03 January 2021

The books I read in 2020

Perhaps I read more books in 2020 than any other year. All of those listed below are good, and worth reading again, except for those at the end, which were mainly a waste of time.  The best ones? Probably The Great Divorce, which I have probably read a dozen times.  One drop in a Sea of Blue gave me a new perspective on the life of soldiers in the Civil War and fighting both humans and the elements for four years. By What Authority is an excellent defense of the spiritual authority that God has bestowed upon the Catholic Church, and only the Catholic Church. It dives deep without losing the reader. The worst book I read was One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is a great example of how a poorly written book can achieve international acclaim when  tapped by the hip intelligentsia.  

Worth reading Again
Essays of a Catholic - Hilaire Belloc
The Spiritual Combat and A Treatise On Peace of Soul - Dom Lorenzo Scupoli
The Imitation of Christ - Thomas a Kempis
Say Nothing-A true story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland - Keefe
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
St. Ignatius of Antioch - The Epistles
One Drop in a Sea of Blue, The Liberators of the Ninth Minnesota - Lundstrom
By What Authority?: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition - Shea
Earth Abides - Stewart
The People v. Clarence Darrow: The Bribery Trial of America's Greatest Lawyer - Cowen
Hartland to Capitol Hill - Gunderson
Pouf - Hall
Rome Sweet Home - Hahn, Hahn
The Church History - Eusebius
The Great Divorce - Lewis
In Cold Blood - Capote
Hank and Jim - Eyman
Ignatius Catholic Study Bible - New Testament (and all footnotes) - RSVCE
Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey - Clint Hill
The Passage of Power - Robert Caro
Master of the Senate - Robert Caro
Means of Ascent - Robert Caro
The Path to Power - Robert Caro
Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence
Civil War: Volume 3 - Foote
Civil War - Volume 2 - Foote

The worst of the bunch:
The Desert Fathers - Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
Enemy of all Mankind - Steven Johnson
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
On his own terms: the Life of Nelson Rockefeller - R.N. Smith

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