Reading List of Completed Books

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 theworld) has grown, the predictable result is that I would now evaluate many of these works differently —DW

2023

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2022

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2021

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2020

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2019

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2018

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2017

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2016

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2015

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2014

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2013

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2012

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2011

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2010

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2009

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2008

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2007

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2006

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2005

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2004

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2003

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2002

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2001

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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2000

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1999

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1998

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1997

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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.

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1996

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1995

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1994

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1993

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1992

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1991

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1990

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1989

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1988

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1987

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1986

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

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1985

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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!

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1983

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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

	Title	Author	Rating	Month
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