I regularly lament, and notionally repent, of wallowing too much in current events to the detriment of real wisdom. One gauge of that is how few books I read.
Or so I thought. Actually, this wasn’t a bad year for book-reading:
- Zero at the Bone
- Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation: A Manual for Recovering Gnostics
- Septology (started; tabled)
- Chance or the Dance
- From Object to Icon
- Darkness at Noon
- Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies–and Why They Disappeared
- Revolt of the Public
- Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
- Cahokia Jazz
- A Fever in the Heartland
- A Canticle for Liebowitz
- The Sun Also Rises
- Ghosted
- The Art of Not Being Governed (started; abandoned)
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past
- The Age of Nihilism
- The Present Age
- Harmony (started; abandoned; then-Prince Charles really didn’t say anything new or especially perceptive)
- Orthodox Spirituality: A Practical Guide for the Faithful and a Definitive Manual for the Scholar
- Beowulf
- Lost Histories
- Arise O God
- Autopsy on an Empire
- The Uses of Idolatry
- America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
- The Poisonwood Bible
- St. Paul the Pharisee
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Living in Wonder
- Rituals of Spontaneity