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My morning daily Bible reading currently consists of: Psalms, II Timothy (NASB)

Free time reading currently includes:

• Populous: Living & Dying in Ancient Rome, by Guy De La Bedoyere

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BOOKS READ IN 2025:

JAN

#1 The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, by Kate Anderson Brower

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FEB

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MARCH

#2  Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers, by Patrick Kavanaugh

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APRIL

MAY

JUNE

#3  The Meaning of Everything (the story of the OED), by Simon Winchester

JULY

AUGUST

#4 Reagan: His Life & Legend, by Max Boot

SEPTEMBER

#5  The Big Year, by Mark Obmascik

OCTOBER

#6  History Matters, by David McCullough

#7 Rick Steves on the Hippie Trail, by Rick Steves

#8  Mark Twain, by Ron Chernow

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

#9  The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman

#10  A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

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BOOKS READ IN 2024:

JAN

#1  An Army At Dawn, by Rick Atkinson

#2  P.G. Wodehouse In His Own Words, by Barry Day and Tony Ring

#3  Thanks For The Memories, Mr. President, by Helen Thomas

#4  The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy

#5  These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson, by Martha Ackman

#6  Upstairs at the White House, by J.B. West

FEB

#7  The House of Silk, by Anthony Horowitz

#8  Isaac’s Storm, by Erik Larsen

#9  The Island at the Center of the World, by Russell Shorto

#10  The Last Man on the Moon, by Eugene Cernan

MARCH

#11  The Forgotten Man, by Amity Schlaes

#12  The Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse

#13  The Five Love Languages, by Gary Chapman

#14  Name-Dropping, by John Kenneth Galbraith

#15  The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck

#16  Edison: A Biography, by Matthew Josephson

#17  Gandhi: A Memoir, by William L. Shirer

#18  Saints For Our Times, by Jerome K. Williams

APRIL

#19  Eleanor, by David Michaelis

MAY

#20  The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro

JUNE

#21 The Situation Room, by George Stephanopoulos

#22  All Too Human, by George Stephanopoulos

#23  No Excuses, by Bob Stoops

JULY

#24  1776, by David McCullough

#25  A Leopard Tamed, by Eleanor Vandevort

#26  The Johnstown Flood, by David McCullough

AUG

#27  John Quincy Adams, by James Traub

SEPT

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OCT

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NOV

#28  Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance

#29  Unexpected Journey, by Thom Rainer

DEC

#30 “And then Jack Said to Arnie …” by Don Wade

#31  Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford

#32  The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, by Maxwell King

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BOOKS READ IN 2023:

JAN

#1  Working, by Robert A. Caro

#2  From Time To Time In North Carolina, by Randell Jones

#3  Before Liberty, by Roy Thompson

FEB

#4  Of A Feather, by Scott Weidensaul

#5  Becoming C.S. Lewis, by Harry Lee Poe

#6  The Making of C.S. Lewis, by Harry Lee Poe

#7  The Completion of C.S. Lewis, by Harry Lee Poe

MARCH

#8  Simply Prayer, by Bill Elliff

#9  His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life, by Jonathan Alter

APRIL

#10  A Voyage Long & Strange, by Tony Horwitz

#11  Rare Encounters With Ordinary Birds, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

#12  Come, Tell Me How You Live, by Agatha Christie

MAY

#13  Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring 20s, by Lucy Moore

#14  The Making of The African Queen, by Katherine Hepburn

#15  Mary Churchill’s War, Emma Soames, ed.

#16  The Preacher’s Catechism, by Lewis Allen

#17  Stanley, by Tim Jeal

JUNE

#18  The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, by David McCullough

#19  Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson

JULY

#20  1776, by David McCullough

#21  The Road From the Past, by Ina Caro

#22  The Presidents Club, by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

#23  This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing, by Jacqueline Winspear

#24  An Hour Before Daylight, by Jimmy Carter

#25  The Enigma Spy, by John Cairncross

#26 C. S. Lewis On Writing

AUGUST

#27  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling

#28  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling

#29  Animal Farm, by George Orwell

#30  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling

#31  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling

#32  The River of Doubt, by Candice Millard

#33  Stolen Focus, by Johann Hari

SEPTEMBER

#34  Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan

#35  Surprised by Oxford, by Carolyn Weber

OCTOBER

#36  Wilson, by A. Scott Berg

#37  Confessions of A Bookseller, by Shaun Bythell

NOVEMBER

#38  Riding With Reagan, by John R. Barletta

#39  Of Literature And Lattes, by Katherine Reay

#40  The Knowledge of the Holy, by A.W. Tozer

#41  A Life On The Road, by Charles Kuralt

DECEMBER

#42  Challenge To Ministry (History of FBC College Station) by Larry Watson

#43  A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

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BOOKS READ IN 2022:

JAN

#1  Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson

#2  Parnassus On Wheels, by Christopher Morley

#3  Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard

#4  The Writing of the Gods, by Edward Dolnick

#5  The Possibilities of a Life, by Max Barnett

#6  Warren G. Harding, by John Dean

#7  The Clockwork Universe, by Edward Dolnick

#8  Eisenhower in War and Peace, by Jean Edward Smith

FEB

#9  Paradise Lost, by John Milton

#10  Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts

MAR

#11  The Byzantine World War, by Nick Holmes

APRIL

#12  George Whitefield, America’s Spiritual Founding Father, by Thomas S. Kidd

MAY

#13  The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Elizabeth D. Samet, ed.

#14  The Statesman and the Storyteller, by Mark Zwonitzer

#15  Becoming Orthodox, by Peter Gillquist

JUNE

#16  Through Five Administrations, by Col. William H. Crook

#17  My Autobiography, by Charles Chaplin

#18  The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens

JULY

#19  1776 by David McCullough

#20  The Great Bridge, by David McCullough

#22  Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson

#23  One of Our Submarines, by Edward Young

#24  Within Arm’s Length, by Dan Emmett

AUG

#25  Russia: A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East, by Martin Sixsmith

SEPT

#26  The Mysterious Affair At Styles, by Agatha Christie

#27  Letters to Malcolm, by C.S. Lewis

#28  War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

OCT

#29  The Law, The Land, and The Lord: The Life of Pat Neff, by Dorothy Blodgett, Terrell Blodgett, David L. Scott

NOV

#30  Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, by John Lloyd Stephens

#31  Giant, by Edna Ferber

DEC

#32  The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

#33  A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

#34  Five Presidents, by Clint Hill

#35  Over the Edge of the World, by Laurence Bergreen

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BOOKS READ IN 2021:

JAN

#1  The Trees, by Conrad Richter

#2  The Fields, by Conrad Richter

#3  The Town, by Conrad Richter

#4  Gentle and Lowly, by Dane Ortlund

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

#6  All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro

FEB

#7  Tolkien, by Humphrey Carpenter

#8  The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

#9  Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles

MAR

#10  Ride The River, by Louis L’Amour

#11  Katharine Graham’s Washington

#12  The Cross of Christ, by John R.W. Stott

APR

#13  The Faith That Persuades, by J. Edwin Orr

#14  Starling of the White House, by E.W. Starling & Thomas Sugrue

#15  The Pursuit of Man, by A.W. Tozer

#16  Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell

MAY

#17  The Secret of Chimneys, by Agatha Christie

#18  Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

#19  The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, by Robert. A Caro

#20  Barnum: An American Life, by Robert Wilson

#21  The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent, by Robert Caro

JUNE

#22  The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain

#23  Boomtown: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, by Sam Anderson

#24  Agent Sonya, by Ben Macintyre

#25 Kipling: A Selection of His Stories & Poems, John Beechcroft, ed.

JULY

#26 There Is A God, by Anthony Flew

#27  1776, by David McCullough

#28 The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

#29 Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road From Persia to Asia, by Bernard Ollivier

AUG

#30  The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Master of the Senate, by Robert A. Caro

#31  Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Died, by Jim Bernhard

#32  Alexander the Great, by Philip Freeman

#33 The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Passage of Power, by Robert A. Caro

#34  Seedfolks, by Paul Fleischman

SEPT

#35  The Glory and the Dream, Vol. I by William Manchester

#36  Strange and Obscure Stories of World War II, by Don Aines

OCT

#37 The Glory and the Dream, Vol. II by William Manchester

#38 Sailing True North: 10 Admirals and the Voyage of Character by Admiral James Stavridis

#39  Destiny and Power (George H.W. Bush), by Jon Meacham

NOV

#40  Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems, Vol. I, John Beecroft, ed.

#41  Failure Is Not An Option, (NASA: Mercury to Apollo) by Gene Kranz

#42  Under The Greenwood Tree, by Thomas Hardy

#43  Mr. Kipling’s Army, by Byron Falwell

DEC

#44  The Path Between The Seas, by David McCullough

#45  A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

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BOOKS READ IN 2020:

JAN

#1  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie

#2  By-Line: Ernest Hemmingway, William White, ed.

#3  Letters of John Newton, Josiah Bull, ed.

FEB

#4  Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, by Nabeel Qureshi

#5  The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis

#6  The Unsaved Christian, by Dean Inserra

MAR

#7  Loving The Way Jesus Loves, by Phil Ryken

#8  Truman, by David McCullough

#9  All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque

#10 The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis

#11 The Green Letters, by Miles Stanford

#12 The Pioneers, by David McCullough

APR

#13 Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E. Ambrose

MAY

#14 The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, by Alan Jacobs

#15 The Clicking of Cuthbert, by P.G. Wodehouse

#16 Reflections on the Existence of God, by Richard E. Simmons, III

#17 John Adams, by David McCullough

JUNE

#18  American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham

#19  The Last Explorer: The Adventures of Admiral Byrd, by Edwin P. Hoyt

#20 General Washington’s Christmas Farewell, by Stanley Weintraub

#21 Sea Stories, by William H. McRaven

JULY

#22  1776, by David McCullough

#23  American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph J. Ellis

#24  Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff

#25  The Church History, by Eusebius

AUGUST

#26  God The Trinity: Biblical Portraits, by Malcolm B. Yarnell III

#27  Middlemarch, by George Eliot

#28  Simply Prayer, by Bill Elliff

SEPTEMBER

#29  Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow

#30 Coolidge, by Amity Schlaes

#31 London: A Biography, by Peter Ackroyd

#32 The Last Hour, by Amir Tsarfati

#33 Tales of Old-Time Texas, by J. Frank Dobie

OCTOBER

#34 Openness Unhindered, by Rosaria Butterfield

#35 The Zeal of Thy House, by Dorothy L. Sayers

NOVEMBER

#36 Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton

#37 President McKinley, by Robert W. Merry

#38 A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

DECEMBER

#39  The Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#40  A Reader’s Guide to the Major Writings of Jonathan Edwards, by Nathan A. Finn and Jeremy Kimble

#41  A Gentleman In Moscow, by Amor Towles

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Books read in 2019:

JAN

#1 Hadrian’s Wall, by Adrian Goldsworthy

#2 Puck of Pook’s Hill, by Rudyard Kipling

FEB

#3 Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years & The War Years, by Carl Sandburg

MAR

#4  Winston Churchill, By His Personal Secretary, by Elizabeth Nel

#5  It’s My Turn, by Ruth Bell Graham

APRIL

#6 Mornings On Horseback, by David McCullough

MAY

#7  Theodore Rex, by Edmund Morris

#8 Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel’s Masterpiece, by Jonathan Keates

#9 Evenings With Cary Grant, by Nancy Nelson

JUNE

#10 American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, by William Manchester

#11 Stories From Texas (Some of them are true!) by W.F. Strong

#12  Will Rogers, by Betty Rogers

JULY

#13  The Mayflower and the Pilgrims’ New World, by Nathaniel Philbrick

#14  Marie, by H. Rider Haggard

#15 The Discipline of Grace, by Jerry Bridges

AUGUST

#16 Phantastes, by George MacDonald

#17 Lone Star, by T.R. Fehrenbach

SEPTEMBER

#18 Handel, by Christopher Hogwood

OCTOBER

#19  The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory 1874-1932, by William Manchester

#20  The Presence-Centered Church, by Bill Elliff

NOVEMBER

#21 Tales From The Brazos, by Marie Beth Jones

#22  Assist Me To Proclaim: The Life & Times of Charles Wesley, by John R. Tyson

#23 The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

#24  The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester

DECEMBER

#25  A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

#26 Martin Luther, by Eric Metaxas