great November 77 The Doctrine of Repentance Watson really good November 78 Sex Scandal McGuire good November 79 You Have the Right to Remain Innocent Duane quite good November 80 Antifragile Taleb really good November 81 Publishing for Profit Woll quite good November 82 Good Advice on Writing Safire & Safir quite good November 83 The Art of Illustration Spurgeon decent November 84 Defending the Trinity in the Reformed Palatinate Merkle great November 85 Surprised by Joy Lewis great November 86 Experiment in Criticism Lewis great November 87 Biomythology Cook pretty good December 88 The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien fantastic December 89 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis great as usual December 90 Wisdom, Not Knowledge Wilson really good December 91 Birds of the Air Bull really good December 92 Beauty Scruton quite good December 93 Scrivener Essentials Prince quite good December 94 Collected Poems Davies decent December 95 A Grief Observed Lewis good December 96 The Art of Writing and Gifts of Writers Lewis very good December 97 From Fall Unto Forever Zornes good December 98 A Grief Observed (Audio) Lewis good December 99 Reformation Spirituality Veith superb December 100 The Magician’s Nephew Lewis still great December 101 The Two Towers Tolkien great December 102 Letters to Malcolm Lewis great December 103 The Holy Bible (AV) Holy Spirit Scripture December 104 The Return of the King Tolkien just great December
Top 2016 1 Do More Better Challies very good January 2 Don Quixote Cervantes fun January 3 David and Goliath Gladwell good January 4 Soft Despotism Rahe really fine January 5 Mike and Psmith Wodehouse fun January 6 The Irish Puritans Gribben good January 7 The Prayer of Jabez Wilkinson surprised January 8 The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond Chesterton okay January 9 Favorite Poems Longfellow good January 10 The Abolition of Man Lewis great January 11 Letters to Malcolm Lewis great January 12 The Abolition of Man Lewis great February 13 God is Not a Story Murphy good February 14 The Prince and Betty Wodehouse fun February 15 The Pilgrim’s Regress Lewis great February 16 Preaching in the Holy Spirit Martin quite good February 17 The Four Loves Lewis excellent February 18 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Douglass very good February 19 Ivanhoe Scott good February 20 Phantastes MacDonald okay February 21 Selected Poems Blake okay March 22 The Faith of Christopher Hitchens Taunton outstanding March 23 Reflections on the Psalms Lewis mixed March 24 King James Version Holy Spirit Scripture March 25 Bounds of Love McDurmon great March 26 American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Watkins good April 27 Answering Jihad Qureshi good April 28 Good Advice on Writing Safire quite good April 29 Louder and Funnier Wodehouse fun April 30 Pride and Prejudice Austen great April 31 Rudyard Kipling Kipling good April 32 The Jefferson Lies Barton decent April 33 Leepike Ridge Wilson whattabook April 34 The Greatest Fight in the World Spurgeon really fine May 35 Holy Communion Old great stuff May 36 The Napoleon of Notting Hill Chesterton fine May 37 Centuries of Meditations Traherne good May 38 Suicide of the West Burnham good May 39 The Decameron Boccaccio erratic May 40 A Wind in the House of Islam Garrison really good May 41 How to Read the Bible Fee & Stuart good June 42 Laughter at the Foot of the Cross Screech good June 43 Getting Jefferson Right Throckmorton good June 44 Matthew Arnold Arnold okay June 45 Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash Nash very fun June 46 Every Writer’s Guide to Copyri ght Kozak good June 47 My Life as Author and Editor Mencken really good June 48 Essay Collection C.S. Lewis fantastic June 49 The Major Works Bacon impressive June 50 The Hammer of God Giertz quite good June 51 Three Men in a Boat Jerome funny June 52 Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes Fadiman great June 53 The Weight of Glory Lewis great July 54 Reflections on the Psalms Lewis still mixed July 55 The Abolition of Man Lewis still great August 56 Rules for Reformers Wilson whattabook! August 57 Beowulf Wilson whattabook! August 58 Eutaxia Baird quite good August 59 The Works of Thomas Reid Vol 1 Reid quite strong August 60 On Preaching H.B. Charles solid August 61 Advise and Consent Drury really fun August 62 Till We Have Faces Lewis great August 63 The Visionary Christian Lewis really good August 64 Confessions of a Food Catholic Wilson whattabook! August 65 But God Lute quite good August 66 Empires of Dirt Wilson whattabook! September 67 The Flags Out Front Wilson whattabook! September 68 The Kingdom of Speech Wolfe quite fun September 69 Piers the Ploughman Langland interesting September 70 Christianity and Aesthetics Kilby quite good September 71 The Fundamentals/Vol. 2 various good September 72 That Hideous Strength Lewis magnificent September 73 New Testament, New Century Version Holy Spirit Scripture September 74 Slavery in Early Christianity Glancy quite good September 75 The Life of God in the Soul of Man Scougal quite good October 76 Excellent Sheep Deresiewicz good October 77 Catullus The Complete Poems Catullus okay October 78 The Scandal of Money Gilder great October 79 Letters to Malcolm Lewis great October 80 Experiment in Criticism Lewis fantastic October 81 The Boys in the Boat Brown really fine October 82 The Roman Guide to Slave Management Toner quite good October 83 Hopkins: Poetry Hopkins great October 84 Delighting in the Trinity Reeves quite good October 85 Things Not Seen Bloom quite good October 86 Getting Things Done Allen great October 87 Bitcoin: Mastering Bitcoin Harris good October 88 75 Ways to Use Evernote to Supercharge Your Life McNally fine October 89 Dictionary of American Slang Wentworth good October 90 The Abolition of Man Lewis great October 91 The Quotable Matthew Henry Henry really good October 92 The Unseen Realm Heiser great October 93 Then Tweets My Soul Regier funny November 94 Dare to Be a Great Writer Bishop decent November 95 Till He Come Spurgeon solid November 96 The Fundamentals Vol. 3 Various really good November 97 Do More Better Challies quite good November 98 What’s Wrong With the World? Chesterton brilliant November 99 How to Publish an Indie Book Asymetrical solid November 100 Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God Packer really good November 101 The Chestry Oak Seredy really good November 102 The End of Protestantism Leithart okay November 103 Thinking, Fast and Slow Kahneman good November 104 Christ and the Caesars Stauffer really informative November 105 Self-Publishing Success Rosenblum quite good November 106 Your Mind Matters Stott good December 107 Supernatural Heiser quite good December 108 Lost in the Meritocracy Kirn really fine December 109 Writers to Read Wilson whattabook December 110 God Rest Ye Merry Wilson whattabook December 111 The Fundamentals Vol 4 Various pretty fine December 112 Black Rednecks and White Liberals Sowell great December 114 The Great Good Thing Klavan great December 115 Fail U Sykes really good December
Top 2015 1 Hard Green Huber quite good January 2 Preaching and Teaching with Imagination Wiersbe good January 3 Preparation and Delivery of Sermons Broadus good January 4 Living Zealously Beeke, LaBelle very fine January 5 Ascent to Love Leithart good January 6 The Experience of God Hart good, terrible February 7 The Hobbit Tolkien great, as always February 8 Outlaws of Time Nate great February 9 Authorisms Dickson good March 10 Eichmann in Jerusalem Arendt good March 11 Is Administrative Law Unlawful Hamburger great March 12 The Last Kingdom Cornwell good March 13 Holy Bible NT (ASV) Holy Spirit Scripture March 14 Writing the Christian Romance Gaymer okay March 15 The Gospel Ministry Foxcroft good April 16 Memory Winter good April 17 Democracy in America Tocqueville great April 18 Old Earth Creationism on Trial Chaffey good April 19 Christian Reconstruction McVicar good April 20 A Small Cup of Light Palpant really good April 21 Father Hunger Wilson whattabook pril 22 A Plea for the West Beecher good May 23 Descent Into Hell Williams quite good May 24 The Problem of Pain Lewis very good May 25 The Screwtape Letters Lewis outstanding May 26 The Great Divorce Lewis outstanding May 27 Death Comes to Pemberley James decent May 28 How Civilizations Die Goldman really informative May 29 By the People Murray very fine May 30 Splitting Heirs Blue pretty good June 31 Moby Dick Melville great June 32 Why Gender Matters Sax good June 33 French Leave Wodehouse fun June 34 Relaunch Rutland great June 35 Mere Christianity Lewis great June 36 Twelve Keys to An Effective Church Callahan quite good June 37 We Would See Jesus Hession Good June 38 The Servile State Belloc Good June 39 Expositional Preaching Helm Good June 40 Going Postal Pratchett Good June 41 Riots, Revolutions and the Scottish Covenanters Jackson Good July 42 The Valley of Vision Bennett Solid July 43 Intended for Pleasure Wheat Good July 44 My Antonia Cather Good July 45 What is Marriage? Anderson Good August 46 Building a Timeless House Hull Good August 47 Works of Alexander Pope Pope Good August 48 What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? DeYoung Good August 49 Smooth Stones from Ancient Brooks Brooks Good August 50 History in English Words Barfield Good August 51 The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien Great August 52 Noah in Ancient Greek Art Johnson Decent August 53 That Hideous Strength Lewis Just Great August 54 New Testament Lattimore Scripture September 55 The Two Towers Tolkien Great September 56 A Conservative History of the American Left Flynn Good October 57 Defending Marriage Esolen Great October 58 The Riot and the Dance Wilson Really Good October 59 The Return of the King Tolkien Great October 60 Royal Insignia Harvey Good October 61 This Son of Mine Smith Decent October 62 If I Were You Wodehouse Fun November 63 The Five Red Herrings Sayers Relaxing November 64 The Emotionally Destructive Marriage Vernick Very Good November 65 The Portable Rabelais Rabelais Interesting November 66 Richard Hooker Littlejohn quite good November 67 Manalive Chesterton fun December 68 The White Feather Wodehouse good December 69 God Mocks Lindvall good December 70 C.S. Lewis Essay Collection marvelous December
Top 2014 1 The Pilgrim’s Progress (part two) Bunyan great January 2 The Power of Glamour Postrel really fine January 3 Preaching That Connects Galli good January 4 The Whig Interpretation of History Butterfield ick January 5 The Little Nugget Wodehouse fun January 6 Friends of Unrighteous Mammon Davenport informative January 7 Gilead Robinson great February 8 12,000 Religious Quotations Mead good February 9 Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism Herl great February 10 Housekeeping Robinson grim February 11 Does God Listen to Rap Allen good February 12 The Obesity Myth Campos very good March 13 Common Sense 101 Ahlquist solid March 14 What Is Biblical Theology? Hamilton quite good March 15 Financial Intelligence Berman good March 16 Preaching With Confidence Daane good March 17 Home Robinson very good March 18 Holy Bible (ESV) Holy Spirit Scripture March 19 God in the Whirlwind Wells great March 20 Writer’s Wisdom Price good April 21 Retreat to Commitment Bartley great April 23 Not Cool Gutfeld quite good April 24 21 Laws of Leadership Maxwell good April 25 Christianity Is Testimony Keillor really good April 26 Image and Imagination C.S. Lewis glorious April 27 Rules for Patriots Deace really good April 28 Desire and Deceit Mohler good May 29 The K-12 Implosion Reynolds good May 30 1 & 2 Samuel Baldwin solid May 31 Making Gay Okay Reilly great May 32 Apostate Swanson good May 33 From Darwin to Hitler Weikart great May 34 A Lifting Up of the Downcast Bridge really good June 35 Surprised by Scripture Wright really mixed June 36 On Writing King good June 37 Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully Piper great June 38 The End of Sacrifice Stroumsa good June 39 The Things of Earth Rigney really good June 40 Toasts Dickson good July 41 The Creed of Presbyterians Smith good July 42 Mission Drift Greer good July 43 Envy Schoeck very fine August 44 John Milson, Class. Learn., and the Prog. Virtue Horner quite good August 45 The Checklist Manifesto Gawande good August 46 Proclamation and Theology Willimon quite good August 47 The Virtues of Capitalism Rae and Hill decent August 48 The Mischief of Sin Watson great August 49 Children of the Living God Ferguson really good August 50 Samuel Adams Stoll informative August 51 Against the Church Wilson whattabook September 52 The System Has a Soul Baker quite good September 53 The Pickwick Papers Dickens good October 54 Psmith in the City Wodehouse good October 55 C.S. Lewis & Mere Christianity McCracken good October 56 Mozart Johnson very good October 57 Misericorde Wilson quite good October 58 The Rise of Christianity Stark really good November 59 Life of Johnson Boswell excellent November 60 All Art is Propaganda Orwell very good November 61 God the Poet Niehaus decent November 62 Collected Poem of Yeats Yeats impressive November 63 The Dawning of Indestructible Joy Piper quite good December 64 The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates Trewhella very good December 65 The Magdeburg Confession Lutheran Pastors very good December 66 Lila Robinson a good bad book December
Top 2013 1 Conflict and Suspense Bell good January 2 The Conviction to Lead Mohler great January 3 Zen and the Art of Writing Bradbury good January 4 The Joy of Hate Gutfeld insightful January 5 Now That’s Funny Simmons okay January 6 He is Not Silent Mohler really good January 7 The Shaping of an Effective Leader Beebe okay January 8 5 Cities That Ruled the World Wilson whattabook January 9 The Genius of Ancient Man Landis fun February 10 Company for Henry Wodehouse always fun February 11 Start With Why Sinek okay February 12 The Bed of Procrustes Taleb good February 13 A Meal With Jesus Chester good February 14 Same-Sex Marriage Sullivan quite good February 15 The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert Butterfield fantastic March 16 Covenantal Apologetics Oliphint quite good March 17 Wisdom for Today’s Issues Voorwinde very good March 18 Mulliner Nights Wodehouse fun March 19 The Narnia Code Ward fantastic March 20 Stuff Christians Like Acuff good March 21 Wooden on Leadership Wooden really good March 22 Things of Earth Rigney very good March 23 New Testament (KJV) Scripture Scripture March 24 Politics Reformed Moot great March 25 Medical Ethics Frame really good April 26 Dangerous Calling Tripp quite good April 27 The Gospel of Food Glassner fun April 28 Between Babel and Beast Leithart good April 29 Death By Living Wilson great April 30 Recovering Classic Evangelicalism Thornbury really good April 31 The Rhetoric Companion Wilson whattabook April 32 The End is Near and It’s Going to be Awesome Williamson very good May 33 Orthodoxy Chesterton excellent May 34 Ring for Jeeves Wodehouse fun June 35 This Is Your Brain on Music Levitin quite good June 36 Rich Dad, Poor Dad Kiyosaki very good June 37 The Idea of the Holy Otto informative June 38 Christ and Culture Niebuhr very good June 39 The Art of War Sun Tzu brilliant July 40 WordPress in Depth Smith helpful July 41 Knowledge and Power Gilder superb July 42 The Kind of Preaching God Blesses Lawson very good August 43 Why Evolution is True Coyne poor August 44 Evangellyfish Wilson whattabook August 45 Good to Great for the Social Sector Collins good August 46 Dismissing Jesus Jones poor August 47 Mind and Cosmos Nagel really good August 48 The Secret of Contentment Barcley decent September 49 Saving Eutychus Millar good September 50 Crazy Busy DeYoung quite good September 51 Lit! Reinke very good September 52 Word Press Your Way Hendrickson solid October 53 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei Weinberger good October 54 The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography Jacobs really good October 55 For a Glory and a Covering Wilson whattabook October 56 Word Press Domination Klein good October 57 Covenant Representation and Infant Baptism Crawford good October 58 Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin Wodehouse good October 59 Unique Cooke good October 60 A Tale of Two Governments Renaud quite good October 61 Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 21 Edwards outstanding November 62 Peace Like a River Enger great November 63 Purpose Driven Life Warren surprisingly good December 64 Citizen Emperor Dwyer good December 65 Preaching Motyer good December 66 The Everlasting Man Chesterton great December 67 Dove Descending Howard decent December 68 Absence of Mind Robinson good December 69 Does God Want All Men to Be Saved? Piper good December 70 The Food Police Lusk very good December 71 Light Theology & Heavy Cream Capon decent December 72 Studies in Words Lewis amazing December 73 A Body of Divinity Watson just great December
Top 2012 1 The Pastoral Genius of Preaching Volbeda good January 2 Real Marriage Driscoll good January 3 The Escondido Theology Frame really good January 4 Does God Have a Nature? Plantinga interesting January 5 What’s the Difference? Piper good February 6 Friedman’s Fables Friedman good February 7 The World-Tilting Gospel Phillips really good February 8 Love Among the Chickens Wodehouse fun March 9 Beyond Smells and Bells Galli good March 10 Quadrivium Martineau really good March 11 Reformer of Basel Poythress quite good March 12 The Christian Almanac Grant/Wilbur great March 13 Quotations from Chairman Bill Buckley fun March 14 Free Will Harris atrocious March 15 The Quotable Chesterton Chesterton great March 16 ESV Reverse Interlinear NT Holy Spirit inspired March 17 A Shot of Faith (to the Head) Stokes great April 18 The Girl in Blue Wodehouse always fun April 19 Heaven Taken By Storm Watson great April 20 A Rhetoric Companion Wilson/Wilson whattabook April 21 How Sermons Work Murray good May 22 Why We Get Fat Taubes really good May 23 Music & Ministry Johansson good May 24 Triune Elohim Merkle really good May 25 Five Dysfunctions of a Team Lencioni quite good May 26 The Temple Herbert great May 27 The Tyranny of Cliches Goldberg really good May 28 Platform Hyatt really good June 29 The Death of Liberalism Tyrell good June 30 The Higher Education Bubble Reynolds quite good June 31 Sams Teach Yourself Spotify Miller informative June 32 Turning to God Wells great June 33 How to Blog a Book Amir really informative June 34 From Garden to City Dyer quite good July 35 Nullification Woods good July 36 The Liberal Arts Fant good July 37 Voices from the Past Rushing great August 38 A Prefect’s Uncle Wodehouse okay August 39 If You Bite and Devour Strauch great August 40 Boards That Make a Difference Carver really good September 41 By Good and Necessary Consequence McGraw really good September 42 Bachelors Anonymous Wodehouse fun October 43 The New Testament Lattimore Scripture October 44 Policy Governance Carver good October 45 A Year With C.S. Lewis Lewis very good October 46 The Imperative of Preaching Carrick really fine November 47 Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves Spenser good November 48 Obadiah Fields great November 49 The Age of Melancholy Blazer decent November 50 Deep Preaching Edwards okay November 51 The Truth About Organic Food Avery great November 52 Thank You, Jeeves Wodehouse good one November 53 Plot and Structure Bell quite good December 54 Wit and Humor Reader’s Digest funny December 55 The Holy Bible (Authorized) Holy Spirit Scripture December
Top 2011 1 Rescuing Ambition Harvey really good January 2 Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets Wodehouse fun January 3 The Hunger Games Collins okay maybe January 4 Going Rogue Palin enjoyable February 5 Leaders Who Last Kraft quite good February 6 Psalms Peterson pretty bad February 7 The Code of the Woosters Wodehouse top rate February 8 Your PC is Not a Typewriter Williams good February 9 Americaby Heart Palin good February 10 Notes from the Tilt a Whirl Wilson fantastic February 11 How to Write a Sentence Fish really good February 12 My Man Jeeves Wodehouse just fun March 13 My Life Behind the Brick Wall Brennan good March 14 Ifferisms Grothe good March 15 God is the Gospel Piper great March 16 God’s Trombones Johnson good April 17 Our Worship Kuyper very good April 18 Galileo Stokes great May 19 Joy in the Morning Wodehouse really fun May 20 Righteous Indignation Breitbart good surprise May 21 Confessions of Reformission Rev Driscoll really good May 22 Pastor Dad Driscoll good May 23 Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse Chapman good May 24 What Would Jesus Drink? McDurmon fun June 25 Jesus and the Victory of God Wright greatpoor June 26 Saving Leonardo Pearcey great June 27 Preaching Without Notes Macartney good June 28 Truck: A Love Story Perry really good June 29 Demonic Coulter good June 30 Phillips’ Treasury of Humorous Quotations Phillips fine June 31 Ice in the Bedroom Wodehouse fun July 32 The Masculine Mandate Phillips really good July 33 Men and Marriage Gilder great July 34 The Masculine Mandate Phillips really good July 35 The Gold Bat Wodehouse okay July 36 Up With Authority Austin really good July 37 Among the Truthers Kay really good July 38 The Secret Knowledge Mamet just great August 39 To a Thousand Generations Wilson whattabook August 40 When the Kings Come Marching In Mouw refreshing August 41 Pen of Iron Alter fun stuff August 42 The Upside-Down Kingdom Kraybill just poor September 43 The Cross of Christ (audio) Stott great September 44 Summer Lightning Wodehouse always fun September 45 God’s Own Party Williams really good October 46 A Few Quick Ones Wodehouse fun October 47 The Barbary Pirates Forester good October 48 Unbroken Hillebrand fantastic October 49 Between Two Worlds Stottreally good November 50 To Be Near Unto God Kuyper good November 51 X-Treme Latin Beard okay November 52 A Failure of Nerve Friedman first-rate November 53 The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism McKenna magnificent November 54 God and the Atlantic Howard really good December 55 Contagious Holiness Blomberg sturdy good December 56 Explaining Postmodernism Hicks outstanding December 57 The Man Upstairs Wodehouse fun December
Top 2010 1 Manifold Witness Franke terrible January 2 The Gift of Thanks Visser really good January 3 Martin Bucer Greshat fine read January 4 Expository Preaching Hughesreally good February 5 Her Hand in Marriage Wilson whattabook February 6 The Man With Two Left Feet Wodehouse just fun February 7 The Taste of Sabbath Bryan really good February 8 Isaac Newton Stokes really fine February 9 Saint Thomas Aquinas/Saint Francis of Assisi Chesterton quite good March 10 Desiring the Kingdom Smith pretty poor overall March 11 Son of Hamas Yousef moving April 12 Summer Moonshine Wodehouse just fun May 13 As Certain as Death Yablan informative May 14 The Practice of Political Spirituality Langley quite good May 15 Collected Poems Richard Wilbur great May 16 Frozen Assets Wodehouse fun May 17 The Authenticity Hoax Potter fascinating May 18 The Rage Against God Hitchens really good May 19 Start Up Nation Senor informative May 20 Preaching: A Kind of Folly Pitt-Watson spotty May 21 Twilight Meyer urkk May 22 After the Hangover Tyrrell decent June 23 The Sacred Anointing Sargent really good June 24 The Art of War for Writers Bell quite good June 25 Right Reason Helseth fantastic June 26 New Testament (AV) Holy Spirit Scripture June 27 Save the Cat Snyder fun stuff July 28 Andrew and the Firedrake Wilson whattabook July 29 Joy at the End of the Tether Wilson whattabook July 30 The Overton Window Beck okay July 31 To Change the World Hunter okay August 32 Stuff White People Like Landers really good August 33 Defending Constantine Leithart outstanding August 34 The Black Swan Taleb very good August 35 Why Ministers Must Be Men Wilson whattabook August 36 Preaching Morgan really good August 37 Do Butlers Burgle Banks? Wodehouse fun September 38 The End of Secularism Baker really good October 39 Ashtown Wilson whattabook October 40 Loving the Little Years Jankovic whattabook October 41 Why Isn’t a Pretty Girl Like You Married? Wilson whattabook October 42 A Treasury of David, Vol. 1 Spurgeon fantastic October 43 The Ruling Class Codevilla really fine October 44 Republocrat Trueman okay October 45 Think Piper very good October 46 The Genius in All of Us Shenk quite good October 47 Pierre Viret: Forgotten Giant Bertoud really good October 48 Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion Pettegree really good October 49 Cocktail Time Wodehouse lotsa fun November 50 God is the Gospel Piper really fine November 51 Rework Fried, Hansson fun November 52 John Adams McCullough excellent November 53 Jerusalem’s Glory Watson solid November 54 The Sidney Psalms Sidney great December 55 The Official Explanations Dickson fun December 56 Wise Words Leithart really good December 57 Don’t Vote: It Only Encourages the Bastards O’Rourke okay December 58 A Pelican at Blandings Wodehouse great December 59 The Beatitudes Watson really fine December 60 The ESV Reverse Interlinear NT Holy Spirit Scripture December 61 Typology Edwards great December
Top 2009 1 Between Pacifism and Jihad Charles very fine January 2 Something Fishy Wodehouse just fun January 3 The Courage to be Protestant Wells outstanding January 4 We Become What We Worship Beale world class January 5 Guilty Coulter very good January 6 How Football Explains America Paolantonio pretty good February 7 Total Truth Pearcey superb March 8 Justification Wright great, lousy March 9 Doctor Sally Wodehouse fun March 10 Dandelion Fire Wilson whattabook March 11 The iPhone Book White really good March 12 Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen Wodehouse great fun April 13 Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan brilliant April 14 Out of the Silent Planet Lewis refreshing April 15 Why Johnny Can’t Preach Gordon great April 16 Pierced for Our Transgressions Jeffery really good April 17 The Mating Season Wodehouse great fun April 18 Perelandra Lewis really fine April 19 GDPI (ESV) Holy Spirit Scripture April 20 New Testament (ESV) Holy Spirit Scripture May 21 That Hideous Strength Lewis just wonderful May 22 I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like Grothe very good May 23 Silent Cal’s Almanack Pietrusza very good May 24 The Girl on the Boat Wodehouse just fun May 25 Lord of the Rings BBC Audio Tolkien just great June 26 Table Talk Luther fantastic June 27 Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl Wilson fantastic June 28 Nothing Serious Wodehouse lotta fun June 29 The Road to Serfdom Hayek really great June 30 Money, Greed and God Richards fantastic June 31 Blue Ice Ewert good writing June 32 Rules for Radicals Alinsky gakk June 33 How Capitalism Saved America DiLorenzo really good July 34 The Expository Genius of John Calvin Lawson really good August 35 On Bullshit Frankfurt good August 36 Calvin and the Biblical Languages Currid solid August 37 Old English Language and Its Literature Pollington good August 38 The Victory of Reason Stark really fine August 39 The New Testament (AV) Holy Spirit Scripture August 40 The Art of Prophesying Perkins solid August 41 The Luck of the Bodkins Wodehouse lotsa fun September 42 The Writings of John Calvin de Greef first rate September 43 The Country Parson Herbert great September 44 The Pastor as Minor Poet Barnes good September 45 When Helping Hurts Corbett and Fikkert quite good September 46 The Four Loves (audio) Lewis first class September 47 Liberty and Tyranny Levin really good October 48 Mystery of Capital De Soto world class October 49 Screwtape Letters (audio) C.S. Lewis just great October 50 Deep Exegesis Leithart good stuff October 51 Dual Citizens Stellman okay October 52 Pigs Have Wings Wodehouse great fun November 53 Carl Henry At His Best Henry very fine November 54 The Inimitable Jeeves Wodehouse a good one November 55 Those Dirty Rotten Taxes Adams quite informative November 56 Continuous Revival Grubb good November 57 The Israel Test Gilder good stuff December 58 Heaven Alcorn surprisingly good December 59 Real Education Murray really good December 60 Liberal Learning Schall pretty good December
Top 2008 1 Mr. Standfast Buchan good January 2 Quick Service Wodehouse lots of fun January 3 Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription Buckley fun January 4 The Future of Justification Piper good book January 5 Christendom in Dublin Chesterton just good January 6 Tripping the Prom Queen Barash very good January 7 Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing Leonard okay January 8 The Three Hostages Buchan good stuff February 9 The Supper of the Lamb Capon great February 10 Liberal Fascism Goldberg fantastic February 11 Bestsellers Sutherland good February 12 The Problem of Pain C.S. Lewis really good February 13 Irenicum Burroughs really good February 14 Filthy Shakespeare Kiernan okay February 15 Big Money Wodehouse plain old fun February 16 Sam the Sudden Wodehouse just good March 17 Players Fields quite thorough March 18 Is Shakespeare Dead? Twain fun March 19 Martin Marprelate Tracts Marprelate really good March 20 Lessons on Living from Shakespeare Macrone okay March 21 Envy Epstein fantastic March 22 Carry On, Jeeves Wodehouse just fun April 23 The Good of Affluence Schneider really good April 24 Surprised by Hope Wright outstanding, atrocious April 25 Solomon Among the Postmoderns Leithart quite good April 26 Leadership and Self-Deception Arbinger fantastic April 27 The Doors of the Sea Hart painfully inadequate April 28 BlandingsCastle Wodehouse just great April 29 Young Men in Spats Woudhouse just fun May 30 The Vision of the Anointed Sowell really good May 31 Ironies of Faith Esolen very fine May 32 Planet Narnia Ward stupendous May 33 God and Gold Mead very good May 34 Uncle Dynamite Wodehouse tops May 35 Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction Clapp goodpoor June 36 Reforming Marriage Wilson whattabook June 37 In Praise of Nepotism Bellow very good June 38 Money for Nothing Wodehouse really fine June 39 God’s Judgments Keillor world class June 40 Amos Hubbard sturdy July 41 Commentary on Amos Calvin really good July 42 The World Was His Parish Cozart endearing July 43 Makers and Takers Schweizer really good July 44 Faith of the Fatherless Vitz quite good July 45 For Kirk and Covenant Wilson whattabook! July 46 Jeeves and the Feudal SpiritWodehouse really good July 47 The Hobbit (audio) Tolkien really good July 48 Mere Christianity (audio) Lewis really good August 49 The Myth of a Christian Nation Boyd pretty bad August 50 Bill the Conqueror Wodehouse just fun September 51 Churchin Crisis O’Donovan ick September 52 Is Christianity Good for the World? Hitchens, Wilson whattabook September 53 Being Consumed Cavanaugh misdirected September 54 The Deluded Atheist Wilson whattabook September 55 God Is Wilson whattabook September 56 Paradise Lost (audio) Milton magnificent September 57 The God of Sex Jones fantastic October 58 The Shack Young terrible October 59 Men Are from Mars, Women Are From Venus Gray quite good October 60 The Devil’s Delusion Berlinski outstanding October 61 Six Figure Freelancing James-Enger sturdy November 62 A Damsel in Distress Wodehouse just plain fun November 63 Basic Christian Leadership John Stott really good November 64 Evening in the Palace of Reason Gaines very fine November 65 Romancing Opiates Dalrymple eye-opening November 66 Joy in the Morning (audio) Wodehouse always fun November 67 Fame Junkies Halpern fine November 68 Much Obliged, Jeeves Woodhouse great November 69 God is a Warrior Longman, Reid really fine December 70 The Easter Answer Kingsley quite good December 71 Memory Mechanics De Mar good December
Top 2007 1 Of Paradise and Power Kagan good January 2 Jesus and Muhammad Gabriel very good January 3 Poetry as a Means of Grace Osgood challenging January 4 The Great Siege: Malta 1565 Bradford superb January 5 The New Pearl Harbor Griffin interesting January 6 Islam and Terrorism Gabriel very good January 7 Slavery, Terrorism, and Islam Hammond good January 8 Differences: The Bible and the Koran Smith decent January 9 Militant Islam Reaches America Pipes quite good January 10 Self-Editing for Fiction Writers Browne and King very good February 11 Wealth Conundrum Doudera pretty good February 12 Inspiration and Incarnation Enns decent/poor February 13 The End of the Barbary Terror Leiner good February 14 Evil and the Justice of God Wrightreally good February 15 Rallying the Really Human Things Guroian good February 16 Getting the Gospel Right Venema good February 17 Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation Naphy informative February 18 Justification by the Complete Life Lived? Piper very good February 19 The Koran Dawood, trans yikes February 20 Collected Fictions Borges outstanding March 21 Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry Clark lousy March 22 The Dawkins Delusion McGrath very good March 23 Crunchy Cons Dreher very good March 24 The Abolition of Britain Hitchens outstanding March 25 The Beauty of Modesty Vaughan quite good March 26 The God Delusion Dawkins appalling March 27 Alias Shakespeare Sobran really good April 28 Letter from a Christian Citizen Wilson whattabook April 29 By Faith Alone Johnson, Waters poor April 30 The Promise of His Appearing Leithart very good April 31 Stop the Presses Farah okay, I guess May 32 Spurgeon’s Proverbs and Sayings Spurgeon fantastic May 33 The Return of the Village Atheist McDurmon really good May 34 The New Faces of Christianity Jenkins quite good May 35 The Big Sleep Chandler fun May 36 God is not Great Hitchens well-written, badly done 37 Leepike Ridge Wilson whattabook May 38 Pilgrim’s Progress (I) Bunyan first-rate June 39 Wisdom and Eloquence Littlejohn and Evans pretty good June 40 Farewell, My Lovely Chandler lotta fun June 41 The Atheist’s Bible Konner huh June 42 The PIG to Global Warming Horner excellent June 43 On the Wealth of Nations O’Rourke very good June 44 The Baptized Body Leithart outstanding June 45 Blessed are the Uncool Grant pretty good June 46 The Lord’s Supper Watson very good July 47 A Short History of Jerusalem Millgram informative August 48 Americanism Gelerenter good and lousy September 49 Selected Literary Essays C.S. Lewis outstanding September 50 Mars and Venus in the Bedroom Gray pretty good, actually October 51 Colonial American English Lederer lots of fun November 52 MansfieldPark Austen outstanding November 53 If Democrats Had Any Brains . . . Coulter fun as usual November 54 A Secular Faith Hart interesting November 55 God at Work Veith very fine November 56 Jill the Reckless Wodehouse lotta fun November 57 Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan fun again November 58 The Girard Reader Girard fantastic November 59 In Praise of Prejudice Dalrymple really good November 60 The Tipping Point Gladwell good November 61 The Trouble With Poetry Collins good November 62 Hebrews for Everyone Wright very good November 63 Who Really Cares Brooks very informative November 64 Writing Novels That Sell Bickham quite good December 65 100 Cupboards Wilson whattabook December 66 Writing the Memoir Barrington kinda sorry December 67 Mother Kirk Wilson whattabook December 68 Wise Blood O’ Connor great December 69 Greenmantle Buchan fun December
Top 2006 1 The Foolishness of Preaching Capon pretty good January 2 Table Talk Luther just great January 3 A Serrated Edge Wilson whattabook January 4 The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge Muggeridge outstanding January 5 A Primer On Postmodernism Grenz okay February 6 The Poet’s Book of Psalms Wieder really good February 7 Tongues Aflame Wagner quite good February 8 Discovering the Rich Heritage of Orthodoxy Bell poor March 9 The First Five Pages Lukeman good March 10 Extreme Righteousness Hovestol very good March 11 Mary—Another Redeemer? White quite good March 12 The Waters Under the Earth Siegel really good March 13 The Scapegoat Girard fantastic March 14 Interlinear NT Holy Spirit Scripture March 15 The Paideia of God Wilson whattabook March 16 The Narnian Jacobs really good March 17 What Is Christian Civilization? Baillie really fine March 18 Crying For Justice Day very good April 19 I See Satan Fall Like Lightning Girard glorious April 20 Violence Unveiled Bailie appalling/glorious April 21 Graven Ideologies Benson philosophersaremaniacs April 22 Blind Man’s Bluff Sontag and Drew just great May 23 Is Everything Really Relative? Copan good May 24 Blues Poems Young good May 25 An Army of Davids Reynolds decent May 26 Above All Earthly Pow’rs Wells fantastic May 27 Christ in the Psalms Reardon really good May 28 Charles Simeon of Cambridge Hopkins quite good May 29 One Hundred Cupboards Wilson great June 30 The Ernesto “Che” Guevara School for Wayward Girls Gavin kind fun June 31 Godless Coulter really good June 32 Violence and the Sacred Girard really good July 33 Saving the Queen Buckley kinda fun July 34 The Federal Vision and Covenant Theology Waters atrocious August 35 Concerning Scandals Calvin first rate August 36 Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Smith helpful but poor August 37 The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes Fadiman lotta fun August 38 A Theater of Envy Girard worldclass August 39 The Old Way of Seeing Hale really good September 40 A Field Guide to Evangelicals Kilpatrick funny and shrewd September 41 Talk to the Hand Truss quite good September 42 Against Christianity Leithart just great October 43 Lewis Agonistes Markos really good October 44 A Case for Amillenialism Riddlebarger decent November 45 Practical Wisdom for Pastors Thomas solid November 46 Violence, Hospitality and the Cross Boersma informative November 47 The Case for Classical Christian Education Wilson whattabook November 48 Letter to a Christian Nation Harris atrocious November 49 In, But Not Of Hewitt very good November 50 America Alone Steyn fantastic November 51 Overcoming Onto-theology Westphal really poor November 52 Deep Comedy Leithart outstanding November 53 Job: The Victim of His People Girard superb, awful November 54 Idols for Destruction Schlossberg superb December 55 Londonistan Phillips very good December 56 The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam Spencer quite good December 57 Secrets of the Koran Richardson pretty good December
Top 2005 1 Reclaiming the Center Erickson good stuff January 2 Theopolitical Imagination Cavanaugh provocative January 3 Distory Schnakenberg funny January 4 Light for the City De Koster really effective January 5 How to Talk to a Liberal Coulter great January 6 The Postmodern World Erickson okay January 7 The Last Disciple Hanegraaff/Brouwer okay February 8 Metamorphoses Ovid great February 9 A New Kind of Christian McLaren appalling February 10 Born Fighting Webb informative February 11 The Next Reformation Raschke atrocious February 12 Anti-Americanism Revel informative February 13 Epistemology Wood decent March 14 John Ploughman’s Talks Spurgeon very good March 15 Eats, Shoots and Leaves Truss a lot of fun March 16 The History and Character of Calvinism McNeill very good April 17 Oxymoronica Grothe fun April 18 Tremendous Trifles Chesterton great fun April 19 The Aeneid Virgil great April 20 The Astonished Heart Capon atrocious/fun May 21 The Lost Message of Jesus Chalke bleh May 22 Bringing the Church to the World Wright instructive, awful June 23 Swamp Fox Bass really good June 24 Everything Bad Is Good for You Johnson lotta fun June 25 Saratoga Ketchum quite good June 26 The Art of Fiction Gardner fine stuff June 27 Handbook to Prayer Boa great June 28 The Influence of Historic Christianity on Early America Jones good June 29 Leepike Ridge Wilson just great June 30 Never Before In History Dembski really good July 31 The Truth About Tolerance Stetson, Conti quite good July 32 America’s Christian History: The Untold Story DeMar really informative July 33 Examining Alternative Medicine great July 34 The Greatest Stories Never Told Beyer fun July 35 Black & Tan Wilson whattabook July 36 The Right Nation Micklethwait & Wooldridge really good July 37 Pride & Prejudice Austen great July 38 The Loved One Waugh funny odd August 39 The Book of Guys Keillor fun August 40 The Book of Common Prayer Cranmer great August 41 Men and Women: Equal Yet Different Strauch good August 42 John Ploughman’s Pictures Spurgeon just great August 43 Talking of Dragons Newsom really good September 44 Our Culture, What’s Left of It Dalrymple fantastic September 45 Life At the Bottom Dalrymple fantastic September 46 Elders in Every City Beckwith really good September 47 Federal Husband Wilson whattabook September 48 Vile France Boyles really informative September 49 Deep Blues Palmer really good October 50 If You Want to Write Ueland good and atrocious October 51 The Hunt for Confederate Gold Moore huh November 52 Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church Carson very good November 53 The Plot Thickens Lukeman quite good November 54 Noble Savages Rushdoony great November 55 The Battle of Cowpens Roberts good stuff December 56 Blog Hewitt informative December 57 A Generous Orthodoxy McLaren pretty bad December 58 Samuel Johnson’s Insults Lynch fun December
Top 2004 1 The Real Lincoln DiLorenzo great January 2 The Gods of Revolution Dawson really good January 3 The Same Sex Controversy Niell & White very good January 4 I’ll Take My Stand Agrarians outstanding January 5 Time on the Cross Fogel & Engerman outstanding January 6 Treason Coulter pretty informative January 7 The Homosexual Agenda Sears & Osten really good January 8 The Lord’s Service Meyers outstanding February 9 Humor in Preaching Drakeford atrocious February 10 Winds of Doctrine Leitch very good February 11 Letters to Malcolm C.S. Lewis outstanding February 12 Peculiar Speech Willimon very good February 13 Finally Comes the Poet Brueggemann very bad February 14 For All the Saints? N.T. Wright great March 15 Priesthood of the Plebs Leithart really good March 16 Making Shapely Fiction Stern very good March 17 The Total Money Makeover Ramsey really fine March 18 The Anglo Saxon Age Blair good March 19 The Cruelty of Heresy Allison quite good March 20 How the Irish Saved Civilization Cahill quite good April 21 Beowulf Raffel really good April 22 Beowulf Alexander good April 23 Beowulf Rebsamen great April 24 Beowulf Gordon okay April 25 Beowulf Lehman really good April 26 Beowulf Heany great April 27 Beowulf Chickering great April 28 The Myth of the American Superhero Lawrence/Jewett insightful/clueless May 29 The Protest of a Troubled Protestant O.J. Brown great May 30 The Fatherhood of God Lidgett solid May 31 Jesus in Beijing Aikman really encouraging June 32 A Son to Me Leithart fine stuff June 33 C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church Pearce pretty fair June 34 The Magician’s Nephew C.S. Lewis wonderful again June 35 The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis wonderful again June 36 The Horse and His Boy C.S. Lewis wonderful again June 37 Prince Caspian C.S. Lewis wonderful again June 38 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis wonderful again June 39 The Silver Chair C.S. Lewis wonderful again June 40 The Last Battle C.S. Lewis wonderful again June 41 The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite Old really fine June 42 Standards for the Singing Church Beamer pretty good June 43 Companion to Narnia Ford great/appalling July 44 Against Christianity Leithart still superb July 45 Not Reformed At All Robbins * Gerety atrocious July 46 Deconstructing Evangelicalism Hart quite good August 47 Resurrection and Redemption Gaffin very good August 48 21stCentury Robert’s Rules of Order Princeton Language Institute informative September 49 Mark Twain on Writing and Publishing Twain really good September 50 The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment Burroughs really fine September 51 The Roman Catholic Controversy White quite good September 52 The Word Museum Kacirk fun September 53 On Paradise Drive Brooks illuminating September 54 The Iliad Homer, Lattimore great September 55 Pastor to Pastor Lutzer really good September 56 How to Worship Jesus Christ Carroll okay September 57 Peace Kills O’Rourke pretty good September 58 The Poems of Rowan Williams Williams atrocious September 59 Trinity and Reality Smith great October 60 God and Adam Ward stupendous October 61 Character Assassins Hammond/Abshire really good October 62 Guards! Guards! Pratchett fun October 63 The Homiletical Plot Lowry quite good November 64 On Marriage and Family Life Chrysostom really good November 65 Sense and Sensibility Austen fine stuff November 66 Miniatures and Morals Leithart really good November 67 Darwin on Trial Johnson good November 68 The Humor of Kierkegaard Kierkegaard great stuff November 69 Justification and the New Perspectives on Paul Waters very good November 70 Florenceof Arabia Buckley fun November 71 The Odyssey Homer great November 72 The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation McGrath very good November 73 Taking Sex Differences Seriously Rhoads quite good December 74 20 Master Plots Tobias decent December 75 A Father’s Stew Beck pretty good December
Top 2003 1 The Anti-Christ Nietzsche green vomit January 2 Counted Righteous in Christ Piper pretty decent January 3 Modern Art and the Death of a Culture Rookmaaker really good January 4 Newspaper Days Mencken delightful January 5 A Serrated Edge Wilson whatabook! January 6 Given for You Mathison outstanding January 7 Faith Alone Sproul pretty good February 8 Heathen Days Mencken great February 9 Doctrine of the Word of God Barth jeepers February 10 The Sword of the Prophet Trifkovic great February 11 The Trinitarian Faith Torrance great March 12 American Empire Bacevich great March 13 The Imaginative World of the Reformation Matheson really good March 14 Destined to Share the Throne Billman okay March 15 Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche imbecilic March 16 Galatians Jervis decent March 17 Galatians Ridderbos decent March 18 Fidelity Wilson whatabook! March 19 Christ and the Media Muggeridge simply great April 20 The Vanishing Word Hunt really good April 21 The Brothers Karamazov Doestoevsky great April 22 Tolkien: A Celebration Pearce pretty good April 23 Sacrifice of Praise Trott really good April 24 Galatians Commentary Calvin good work April 25 Love in the Ruins Percy fun May 26 An All-Round Ministry Spurgeon great May 27 Against Christianity Leithart stupendous May 28 Beyond the Bounds Piper, ed. really good May 29 Satire Hodgart quite good May 30 The Cynic’s Dictionary Dillon-Malone fun May 31 Sex, Art, and American Culture Paglia quite good, actually June 32 The Morality of Laughter Buckley really good June 33 Poetic Diction Barfield really fine June 34 Till We Have Faces Lewis stupendous July 35 Basic Questions on Alternative Medicine Various quite good July 36 From Silence to Song Leithart just great July 37 A Little Exercise for Young Theologians Thielcke really fine July 38 Finding the Will of God Waltke outstanding July 39 The Next Christendom Jenkins great July 40 Litany of the Long Sun Wolfe lotta fun August 41 Persuasions Wilson whattabook August 42 Christian Culture in a Multicultural Age Schlissel really good August 43 God in Three Persons Vander Pol decent September 44 The Hobbit (audio) Tolkien really fun September 45 BBC Collection of Humorous Poetry (audio) various fun September 46 How the Scots Invented the Modern World Herman very good September 47 Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment Winter decent October 48 The Substance of Style Postrel really good October 49 Mere Christianity Lewis great October 50 The New Testament and the People of God N.T. Wright great November 51 The Sense of Humor Rensburg barely okay November 52 Who Was Jesus? Wright great November 53 The Elements of Editing Plotnik good November 54 Wit and Wisdom of Poor Richard’s Almanac Frankin great November 55 The Meal Jesus Gave Us N.T. Wright good November 56 From Apostles to Bishops Sullivan stupendous November 57 Angels in the Architecture Wilson/Jones whattabook! November 58 Lord Byron Bigland really good November 59 The Norton Book of Light Verse Baker good November 60 Management by Proverbs Zigarelli quite good November 61 A Nonsense Anthology Wells good November 62 What Went Wrong? Lewis really informative November 63 The Holocaust Industry Finkelstein great December 64 A Consuming Fire Genovese stupendous December 65 Making Sunday Special Mains quirky but good December 66 The Art of Writing Quiller-Couch fascinating December 67 The Southern Tradition Genevose fine stuff December
Top 2002 1 In Defense of Women Mencken quite good January 2 The Enduring Community Habig/Newsom really good January 3 The “Atheism” of the Early Church Rushdoony good January 4 The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche ick January 5 Forbidden Knowledge Shattuck very good January 6 Spirits in Bondage C.S. Lewis decent January 7 The Death of the West Buchanan great January 8 Shows About Nothing Hibbs very good February 9 The Writing Life Dillard quite good February 10 The Triune Identity Jenson actually good February 11 Monsters from the Id Jones great February 12 Capturing the Culture Grenier very good March 13 The CEO of the Sofa O’Rourke quite good March 14 The Abbreviated Psalter Bede really good March 15 The Great Divorce C.S. Lewis just great March 16 The Devil Knows Latin Kopff really good March 17 Meetings That Work Strauch good ? 18 The Song of Songs Falk good March 19 Eccentric Preachers Spurgeon really good March 20 Pop Culture Wars Romanowski gosh March 21 The World’s Last Night C.S. Lewis great March 22 Honky Tonk Gospel Veith & Wilmeth solid March 23 A Better Way Horton great March 24 Luther the Preacher Meuser really good April 25 The Church of Rome at the Bar of History Webster great April 26 The Hobbit Tolkien great April 27 The Old Limey Crocker okay April 28 The Way of All Flesh Butler amazing April 29 The Return of Jeeves Wodehouse great April 30 Bertie Wooster Sees It Through Wodehouse great April 31 Spring Fever Wodehouse great April 32 New Testament (Weymouth) Holy Spirit really good May 33 The Complete Yes Minister Lynn & Jay great May 34 The Age of Consent Knight quite good May 35 The Peter Principle Peter & Hull really good May 36 Feed My Lambs Gallant outstanding June 37 Foolishness to the Greeks Newbigin really good June 38 Aphorisms Auden good stuff June 39 Parkinson’s Law Parkinson really great June 40 Trinity Book Smith really good June 41 The Shape of Sola Scriptura Mathison superb June 42 Christian Reflections Lewis great June 43 The Drawing of the Dark Powers fun June 44 Turning Back the Darkness Phillips really good July 45 Holy the Firm Dillard very good July 46 Future Men Wilson whatabook! July 47 Blood of the Moon Grant solid July 48 The Animal that Never Was Megged great July 49 Revisiting Paul’s Doctrine of Justification Stuhlmacher really good July 50 The Ballad of the White Horse Chesterton great July 51 Hollywood Worldviews Godawa great August 52 The Mystical Presence Nevin great September 53 Nobrow Seabrook interesting September 54 Valleyof Vision Bennett good September 55 Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses Poythress solid September 56 The Worship of the English Puritans Davies really good September 57 The David Story Alter really good September 58 Beowulf Heaney the best September 59 The Principle of Protestantism Schaff first rate September 60 The Catholic Mystery Armstrong good September 61 The Millennium Myth Wright really good September 62 The Case for Classical Christian Education Wilson whatabook September 63 Slander Coulter really well done October 64 Antagonists in the Church Haugk good October 65 Well-Intentioned Dragons Shelley okay October 66 Crowd Culture Bell quite good October 67 Fighting Words Charlton fun October 68 Fantastic Fables Bierce great October 69 Brothers, We are Not Professionals Piper really good October 70 “Reformed” Is Not Enough Wilson whatabook November 71 Firestorm Susek pretty good November 72 Saga of the Volsungs Byock great November 73 Galatians Wilson good November 74 Ancient Christian Commentary (Galatians) Oden really good November 75 Paul for Everyone Wright good November 76 No Way to Treat a First Lady Buckley fun November 77 The Kingdom of Matthias Johnson & Wilentz fascinating November 78 God in the Dock Lewis great November 79 The Sidney Psalms Sidney great November 80 Small Comforts Bodett fun November 81 A Third Testament Muggeridge good November 82 Upon This Slippery Rock Svendsen great November 83 Space, Time and Incarnation Torrance stupendous November 84 Face to Face Wilkins really good November 85 The New Architecture and the Bauhaus Gropius crikey! November 86 Splendor in the Ordinary Howard really good November 87 Calvin’s Ecclesiastical Advice Calvin good November 88 The Thought of Gregory the Great Evans quite good December 89 The Painted Word Wolfe great December 90 The Catholicity of the Reformation Braaten & Jenson great/awful December 91 Constantine the Great Grant okay December 92 The Skeptic Teachout really good December 93 Smoke on the Mountain Davidman good December
Top 2001 1 Intimate Issues Dillow & Pinute (?) decent Jan 2 Preaching According to the Holy Spirit Adams good Jan 3 Reformed Worship Johnson good Jan 4 Brave New Family Chesterton great Jan 5 Finding the Landlord Lindskoog good Jan 6 T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life Gordon fine work Jan 7 Four Quartets Eliot good/strange Jan 8 Vere Homo Myers decent Jan 9 Evangelicalism Divided Murray great Jan 10 The Blues: Roots and Inspiration Collis good Feb 11 The Democratization of American Christianity Hatch great Feb 12 Greyfriars Covenant Wilson whatabook! Feb 13 Roar on the Other Side Clark good Mar 14 Enthusiasm Knox stupendous Mar 15 Children of Abraham Kingdon the usual Mar 16 A Mind Awake C.S. Lewis great Mar 17 Old Testament (AV) Holy Spirit you know Mar 18 Solomon on Sex Dillow pretty good, actually Mar 19 Rhyme’s Reason Hollander good Mar 20 Planets in Peril Downing great Mar 21 God’s Altar Daly superb Apr. 22 Presbyterian Doctrine of Children in the Covenant Schenck great Apr 23 A Landscape With Dragons O’Brien good Apr 24 Dictionary of Popular Slang Pearl good Apr 25 Rediscovering Catechism Van Dyken great Apr 26 Collected Poetry Chesterton great Apr 27 How Readest Thou? Ryle great May 28 Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations Sherrin good May 29 The Church in the Theology of the Reformers Avis great May 30 Modern Manners O’ Rourke funny/crass May 31 The Quotable Knox Knox really good May 32 Why God Became Man Anselm interesting May 33 The Call of Grace Shepherd really good May 34 Judges: God’s War Against Humanism Jordan quite good May 35 The Message in the Bottle Percy really fine June 36 Blessed Are the Hungry Leithart great June 37 The Thirty Six Dramatic Situations Polti interesting June 38 For the Life of the World Schmemann very good June 39 Bold Love Allender surprisingly good June 40 Reflections on the Human Condition Hoffer quite good June 41 The Preacher’s Portrait Stott outstanding June 42 The Historic Reality of Christian Culture Dawson great June 43 Pirates on the Chesapeake Shomette fascinating July 44 Right Behind Wilson whatabook! July 45 The Mantra of Jabez Jones whatabook! July 46 The Nature of Doctrine Lindbeck erudite/wretched July 47 Tolkien Carpenter great July 48 Life of John Calvin Beza good July 49 State of Confusion, State of Siege Schumacher not horrible August 50 A General History of Pirates Johnson fascinating August 51 Writing Dialogue Chiarella quite good August 52 Return to Worship Owen pretty solid August 53 The Christian Future Rosenstock-Huessy a strange fellow August 54 The Inklings Carpenter decent August 55 O Come, Let Us Worship Rayburn great August 56 The Lord’s Supper Letham quite good mostly August 57 I Only Say This Because I Love You Tannen really good September 58 Reformed Education Engelsma good September 59 Whoredom Ortlund great September 60 The Silmarillion Tolkien really good September 61 Writing the Novel Block good stuff September 62 Reforming Pastoral Ministry Armstrong, ed. really good October 63 The New Testament (NEB) Holy Spirit obvious October 64 A Confederacy of Dunces Toole really good October 65 Platitudes Undone Chesterton great October 66 Foundations of Christian Education Van Til, Berkhof great October 67 Master Plan of Evangelism Coleman pretty good October 68 The Teaching Methods of Jesus Hubery okay October 69 The Destruction of Jerusalem Holford very good October 70 Robert Herrick Herrick good October 71 Medieval Exegesis, Vol. I du Lubac great September 72 Medieval Exegesis, Vol. II du Lubac great October 73 Song of Songs Curtis okay October 74 An Introduction to Old English Pollington quite good November 75 Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period Longenecker thorough November 76 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien Tolkien outstanding November 77 The Writer’s Journey Vogler okay November 78 All Shook Up Holloway quite good November 79 The Contemplative Pastor Peterson great/awful November 80 Against the Idols of the Age Stove really good December 81 On Being a Christian Wilson quite good December 82 Creation in Six Days Jordan okay December 83 The True Christian Ryle really good December 84 The One, The Three, and the Many Gunton exasperating December 85 Shall We Know One Another? Ryle great December 86 The Collects of Thomas Cranmer Barbee/Zahl interesting December 87 Martin Bucer and Book of Common Prayer Whitaker great December 88 Of Other Worlds C.S. Lewis very good December 89 No Other God Frame great December 90 Deuteronomy Thompson okay December 91 The Book of Deuteronomy Craige good December 92 Deuteronomy Wright outstanding December 93 Christian Leaders of the 18thCentury Ryle great December 94 Fern Seed and Elephants C.S. Lewis really good December
Top 2000 1 Your Child’s Profession of Faith Gundersen sad January 2 Age and Guile O’ Rourke hilarious January 3 The Future and Its Enemies Postrel great 4 Trouble in the World O’ Rourke great January 5 Calvin’s Doctrine of Word & Sacrament Wallace stupendous January 6 Calvin, Geneva, and the Reformation Wallace great February 7 The History and Character of Calvinism McNeill great/astounding February 8 The Works of Anne Bradstreet Bradstreet wonderful March 9 A Method of Prayer Henry wonderful March 10 For Kirk and Covenant Wilson whatabook March 11 Anne Bradstreet Piercy good stuff March 12 What Saint Paul Really Said Wright great/troubling March 13 Wine on the Lees Wilson whatabook March 14 The Challenge of Jesus Wright great April 15 Dutch Color Jones really good April 16 Puritan Evangelism Beeke good April 17 Ancient Rhetorics Crowley good/goshawful April 18 Instruction in Faith Calvin great April 19 Libertyof Conscience Gaustad whoa April 20 What About Baptism? Bass really pretty good April 21 Everyday Life in Massachusetts Bay Colony Dow just great April 22 Plowing in Hope Hegeman really fine April 23 Measuring the Music Makujina really good May 24 The Worldly Saints Ryken great May 25 From Bauhaus to Our House Wolfe wonderful May 26 A Rulebook for Arguments Weston decent May 27 A Bonfire of the Vanities Wolfe great May 28 How to Get Happily Published Appelbaum decent May 29 Calvin’s Doctrine of the Christian Life Wallace wonderful May 30 “To His Coy Mistress” and Other Poems Marvell very good June 31 The Lord and His Prayer Wright great June 32 An Account of Anne Bradstreet Caldwell good-strange June 33 Agape Leadership Strauch & Peterson decent June 34 The Christian Imagination ? great June 35 For All God’s Worth Wright solid June 36 Literature and Theology in Colonial NE Murdock decent July 37 Great Sonnets Negri very good July 38 Anne Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse White great July 39 True Happiness Lloyd-Jones very good July 40 Principles of War Wilson great July 41 Lucky Jim Amis funny Aug 42 Confessions, Vol. II Augustine great Aug 43 The Reading & Preaching of Scriptures, II Old very good Aug 44 A House for My Name Leithart grand Aug 45 Ad Herennium ? good Aug 46 Shakespeare’s Bawdy Partridge fascinating Sept 47 The Elizabethan World Picture Tillyard good Sept 48 The Idea of Office Sietsma decent Sept 49 Aspects of the Novel E.M. Forster great Sept 50 Calvin’s Preaching Parker great Oct 51 How To Win an Argument Gilbert decent Oct 52 Race, Evolution, and Behavior Rushton provoking Oct 53 Thinking Straight Flew very good Oct 54 On Writing, Editing, & Publishing Barzun really good Oct 55 Telecosm Gilder stupendous Nov 56 Bound Only Once Wilson, ed. whatabook! Nov 57 The Surrendered Children Wilson whatabook! Nov 58 How To Read Music Evans great Nov 59 Orthodoxy Chesterton superb Nov 60 How to Write an Uncommonly Good Novel Hoover decent, kinda Nov 61 The American Religion Bloom profound Nov 62 Worship, Community & the Triune God of Grace Torrance huh Nov 63 Evangelical is Not Enough Howard fascinating Nov 64 The Lord’s Service Myers great Dec 65 A Poem A Day McCosker good Dec 66 Exquisite Desire Walsh good/head case Dec 67 The Works of Rupert Brooke Brooke good poetry Dec 68 The Soul of Sex Moore nutcase Dec 69 My Father’s Kingdom Layton solid Dec 70 The Devil’s Music Oakley fascinating Dec
Top 1999 1 Psmith Journalist Wodehouse fine Jan 2 The Lords and New Creatures Morrison appalling Jan 3 The Kingdom and the Power Leithart great Jan 4 The Scandal of Gender Mitchell quite interesting Jan 5 Prayers and Meditations of St. Anselm St. Anselm glorious/awful Jan 6 Pig Out? James Jordan very good Jan 7 Liturgical Nestorianism James Jordan good Jan 8 The Liturgy Trap James Jordan very good Jan 9 The New Testament (AV tapes) Holy Spirit superb Jan 10 101 Great American Poems Various interesting Feb 11 Joy at the End of the Tether Wilson whatabook! Feb 12 Contextualization and Heresy Hall quite good Feb 13 Daddy, Why Was I Excommunicated? Leithart good Feb 14 In Bluebeard’s Castle Steiner provocative Feb 15 On Poetry and Poets T.S. Eliot very good Feb 16 War Psalms of the Prince of Peace Adams quite good Mar 17 Theses on Worship Jordan interesting Mar 18 The Name of the Rose Eco fascinating Mar 19 The Quotable Johnson Johnson just good Mar 20 The Wasteland, Prufrock & Other Poems Eliot interesting Mar 21 Brief Reader’s Guide to Revelation Jordan interesting Mar 22 The Plight of Man and the Power of God Lloyd-Jones great Mar 23 Angels in the Architecture Jones/Wilson whatabook! Mar 24 100 Best Loved Poems Smith really good! Mar 25 Humorous Stories and Sketches Twain pretty funny Mar 26 Ezra Pound Early Poems Pound surprising Apr 27 Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats T.S. Eliot pretty good Apr 28 Foucault’s Pendulum Eco good/awful Apr 29 Happy Days Mencken great Apr 30 Mystery and Manners O’ Conner quite good May 31 The Holy Bible (AV) Holy Spirit class by itself May 32 The Quotable Tozer I Tozer very good May 33 God’s Passion for His Glory Edwards great May 34 P.G. Wodehouse: A Biography Donaldson very good May 35 Desiring God Piper great May 36 The Church Impotent Podles great June 37 C.S. Lewis: Man of Letters Howard quite good June 38 Right Ho, Jeeves Wodehouse great June 39 Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen Wodehouse good June 40 Dismissing God Lockerbie very good June 41 The Romance of Protestantism Alcock great June 42 Postmillennialism Mathison quite good June 43 Life After Television Gilder fascinating July 44 The Humor of Christ Trueblood good July 45 Letters to Malcolm C.S. Lewis great July 46 Thrones, Dominations Sayers pretty good July 47 The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien wonderful August 48 The Two Towers Tolkien wonderful August 49 The Return of the King Tolkien wonderful August 50 Knots Untied Ryle great September 51 Advice to Writers Winokur good September 52 Symphonic Theology Poythress stupendous September 53 Poetry for Cats Beard pretty funny September 54 That Hideous Strength Lewis stupendous September 55 Hell on Trial Peterson sturdy September 56 Commentary on the Gospel of Mark Alexander good September 57 Expository Thoughts on (Mark) Ryle good September 58 Mark Cole good September 59 Ancient Christian Commentary (Mark) Fathers great September 60 The Burgermeister’s Daughter Ozment fascinating October 61 Samuel Davies Pilcher good October 62 The Gospel According to Mark Lane outstanding October 63 Golden Mouth Kelly good October 64 Light From Old Times Ryle very good October 65 The Unfolding Mystery Clowney good October 66 Breathmarks Hotham very good October 67 Swearing Hughes interesting October 68 The Presbyterian Controversy Longfield great November 69 Full Moon Wodehouse fun November 70 Anne Bradstreet Piercy decent November 71 Anne Bradstreet: The Worldly Puritan Standord very good November 72 The Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary Bierce outstanding November 73 Biblical Lovemaking Fruchtenbaum okay November 74 Uncle Dynamite Wodehouse great December 75 Narcissus Leaves the Pool Epstein really good December 76 Poetry Handbook Deutsch good December 77 Eat the Rich O’Rourke great December
Top 1998 1 Supremacy of God in Preaching Piper quite good Jan 2 Taming of the Shrew Edward deVere great Jan 3 Defence of Poesie Sydney great Jan 4 Living Machines Jones great Jan 5 The Culture We Deserve Barzun great Jan 6 Hamlet de Vere great Jan 7 The Pleasures of God Piper wonderful Jan 8 The New Testament (KJV tapes) Holy Spirit obviously . . . Feb 9 The Secret Life of Bill Clinton Evans-Pritchard very good Feb 10 Augustine of Hippo Brown outstanding Feb 11 Minority Report Mencken really pretty good Mar 12 Time Bomb 2000 Yourdon very good Mar 13 Dynamic of Service Wilkes decent Mar 14 American Tongue and Cheek Quinn just great Mar 15 The Divine Dramatist Stout quite good Mar 16 How to Read the Bible as Literature Ryken good Mar 17 Facts Historians Leave Out Tilley okay Mar 18 Just A Talker Duncan great Apr 19 English Poems of George Herbert Herbert great May 20 Feminization of American Culture Douglas stupendous May 21 Weight of Glory Lewis great May 22 Selected Writings of John Knox (Vol. I) Knox very good May 23 The Genevan Book of Order Knox (?) good May 24 The Reading & Preaching of the Scriptures (I) Old great May 25 Life of Knox McCrie great May 26 John Knox: Forgotten Reformer Reed good May 27 Though the Darkness Hide Thee Bauer quite good June 28 John Knox Cowan pretty okay June 29 Conquest of Cool Frank pretty good July 30 New Testament (AV tapes) Holy Spirit superb July 31 Angels in the Architecture Jones/Wilson what a book! July 32 Five Points of Calvinism Bryson arful July 33 Commodify Your Dissent Frank brilliant/stupid July 34 The Sensate Culture Brown great Aug 35 Spirit Empowered Preaching Azurdia quite good Aug 36 Plagiarism & the Culture War Pappas very good Aug 37 Tyndale Commentary (Zechariah only) Baldwin good Sept 38 Calvin (Zechariah only) Calvin very good Sept 39 Zechariah (only) Moore quite good Sept 40 A Defense of Liberty Junius Brutus outstanding Sept 41 The End of Ancient Christianity Markus very good Sept 42 Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers Hall great/ahrful Oct 43 No Place for Sovereignty Wright good Oct 44 Song of Songs (New Century) Snaith okay Oct 45 Edward Hills’ Contribution Letis quite good Oct 46 Reflections on the Psalms C.S. Lewis glorious/awful Oct 47 Losing Our Virtue Wells very good Nov 48 A Treasure of Great Poetry (audio) Various great Nov 49 Hole in Our Soul Bayles impressive Nov 50 Early Christianity and Greek Paidea Jaeger wonderful Nov 51 Trousered Apes Duncan pretty good Nov 52 Perelandra C.S. Lewis great Nov 53 Confessions (Vol. 1) Augustine great Nov 54 A Treasure of Great Poetry (audio) Various great Nov 55 For His Glory Farley good Dec 56 God in the Wasteland Wells quite good Dec 57 Tithing and the Church North quite good Dec 58 The Restitution of Man Aeschliman pretty okay Dec
Top 1997 1 Surprised by Laughter Lindvall good January 2 First Blast of the Trumpet Knox pretty bad, actually January 3 Civil War Two Chittum first rate January 4 Fool’s Names/Fool’s Faces Ferguson quite good February 5 Studies in Medieval & Renaissance Lit C.S. Lewis outstanding February 6 The New Testament Holy Spirit (Lattimore’s translation) excellent February 7 Exegetical Fallacies Carson good February 8 Song of Solomon Carr good March 9 Allegory of Love C.S. Lewis great March 10 Easy Chairs/Hard Words Wilson what a book! March 11 Makers of Rome Plutarch quite good March 12 Letters of C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis wonderful April 13 After Modernity . . . What? Oden good/poor April 14 Understanding Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism Marsden very good April 15 Leave it to Psmith Wodehouse great April 16 The Message of Ecclesiastes Kidner quite good April 17 Ecclesiastes: Total Life Kaiser very good April 18 Ecclesiastes Bridges sorta good April 19 Ecclesiastes Eaton good April 20 Henry V de Vere great May 21 Sanctuary of Silence Kershaw very good May 22 Alias Shakespeare Sobran superb May 23 My Lady Nicotine Barrie quite good May 24 The Idea of Decline in Western Culture Hermon great May 25 Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution Atkins good May 26 Little Exercise for Young Theologians Thielicke good June 27 Letters to an American Lady C.S. Lewis quite good June 28 Beowulf Anonymus (Raffel) epic June 29 Institutio Oratoria Vol. I Quintilian very good June 30 Leading in Worship Johnson very good June 31 What’s Wrong With the World Chesterton brilliant June 32 Rhetoric Dixon superb July 33 Institutio Oratoria Vol. II Quintilian very good July 34 The Last Laugh Perelman good stuff July 35 Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IIrenaeus,et al. great July 36 Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot really good July 37 Puritan Profiles Barker most informative July 38 The Debt Free Church Berg & Burgess really quite good July 39 Book of Bad Songs Barry hilarious July 40 Surprised by Joy C.S. Lewis great July 41 Principles of Biblical Interpretation Berkhof good Aug 42 From Forgiven to Forgiving Adams just great Aug 43 The Arrogance of the Modern Hall very good Aug 44 Institutio Oratoria Vol. III Quintilian very good Aug 45 Dionysos Rising Jones world class Aug 46 Degenerate Moderns Jones very good Sept 47 Defeating Darwinism Johnson very good Sept 48 The Ecclesiastical Text Letis first-rate Sept 49 Institutio Oratoria Vol. IV Quintilian very good Oct 50 How to Master the English Bible Gray great Oct 51 Worship Old stupendous Oct 52 On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe Mencken really good Oct 53 From Nicaea to Chalcedon Young quite good Nov. 54 Commentary on First John Calvin good Nov. 55 Technopoly Postman superb Nov. 56 Prejudices Mencken just great Nov. 57 Goodbye Descartes Devlin important Nov. 58 The End of Science Horgan pretty good Dec. 59 Starlight and Time Humphries provocative/goofy Dec. 60 Brightest Heaven of Invention Leithart very good Dec. 61 The Impeachment of W.J. Clinton Tyrell interesting Dec. 62 Shakespeare’s Book of Insults Seder good Dec. 63 Future Grace Piper great Dec. 64 Much Ado About Nothing Edward deVere great Dec.
Top 1996 1 The Quotable Lewis C.S. Lewis great January 2 An Experiment in Criticism C.S. Lewis great January 3 Revival & Revivalism Murray outstanding January 4 Religion and the Rise of Western Culture Dawson just great February 5 The Aeneid Virgil great March 6 Public Education & Indoctrination Assorted okay March 7 The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis great March 8 English Literature in the 16th Century C.S. Lewis stupendous March 9 Baptized Patriarchalism North good April 10 WestminsterConfession (1646) various great April 11 Webster’s Unafraid Dictionary Levinson fine April 12 A Second Mencken Chrestomathy Mencken great April 13 Be True To Your School Garfield good April 14 1996 Cambridge Papers Various quite good April 15 The Coming Evangelical Crisis Armstrong, ed. great April 16 Metamorphoses Ovid good April 17 C.S. Lewis A.N. Wilson good May 18 Truth is Stranger Than it Used to Be Walsh/Middleton godforsaken May 19 Christian Apologetics in a Postmodern World Philips/Oakholm jeepers May 20 The Openness of God Pinnock, ed. heretical May 21 Train Up A Child Pearl awful/great May 22 Little Book/Christian Character & Manners Dedrick good/poor May 23 The Jesus Papyrus Thiede/D’Ancona excellent June 24 History of Education Graves quite good June 25 Uncle Dynamite Wodehouse great July 26 Inventing the AIDS Virus Duesberg simply great July 27 Worship in Spirit and Truth Frame quite good July 28 America’s British Culture Kirk great July 29 Forgotten Confederates Barrow/Rosenburg really good July 30 To A Thousand Generations Wilson what a book! August 31 Black Southerners in Gray Rollins, ed. good August 32 Fighting for Liberty & Virtue Olasky great August 33 Crossed Fingers North just great September 34 Spurgeon & Hyper-Calvinism Murray great September 35 Enemies List O Rourke good September 36 Beowulf Anonymus great October 37 J. Gresham Machen Stonehouse quite good October 38 Christianity & Culture T.S. Eliot great November 39 The Odyssey Homer/Lattimore great November 40 Selected Poems T.S. Eliot interesting November 41 Evangelical Heathenism? Beisner quite good November 42 The Poems & Sonnets of Wm Shakespeare Shakespeare very good November 43 The Epic of Gilgamesh ? fascinating November 44 Darwin’s Black Box Behe stupendous November 45 Southern Tradition At Bay Weaver superb December 46 Joys of National Review Buckley good December 47 Letters to Children C.S. Lewis good December 48 Music of the Great Composers Kavanaugh fascinating December 49 Godly Self Control Pier pretty good, actually December 50 Standing on the Promises Wilson whatabook! December 51 The Bible Holy Spirit (NKJV mostly) perfect December 52 Protestant Ethic & Spirit of Capitalism Weber thot-provoking December
Top 1995 1 Can Fallen Pastors Be Restored? Armstrong outstanding January 2 Latina Pro Populo/Latin for People Humez pretty funny January 3 Postmodern Times Veith very good January 4 The Heavenly City of 18th Cent. Phil. Becker just outstanding January 5 A Biblical Introduction to Apologetics Bahnsen good February 6 Words to Winners of Souls Bonar very good February 7 Essays Presented to Charles Williams C.S. Lewis, ed. good February 8 Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue Scott outstanding February 9 The Return of Jeeves Wodehouse very good March 10 Give War a Chance O’ Rourke good March 11 The Necessity of Reforming the Church Calvin great March 12 Hebrews/Tyndale NT Commentaries Guthrie solid April 13 On Writing Well Zinsser good April 14 Clear and Simple as the Truth Thomas & Turner foundational April 15 Song of Songs Bloch & Bloch quite good April 16 Modern Fascism Gene Veith outstanding May 17 The Reformation & Theology of Reformers Cunningham very good May 18 Biblical Worship Kevin Reed good May 19 More Quotable Chesterton G.K. Chesterton great June 20 H.L. Mencken’s Smart Set Criticism H.L. Mencken brilliant July 21 The Vintage Mencken H.L. Mencken great July 22 Bills From Beyond the Grave North okay July 23 On Remaking the World Schultz okay July 24 The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind Noll great/poor July 25 The Epistle to the Ephesians Hodge great August 26 Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper Various okay/poor August 27 Carry On, Jeeves Wodehouse really good August 28 Heresies Harold O.J. Brown outstanding August 29 A Presbyterian Political Manifesto Wagner okay August 30 White Gloves Kotre interesting & dumb September 31 State of the Arts Veith very good October 32 Man, Economy, and Environment Beisner good October 33 Strategies for Successful Marriage Wagner/Gruen lousy October 34 Missing From Action I forget pretty good October 35 The Ten Commandments Watson great November 36 The Messiah’s Return James okay November 37 The Fate of Empires Glubb very good November 38 Jus Divinum London ministers great November 39 Making Shipwreck of the Faith Reed very good November 40 A Return to Christian Culture Taylor good November 41 Present Concerns C.S. Lewis good November 42 The Weight of Glory C.S. Lewis great November 43 Animal Farm Orwell very good November 44 The Death Penalty Martin good November 45 Fit Bodies Fat Minds Guinness quite good November 46 The End of Christendom Muggeridge good December 47 The World’s Last Night C.S. Lewis great as always December 48 The Abolition of Religion Morris good December 49 The Great Tribulation Jones okay, but boring December 50 The Crisis of Western Education Dawson great December 51 A Preface to Paradise Lost C.S. Lewis magnificent December 52 Superior Person’s 2nd Book of Words Bowler okay December 53 Drinking With Calvin and Luther! West funny December
Top 1994 1 The Ruling Elder Miller excellent January 2 The Second Book of Discipline The Kirk excellent January 3 The Four Loves C.S. Lewis outstanding January 4 The Minister in the Reformed Tradition Goodykoontz quite good January 5 Order in the Offices Brown great January 6 Classical Apologetics Sproul, Gerstner, L . good/poor January 7 The Soul Winner Spurgeon very good January 8 What Do Presbyterians Believe? Clark good February 9 The Weight of Glory C.S. Lewis great February 10 Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth Gerstner good February 11 The Great Awakening and American Ed. Sloan, ed. good March 12 What About Baptism? Rayburn excellent March 13 The Visible Church & the Outer Darkness Bacon good March 14 Revealed to Babes Bacon good March 15 Signs and Seals of the Covenant Kirkby good April 16 Immersion MacKay very good April 17 Thornwell/Volume IV Thornwell great April 18 The Reformation of the Church Murray, ed. great April 19 The Church Under Siege Smith great May 20 Commentary on First Thessalonians Calvin very good May 21 Refutation of Baptist Tricks Zwingli good May 22 Coming Home Gillquist Godforsaken June 23 New Testament History Bruce outstanding June 24 Concerning Scandal Durham very good June 25 An Unshakeable Kingdom Gooding good July 26 Biblical Church Government Reed good July 27 Dancing Alone Schaeffer horrendous July 28 No Place for Truth Wells outstanding July 29 Holy Baptism Spencer good July 30 The Peacemaker Sande very good August 31 The Emergence of Liberty Kelly good August 32 Principles of War Wilson great August 33 Order in the Offices Mark Brown, ed. very good August 34 Christian Nurture Bushnell excellent August 35 Building a Christian Worldview Hoffecker, ed. good September 36 War Psalms of the Prince of Peace Adams just great September 37 Life of Christ in Stereo Cheney great September 38 When Fathers Ruled Ozment quite good October 39 A Reformation Debate Calvin/Sadoleto very good November 40 Hebrews: A Devotional Commentary Thomas good November 41 A Shield and Hiding Place Shattuck very good November 42 The Doctrine of Scripture Van Til good December 43 A Grief Observed Lewis good December 44 Reading Between the Lines Veith very good December 45 Four Quartets T.S. Eliot interesting December 46 The Apostolic Church Witherow quite good December 47 Liberty of Conscience/Puritan Idea John Van Til good December 48 TULIP Duane Spencer okay December 49 The New Evangelicalism Woodbridge quite good December 50 How Can I Be Sure I’m a Christian? Whitney good December 51 Guinness Book of Poisonous Quotes Jarman good December 52 The New Testament NIV/NKJV/& tapes Scripture December
Top 1993 1 Christianity and Classical Culture Cochrane outstanding January 2 Thoughts for Young Men Ryle outstanding January 3 What Calvin Says Crampton good January 4 Christian Baptism Murray very good January 5 The Foundations of Social Order Rushdoony very good January 6 A Question of Intelligence? Seligman great February 7 Studies in the Covenant of Grace Neilands very good February 8 War on the Idols Eire good February 9 Infant Baptism Sartelle good February 10 Ecclesiastical Text & Claims of Anabaptists Letis good February 11 Presbyterian Government Breckinridge good February 12 The Praise of Folly Erasmus very good March 13 Why I Believe in God Van Til good March 14 He Shall Have Dominion Gentry very good March 15 John Ploughman’s Pictures Spurgeon good April 16 History of the Westminster Divines Hetherington excellent May 17 The Ethics of Rhetoric Weaver very good May 18 The Magician’s Nephew Lewis excellent May 19 Prince Caspian Lewis excellent June 20 The Christ of the Covenants Robertson very good June 21 HuguenotGarden Jones very good June 22 William the Baptist Chaney very good June 23 Infant Baptism Miller very good June 24 The Horse and His Boy Lewis very good July 25 A Short History of the Westminster Assembly Beveridge good/poor July 26 The Silver Chair Lewis great July 27 How Could Anyone Believe That? Booth very good July 28 Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lewis great August 29 How Could Anyone Believe That? Booth very good August 30 A Mencken Chrestomathy Mencken outstanding September 31 Men, Women, and Order in the Church Calvin very good September 32 The Burden of God Kelley very good September 33 The Life of Samuel Rutherford Andrew Thompson good September 34 Warnings to the Churches J.C. Ryle very good September 35 The Teaching of . . . Hebrews Vos good October 36 Unity of the Church M’Crie very good October 37 Spirit of the Disciplines Willard good October 38 The Meaning and Mode of Baptism Adams good October 39 The New Testament (NKJV) Holy Spirit Scripture October 40 Select Sermons of George Whitefield Whitefield outstanding October 41 Believers and Their Seed Hoeksema good November 42 Baptism Green good/awful November 43 God’s Last Word to Man Morgan good November 44 God’s Church Stibbs good plus November 45 What is Calvinism? Smith good November 46 The Testimony of Baptism Hulse okay November 47 We and Our Children Hanko excellent November 48 Disciplines of the Christian Life Whitney good November 49 Baptists: Thorough Reformers Adams ! November 50 Infant Baptism in the First 4 Centuries Jeremias very good December 51 The Origins of Infant Baptism Jeremias good December 52 Infant Baptism Briefly Considered Doane quite good December
Top 1992 1 Messiah the Prince Symington excellent January 2 Handbook of Church Discipline Adams good plus January 3 New Testament MKJV Scripture January 4 Family Worship D’Aubigne good January 5 The Art of Persuasion Bridges/Rickenbacker good plus February 6 Westminster Confession & Creeds Dabney excellent February 7 God’s New Song Seidel good February 8 Historical Theology/Volume 2 Cunningham excellent February 9 New Testament Weymouth Scripture March 10 Historical Theology/Volume 1 Cunningham excellent March 11 Necessity of Systematic Theology Davis good April 12 The Covenant of Grace Murray excellent April 13 Reformation & Revival Armstrong, ed. excellent May 14 New Testament NKJV (tapes, @) Scripture April? 15 New Testament NKJV Scripture May 16 Alarm to the Unconverted Alleine very good May 17 Churchof Christ/Volume1 Bannerman excellent May 18 New Testament NKJV Scripture June 19 Knowing God J.I. Packer excellent June 20 Intercessory Prayer Bradford very good June 21 Intellectual Challenge of the Gospel Van Til excellent June 22 Redemption Accomplished and Applied Murray very solid July 23 Reforming Education Adler awful July 24 Amusing Ourselves to Death Postman wonderful July 25 Messiah: Governor of the Nations McLeod excellent July 26 Churchof Christ/Volume2 Bannerman excellent July 27 Hebrews/Volume 1 Owen great August 28 What is an Evangelical? Lloyd-Jones great August 29 Last Days Madness DeMar good August 30 Parliament of Whores O’Rourke okay August 31 The Hebrew Republic Wine great September 32 The Belgic Confession good September 33 The Ruling Elder Miller good September 34 An Able and Faithful Ministry Miller good September 35 The Plan of God Packer good September 36 Importance of the Local Church Wray good September 37 Forbidden Alliances Gillespie good September 38 Hallelujah/Lord God Omnipotent Alexander good September 39 The Separated Life Vos good September 40 Shepherding God’s Flock Beardmore good October 41 The True Nature of a Gospel Church Owen great October 42 How to Watch TV News Postman/Powers good October 43 On Mortification Owen great October 44 John Calvin Parker good November 45 Born Again Toon good November 46 Thoughts for Young Men Ryle great December 47 Justification Bunyan good December 48 Man and Woman in Bib. Perspective Hurley very good December 49 Church Officers Thornwell excellent December 50 Amusing Ourselves to Death Postman excellent December 51 Paradise Lost Milton okay December 52 Obedience to Laws of God Green good December
Top 1991 1 The Reformation in England d’Aubigne excellent January 2 Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning Wilson what a book! January 3 Marketing Your Ministry Pearson/Hisrich good January 4 The Defense of the Faith Van Til excellent February 5 Spurgeon’s Sovereign Grace Sermons Spurgeon excellent February 6 Van Til and the Use of Evidence Notaro good plus February 7 Death of Death in the Death of Christ Owen excellent February 8 Did God Know? Elseth awful! February 9 The Evangelical Doctor Wood good February 10 Infant Baptism/Part and Pillar of Popery Gill good March 11 Believer’s Baptism and Lord’s Supper Gosden okay March 12 Free Grace Vs. Free Will Best good March 13 Commentary on Jonah Calvin excellent March 14 The Reign of Grace Booth excellent March 15 The Five Points of Calvinism Hanko/Hoeksema/B. okay March 16 Gratitude Buckley poor March 17 Discourse on Free Will Erasmus/Luther poor/great April 18 Biblical Eldership Strauch good April 19 Books/God’s Tools Bockmuel good April 20 Woman’s Orgasm Kline/Graber good/awful May 21 Joy in the Morning Wodehouse good May 22 HyperCalvinism and . . . Gospel Engelsma excellent May 23 Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Zanchius excellent June 24 Code of the Woosters Wodehouse good plus June 25 The Reformed Doctrine of . . . Boettner excellent June 26 Arminius Bangs excellent/poor July 27 Lectures on Baptism Shirreff good plus July 28 Almost Christian Discovered Mead excellent July 29 Unpleasantness at the Bellona Sayers good July 30 Particular Redemption Rushton good August 31 The Davidson Affair ? good August 32 The Other End of the World Roger Rusk awful September 33 Thoughts on Public Prayer Miller great September 34 Saved by Grace Hoekema good September 35 Westminster‘s Confession North good September 36 Using Your Home for Christ Strauch very good September 37 One Year Bible (NIV) Scripture Scripture October 38 The Majority Text Letis good October 39 Mind of the Maker Sayers excellent October 40 Chosen by God Sproul good October 41 Leftism Revisited Kuehnelt-Leddihn excellent October 42 The Long War Against God Morris very good October 43 Biblical Eldership Strauch very good November 44 Latin for All Occasions Beard funny November 45 Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God Calvin excellent November 46 Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church Rosenthal !!! November 47 Prophecy and the Church Allis great November 48 Evangelical Reunion Frame good November 49 Tyndale’s New Testament Tyndale Scripture November 50 Greatness of the Great Commission Gentry great December 51 The Grand Demonstration Adams good plus December 52 The King James Version Debate Carson okay December 53 The Biblical Doctrine of Infant Baptism Marcel great/poor December 54 The Coming Economic Earthquake Burkett great December
Top 1990 1 Perelandra C.S. Lewis great! January 2 A Journey in Grace Belcher okay January 3 Jonathan Edwards Gerstner good January 4 The Providence of God Farley okay January 5 That Hideous Strength C.S. Lewis great! January 6 God and Politics Smith, ed. great! February 7 Preaching With Purpose Adams good minus February 8 Where Two Creeds Meet McKinley ! February 9 Political Polytheism North very good February 10 Predestination and Free Will Basinger, ed. okay February 11 The C.S. Lewis Hoax Lindskoog great February 12 The Mystery of Providence Flavel great March 13 The Inexhaustible God Gruenler good plus March 14 Something Fresh Wodehouse great March 15 House Divided Bahnsen/Gentry good plus April 16 The Legacy of Hate Continues DeMar/Leithart good April 17 The Apostolic Church Witherow excellent April 18 The New Testament (NKJV) Scripture Scripture April 19 Hoax of Higher Criticism North good April 20 Holidays in Hell O’Rourke good April 21 Quick Service Wodehouse good April 22 Concerning Eternal Predestination Calvin great April 23 Predestination Clark good May 24 The Five Points of Calvinism Steele/Thomas excellent May 25 Preach the Word Reymond good May 26 A Heart Set Free Dallimore excellent May 27 Republican Party Reptile O’Rourke good June 28 5 Points of Christian Reconstruction Duncan good June 29 Grace of God & Will of Man Pinnock, ed. poor June 30 On the Freedom of the Will Edwards brilliant! June 31 Calvinism, H-Calvinism & Arm. Talbot/Crampton good June 32 Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom Fisk poor! July 33 Sovereignty of God in Providence Reisinger good July 34 What is a Reformed Baptist Church? Poh Boon Sing good plus July 35 God’s Foreknowledge and Man’s Free Will Rice awful July 36 Southern Reformed Theology Wells, ed. good plus August 37 Dutch Reformed Theology Wells, ed. good plus August 38 The Princeton Theology Wells, ed. good plus August 39 Faith: The Gift of God Wells good August 40 The Bondage of the Will Luther great September 41 The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius good September 42 Calvinism and Evan. Arminianism Girardeau very good October 43 II Peter 3: The Late Great Kingdom Preston good October 44 Man’s Total Depravity Pink good November 45 Letter to Wesley on Election Whitefield good November 46 Reprobation Asserted Bunyan okay November 47 Display of Arminianism Owen great December 48 New Testament (NKJV) Scripture Scripture December 49 The Reformation in England d’Aubigne great December 50 Puritan Economic Experiments North good December 51 2nd Epistle to Corinthians Hughes good December 52 John Calvin/His Roots and Fruits Singer good December
Top 1989 1 The Secret Six Scott excellent January 2 Dominion Theology House/Ice poor January 3 Lectures to My Students Spurgeon excellent January 4 Defense of Calvinism Spurgeon good January 5 A Division in Israel Nelson good plus January 6 What is Reformed Faith? deWitt good January 7 Joy Unspeakable Lloyd-Jones excellent? January 8 Man’s Will/Free Yet Bound Chantry excellent February 9 Antidote Against Arminianism Ness good February 10 Heavenly Humor Wagner okay February 11 Letter to Wesley Whitefield excellent February 12 The Cross/Vindication of God Lloyd-Jones good February 13 Making Schools Better Glazer good February 14 Science Held Hostage Van Til, Young, M. good/poor March 15 The Seductive Image Billingsly excellent March 16 Exposing AIDS Scandal Cameron excellent March 17 The New Testament (NIV) Scripture Scripture March 18 Fighting Bureaucracy Grupp good plus March 19 Lectures On Calvinism Kuyper excellent April 20 Cromwell/The Protector D’Aubigne excellent April 21 Rhetoric Aristotle very good April 22 For Whom Did Christ Die? Kuiper good plus April 23 A Primer on the Atonement Gerstner good, minus April 24 On Christian Doctrine Augustine very good April 25 A Primer on Free Will Gerstner good, minus April 26 Spurgeon Dallimore excellent April 27 Operation Rescue Terry good plus April 28 Godliness Through Discipline Adams good April 29 What Happened in 70 AD? Stevens good May 30 Why I Left Schofieldism Cox good May 31 Truth and Heresy Gillespie good plus May 32 Rhetoric Dixon excellent May 33 Beyond Good Intentions Bandow good May 34 Trespassing for Dear Life North good May 35 Intellectuals Johnson excellent May 36 Freedom, Justice, and Hope Olasky, ed. good plus June 37 Salvation of All Men Long okay June 38 Definite Atonement Long excellent June 39 Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Zanchius good plus July 40 Doctrine of Repentance Watson good plus July 41 Battle of the Gods Morey excellent July 42 R.L. Dabney On Preaching Dabney excellent July 43 The Force of Truth Scott good July 44 Beast of Revelation Gentry excellent August 45 The 1689/Faith to Confess good/poor August 46 Calvinism in History McFetridge good August 47 Book of the Dun Cow Waugerin good plus August 48 Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations Thomas great August 49 Christian Spirituality Alexander informative September 50 When Justice is Aborted North okay September 51 Withhold Not Correction Ray excellent September 52 2 Corinthians Wilson good September 53 Face the Music Seidel okay September 54 Accuracy of Translation Martin good plus October 55 Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn great October 56 Service With a Smile Wodehouse good October 57 Plan of Salvation Warfield great October 58 Chaos Gleick good November 59 That Hideous Strength Lewis great November 60 A Call to Discernment Adams good December 61 Meaning and Mode of Baptism Adams ! December 62 Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage Adams great December 63 Infant Baptism & the Covenant of Grace Jewett outstanding December 64 Out of the Silent Planet Lewis great December 65 Chosenfor Life Storms good plus December 66 On the Incarnation Athanasius wonderful December 67 The Sovereignty of God Murray good December
Top 1988 1 Turning Point Sclossbery/Olasky excellent January 2 Revival Roberts excellent January 3 Jonathan Edwards Murray excellent January 4 Welsh Revival of 1904 Evans good/sad January 5 Horse and His Boy Lewis excellent January 6 The Missing Peace Sinclair good January 7 Education, Christianity and the State Machen good January 8 Reformed Pastor Baxter excellent January 9 Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe Lewis excellent February 10 Pat Robertson Robbins good plus February 11 Signs of the Apostles Chantry excellent March 12 Predestination Clark good March 13 Doonesbury Deluxe Trudeau good plus March 14 Biblical Church Government Reed good March 15 The Ruling Elder Miller good March 16 Reduction of Christianity DeMar/Leithart good plus March 17 Last Battle Lewis excellent March 18 Power in the Blood Chilton excellent, okay March 19 Winning the Battle for the Minds of Men Peacocke good March 20 Mrs. Wiggs and the Cabbage Patch Rice very good March 21 Marriage and Divorce Stott good March 22 The Trinity Clark good, okay March 23 New Testament (Phillips) Scripture Scripture March 24 Of Education Milton good plus April 25 Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage Adams excellent April 26 15 Steps to Financial Independence North good April 27 Baptism and Church Membership 28 Baptism(?) Hulse good April 29 The Red President Gross good April 30 No Holiness, No Heaven Alderson good April 31 Logic Clark good April 32 Kingdoms in Conflict Colson poor/good April 33 Christianity and Liberalism Machen wonderful! April 34 Sword of Spring Lehman poor May 35 The Millenium Boettner great May 36 Theology of Christian Resistance North good May 37 Reformed Doctrine of Predestination Boettner very good May 38 Baptism Schaeffer good May 39 Not Many People Know That Caine okay May 40 The Biblical Doctrine of Election Reisinger good June 41 The Biblical Doctrine of Calvinism Mell good June 42 The Grace of God in the Gospel Assorted good plus June 43 God Transcendent Machen good June 44 Evangelism & Sovereignty of God Packer excellent June 45 Bondage of the Will Luther good plus June 46 Wrath of Grapes Bustanoby good June 47 5 Points of Calvinism Seaton good June 48 Marketing the Church Barna okay/poor June 49 5 Points of Calvinism Steele/Thomas excellent June 50 Prodigal Press Olasky excellent June 51 O’ Life of a Preacher Hill okay July 52 Election Spurgeon good plus July 53 Jonathan Edwards on Revival Edwards excellent July 54 Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien excellent ? 55 The Two Towers Tolkien excellent July 56 TULIP Spencer good plus July 57 What is Christian Reconstruction? ? good July 58 Full Service Banks Crenshaw okay August 59 The Doctrines of Grace Gunn good August 60 The Forgotten Spurgeon Murray excellent August 61 The 5 Points of Calvinism Palmer good August 62 Heiland Sanders good/okay August 63 ChosenBy God Sproul good plus August 64 Return of the King Tolkien excellent July/August 65 World Running Down? North good August 66 Sovereignty of God Pink excellent August 67 God Sovereign and Man Free Rice excellent September 68 Something is Drooling Under the Bed Calvin/Hobbes good September 69 The Plan of Salvation Warfield excellent September 70 Amazing Discoveries Woodrow okay, plus September 71 Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy good plus September 72 Christian Response to D & D Leithart/Grant good September 73 Something Greater is Here DeMar excellent September 74 Calvinism Pure and Mixed Shedd excellent September 75 Wine in the Bible and Church Williamson excellent September 76 Primer on Dispensationalism Gerstner good October 77 James I; The Fool as King Scott brilliant October 78 The Reformed Faith Boettner good October 79 Decisional Regeneration Adams good plus October 80 On Observance of Sacred Days Williamson okay October 81 Are 5 Points Enough? Coppes poor/excellent October 82 The Elders of the Church Eyres good November 83 The Impossibility Thinking of R. S. Belcher good November 84 The Sovereignty of Grace Custance good plus November 85 Reason Within the Bounds of Religion ? poor November 86 On Pulpit Oratory Wesley good December 87 Election: Love Before Time Johns okay/good December 88 Debate Over Christian Reconstruction DeMar good plus December 89 The Essential Calvin and Hobbes Watterman excellent December 90 Far Side Gallery Larsen excellent December
Top 1987 1 Perfected or Perverted? Norman Ward Okay 2 Foundations for Christian Scholarship Gary North, ed. Great 3 The Persians Aescylus Good 4 By This Standard Bahnsen Great 5 Seven Against Thebes Aescylus Okay 6 Moses & Pharoah North Good 7 Christians & Politics Thoburn Good 8 True or False? Fuller Great 9 The Text of the NT Metzger Good/Bad 10 How to Write Book Proposal Larsen Good 11 Paul at Athens Van Til Very Good 12 Days of Vengeance Chilton Excellent! 13 Hippolytus Euripides Good 14 Which Bible? Fuller Good 15 Absence of Tyranny Billingsly Excellent 16 The Law Bastiat Excellent 17 High Finance of a Low Budget Skousen Excellent 18 Agamemnon Aeschylus Good 19 Oedipus the King Sophocles Excellent 20 Christian Letters to Post-Christian World Sayers Great 21 The Children Trap Thoburn Good 22 Honest Money North Good 23 Inherit the Earth North Good 24 The Poet’s Handbook Jerome Good 25 In the Shadow of Plenty Grant Good 26 It’s a Young World After All Ackerman Good+ 27 Who Owns the Family? Sutton Good+ 28 Ruler of the Nations DeMar Good+ 29 Epistle of Barnabas Barnabas Okay 30 Present Concerns C.S. Lewis Great+ 31 Your Finances/Changing Times Burkett Good+ 32 The Magician’s Nephew C.S. Lewis Excellent 33 Master Your Money Blue Excellent 34 That You May Prosper Sutton Good/Atrocious 35 Shepherd of Hermas ? Poor 36 Homosexuality-A Biblical View Bahnsen Great 37 The Aids Cover-Up? Antonio Good 38 Cornelius Van Til: Man & Myth Robbins Good+ 39 Christ & Civil Government Wood Good 40 Christ’s Victorious Kingdom Davis Excellent 41 The Invitation System Murray Excellent 42 The Puritan Hope Murray Life-Changing 43 Counterfeit or Genuine? Fuller, ed. Excellent 44 Identity of the NT Text Pickering Excellent! 45 Liberating Planet Earth North Okay 46 Never Sniff a Gift Fish McManus Hilarious 47 Divorce & Remarriage Woodrow Good+ 48 Prince Caspian C.S. Lewis Great! 49 Critical Mass Murillo Excellent 50 Patriot Games Clancy Good 51 Revival Lloyd-Jones Excellent! 52 Lectures on Revival Sprague Excellent 53 Changing of the Guard Grant Good 54 Unholy Spirits North Very Good 55 Necessity of Christian School Otis Okay/Good 56 Christian & Alcoholic Bev. Gentry Excellent 57 Baptized Inflation Hodge Excellent 58 Revival & Its Fruit Roberts Good 59 Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus Bivin Blizzard Good+ 60 Revivals Evans Good+ 61 Voyage of Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis Excellent 62 The Great Tribulation Chilton Excellent 63 Tactics of Christian Resistance ed. North Good 64 George Whitfield Vol. 1 Dallimore Excellent 65 George Whitfield Vol. 2 Dallimore Excellent 66 Dominion & Common Grace North Good
Top 1986 1 Odyssey Homer Excellent 2 The Last Battle C.S. Lewis Excellent 3 Peloponnesian War Thycydides Excellent! 4 Voyage of Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis Excellent 5 Tithing and Dominion Rushdoony/Powell Excellent 6 Lion, Witch, Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Excellent 7 The Planet Buyer Cordwainer Smith Okay 8 Israel & The New Covenant Campbell Excellent 9 Golden Rendezvous Maclean Good 10 Histories Tacitus Excellent! 11 Tug of War White Good 12 The Twelve Caesars Suetonius Excellent 13 Philosophy of History Hegel Okay 14 Enquiry of Human Understanding Hume Okay 15 Doonesbury Dossier Trudeau Great 16 Sinai Strategy North Great 17 Master Plan of Evangelism Coleman Good 18 Thy Kingdom Come Rushdoony Good+ 19 Single Issues Sobran Excellent+ 20 Wealth of Nations Adam Smith Excellent 21 Tinge of Gold Lehman Good 22 Pensees Pascal Great 23 Heavy Weather Wodehouse Excellent 24 The Superior Person’s Book of Words Bowler Good 25 Christ’s 2nd Coming Brown Excellent 26 Reconstruction of Republic H.O.J. Brown Excellent 27 Pussycats Need Love Too Booth Excellent 28 San Andreas Maclean Okay 29 A Vietnam Experience Stockdale Good+ 30 Preface to Paradise Lost C.S. Lewis Excellent 31 John Paul Jones-Fighting Sailor ? Okay* 32 Eschatology of Victory Kik Excellent 33 The Conservative Mind Kirk Excellent 34 Remembering Who We Are Bradford Good 35 Journ. Xian Reconstruction Vol 3,#2 Good+ 36 75 Bible Questions North Good 37 Grace Abounding Bunyan Good 38 Letters of Ignatius Ignatius Excellent 39 I Clement Clement Excellent 40 Temperament & Christian Faith O. Hallesby Good 41 PC Write Doc. Wallace Great! 42 Ideas Have Consequences Weaver Top 10! 43 Conspiracy North Good 44 Journ. Xian Reconstruction (Ed). Good 45 Unconditional Surrender North Good+ 46 Flight From Humanity Rushdoony Great 47 Infallibility: An Inescapable Concept Rushdoony Good 48 Red Storm Rising Clancy Excellent 49 Necessity of Systematic Theology Rushdoony Excellent 50 Law & Liberty Rushdoony Good+ 51 This Independent Republic Rushdoony Excellent 52 Far Side Gallery Larsen Good 53 The Root of Inflation Rushdoony Good 54 The Business of Heaven C.S. Lewis Good 55 The Curate’s Awakening MacDonald Good
Top 1985 1 Amplified NT Holy Spirit Okay 2 Social Justice of Christian Church Nash Excellent 3 How Should We then Live? Schaeffer Excellent 4 Perelandra C.S. Lewis Excellent* 5 Modern Times Johnson Excellent! 6 Old Testament NIV Holy Spirit Excellent 7 Wisdom Lit (NIV) Holy Spirit Excellent 8 The Liberal Crack-up Tyrell Poor/Excellent 9 The Iliad Homer Good 10 Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis Good 11 Leaning Tower of Babel Mitchell Excellent 12 Economics in One Lesson Hazlitt Excellent 13 Wisdom Lit (NIV) Holy Spirit Excellent 14 A History of Classical Greek Literature Sinclair Good+ 15 Assorted Ancient Greek Literature Thuy., Herod, Aes., Et al. Of course good 16 A Comparison of World Religions Heydt Good+ 17 Abolition of Man C.S. Lewis Excellent 18 Escape From Reason Schaeffer Excellent 19 The French & American Rev. Compared Gentz Excellent 20 Wisdom Lit (Living Bible) Holy Spirit Good 21 On the Nature of Things Lucretius Good 22 Adventures of Robin Hood Vivian Good 23 Annals Tacitus Excellent 24 Christian Manifesto Schaeffer Excellent 25 Book 1 Livy Excellent 26 Satyricon Petronius Arbiter Gross 27 Introduction to Philosophy Geisler/Feinberg Great 28 Wisdom Lit (NIV) Holy Spirit Excellent 29 That Hideous Strength C.S. Lewis Excellent* 30 Philosophy of Christian Curriculum Rushdoony Excellent 31 All Plato’s Dialogues (less Republic & Laws) Plato Good 32 Eternity in their Hearts Richardsen Good 33 Pilgrim’s Regress C.S. Lewis Excellent 34 Intellectual Schizophrenia Rushdoony Good+ 35 If Foundations be Destroyed Draper/Watson Excellent 36 God & Caesar Eidsmoe Excellent 37 What is Secular Humanism? Hitchcock Okay 38 Pilgrim’s Regress C.S. Lewis Excellent 39 The Dilemma of Education in a Democracy Powers Excellent 40 Wisdom Lit (NIV) Holy Spirit Excellent 41 The Generation That Knew Not Josef Billingsley Good 42 Floodgate Maclean Okay 43 Leave it to Psmith Wodehouse Excellent 44 Just & Painful Newman Okay 45 Wisdom Lit (NEB) Holy Spirit Excellent 46 Death at Chappaquiddick Tedrow Excellent 47 Institutes of Christian Religion, Vol. 2 Calvin Excellent/Poor 48 Little Pilgrim’s Progress Taylor Good 49 Brer Rabbit Excellent 50 Tom Sawyer Twain Excellent 51 The Hunt for Red October Clancy Great 52 Witness Chambers Excellent 53 Wisdom Lit (NIV) Holy Spirit Excellent 54 Enemies of Society Johnson Good 55 The Magician’s Nephew C.S. Lewis Excellent 56 Suicide of the West Burnham Good 57 The Way Home Pride Excellent 58 The Discarded Image Lewis Excellent 59 Parents’ Rights Whitehead Good 60 The Silver Chair C.S. Lewis Excellent 61 Holistic Health Gumprecht Good 62 Wisdom Lit (NIV) Holy Spirit Excellent 63 The Federalist Papers Mad./Ham./Jay Excellent 64 Prince Caspian C.S. Lewis Excellent 65 The Nature of American System Rushdoony Good+ 66 Paradise Restored Chilton Excellent
Top 1984 1 1984 George Orwell Good 2 The Silver Chair C.S. Lewis Excellent* 3 Spiritual Depression Lloyd-Jones Good 4 Institutes of Biblical Law Rushdoony Excellent 5 Tithing Kendall Good 6 Meaning of Millenium Clouse Excellent 7 Panic Among Philistines Griffin Excellent 8 Lion, Witch, Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Excellent* 9 New TestamentNEB Holy Spirit Excellent 10 Graves of Academe Mitchell Excellent 11 Portable Conservative Reader Kirk (Ed.) Excellent! 12 NIV NT on Cassette Holy Spirit Excellent 13 Horse & His Boy C.S. Lewis Excellent* 14 Politics of Guilt & Pity Rushdoony Excellent 15 Death Penalty Ingram Good 16 Christian Counselor’s NT Holy Spirit/Adams Excellent 17 The Old Testament NEB Holy Spirit Excellent 18 Lonely on the Mountain L’Amour Okay 19 Miracles C.S. Lewis Excellent 20 The Hobbit Tolkein Excellent* 21 The True Believer Hoffer Excellent 22 Great Evangelical Disaster Schaeffer Excellent 23 Confessions of Medical Heretic Mendolson Good+ 24 Government by Emergency North Excellent 25 New Testament NIV Holy Spirit Excellent 26 Spring Fever Wodehouse Excellent 27 In Teeth of Evidence Sayers Good 28 Pink and Brown People Sowell Good+ 29 Clear and Present Dangers Evans Excellent 30 Fellowship of the Ring Tolkein Excellent* 31 American Tongue & Cheek Quinn Excellent 32 Never Sniff a Gift Fish McManus Good+ 33 Partisans Maclean Okay 34 Backward Christian Soldiers North Good 35 Bad News for Modern Man Schaeffer Good+ 36 Full Disclosure Safire Good 37 Baalbane E. Wilson Good+ 38 Paradigms Lost Simon Good 39 Personal Spiritual Disciplines Sizemore Good/Poor 40 A Defense of Virginia & South Dabney Excellent 41 39 Steps Buchan Good+ 42 The Shadow of the Cross Chantry Excellent 43 Institutes of Christian Religion, Vol. 1 Calvin Excellent 44 The Writer’s Art Kilpatrick Excellent 45 Universe Next Door Sire Good 46 TwoTowers Tolkien Excellent* 47 Return of the King Tolkien Excellent* 48 New Testament NIV Holy Spirit Excellent 49 Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis Excellent 50 Old Testament NIV Holy Spirit Excellent 51 My Utmost for His Highest Chambers Okay 52 The Far Side Larson Excellent! 53 In Search of the Far Side Larson Excellent!
Top 1983 1 On Liberty John S. Mill Good 2 Ethics Aristotle Good 3 Gaudy Night Sayers Excellent 4 The Last Battle C.S. Lewis Excellent* 5 Hangman’s Holiday Sayers Good 6 Book of Insults McPhee Good 7 Myth of Overpopulation Rushdoony Good 8 Practical Use of Greek N.T. Wuest Good 9 Rig Veda ? Okay 10 The Iron Sceptre White Okay 11 Words Dickson Excellent 12 Nuclear Holocaust & Christian Hope Sider/Taylor Awful 13 What’s Wrong With Human Rights Ingram Good 14 Did Phoenicians Discover America? ? Excellent 15 History of Christian Doctrines Berkhof Good 16 Chasing After Wind ? Excellent 17 Presidential Anecdotes Boller Excellent 18 Theological Interpretation of American History Singer Excellent 19 Return to Christian Culture Taylor Excellent 20 Princess & Goblin MacDonald Excellent* 21 The Last Things Ladd Excellent 22 I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Ladd Excellent 23 The Ten Commandments Morgan Excellent 24 Poems C.S. Lewis Excellent 25 Devil’s Dictionary Bierce Excellent 26 The Official Rules Dickson Good 27 Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan Excellent 28 French Leave Wodehouse Good 29 Golden Nuggets Wuest Excellent 30 Doonesbury’s Greatest Hits Trudeau Excellent 31 Biffen’s Millions Wodehouse Excellent 32 Brinkley Manor Wodehouse Excellent 33 People’s Doonesbury Trudeau Excellent 34 Doonesbury Chronicles Trudeau Excellent 35 The Gandhi Nobody Knows Grenier Excellent 36 Book Burning Thomas Excellent 37 Strange Scriptures Bowen Good 38 Rich Man and Lazarus North Excellent 39 Abortion & Early Church Gorman Good 40 Bible History Atlas F.F.Bruce Good 41 Catnappers Wodehouse Excellent 42 Public Nuisances Tyrrell Excellent 43 Cocktail Time Wodehouse Excellent 44 Idols for Destruction Schlosberg Excellent! 45 Treasure Island Stevenson Excellent* 46 Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis Excellent 47 Four Loves C.S. Lewis Excellent 48 Fallon L’Amour Okay 49 Wit and Wisdom of DL Moody Moody Excellent 50 Christian Reflections C.S. Lewis Excellent 51 Code of the Woosters Wodehouse Excellent 52 Fern Seed and Elephants C.S. Lewis Excellent 53 Study in Scarlet Doyle Excellent 54 MIG Pilot Barron Excellent 55 Orig. Illus. Sherlock Holmes Doyle Excellent 56 The Gravedigger File Guiness Good 57 Sign of Four Doyle Good 58 No Other Foundation Jackson Excellent 59 Magicians Nephew C.S. Lewis Excellent* 60 The Last Lion Manchester Excellent 61 Witchcraft Williams Excellent 62 Descent of the Dove Williams Good 63 Farmer Takes a Wife Gould Excellent 64 Mrs. Bryne’s Dictionary Byrne Excellent 65 Prince Caspian C.S. Lewis Excellent* 66 The Unaborted Socrates Kreeft Excellent 67 The New Testament KJV Holy Spirit Excellent 68 City of God Augustine Excellent 69 Dream Thief Lawhead Excellent 70 Stealing of America Whitehead Excellent 71 Caddie Woodlawn Brink Excellent* 72 Morning and Evening Spurgeon Okay 73 Apocrypha ? Excellent 74 Old Testament Holy Spirit Excellent
Top 1982 1 The Communist Manifesto Marx/Engels Awful/Good 2 Little Pilgrim’s Progress Taylor/Bunyan Excellent* 3 Man’s Origin, Man’s Destiny A.E.Wilder-Smith Excellent 4 History of Church From Christ to Constantine Eusebius Good 5 Meditations Descartes Good 6 The Double Image MacInnes Good 7 Decline & Fall of Practically Everybody Cuppy Excellent 8 Decision Making & Will of God Friesen Excellent! 9 The Challenge of Marxism Bockmuehl Good 10 The Battle for Your Mind LaHaye Okay 11 Little House in the Big Woods Wilder Good* 12 The Aeneid Virgil Good 13 Service with a Smile Wodehouse Good 14 Who’s on First Buckley Good 15 The Butler Did It Wodehouse Good 16 The Old Testament Holy Spirit Excellent 17 Plunkitt of Tammany Hall Plunkitt Good 18 Something to Believe In Short Awful! 19 Macbeth Shakespeare Good 20 Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger Sider Bad 21 Hamlet Shakespeare Excellent 22 EEG Correlate of Glossolalia from Christian Perspective Jones Good 23 Where is Noah’s Ark? Bailey Good 24 As You Like It Shakespeare Good 25 Inerrancy Ed. Giesler Excellent 26 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare Good 27 Athabasca Maclean Okay 28 They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They? McManus Excellent 29 The Troubled Waters of Evolution Morris Good 30 Declaration of Independence. & Constitution Assorted Excellent 31 4 Trojan Horses Conn Good 32 Magna Charta Barons Good 33 Little Town on Prairie Wilder Good* 34 Lion, Witch & Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Excellent* 35 The Resurrection of Human Body Camp Excellent 36 Full Moon Wodehouse Excellent 37 The Light Princess MacDonald Excellent* 38 Prince Caspian S. Lewis Excellent* 39 The Scarlet Pimpernel Orczy Good 40 The 2nd American Revolution Whitehead Excellent 41 The Koran Mohammed Poor 42 A Fine and Pleasant Misery McManue Excellent 43 The Hidden Target McKinnis Good 44 Voyage of Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis Excellent 45 Free Enterprise Lindsell Good 46 The Fate of Empires Glubb Excellent 47 Earth, Stars and the Bible Stiehl Excellent 48 Notes from Underfoot Trudeau Excellent 49 The Silver Chair C.S. Lewis Excellent* 50 A Hymnal: Controversial Arts Buckley Excellent 51 He Who Thinks Has to Believe Smith Good 52 The Most of P.G. Wodehouse Wodehouse Excellent 53 O Ye Jigs and Julips Hudson Good 54 Horse & His Boy C.S. Lewis Excellent* 55 Leading Little Ones to God Schoolland Good* 56 Zechariah Luck Okay 57 In the Beginning Young Good 58 Towerof Geburah White Okay* 59 Commentary on Galatians Luther Good 60 The Magician’s Nephew C.S. Lewis Excellent* 61 Ethics Class Notes Seaman Good
Top 1981 1 Stranger at Wilding Brent Fair 2 Fish Preferred Wodehouse Excellent 3 Basic Christianity Stott Excellent 4 George Bernard Shaw Chesterton Good 5 Origins of NT Christology Marshall Good 6 The New Testament/NIV Holy Spirit Excellent 7 Today’s Gospel Chantry Excellent 8 Heretics Chesterton Excellent 9 Prince Caspian C.S. Lewis Excellent* 10 Blue Book Gier Poor 11 The New Testament/NIV Holy Spirit Excellent 12 The Boggle Kreuttner Good 13 The Epistles of John Comm. F.F. Bruce Excellent 14 Dawn Treader C.S. Lewis Excellent* 15 Moon Spinners Stewart Good 16 BabylonMystery Religion Woodrow Good 17 Golden Rendezvous Maclean Excellent 18 Scripture Twisting Sire Excellent 19 Ice Station Zebra Maclean Excellent 20 The New Testament Holy Spirit Excellent 21 The Silver Chair C.S. Lewis Excellent* 22 Doonesbury Chronicles Trudeau Excellent 23 Answers to Questions F.F. Bruce Excellent 24 The World that Perished Whitcomb Excellent 25 The New Testament/Phillips Holy Spirit Excellent 26 The Early Earth Whitcomb Excellent 27 Educating for Eternity Schindler Excellent 28 The Christian School: Why it is Right Kienel Good 29 The Seven Laws of Teaching Gregory Excellent 30 The Universe & Dr. Einstein Barnett Good 31 The Weight of Glory C.S. Lewis Excellent 32 The Great Brain Robbery Watson Excellent 33 Stories for the Children’s Hour Ken Taylor Good* 34 The Girl in Blue Wodehouse Good 35 The Purloined Paperweight Wodehouse Good 36 The Plot that Thickened Wodehouse Good 37 Puppet on a Chain Maclean Good 38 Wealth & Poverty Gilder Excellent!! 39 Uncle Fred in Springtime Wodehouse Good 40 Horse & His Boy C.S. Lewis Excellent* 41 The Kingdom of the Cults Martin Excellent 42 The Genesis Flood Morris & Whit. Excellent 43 The Jesus Hope Travis Fair 44 TYN Commentary — Colossians/Philemon Carson Good 45 Young Men in Spats Wodehouse Good 46 The Magician’s Nephew C.S. Lewis Excellent* 47 World of Mr. Mulliner Wodehouse Excellent 48 Counterfeit Miracles Warfield Excellent 49 The New Testament/NIV Holy Spirit Excellent 50 Beauvallet Heyer Good 51 The Crystal Cave Stewart Good 52 NICNT — Revelation Mounce Good 53 The New Testament/NIV Holy Spirit Excellent 54 The Spike Moss Excellent 55 No Nudes is Good Nudes Wodehouse Excellent 56 Plum Pie Wodehouse Good 57 Mormon Revelations of Convenience McElveen Excellent 58 Don’t Miss it if You Can Moody Good 59 The Old Reliable Wodehouse Good 60 Message to Charismatic Movement Christensen Awful! 61 The New Testament Holy Spirit Excellent 62 The Church at end of 20th Century Schaeffer Excellent 63 Free to Choose M & R Friedman Excellent 64 The Forgotten Father Smail Excellent!! 65 Christian Unity Lloyd-Jones Excellent 66 Clockwork Image Mackay Excellent 67 The Christian Mind Blamires Good 68 Ice in the Bedroom Wodehouse Good 69 Eternity in Their Hearts Richardson Excellent 70 The Intrusion of Jimmy Wodehouse Good 71 Heidi Spyri Good* 72 The Swoop Wodehouse Good 73 Productive Christians in Age of Guilt .Manipulators Chilton Excellent 74 A Christian Manifesto Schaeffer Excellent 75 Hot Water Wodehouse Excellent 76 N.T. in Language of People Holy Spirit (C.S.) Excellent 77 2500 Anecdotes for all Occasions Fuller Excellent 78 Have His Carcass Sayers Excellent 79 Sexual Suicide Gilder Excellent
Top 1980 1 The Black Arrow Stevenson Good 2 The Way to Dusty Death MacLean Good 3 Who Really Sends Missionary Griffiths Excellent 4 The Rest of the Story Harvey Good 5 In Two Minds Guiness Excellent 6 The Painted Word Wolfe Excellent 7 Clouds of Witnesses Sayers Good 8 Unpleasantness at Bellona C. Sayers Good 9 How Right you are, Jeeves Wodehouse Excellent 10 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Wodehouse Excellent 11 Jeeves and the Tie that Binds Wodehouse Excellent 12 The God They Never Knew Otis Good 13 Knowledge of the Holy Tozer Excellent 14 Leadership (winter 80) Robbins Good 15 Developing a Christian Mind Barcus Fair 16 Sacred Rhetoric Dabney Excellent 17 The Moon DeYoung/Whitcomb Excellent 18 HudsonTaylor’s Spiritual Secret Dr./Mrs. Taylor Excellent 19 Fern-Seed & Elephants C.S. Lewis Excellent 20 Christian Reflections C.S. Lewis Excellent 21 God in the Dock C.S. Lewis Excellent 22 George MacDonald: Anthology C.S. Lewis Good 23 Against the Powers Jim Wilson Good 24 Murder Must Advertise Sayers Excellent 25 Letters of Samuel Rutherford Rutherford Excellent 26 Fundamentalism & the Word of God Packer Excellent 27 Angels: God’s Secret Agents Graham Good 28 Third World War Hackett Excellent 29 When 8 Bells Toll Maclean Good 30 The Satan Bug Maclean Good 31 Peter, Stephan, James & John F.F. Bruce Excellent 32 Force Ten from Navarone Maclean Good 33 Jesus & Christian Origins Outside N.T. Bruce Excellent 34 The Bible in its World Kitchen Excellent 35 Absolute Surrender Murray Excellent 36 Pantheism of Alan Watts Clark Excellent 37 A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle Excellent 38 NICNT — Hebrews Bruce Excellent 39 A Wind in the Door L’Engle Excellent 40 N.T. Documents/Are They Reliable? Bruce Excellent 41 Swiftly Tilting Planet L’Engle Good 42 The Federalist Era Miller Excellent 43 Out of the Depths Newton Excellent 44 The Democratic Republic Smelser Good 45 Time for Truth Simon Excellent 46 Paul, Apostle of Heart Set Free Bruce Excellent 47 Guns of Navarone Maclean Excellent 48 Leadership (spring 80) Robbins Good 49 Leave it to Psmith Wodehouse Excellent 50 The Great Divorce C.S. Lewis Excellent 51 Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis Excellent 52 Perelandra C.S. Lewis Excellent 53 That Hideous Strength C.S. Lewis Excellent+ 54 Better is Your love than Wine Banyolak Good 55 Circus Maclean Good 56 Power Through Prayer Bounds Excellent 57 Daniel Webster Bartlett Good 58 Awakening of American Nationalism Dangerfield Good 59 John Quincy Adams Morse Good 60 TYN Commentary on James Tasker Good 61 Strong Poison Sayers Excellent 62 Unnatural Death Sayers Excellent 63 Laughing Gas Wodehouse Good 64 Indiscretions of Archie Wodehouse Good 65 The Time is Fulfilled Bruce Excellent 66 Busman’s Honeymoon Sayers Excellent 67 Riders of the Purple Sage Grey Good 68 The Inferno Dante Excellent 69 The Davidson Affair Jackman Excellent 70 Angels on Assignment Buck Awful! 71 Whose Body? Sayers Good 72 The Nine Tailors Sayers Good 73 Christ Died for Me E. Wilson Good 74 The Feasts of Israel Buksbazen Excellent 75 Studies in Preaching Adams Good 76 Meet Mr. Mulliner Wodehouse Excellent 77 Joy in the Morning Wodehouse Excellent 78 Jesus, Human and Divine McDonald Good 79 Thank You, Jeeves Wodehouse Excellent 80 The Horse & His Boy C.S. Lewis Excellent* 81 Apocrypha ? Good 82 The Charismatics MacArthur Excellent 83 Short Life of Christ Harrison Excellent 84 The Two Babylons Hislop Very Good 85 End of Christendom Muggeridge Excellent 86 C.S. Lewis/Spinner of Tales Gibson Good 87 Bible and Bermuda Triangle Johnson/Tanner Good 88 The Silver Chair C.S. Lewis Excellent* 89 Escape from Reason Schaeffer Excellent 90 Elements of Style Strunk & White Excellent 91 How Should We Then Live? Schaeffer Excellent 92 Water that Divides Bridge & Phypers Excellent 93 Highlights of Church History Vos Good 94 Literary Impact of Authorized Version C.S. Lewis Excellent 95 How to Witness to JW’s Scnell Good 96 Of Other Worlds C.S. Lewis Excellent 97 DarkTower& Other Stories C.S. Lewis Excellent 98 Five Red Herrings Sayers Excellent 99 Lion, Witch & Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Excellent* 100 Doonesbury’s Greatest Hits Trudeau Excellent 101 Did Man Just Happen? Criswell Excellent 102 Up from Liberalism Buckley Excellent 103 When God Moves in Revival Kivengere Good
Top 1979 1 Meditation Downing Good 2 The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien Excellent 3 The Two Towers Tolkien Excellent 4 The Return of the King Tolkien Excellent 5 Prince Caspian Lewis Excellent 6 Sylvester Heyer Fair 7 NIC Acts FF Bruce Excellent 8 NIC Galatians Ridderbos Good 9 TYN Commentary –Acts Blaiklock Good 10 Missionary Methods/St. Paul’s or Ours? Allen Excellent 11 St. PaulTraveler & Roman Citizen Ramsey Excellent 12 Death of Christ Denney Good 13 God was in Christ Baille Good 14 Hist. Crit. Acts Apostles Waltke Good 15 Place of the Lion Williams Good 16 War in Heaven Williams Excellent 17 Descent into Hell Williams Excellent 18 Liberty of Obedience Elliot Good 19 The Greater Trumps Williams Good 20 Protestant Biblical Interpretation Ramm. Excellent 21 Reflections on Revival Finney Excellent 22 Worldly Philosophers Heilbroner Good 23 Situation Ethics Montgomery Good 24 Shadows of Ecstasy Williams Good 25 Old Testament Speaks Schultz Excellent 26 The Apostolic Fathers Sparks Excellent 27 The White Dragon McCaffrey Good 28 The Iron Marshall L’Amour Fair 29 The Finale Miller Excellent 30 The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament Wood Good 31 Where Eagles Dare McLean Good 32 Preaching & Preachers Lloyd-Jones Excellent 33 Something New Wodehouse Excellent 34 St. Thomas Aquinas “Dumb Ox” Chesterton Excellent 35 Grace Abounding Bunyan Excellent 36 TYN Commentary — Galatian s Cole Excellent 37 Sodom Had No Bible Ravenhill Good 38 Upon a Penny Loaf Palms/Bunyan Excellent 39 Marvelous Canopy Schwartze Fair 40 Principles of War Wilson Excellent 41 The Flood (Abrg.) Rehwinkel Excellent 42 The Cross in the New Testament Morris Excellent 43 The Black Moth Heyer Excellent 44 Apostolic Preaching of the Cross Morris Good 45 Glory in the Cross Morris Good 46 The Reformed Pastor Baxter Excellent 47 Luck of Bodkins Wodehouse Good 48 God Incarnate Carey Good 49 John Calvin: Great Statesman Olson Fair 50 How do we know…God? Montgomery Fair 51 The Bible & Roman Church Macaulay Excellent 52 Authority M.L. Jones Excellent 53 Law above Law Montgomery Excellent 54 You can tell the World Wirt Good 55 St. Francis of Assisi Chesterton Excellent 56 Introduction to Indian Thought Herman Fair 57 Ministry & Message of Paul Longenecker Good 58 See No Evil Williams Excellent 59 Night without End MacLean Good 60 The Omega Document McKenzie Good 61 Adam is God? Vlachos Excellent 62 The Secret Ways MacLean Good 63 Welcome to the Family Wells Good 64 Fior, Son of the King Robertson Fair 65 A History of Christianity, Vol. 1 Latourette Excellent 66 Will ‘Saints’ Go Marching In McElveen Excellent 67 Essential Christianity Martin Excellent 68 Life Everlasting MacDonald Poor/Excellent 69 Whatever Happened to the Human Race? Shaeffer/Koop Excellent 70 Man From Skibbereen L’Amour Fair 71 Can We Trust the Bible? Radmacher Excellent 72 The Universe Next Door Sire Excellent 73 Many Dimensions Williams Good 74 Paul & Jesus Bruce Excellent 75 Clues to Creation in Genesis Wiseman Excellent 76 Lord Emsworth and Others Wodehouse Excellent 77 Creation in Christ MacDonald Poor/Excellent 78 Unity in the Dark Gillies Excellent/Good 79 The World of Jeeves Wodehouse Excellent 80 The Golden Scales/Hear the Other Side Ingram Excellent 81 Drugs & Life of Prayer Barreau Good 82 Eerdman’s Handbook to History of Christ Eerdmans Good
