Below are the books I read in 2024. Those with an asterisk were excellent and I would read again.
Perhaps the most surprising book of the year was the memoirs of General Sherman. I did not expect the prose of a Civil War general, written 150 years ago, to be so clear and meaningful.
The biggest waste of time was the Time Chain series by Decker. I kept thinking it would get better but it never did. Time travel paradox, etc etc. Imagine you're 19, in love, and traveled into the future. You meet the one you love, who is now 70ish.Would you still be in love? Hardly. Yet it happens here. Waste of time.
The Graham mysteries were very nice though only the Brits can take a whole page to describe a handful of flowers along a sidewalk. Nice murder plots but skip the gardening minutae. .
The Killings at Badger's Drift - Graham
Calming the Storm - Murray/Montagna
The Death of a Hollow Man - Graham
The Dogma of Hell - Schowppe
A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward - Martin
A Place of Safety - Graham
Charles Taylor and Liberia - Waugh
Witness - Chambers*
Clement of Rome & The Didache: A New Translation and Theological Commentary - Howell
Ghost in the Machine - Graham
Death in Disquise - Graham
Faithful unto Death - Graham
Facing Ali: 15 Fighters, 15 Stories - Brunt*
The Last Don - Puzo
The Wright Brothers - McCullough*
The Racketeer - Grisham
The Big Short (4th reading) - Lewis
Sparring Partners - Grisham
The Razor's Edge - Maugham*
White Fragility (4th Reading) - DiAngelo
Defenders of the West: Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam - Ibrahim
Time Chain - Decker
The Balance of Time - Decker
Addicted to Time - Decker
The Road - McCarthy
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House - Meacham
Deadly Declarations - Wade
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power - Rady
Will to Murder: The Crimes and Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Murders - Feichtinger
Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with J. F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis and A. Huxley - Kreeft*
The Laws of Brainjo: The Art and Science of molding a musical mind - Turknett (Second Reading)
Genesis: A Bible Study Guide and Commentary - Ray*
The Eucharist Foretold: The Lost Prophecy of Malachi - Aquilina
The Holy Bible (13th or so reading): NRSVCE*
Too Pretty to LIve: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee - Brooks
A Pope and A President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century - Kengor*
Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize - Grillo
With the Old Breed - Sledge*
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Orczy
Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman*
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