it's on, self.

this is fun. for me.

here is a list of all the books i read this year:

1. Downtown Owl - Chuck Klosterman
2. unChristian - David Kinnaman
3. Beyond Band of Brothers - Richard Winters
4. Spurgeon vs. Hypercalvinism - Iain H. Murray
5. The Reason for God - Tim Keller
6. Macbeth - Shakespeare
7. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
8. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems - Coleridge
9. ANNA KARENINA - LEO TOLSTOY
10. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Oliver Sacks
11. The Prodigal God - Tim Keller
12. Economics In One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
13. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
14. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
15. King Lear - Shakespeare
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling
17. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
18. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
19. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
20. Keeping the Sabbath Wholly - Marva J. Dawn
21. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
22. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
23. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
24. The Irresistible Revolution - Shane Claiborne
25. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
26. Lincoln and Douglas - Allen C. Guelzo
27. five things i can't live without - Holly Shumas
29. Beowulf - Seamus Heaney
29. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
30. How People Change - Lane/Tripp
31. Jane Eyre (in progress)

thirty books in one year! now i'm going to enter into a competition with myself and see if i can top that in 2010.

least favorite:

five things i can't live without.

i saw it in a clearance bin for a few dollars, and took a risk. the plot sounded interesting. it was not.

favorites:

the importance of being earnest.

so unspeakably hilarious. a 50 page play. read it.

the harry potter series.

i expected to like them, because so many people i dont hate like them. but i enjoyed them for reasons i didn't expect. i think it was this huge story about the value of relationships.

economics in one lesson.

a friend recommended this one because i'm building my understanding of politics and government. it was written several decades ago, and it blew my mind how applicable it still is. i guess the basic principles never change, but it was still very interesting for him to write about how a nation could implode if it's not careful...while living on the edge of that very implosion.

beyond band of brothers.

by itself, this isn't an amazing book. but i've read band of brothers before so i really appreciated this one because of that. it's about all these guys and what they did in world war 2. written by my old man crush, richard winters. not to be confused with my dead man crush, c.s. lewis.

check out that variety. books about war, and harry potter, and theology, and plays and...

ANNA KARENINA.

i hated that book. i hated all 754 pages of it. every russian thought. no, that's not true. it was just very hard to read. i see its value. but i will not be reading it again. ever. but you should! i guess. it was my first russian novel. so that's neat.